Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: King's
Township No. 63, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 63 was a township in King's County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 1,243. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.054°N, 62.581°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 63 had a population of 1,243: 648 male and 595 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|
| 1871 | 1,029 |
| 1881 | 1,243 |
| 1891 | 1,494 |
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. 63 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 208 |
| Number of families | 208 |
| Number of females | 595 |
| Number of males | 648 |
| Number of married females | 171 |
| Number of married males | 180 |
| Number of married persons | 351 |
| Number of widowed females | 36 |
| Number of widowed males | 11 |
| Number of widowed persons | 47 |
| POP TOT | 1,243 |
| Total population | 1,243 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 388 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 457 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 845 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 207 |
| Number of occupied houses | 207 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 1 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,035 |
| Acres of potatoes | 449 |
| Acres of wheat | 429 |
| BAR BU | 318 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 318 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 355 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 72 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 29,716 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 91 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 25 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 64,743 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 5,550 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 5,115 |
| Bushels of winter wheat produced in the past year | 34 |
| BWT BU | 355 |
| HAY AC | 1,035 |
| HAY TONS | 1,329 |
| OAT BU | 29,716 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 25 |
| POT AC | 449 |
| POT BU | 64,743 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,329 |
| WHT AC | 429 |
| WHT SP BU | 5,550 |
| WHT WTR BU | 34 |
Fisheries (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of gaspareaux produced in the past year | 1 |
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 130 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 109 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 822 |
| Gallons of fish oil produced in the past year | 198 |
| Number of fishing boats | 41 |
| Number of fishing vessels | 2 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 75 |
| Number of men on fishing vessels | 18 |
| Pounds of lobster canned in the past year | 270,000 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 88 |
| Quintals of haddock, hake, or pollock produced in the past year | 132 |
Other recorded variables (32 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 130 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 75 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 41 |
| C UNMD F | 388 |
| C UNMD M | 457 |
| C UNMD TOT | 845 |
| CD NAME | King's |
| COD DX K | 88 |
| D OCC | 207 |
| FEMALE | 595 |
| GAL FISH OIL | 198 |
| GRA BU | 72 |
| GSP XB Q | 1 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 207 |
| H UNINH | 1 |
| HAD DX K | 132 |
| LOB XC P | 270,000 |
| MALE | 648 |
| MCK XB Q | 109 |
| MD F | 171 |
| MD M | 180 |
| MD TOT | 351 |
| NET XX F | 822 |
| NUMBER CD | 3 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 91 |
| TUR BU | 5,115 |
| VESSEL MEN Q | 18 |
| VESSEL XX Q | 2 |
| WID F | 36 |
| WID M | 11 |
| WID TOT | 47 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE003020 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE134020 — 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. 63, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-63-pe003020-1881/.