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Year: 1881  |  Province: Ontario

Osnabruck, Ontario (1881 census)

Osnabruck was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 5,796. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.051°N, 75.027°W.

Population

In 1881, Osnabruck had a population of 5,796: 2,884 male and 2,912 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

YearPopulation
18514,699
18615,639
18715,791
18815,796
19114,170
19213,764

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

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1881

In the 1881 census, Osnabruck shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 33 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 5,796 total population, 2,912 females, 2,884 males, 1,888 married persons, 1,056 families, 947 married females, 941 married males, 231 widowed persons, 160 widowed females, 71 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 3,677 single persons under 18, 1,872 single males under 18, 1,805 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 1,054 inhabited houses, 1,054 occupied houses, 96 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1881). This community's record includes 183,633 bushels of oats, 73,229 bushels of potatoes, 26,401 bushels of barley, 20,411 bushels of buckwheat, 18,066 bushels of corn, 12,775 bushels of peas and beans, 9,415 tons of hay, 8,831 acres of hay crops, 7,831 bushels of spring wheat, 6,488 bushels of other root crops, 3,460 bushels of winter wheat, 2,110 bushels of rye, 1,560 acres of wheat, 868 bushels of turnips, 702 acres of potatoes, 441 bushels of clover, timothy, or other grass seed. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V3T24.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 68 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

NameLifespanConnection
Billa Flint1805–1894born here
Donald Alexander MacDonald1817–1896born here
Henry Pahtahquahong Chase1818–1900born here
Sir Oliver Mowat1820–1903born here
George Young1821–1910born here
Charles Sangster1822–1893born here
David Breakenridge Read1823–1904born here
Roderick Cameron1823–1900born here
Michael Urias Cook1824–1912died here
Albert Carman1833–1917born here
Alexander MacDonell1833–1905born here
Bennett Rosamond1833–1910born here
Pierre St. Jean1833–1900born here
Mary Cowans1836–1901born here
John Fannin1837–1904born here
Thomas Frood1837–1916born here
Charles Mair1838–1927born here
Cornelius O’Keefe1838–1919born here
Eliza Maria Harvey1838–1903born here
John Lorn McDougall1838–1909born here
Theodore F. Chamberlain1838–1927born here
Alexander McArthur1839–1895born here
Christopher Finlay Fraser1839–1894born here
Sir George Airey Kirkpatrick1841–1899born here
Whitney1842–1914born here
William Clyde Caldwell1843–1905born here
William Neilson1844–1915born here
Sir Donald Alexander MacDonald1845–1920born here
Hayter Reed1846–1936born here
Edward Elijah Horton1847–1916born here
Ovide-Arthur Rocque1847–1923born here
Thomas Wesley Mills1847–1915born here
Charles Arnold Barber1848–1915born here
John William McRae1848–1901born here
Macdonald1850–1929born here
Hiram Augustus Calvin1851–1932born here
James Chalmers Cameron1852–1912born here
Clarendon Lamb Worrell1853–1934born here
Elisha Frederick Hutchings1855–1930born here
Thomas Ahearn1855–1938born here
Matthew Joseph Butler1856–1933born here
Robert Fulford Ruttan1856–1930born here
Duncan Wendell McDermid1858–1909born here
John C. McRae1859–1921born here
John Dowsley Reid1859–1929born here
Charles William Gordon1860–1937born here
E.J. (Edward James) Devine1860–1927born here
Robert Lorne Richardson1860–1921born here
James Naismith1861–1939born here
Robert Kelly1861–1922born here
Gordon Bell1863–1923born here
William James Stewart1863–1925born here
Michael James Heney1864–1910born here
Agar Adamson1865–1929born here
Elijah Hutchings1866–1937born here
Andrew Haydon1867–1932born here
Michael Francis Fallon1867–1931born here
R. Tait (Robert Tait) McKenzie1867–1938born here
William Morris Graham1867–1940born here
William Costello Kennedy1868–1923born here
Barnabas Cortland Freeman1869–1935born here
Edmund Montague Morris1871–1913born here
Samuel William Jacobs1871–1938born here
Edith Catherine Rayside1872–1950born here
Reginald Walter Brock1874–1935born here
Thomas Crawford Brown1874–1929born here
Henri-Thomas Scottb. 1880born here
Agnes Florien Forneri1881–1918born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 5,795 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1881 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 (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/osnabruck-on101001-1881/.