Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township No. 39, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 39 was a township in King's County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 847. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.378°N, 62.738°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 39 had a population of 847: 425 male and 422 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881
In the 1881 census, Township No. 39 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 98 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 141 |
| Number of families | 141 |
| Number of females | 422 |
| Number of males | 425 |
| Number of married females | 110 |
| Number of married males | 110 |
| Number of married persons | 220 |
| Number of widowed females | 20 |
| Number of widowed males | 21 |
| Number of widowed persons | 41 |
| POP TOT | 847 |
| Total population | 847 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 292 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 294 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 586 |
Buildings & housing (5 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of dwellings that are temporary shanties | 1 |
| Number of houses under construction | 3 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 140 |
| Number of occupied houses | 141 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 5 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 955 |
| Acres of potatoes | 371 |
| Acres of wheat | 410 |
| BAR BU | 743 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 743 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 399 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 133 |
| Bushels of corn produced in the past year | 2 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 28,937 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 50 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 26 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 52,442 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 5,227 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 4,875 |
| BWT BU | 399 |
| CRN BU | 2 |
| HAY AC | 955 |
| HAY TONS | 1,004 |
| OAT BU | 28,937 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 26 |
| POT AC | 371 |
| POT BU | 52,442 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,004 |
| WHT AC | 410 |
| WHT SP BU | 5,227 |
Fisheries (16 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of eels produced in the past year | 9 |
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 185 |
| Barrels of halibut produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 42 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 450 |
| Barrels of salmon produced in the past year | 5 |
| Barrels of shad produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of trout produced in the past year | 3 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 1,768 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 26 |
| Number of fishing boats | 26 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 68 |
| Number of shoremen | 2 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 142 |
| Quintals of fascines fish produced in the past year | 3 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 3 |
Other recorded variables (37 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 42 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 68 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 26 |
| C UNMD F | 292 |
| C UNMD M | 294 |
| C UNMD TOT | 586 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 142 |
| D OCC | 141 |
| EEL XB Q | 9 |
| FASCINE FISH Q | 3 |
| FEMALE | 422 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 26 |
| GRA BU | 133 |
| GSP XB Q | 185 |
| H CON | 3 |
| H INHAB | 140 |
| H UNINH | 5 |
| HAD DX K | 3 |
| HAL XB Q | 1 |
| MALE | 425 |
| MCK XB Q | 450 |
| MD F | 110 |
| MD M | 110 |
| MD TOT | 220 |
| NET XX F | 1,768 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 50 |
| SHAN | 1 |
| SHD XB Q | 1 |
| SHOREMEN XX Q | 2 |
| SLM XB Q | 5 |
| TRT XB Q | 3 |
| TUR BU | 4,875 |
| WID F | 20 |
| WID M | 21 |
| WID TOT | 41 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE139002 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
- Wikidata: not yet grounded. This page covers a place whose persistent identity has not yet been linked to a Wikidata entity. Identification is via TCP UID and spatial polygon only.
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1881 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 (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-39-pe003009-1881/.