Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier, British Columbia (1881–1891)
Victoria, Johnson Street, Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in British Columbia, recorded in 2 censuses between 1881 and 1891. Population grew substantially across the period (from 2,665 in 1881 to 8,707 in 1891).
Historical lineage
Ancestor places
- split off from NO DATA in 1881
Descendant places
- merged into Victoria, City—Cité in 1901
Population trajectory across census years
| Census year | Population | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 2,665 | View 1881 detail → |
| 1891 | 8,707 | View 1891 detail → |
Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).
People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 36 people connected to this place across the 1851–1921 period, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry; the connection tag indicates whether the documented event was a birth, death, or burial at this place.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| John Work | 1792–1861 | died here |
| John Tod | 1794–1882 | died here |
| John McLean | 1798–1890 | died here |
| William Henry McNeill | 1801–1875 | died here |
| James Murray Reid | 1802–1868 | died here |
| James Douglas | 1803–1877 | died here |
| David Cameron | 1804–1872 | died here |
| Charles Dodd | 1808–1860 | died here |
| Modeste Demers | 1809–1871 | died here |
| Kenneth McKenzie | 1811–1874 | died here |
| William Fraser Tolmie | 1812–1886 | died here |
| John Hamilton Gray | 1814–1889 | died here |
| Billy Barker | 1817–1894 | died here |
| Roderick Finlayson | 1818–1892 | died here |
| Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie | 1819–1894 | died here |
| Sosthenes Maximilian Driard | 1819–1873 | died here |
| Hermann Otto Tiedemann | 1821–1891 | died here |
| John Ash | 1821–1886 | died here |
| Robert Ker | 1824–1879 | died here |
| Robert Dunsmuir | 1825–1889 | died here |
| George Pearkes | 1826–1871 | died here |
| Thomas Spence | 1826–1881 | died here |
| John James Cochrane | 1827–1867 | died here |
| Lewis Samuel | 1827–1887 | died here |
| Joshua Spencer Thompson | 1828–1880 | died here |
| F. J. (Francis Jones) Barnard | 1829–1889 | died here |
| JAMES SYME | 1832–1881 | died here |
| Catharine Morton | 1837–1892 | died here |
| Elwyn Thomas | 1837–1888 | died here |
| Thomas Basil Humphreys | 1840–1890 | died here |
| Alexander Rocke Robertson | 1841–1881 | died here |
| William Smithe | 1842–1887 | died here |
| Alexander Edmund Batson Davie | 1847–1889 | died here |
| Agnes Deans Cameron | 1863–1912 | born here |
| Emily Carr | 1871–1945 | born here |
| Josette Legacé | d. 1896 | died here |
Identifiers
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_BC004002— assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap - Wikidata: not yet grounded.
Sources
Census tabulations from the 1851–1921 Census of Canada series, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project. Each year's detail page (linked above) cites the specific source table.