Osnabruck, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Osnabruck (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Osnabruck was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 5,316. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.051°N, 75.027°W.

Population

In 1891, Osnabruck had a population of 5,316: 2,642 male and 2,674 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	4,699
1861	5,639
1871	5,791
1881	5,796
1891	5,316
1901	4,828
1911	4,170
1921	3,764

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891

In the 1891 census, Osnabruck shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 88 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.

Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 5,316 total population, 2,674 females, 2,642 males, 1,891 married persons, 1,060 families, 946 married females, 945 married males, 248 widowed persons, 173 widowed females, 75 widowed males, 5 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)

Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 3,177 single persons under 18, 1,622 single males under 18, 1,555 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 5,243 persons who are not French Canadian, 73 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)

Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 1,041 houses, 1,041 occupied houses, 827 houses built of wood, 749 houses of 1 story, 510 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 281 houses of 2 stories, 190 houses built of brick, 139 houses of 4 rooms, 138 houses of 5 rooms, 116 houses of 3 rooms, 64 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 64 houses of 2 rooms, 27 uninhabited houses, 24 houses built of stone, 8 houses of 3 stories, 6 houses of over 15 rooms, 5 houses under construction, 4 houses of 1 room, 3 houses of more than 3 stories. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 223,042 pounds of homemade butter, 120,998 bushels of oats, 66,162 bushels of potatoes, 58,872 acres of land in farms, 44,992 acres of improved land in farms, 32,651 chickens, 28,509 acres of farmland under crops, 24,589 bushels of buckwheat, 16,202 bushels of corn, 15,607 acres of farmland in pasture, 15,115 tons of hay, 13,880 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 12,708 acres of hay crops, 8,085 pounds of coarse wool produced on farms, 8,002 acres of oats, 7,157 bushels of spring wheat, 5,282 bushels of barley, 4,886 milk cows, 3,254 bushels of peas, 2,771 bushels of turnips, 2,043 swine, 1,988 swine slaughtered or sold, 1,895 horses aged over 3 years, 1,805 other cattle, 1,673 sheep, 1,314 cattle killed or sold, 1,312 sheep slaughtered or sold, 1,092 geese, 1,002 acres of wheat, 1,002 occupants of farms, 991 turkeys, 876 acres of farmland in gardens or orchards, 806 horses aged 3 years and under, 797 bushels of beans, 791 farm occupants who own their land, 679 bushels of rye, 675 acres of potatoes, 629 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed, 507 ducks, 440 pounds of cheese produced on farms, 417 persons living on farms under 10 acres, 356 acres of barley, 279 persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres, 210 farm occupants who rent their land, Capacity of silos (tons): 190, 151 persons living on farms between 101 and 200 acres, 134 bushels of winter wheat, 132 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres, 73 other fowl, 23 persons living on farms over 200 acres, 17 acres of turnips, 4 oxen, 1 employees on farms. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T2; V4T3.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 71 people connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Billa Flint	1805–1894	born here
Donald Alexander MacDonald	1817–1896	born here
Henry Pahtahquahong Chase	1818–1900	born here
Sir Oliver Mowat	1820–1903	born here
George Young	1821–1910	born here
Charles Sangster	1822–1893	born here
David Breakenridge Read	1823–1904	born here
Roderick Cameron	1823–1900	born here
Michael Urias Cook	1824–1912	died here
Albert Carman	1833–1917	born here
Alexander MacDonell	1833–1905	born here
Bennett Rosamond	1833–1910	born here
Pierre St. Jean	1833–1900	born here
Mary Cowans	1836–1901	born here
John Fannin	1837–1904	born here
Thomas Frood	1837–1916	born here
Charles Mair	1838–1927	born here
Cornelius O’Keefe	1838–1919	born here
Eliza Maria Harvey	1838–1903	born here
John Lorn McDougall	1838–1909	born here
Theodore F. Chamberlain	1838–1927	born here
Alexander McArthur	1839–1895	born here
Christopher Finlay Fraser	1839–1894	born here
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick	1841–1899	born here
Whitney	1842–1914	born here
William Clyde Caldwell	1843–1905	born here
William Neilson	1844–1915	born here
Sir Donald Alexander MacDonald	1845–1920	born here
Hayter Reed	1846–1936	born here
Edward Elijah Horton	1847–1916	born here
Ovide-Arthur Rocque	1847–1923	born here
Thomas Wesley Mills	1847–1915	born here
Charles Arnold Barber	1848–1915	born here
John William McRae	1848–1901	born here
Macdonald	1850–1929	born here
Hiram Augustus Calvin	1851–1932	born here
James Chalmers Cameron	1852–1912	born here
Clarendon Lamb Worrell	1853–1934	born here
Elisha Frederick Hutchings	1855–1930	born here
Thomas Ahearn	1855–1938	born here
Matthew Joseph Butler	1856–1933	born here
Robert Fulford Ruttan	1856–1930	born here
Duncan Wendell McDermid	1858–1909	born here
John C. McRae	1859–1921	born here
John Dowsley Reid	1859–1929	born here
Charles William Gordon	1860–1937	born here
E.J. (Edward James) Devine	1860–1927	born here
Robert Lorne Richardson	1860–1921	born here
James Naismith	1861–1939	born here
Robert Kelly	1861–1922	born here
Gordon Bell	1863–1923	born here
William James Stewart	1863–1925	born here
Michael James Heney	1864–1910	born here
Agar Adamson	1865–1929	born here
Elijah Hutchings	1866–1937	born here
Andrew Haydon	1867–1932	born here
Michael Francis Fallon	1867–1931	born here
R. Tait (Robert Tait) McKenzie	1867–1938	born here
William Morris Graham	1867–1940	born here
William Costello Kennedy	1868–1923	born here
Barnabas Cortland Freeman	1869–1935	born here
Edmund Montague Morris	1871–1913	born here
Samuel William Jacobs	1871–1938	born here
Edith Catherine Rayside	1872–1950	born here
Reginald Walter Brock	1874–1935	born here
Thomas Crawford Brown	1874–1929	born here
Henri-Thomas Scott	b. 1880	born here
Agnes Florien Forneri	1881–1918	born here
John Bracken	1883–1969	born here
Benny Hollinger	1885–1919	born here
George Richardson	1886–1916	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON056006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON145003 — 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 1891 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). "Osnabruck, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/osnabruck-on056006-1891/.