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Osnabruck, Ontario (1851–1921)
Osnabruck was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in 6 censuses between 1851 and 1921.
Population trajectory across census years
| Census year | Population | Page |
|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 4,699 | View 1851 detail → |
| 1861 | 5,639 | View 1861 detail → |
| 1871 | 5,791 | View 1871 detail → |
| 1881 | 5,796 | View 1881 detail → |
| 1911 | 4,170 | View 1911 detail → |
| 1921 | 3,764 | 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 73 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander McMartin | 1788–1853 | born here |
| Billa Flint | 1805–1894 | born here |
| Donald Alexander MacDonald | 1817–1896 | born here |
| George Copway | 1818–1869 | 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
- Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON145003— assigned to this enduring entity by chaining year-scoped TCP UIDs through spatial overlap - Wikidata: not yet grounded.
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.