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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259911

Township No. 39, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 39 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 781. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259911. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.378°N, 62.738°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 39 had a population of 781.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871781
1881847
1891957
19011,036
19111,010

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, Township No. 39 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 93 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 781 total population, 189 married persons, 127 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 blind persons, 433 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 592 single persons, 3 insane persons, 1 persons married, 14 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 50 males aged under 5, 124 males aged 5 to 16, 51 males aged 16 to 21, 98 males aged 21 to 45, 37 males aged 45 to 60, 30 males over 60, 60 females aged 0 to 5, 114 females aged 5 to 16, 39 females aged 16 to 21, 124 females aged 21-45, 36 females aged 45-60, 18 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 63 persons originating in Ireland, 9 persons originating in Scotland. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2 persons originating in England, 59 persons originating in the British Provinces, 648 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 3 members of the Church of England, 134 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 28 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 604 Roman Catholics, 4 Methodists, 8 Baptists — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 churches, 5 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 22,081 bushels of potatoes, 21,166 bushels of oats, 8,382 pounds of homemade butter, 3,446 bushels of wheat, 1,281 sheep, 1,228 bushels of buckwheat, 1,213 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 907 bushels of barley, 561 swine, 245.25 tons of hay, 215 horses, 184 bushels of other root crops, 31 bushels of corn, 12 bushels of beans, 9 bushels of peas, 5.50 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 12,352 acres of farmland owned, 820 acres of farmland rented, 37 persons holding farmland of first quality, 64 persons holding farmland of second quality, 15 persons holding farmland of third quality, 3,258 acres of farmland in arable land, 49.50 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£18 s0 d0 value apples and other fruits, 7 bushels of vetches, 210 pounds of flax, 120 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 14 farming mills, 6 hay mowing machines, 2 hay-making machines, 1 mud-digging machines, 5 other machines, 11 threshing machines, 591 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 1,235 yards of fulled cloth, 2 grist mills, 2 saw mills, 1 tanneries. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 stamping machines, 133 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 244 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 2,134 yards of not-fulled cloth, 190 pounds of leather produced in tanneries, 1 fulling and dressing mills, 1 steam engines, 29 carriages and sleighs, 4,276 yards of cloth, 2 cloth factories — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 281 barrels of herring or alewives, 231 gallons of fish oil, 47 barrels of mackerel, 25 fishing boats. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 3 fishing establishments, 336 quintals of codfish or hake, 15 men employed in fishing, 100 fishing barrels, 6 pounds of hake sounds cured, $ £68 s5 d0 value salmon — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 2 total number of deaths. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Township No. 39, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-39-pe003007-1871/.