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Year: 1871  |  Province: Prince Edward Island  |  Wikidata: Q3259957

Township No. 8, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)

Township No. 8 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 672. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259957. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.654°N, 64.327°W.

Population

In 1871, Township No. 8 had a population of 672.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
1871672
1881855
1891887

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. 8 shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 90 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 9 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 672 total population, 165 married persons, 103 families. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 560 persons neither infected with smallpox nor vaccinated, 507 single persons, 1 insane persons, 4 persons married, 20 births — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Age structure (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 60 males aged under 5, 102 males aged 5 to 16, 33 males aged 16 to 21, 96 males aged 21 to 45, 27 males aged 45 to 60, 18 males over 60, 68 females aged 0 to 5, 87 females aged 5 to 16, 43 females aged 16 to 21, 103 females aged 21-45, 26 females aged 45-60, 9 females over 60 — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Ethnic origin (1871). This community's record includes 28 persons originating in Scotland, 6 persons originating in Ireland, 4 persons originating in all other places. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 12 persons originating in England, 13 persons originating in the British Provinces, 609 persons originating in Prince Edward Island — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Religion (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 15 members of the Church of England, 261 members of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, 197 Roman Catholics, 117 Methodists, 1 Baptists, 79 Bible Christians, 1 Quakers, 1 members of other denominations — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Buildings & housing (1871). The 1871 enumerator also recorded 1 churches, 2 schoolhouses — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 19,329 bushels of potatoes, 12,922 bushels of oats, 8,066 pounds of homemade butter, 3,039 bushels of wheat, 1,497 bushels of turnips, 1,040 sheep, 979 bushels of buckwheat, 592 swine, 588 bushels of barley, 470 tons of hay, 260 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 175 horses, 16 bushels of beans, 14 bushels of other root crops, 6.50 bushels of peas, 1 bushels of corn, 1 bushels of winter wheat. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 13,028.50 acres of farmland owned, 198 acres of farmland rented, 135 acres of farmland held by verbal agreement, 805 acres of farmland neither owned nor rented, 27 persons holding farmland of first quality, 53 persons holding farmland of second quality, 10 persons holding farmland of third quality, 3,012 acres of farmland in arable land, 26 bushels of clover seed, 150 bushels of timothy grass seed, $£34 s10 d0 value apples and other fruits, 146 pounds of flax, 15 acres of farmland fertilized with shell manure, 10 farming mills, 5 hay mowing machines, 4 hay-making machines, 5 mud-digging machines, 188 other machines, 12 threshing machines, 576 cattle — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Manufacturing & industry (1871). This community's record includes 1,194 yards of fulled cloth, 3 saw mills, 2 grist mills, 1 tanneries. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 73 carts, trucks, and truck-wagons, 193 riding wagons, carriages, wood sleds, and jaunting sleds, 3,827 yards of not-fulled cloth, 1,500 pounds of leather produced in tanneries, 1 shingle and lath mills — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Fisheries (1871). This community's record includes 200 barrels of herring or alewives, 7 fishing boats, 3 gallons of fish oil. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.) The 1871 enumerator also recorded 2 fishing establishments, 4 quintals of codfish or hake, 11 men employed in fishing, 90 fishing barrels — single-county tallies of limited cross-year comparability.

Deaths & mortality (1871). This community's record includes 7 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. 8, Prince Edward Island (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-8-pe001008-1871/.