Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier, Ontario (1891 census)

Name: Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier (1891)
Address: Ontario, CA

Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 5,788. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.426°N, 75.679°W.

Population

In 1891, Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier had a population of 5,788: 2,624 male and 3,164 female residents. Population density was 7627.8 people per square mile.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	3,474
1881	4,527
1891	5,788
1901	8,807
1911	10,581

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, Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1891

The 1891 census recorded 142 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 6 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (15 variables)

Variable	Value
Average size of families	5.60
FAM NO	1,033
Number of families	1,033
Number of females	3,164
Number of males	2,624
Number of married females	919
Number of married males	913
Number of married persons	1,832
Number of widowed females	212
Number of widowed males	51
Number of widowed persons	263
POP F	3,164
POP M	2,624
POP TOT	5,788
Total population	5,788

Age structure (3 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of single females under 18	2,033
Number of single males under 18	1,660
Number of single persons under 18	3,693

Ethnic origin (2 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of French Canadians	1,062
Number of persons who are not French Canadian	4,726

Buildings & housing (18 variables)

Variable	Value
Number of houses	1,023
Number of houses built of brick	497
Number of houses built of stone	54
Number of houses built of wood	472
Number of houses of 1 story	162
Number of houses of 11 to 15 rooms	133
Number of houses of 2 rooms	15
Number of houses of 2 stories	635
Number of houses of 3 rooms	30
Number of houses of 3 stories	214
Number of houses of 4 rooms	99
Number of houses of 5 rooms	100
Number of houses of 6 to 10 rooms	621
Number of houses of more than 3 stories	12
Number of houses of over 15 rooms	25
Number of houses under construction	23
Number of occupied houses	1,023
Number of uninhabited houses	66

Agriculture (45 variables)

Variable	Value
Acres of farmland in gardens or orchards	10
Acres of farmland in pasture	8
Acres of farmland in woodland or forest	133
Acres of farmland under crops	60
Acres of hay crops	34
Acres of improved land in farms	78
Acres of land in farms	211
Acres of oats	15
Acres of potatoes	8
Acres of turnips	4
Bushels of beans produced in the past year	11
Bushels of buckwheat produced in the past year	25
Bushels of corn produced in the past year	320
Bushels of oats produced in the past year	180
Bushels of peas produced in the past year	40
Bushels of potatoes produced in the past year	286
Bushels of turnips produced in the past year	40
BWT BU	25
CRN BU	320
HAY AC	34
HAY TONS	22
Number of chickens	1,906
Number of ducks	43
Number of farm occupants who own their land	6
Number of geese	8
Number of horses aged 3 years and under	33
Number of horses aged over 3 years	403
Number of milk cows	127
Number of occupants of farms	6
Number of other cattle	70
Number of other fowl	1
Number of persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres	1
Number of persons living on farms between 51 and 100 acres	2
Number of persons living on farms under 10 acres	3
Number of sheep	29
Number of swine	30
Number of turkeys	11
OAT AC	15
OAT BU	180
PEA BU	40
POT AC	8
POT BU	286
Pounds of coarse wool produced on farms in the past year	112
Pounds of homemade butter	2,700
Tons of hay produced in the past year	22

Other recorded variables (59 variables)

Variable	Value
A 11 50	1
A 51 100	2
BEN BU	11
BUTTER LB	2,700
CHILD AND UNMD FEM	2,033
CHILD AND UNMD MALE	1,660
CHILD AND UNMD TOT	3,693
COARSE WOOL LB	112
COLTS FILLIES	33
DUCKS	43
FAMILIES	1,033
FAMILIES AV SIZE	5.60
FRN CA	1,062
GEESE	8
HENS AND CHKN	1,906
HORSES OVR THREE	403
HOUSES	1,023
HOUSES B	497
HOUSES CON	23
HOUSES ELVN TO FIFTN RM	133
HOUSES FIVE RM	100
HOUSES FOUR RM	99
HOUSES ONE STRY	162
HOUSES OVR FOUR STRY	12
HOUSES S	54
HOUSES SIX TO TEN RM	621
HOUSES SIXTN OVR RM	25
HOUSES THREE RM	30
HOUSES THREE STRY	214
HOUSES TWO RM	15
HOUSES TWO STRY	635
HOUSES UNINH	66
HOUSES W	472
INF 11 A	3
MD FEM	919
MD MALE	913
MD TOT	1,832
MILK COWS	127
NAME CD	Ottawa, City—Cité
OC P	6
OC TOT	6
OTHER FOWL	1
OTHER HRN CATTLE	70
OTHERS	4,726
SHEEP	29
SUP AM	78
SUP FOR	133
SUP JV	10
SUP PAT	8
SUP SC	60
SUP TOT	211
SWINE	30
TOT DWLG OCC	1,023
TUR AC	4
TUR BU	40
TURKEY	11
WID FEM	212
WID MALE	51
WID TOT	263

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON104003 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON105006_1871 — 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). "Ottawa, St. George ward-quartier, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-st-george-ward-quartier-on104003-1891/.