Province: Manitoba | Years recorded: 1881–1921 | Wikidata: Q2135

Winnipeg, C, Manitoba (1881–1921)

Name: Winnipeg, C
Address: Manitoba, CA

Winnipeg, C was a city in Manitoba, recorded in 2 censuses between 1881 and 1921. This place is grounded to Wikidata Q2135, so it can be queried as a single entity even when its boundaries or census name varied across years. Population grew substantially across the period (from 7,985 in 1881 to 179,087 in 1921).

Historical lineage

Ancestor places

split off from NO DATA in 1881
incorporates territory from Winnipeg c pt in 1921
incorporates territory from Winnipeg c pt in 1921

Descendant places

later split into Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 3 in 1891
later split into Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 4 in 1891
later split into Winnipeg, Ward—Quartier No. 2 in 1891

Population trajectory across census years

Census year	Population	Page
1881	7,985	View 1881 detail →
1921	179,087	View 1921 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 56 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 Peter Pruden	1778–1868	died here
Andrew McDermot	1790–1881	died here
Sally Ross	1798–1884	died here
John Black	1818–1882	died here
Edmund Burke Wood	1820–1882	died here
Aquila Walsh	1823–1885	died here
Francis Evans Cornish	1831–1878	died here
Charles Henry Wheeler	1838–1917	died here
James Andrews Miller	1839–1886	died here
Margaret Vallance	1840–1922	died here
Joseph E. Seagram	1841–1919	died here
William James McLean	1841–1929	died here
Hector Mansfield Howell	1842–1918	died here
James Henry Ashdown	1844–1924	died here
John Walter Harris	1845–1926	died here
Daniel Hunter McMillan Canadian politician (1846-1933)	1846–1933	died here
Frederic Beal Du Val	1847–1928	died here
Henry Norlande Ruttan	1848–1925	died here
Ralph Joseph Horner	1848–1926	died here
John Semmens	1850–1921	died here
Macdonald	1850–1929	died here
James Albert Manning Aikins	1851–1929	died here
John Maclean	1851–1928	died here
Spencer Argyle Bedford	1851–1933	died here
George Reading Crowe	1852–1924	died here
William Forbes Alloway	1852–1930	died here
John Duncan McArthur	1854–1927	died here
Elisha Frederick Hutchings	1855–1930	died here
George Frederick Galt	1855–1928	died here
James Simmons Freer	1855–1933	died here
Margaret Ruttan Boucher	1855–1931	died here
David Wesley Bole	1856–1933	died here
Cyril Genik	1857–1925	died here
T. A. (Theodore Arthur) Burrows	1857–1929	died here
Edmund Marter Wood	1858–1936	died here
John C. McRae	1859–1921	died here
Charles William Gordon	1860–1937	died here
James Duncan McGregor	1860–1935	died here
Robert Lorne Richardson	1860–1921	died here
Gordon Bell	1863–1923	died here
John Godefrey Sullivan	1863–1938	died here
Daniel Salmon Hamilton	1864–1929	died here
Thomas Herman Johnson	1870–1927	died here
Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe	1870–1922	died here
William Blake Lawrence	1870–1918	died here
T. Glen (Thomas Glendenning) Hamilton	1873–1935	died here
David Alexander Stewart	1874–1937	died here
Rögnvaldur Pétursson	1877–1940	died here
Herbert Grahame Beresford	1880–1938	died here
Marcus Hyman	1883–1938	died here
Winona Flett	1884–1922	died here
James A. (James Armstrong) Richardson	1885–1939	died here
Katherine Ross	1885–1934	died here
Anna Humenilovych	1891–1936	died here
Annette Saint-Amant	1892–1928	died here
Alan Arnett McLeod	1899–1918	died here

Identifiers

Persistent place ID: PLACE_MB160013 — assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap
Wikidata: Q2135
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnipeg

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.