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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259928

Township No. 50, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 50 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,511. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259928. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.173°N, 62.865°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 50 had a population of 1,511.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,511
18811,501
18911,376

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. 50 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 96 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 1,511 total population, 373 married persons, 226 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 699 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 1,138 single persons, 2 insane persons, 8 persons married, 29 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 114 males aged under 5, 207 males aged 5 to 16, 105 males aged 16 to 21, 182 males aged 21 to 45, 79 males aged 45 to 60, 58 males over 60, 86 females aged 0 to 5, 212 females aged 5 to 16, 114 females aged 16 to 21, 217 females aged 21-45, 89 females aged 45-60, 48 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 61 persons originating in Scotland, 32 persons originating in Ireland, 4 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 25 persons originating in England, 31 persons originating in the British Provinces, 1,358 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 208 members of the Church of England, 16 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 429 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 541 Roman Catholics, 111 Methodists, 44 Baptists, 159 Bible Christians, 3 members of other denominations — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 5 churches, 7 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 89,413 bushels of potatoes, 84,862 bushels of oats, 33,750 pounds of homemade butter, 11,612 bushels of turnips, 7,406 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 5,283 bushels of wheat, 3,875 sheep, 3,175 bushels of barley, 1,839 tons of hay, 965 swine, 494 horses, 485 bushels of buckwheat, 39 bushels of peas, 12 bushels of other root crops, 9.50 bushels of beans, 4 bushels of corn. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 8,998 acres of farmland owned, 7,216 acres of farmland rented, 141 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 287 acres of farmland neither owned nor rented, 91 persons holding farmland of first quality, 90 persons holding farmland of second quality, 25 persons holding farmland of third quality, 9,526 acres of farmland in arable land, 66 bushels of clover seed, 264 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£112 s0 d0 value apples and other fruits, 698 pounds of flax, 419 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 151 acres of farmland fertilized with lime, 28 farming mills, 39 hay mowing machines, 1 hay-making machines, 28 mud-digging machines, 2 other machines, 24 threshing machines, 1,430 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 2,975 yards of fulled cloth, 3 saw mills, 1 carding and fulling mills, 1 grist mills. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 261 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 562 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 9,854 yards of not-fulled cloth, 3 shingle and lath mills, 5 lime kilns, 1,720 barrels of lime, 1 brick kilns, 2,500 bricks, 5 carriages and sleighs, 7 sewing machines, 1 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 104 barrels of herring or alewives, 17 barrels of mackerel, 9 fishing boats, 8 gallons of fish oil. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 15 quintals of codfish or hake, 11 men employed in fishing, 21 cooper's shops — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 12 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. 50, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-50-pe002019-1871/.