Township No. 9, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)

Township No. 9 was a census subdivision in Prince Edward Island, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 572. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3259958. The administrative centroid was at approximately 46.647°N, 64.185°W.

Population

In 1881, Township No. 9 had a population of 572: 299 male and 273 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. 9 shared boundaries with:

• Township No. 10
• Township No. 6
• Township No. 8

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 39 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 572 total population, 299 males, 273 females, 159 married persons, 89 families, 80 married females, 79 married males, 20 widowed persons, 13 widowed females, 7 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 393 single persons under 18, 213 single males under 18, 180 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 87 inhabited houses, 87 occupied houses, 5 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 17,599 bushels of potatoes, 12,495 bushels of oats, 2,264 bushels of spring wheat, 1,130 bushels of turnips, 1,108 bushels of buckwheat, 773 bushels of barley, 332 tons of hay, 299 acres of hay crops, 185 acres of wheat, 137 acres of potatoes, 26 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 13 bushels of other root crops, 13 bushels of peas and beans, 8 bushels of corn. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

Fisheries (1881). This community's record includes 329 fathoms of fishing nets, 139 barrels of mackerel, 15 barrels of herring or alewives, 7 men on fishing boats, 6 barrels of gaspareaux, 5 fishing boats, 3 quintals of cod, 1 barrels of trout, 1 gallons of fish oil. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T27.)

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 572 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

• TCP UID: PE001009 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
• Persistent place ID: PLACE_PE135010 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
• Wikidata: Q3259958
• Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_9,_Prince_Edward_Island
• Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_9_(%C3%8Ele-du-Prince-%C3%89douard)

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. 9, Prince Edward Island (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/pe/township-no-9-pe001009-1881/.