Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1881 census)

Name: Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier (1881)
Address: Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1881 Census of Canada with a population of 2,966. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.418°N, 75.712°W.

Population

In 1881, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,966: 1,485 male and 1,481 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 1881

In the 1881 census, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1881

The 1881 census recorded 16 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 3 categories.

Population & families (1881). This community's record includes 2,966 total population, 1,485 males, 1,481 females, 1,033 married persons, 578 families, 519 married females, 514 married males, 122 widowed persons, 98 widowed females, 24 widowed males. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1881). This community's record includes 1,811 single persons under 18, 947 single males under 18, 864 single females under 18. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1881). This community's record includes 510 inhabited houses, 510 occupied houses, 49 uninhabited houses. (Source: 1881 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 40 people connected to this place who were alive in 1881, 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
Horace Merrill	1809–1883	died here
John Glasier	1809–1894	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
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
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
Thomas White	1830–1888	died here
Emmanuel-Marie Blain de Saint-Aubin	1833–1883	died here
John Cunningham Stewart	1839–1888	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
William Hodgson Stuart	1879–1907	born here

Residents in 1881

The 1881 census residents page for this Census Subdivision lists 2,966 individuals enumerated here, with name, age, sex, religion, ethnic origin, birthplace, and occupation. Source: TCP/Dillon 1881 Canadian Census deposit at Borealis.

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON105002 — 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 1881 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 (1881 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-victoria-ward-quartier-on105002-1881/.