Fair Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
Census Information

Fair Island, Newfoundland and Labrador

Section Title: Census Information
Table Section Text: None

1836	1869	1857	1874

population	105	212	184	209

inhabited houses	12	23	17	33

families	36	28	38

Church of England	104	212	184	209

Roman Catholic	1

# of pupils	33	9

can read/write	56	107

total fishing boats	11	15	14	12

boats built	2

people catching/curing fish	72	144	98

seamen/fishermen	41	33

vessels in seal fishery	2	1	3

men on board	22	6	23

tonnage	53	30	76

nets and seines	32	70	8

seal nets	30	10

seals caught	16

cod fish cured (qtls)	1440	1730

salmon caught and cured (tres)	5	7

fishing rooms in use	13	10	10

stores/barns/outhouses	11	9	11

oil produced (tuns)	4.5	660 gals

barrels of potatoes produced	416.5(bushels)	174	135	50

barrels of turnip	5

cattle/cows/oxen	2	10

hogs	3

swine/goats	1	7	35

Sentence(s)

The population doubled between 1836 and 1869 from 105 to 212 in Fair Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.

final_sentence: The population doubled between 1836 and 1869 from 105 to 212 in Fair Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.