Year: 1881
| Province: Prince Edward Island
| County: Prince
Township No. 8, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)
Township No. 8 was a township in Prince County, Prince Edward Island (Canada West / Ontario), recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 855. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.654°N, 64.327°W.
Population
In 1881, Township No. 8 had a population of 855: 428 male and 427 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
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. 8 shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1881
The 1881 census recorded 78 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.
Population & families (12 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| FAM NO | 137 |
| Number of families | 137 |
| Number of females | 427 |
| Number of males | 428 |
| Number of married females | 117 |
| Number of married males | 119 |
| Number of married persons | 236 |
| Number of widowed females | 14 |
| Number of widowed males | 6 |
| Number of widowed persons | 20 |
| POP TOT | 855 |
| Total population | 855 |
Age structure (3 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of single females under 18 | 296 |
| Number of single males under 18 | 303 |
| Number of single persons under 18 | 599 |
Buildings & housing (4 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Number of houses under construction | 1 |
| Number of inhabited houses | 137 |
| Number of occupied houses | 137 |
| Number of uninhabited houses | 7 |
Agriculture (25 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Acres of hay crops | 1,086 |
| Acres of potatoes | 216 |
| Acres of wheat | 484 |
| BAR BU | 871 |
| Bushels of barley produced in the past year | 871 |
| Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year | 953 |
| Bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed produced in the past year | 96 |
| Bushels of oats produced in the past year | 25,928 |
| Bushels of other root crops produced in the past year | 45 |
| Bushels of peas and beans produced in the past year | 35 |
| Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year | 27,622 |
| Bushels of rye produced in the past year | 3 |
| Bushels of spring wheat produced in the past year | 5,559 |
| Bushels of turnips produced in the past year | 2,030 |
| BWT BU | 953 |
| HAY AC | 1,086 |
| HAY TONS | 1,016 |
| OAT BU | 25,928 |
| PEA AND BEN BU | 35 |
| POT AC | 216 |
| POT BU | 27,622 |
| RYE BU | 3 |
| Tons of hay produced in the past year | 1,016 |
| WHT AC | 484 |
| WHT SP BU | 5,559 |
Fisheries (7 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| Barrels of herring or alewives produced in the past year | 23 |
| Barrels of mackerel produced in the past year | 513 |
| Barrels of oysters produced in the past year | 25 |
| Fathoms of fishing nets | 410 |
| Number of fishing boats | 25 |
| Number of men on fishing boats | 51 |
| Quintals of cod produced in the past year | 5 |
Other recorded variables (27 variables)
| Variable | Value |
|---|
| BBL HERR OR ALE | 23 |
| BOAT MEN Q | 51 |
| BOATS FOR FISH | 25 |
| C UNMD F | 296 |
| C UNMD M | 303 |
| C UNMD TOT | 599 |
| CD NAME | Prince |
| COD DX K | 5 |
| D OCC | 137 |
| FEMALE | 427 |
| GRA BU | 96 |
| H CON | 1 |
| H INHAB | 137 |
| H UNINH | 7 |
| MALE | 428 |
| MCK XB Q | 513 |
| MD F | 117 |
| MD M | 119 |
| MD TOT | 236 |
| NET XX F | 410 |
| NUMBER CD | 1 |
| OTHR ROOT BU | 45 |
| OYS XB Q | 25 |
| TUR BU | 2,030 |
| WID F | 14 |
| WID M | 6 |
| WID TOT | 20 |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
PE001008 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_PE135009 — 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. 8, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph.
Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-8-pe001008-1881/.