Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1871 census)
Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 3,156. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.418°N, 75.712°W.
Population
In 1871, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier had a population of 3,156: 1,542 male and 1,614 female residents.
Population trajectory across census years
| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 1871 | 3,156 |
| 1881 | 2,966 |
| 1891 | 3,054 |
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, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1871
The 1871 census recorded 19 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.
Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 3,156 total population, 1,614 females, 1,542 males, 1,076 married persons, 592 families, 539 married females, 537 married males, 120 widowed persons, 107 widowed females, 13 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 1,960 single persons under 18, 992 single males under 18, 968 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 533 occupied houses, 532 inhabited houses, 16 uninhabited houses, 6 houses under construction, 1 dwellings that are temporary shanties. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 223 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)
People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 57 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Solomon Yeomans Chesley | 1796–1880 | died here |
| William Henry Lee | 1799–1878 | died here |
| Alfred Penderell Waddington | 1801–1872 | died here |
| Étienne Parent | 1802–1874 | died here |
| Ezra Churchill | 1804–1874 | died here |
| Billa Flint | 1805–1894 | died here |
| Edward Van Cortlandt | 1805–1875 | died here |
| Joseph-Bruno Guigues | 1805–1874 | died here |
| John Simpson | 1807–1878 | died here |
| Joseph Hiram Robinson | 1807–1896 | died here |
| Malcolm Cameron | 1808–1876 | died here |
| William Foster Coffin | 1808–1878 | died here |
| Horace Merrill | 1809–1883 | died here |
| John Glasier | 1809–1894 | died here |
| Joseph-Ignace Aumond | 1810–1879 | died here |
| Jean-Charles Chapais | 1811–1885 | died here |
| Sir William Johnston Ritchie | 1813–1892 | died here |
| Jean Bourinot | 1814–1884 | died here |
| John A. Macdonald | 1815–1891 | died here |
| Robert Haythorne | 1815–1891 | died here |
| Sir William Buell Richards | 1815–1889 | died here |
| Allan Gilmour | 1816–1895 | died here |
| William Alexander Henry | 1816–1888 | died here |
| George Hugo Perry | 1817–1888 | died here |
| Henry Franklin Bronson | 1817–1889 | died here |
| James Skead | 1817–1884 | died here |
| John Bower Lewis | 1817–1874 | died here |
| Luther Hamilton Holton | 1817–1880 | died here |
| Élisabeth Bruyère | 1818–1876 | died here |
| James Cockburn | 1819–1883 | died here |
| John Henry Pope | 1819–1889 | died here |
| Joseph-Charles Taché | 1820–1894 | died here |
| Joseph-Olivier Coté | 1820–1882 | died here |
| William Goodhue Perley | 1820–1890 | died here |
| Alpheus Todd | 1821–1884 | died here |
| Jean-François-Régis Déléage | 1821–1884 | died here |
| Thomas Scatcherd | 1823–1876 | died here |
| Télesphore Fournier | 1823–1896 | died here |
| Antoine Gérin-Lajoie | 1824–1882 | died here |
| F.N. (Frederick Newton) Gisborne | 1824–1892 | died here |
| John Allan Snow | 1824–1888 | died here |
| William Henry Brouse | 1824–1881 | died here |
| Gustave Smith | 1826–1896 | died here |
| Thomas Seaton Scott | 1826–1895 | died here |
| Toussaint Trudeau | 1826–1893 | died here |
| Henry Wentworth Monk | 1827–1896 | died here |
| Joseph-Henri Tabaret | 1828–1886 | died here |
| Eugène-Philippe Dorion | 1830–1872 | died here |
| Thomas White | 1830–1888 | died here |
| Emmanuel-Marie Blain de Saint-Aubin | 1833–1883 | died here |
| Charles Belford | 1837–1880 | died here |
| John Cunningham Stewart | 1839–1888 | died here |
| Évariste Gélinas | 1840–1873 | died here |
| Samuel Lawrence Bedson | 1842–1891 | died here |
| Jacques Dufresne | 1844–1896 | died here |
| Charles Savary | 1845–1889 | died here |
| Andrew Robertson Gordon | 1851–1893 | died here |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON077002— year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file - Persistent place ID:
PLACE_ON104004_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 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). "Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-victoria-ward-quartier-on077002-1871/.