Township No. 50, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Name: Township No. 50 (1881)
Address: Prince Edward Island, CA

Township No. 50 was a township in Queen's County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,501. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.173°N, 62.865°W.

Population

In 1881, Township No. 50 had a population of 1,501: 778 male and 723 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	1,511
1881	1,501
1891	1,376

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. 50 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 72 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)

Variable	Value
FAM NO	233
Number of families	233
Number of females	723
Number of males	778
Number of married females	189
Number of married males	189
Number of married persons	378
Number of widowed females	53
Number of widowed males	20
Number of widowed persons	73
POP TOT	1,501
Total population	1,501

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	482
Number of single males under 18	568
Number of single persons under 18	1,050

Buildings & housing (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses under construction	9
Number of inhabited houses	233
Number of occupied houses	233
Number of uninhabited houses	9

Agriculture (25 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of hay crops	2,643
Acres of potatoes	818
Acres of wheat	816
BAR BU	1,722
Bushels of barley produced in the past year	1,722
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	552
Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year	386
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	1
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	82,051
Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year	713
Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year	15
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	143,937
Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year	9,732
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	43,480
BWT BU	552
CRN BU	1
HAY AC	2,643
HAY TONS	3,692
OAT BU	82,051
PEA AND BEN BU	15
POT AC	818
POT BU	143,937
Tons of hay produced in the past year	3,692
WHT AC	816
WHT SP BU	9,732

Fisheries (4 variables)

Variable	Value
Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year	9
Barrels of oysters produced in the past year	56
Number of fishing boats	1
Number of men on fishing boats	2

Other recorded variables (24 variables)

Variable	Value
BOAT MEN Q	2
BOATS FOR FISH	1
C UNMD F	482
C UNMD M	568
C UNMD TOT	1,050
CD NAME	Queen's
D OCC	233
FEMALE	723
GRA BU	386
H CON	9
H INHAB	233
H UNINH	9
MALE	778
MCK XB Q	9
MD F	189
MD M	189
MD TOT	378
NUMBER CD	2
OTHR ROOT BU	713
OYS XB Q	56
TUR BU	43,480
WID F	53
WID M	20
WID TOT	73

Identifiers

TCP UID: PE002018 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE136018 — 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. 50, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-50-pe002018-1881/.