Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier, Ontario (1901 census)

Name: Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier (1901)
Address: Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 2,488. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.417°N, 75.713°W.

Population

In 1901, Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier had a population of 2,488: 1,297 male and 1,191 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1901	2,488
1911	3,145

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

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, 1891 (87.7% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 13 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1901). This community's record includes 2,488 total population, 1,297 males, 1,191 females, 820 single males, 712 single females, 440 families, 434 married males, 401 married females, 77 widowed females, 43 widowed males, 1 divorced females. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Buildings & housing (1901). This community's record includes 390 houses. (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

Agriculture (1901). This community's record includes 389 total area (acres). (Source: 1901 Census of Canada, V1T7.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 48 people connected to this place who were alive in 1901, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
John Wellington Gwynne	1814–1902	died here
S. J. (Simon James) Dawson	1818–1902	died here
Cyprien Tanguay	1819–1902	died here
George Hay	1822–1910	died here
William McDougall	1822–1905	died here
William Weir	1823–1905	died here
John Lowe	1824–1913	died here
Joseph-Pierre-Michel Lecourt	1824–1913	died here
Samuel Henry Strong	1825–1909	died here
Sir Richard William Scott	1825–1913	died here
Francis McDougal	1826–1910	died here
Hugh Richardson	1826–1913	died here
James George Moylan	1826–1902	died here
John Mather	1827–1907	died here
Walker Powell	1828–1915	died here
Andrew Archibald MacDonald	1829–1912	died here
Edward Manning Saunders	1829–1916	died here
David Mills	1831–1903	died here
David Laird	1833–1914	died here
Edward Cochrane	1834–1907	died here
Thomas Macfarlane	1834–1907	died here
John Costigan	1835–1916	died here
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves	1835–1909	died here
Désiré Girouard	1836–1911	died here
Henri Elzéar Taschereau	1836–1911	died here
John Graham Haggart	1836–1913	died here
Sir John George Bourinot	1836–1902	died here
William Bain Scarth	1837–1902	died here
Henry Cargill	1838–1903	died here
John Lorn McDougall	1838–1909	died here
Thomas Greenway	1838–1908	died here
George Edwin King	1839–1901	died here
Archibald Blue	1840–1914	died here
Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Stockton	1842–1907	died here
Beaufort Henry Vidal	1843–1908	died here
Rosetta Ernestine Watson	1845–1907	died here
Edward Farrer	1846–1916	died here
George Wheelock Burbidge	1847–1908	died here
John William McRae	1848–1901	died here
Albert Clements Killam	1849–1908	died here
George Mercer Dawson	1849–1901	died here
Thomas Chase-Casgrain	1852–1916	died here
William Frederick King	1854–1916	died here
Annie Amelia Chesley	1857–1910	died here
Victor Dubreuil	1859–1916	died here
Benjamin Taylor A. Bell	1861–1904	died here
Robert-Errol Bouchette	1862–1912	died here
Henry Albert Harper	1873–1901	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON100006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON105007_1901 — 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 1901 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 (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-victoria-ward-quartier-on100006-1901/.