Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)
Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1891 Census of Canada with a population of 3,054. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.418°N, 75.712°W.
Population
In 1891, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier had a population of 3,054: 1,535 male and 1,519 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).
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.
Later boundary forms
- In a later year, this CSD contained Ottawa, Victoria ward-quartier, 1901 (87.7% of this CSD's polygon).
Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1891
In the 1891 census, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:
Full census record, 1891
The 1891 census recorded 53 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 5 categories.
Population & families (1891). This community's record includes 3,054 total population, 1,535 males, 1,519 females, 1,047 married persons, 550 families, 531 married males, 516 married females, 135 widowed persons, 100 widowed females, 35 widowed males, 5.50 average size of families. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2; V1T3.)
Age structure (1891). This community's record includes 1,872 single persons under 18, 969 single males under 18, 903 single females under 18. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Ethnic origin (1891). This community's record includes 1,921 persons who are not French Canadian, 1,133 French Canadians. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T3.)
Buildings & housing (1891). This community's record includes 511 houses, 511 occupied houses, 337 houses built of wood, 333 houses of 2 stories, 261 houses of 6 to 10 rooms, 100 houses of 5 rooms, 93 houses built of brick, 84 houses of 3 stories, 81 houses built of stone, 75 houses of 1 story, 51 houses of 11 to 15 rooms, 46 houses of 4 rooms, 29 uninhabited houses, 22 houses of 3 rooms, 19 houses of more than 3 stories, 16 houses of over 15 rooms, 12 houses of 2 rooms, 3 houses of 1 room, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V1T2.)
Agriculture (1891). This community's record includes 537 chickens, 457 horses aged over 3 years, 60 pounds of homemade butter, 50 acres of land in farms, 50 milk cows, 35 acres of farmland under crops, 35 acres of improved land in farms, 31 ducks, 22 horses aged 3 years and under, 15 acres of farmland in woodland or forest, 13 other fowl, 4 swine, 3 geese, 2 swine slaughtered or sold, 1 farm occupants who own their land, 1 occupants of farms, 1 other cattle, 1 persons living on farms between 11 and 50 acres. (Source: 1891 Census of Canada, V2T16; V4T3.)
People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 19 people connected to this place who were alive in 1891, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.
| Name | Lifespan | Connection |
|---|---|---|
| Billa Flint | 1805–1894 | died here |
| Joseph Hiram Robinson | 1807–1896 | died here |
| John Glasier | 1809–1894 | died here |
| Sir William Johnston Ritchie | 1813–1892 | died here |
| John A. Macdonald | 1815–1891 | died here |
| Robert Haythorne | 1815–1891 | died here |
| Allan Gilmour | 1816–1895 | died here |
| Joseph-Charles Taché | 1820–1894 | died here |
| Télesphore Fournier | 1823–1896 | died here |
| F.N. (Frederick Newton) Gisborne | 1824–1892 | 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 |
| Samuel Lawrence Bedson | 1842–1891 | died here |
| Jacques Dufresne | 1844–1896 | died here |
| Andrew Robertson Gordon | 1851–1893 | died here |
| William Hodgson Stuart | 1879–1907 | born here |
| John Joseph O’Gorman | 1884–1933 | born here |
Identifiers
- TCP UID:
ON104004— 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 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, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1891 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-victoria-ward-quartier-on104004-1891/.