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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259936

Township No. 57, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 57 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 1,934. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259936. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.118°N, 62.842°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 57 had a population of 1,934.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18711,934
18812,085
18912,001

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. 57 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 1,934 total population, 504 married persons, 305 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 4 blind persons, 1,115 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 1,430 single persons, 6 insane persons, 24 persons married, 51 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 134 females aged 0 to 5, 254 females aged 5 to 16, 117 females aged 16 to 21, 309 females aged 21-45, 102 females aged 45-60, 73 females over 60, 163 males aged under 5, 263 males aged 5 to 16, 108 males aged 16 to 21, 232 males aged 21 to 45, 102 males aged 45 to 60, 75 males over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 205 persons originating in Scotland, 62 persons originating in Ireland, 8 Indigenous females, 6 Indigenous males, 1 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 7 persons originating in England, 29 persons originating in the British Provinces, 1,630 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 18 members of the Church of England, 322 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 1,010 members of the Kirk of Scotland, 432 Roman Catholics, 9 Methodists, 101 Baptists, 42 Bible Christians — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 4 churches, 7 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 84,197 bushels of oats, 73,357 bushels of potatoes, 16,600 pounds of homemade butter, 5,294 bushels of turnips, 5,246 bushels of wheat, 4,571 sheep, 4,473 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 1,684 bushels of barley, 1,479 swine, 1,272 tons of hay, 589 bushels of buckwheat, 560 horses, 71 bushels of other root crops, 19.50 bushels of peas, 3.50 bushels of beans, 3 bushels of corn. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 21,609 acres of farmland owned, 316 acres of farmland rented, 60 persons holding farmland of first quality, 185 persons holding farmland of second quality, 30 persons holding farmland of third quality, 11,493 acres of farmland in arable land, 289 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£74 s0 d0 value apples and other fruits, 1,506 pounds of flax, 146 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 133 acres of farmland fertilized with lime, 26 farming mills, 23 hay mowing machines, 34 hay-making machines, 6 mud-digging machines, 12 other machines, 21 threshing machines, 1,598 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 4,270 yards of fulled cloth, 5 grist mills, 4 saw mills, 2 tanneries, 1 carding and fulling mills. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 5 flax manufactories, 481 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 541 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 11,143 yards of not-fulled cloth, 600 pounds of leather produced in tanneries, 3 shingle and lath mills, 3 lime kilns, 1,100 barrels of lime, 31 carriages and sleighs, 15,413 yards of cloth, 12 sewing machines, 3 pianos, melodeons, and organs — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 445 barrels of herring or alewives, 13 fishing boats, 4 gallons of fish oil, 1 barrels of mackerel. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 12 quintals of codfish or hake, 3 men employed in fishing — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 25 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. 57, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-57-pe002020-1871/.