Osnabruck, Ontario (1871 census)

Name: Osnabruck (1871)
Address: Ontario, CA

Osnabruck was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 5,791. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.051°N, 75.027°W.

Population

In 1871, Osnabruck had a population of 5,791: 2,927 male and 2,864 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1851	4,699
1861	5,639
1871	5,791
1881	5,796
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 1871

In the 1871 census, Osnabruck shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 5,791 total population, 2,927 males, 2,864 females, 1,819 married persons, 979 families, 915 married females, 904 married males, 178 widowed persons, 124 widowed females, 54 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 3,794 single persons under 18, 1,969 single males under 18, 1,825 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 975 inhabited houses, 975 occupied houses, 69 uninhabited houses, 8 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 69,560 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 63 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, 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

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON072001 — 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 1871 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 (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/osnabruck-on072001-1871/.