Osnabruck, Ontario (1911 census)

Name: Osnabruck (1911)
Address: Ontario, CA

Osnabruck was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1911 Census of Canada with a population of 4,170. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.051°N, 75.027°W.

Population

In 1911, Osnabruck had a population of 4,170: 2,033 male and 2,137 female residents. Population density was 38.9 people per square mile.

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 1911

In the 1911 census, Osnabruck shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1911

The 1911 census recorded 36 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1911). This community's record includes 68,683 area in acres, 4,170 total population, 2,137 females in the population, 2,033 males in the population, 1,094 single (never-married) females, 1,050 single (never-married) males, 1,032 families, 907 married males, 904 married females, 139 widowed females, 107.32 area in square miles, 76 widowed males, 38.86 population per square mile. 4,828 population in the previous census (1901 reference column included in 1911 V1T1). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T2.)

Ethnic origin (1911). This community's record includes 1,244 persons of Dutch origin, 983 persons of British origin (Irish), 747 persons of German origin, 538 persons of British origin (Scotch / Scottish), 417 persons of British origin (English), 232 persons of French origin, 6 persons of Scandinavian origin, 1 persons of Austro-Hungarian origin, 1 persons of British origin (other). (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T7.)

Religion (1911). This community's record includes 1,296 Methodists, 1,198 Presbyterians, 833 Anglicans (Church of England), 346 Roman Catholics, 277 Baptists, 71 Adventists, 67 Brethren, 43 Lutherans, 33 adherents of various sects (residual category in 1911), 4 Christians (general / no denomination specified), 2 Salvation Army adherents, 1 persons whose religion or origin is unspecified. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V2T2; V2T7.)

Buildings & housing (1911). This community's record includes 1,003 dwellings. (Source: 1911 Census of Canada, V1T2.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 49 people connected to this place who were alive in 1911, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Michael Urias Cook	1824–1912	died here
Albert Carman	1833–1917	born here
Thomas Frood	1837–1916	born here
Charles Mair	1838–1927	born here
Cornelius O’Keefe	1838–1919	born here
Theodore F. Chamberlain	1838–1927	born here
Whitney	1842–1914	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
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
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
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: ON122003 — 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 1911 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 (1911 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/osnabruck-on122003-1911/.