Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier, Ontario (1861 census)

Name: Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier (1861)
Address: Ontario, CA

Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier was a census subdivision in Ontario, recorded in the 1861 Census of Canada with a population of 2,039. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.418°N, 75.712°W.

Population

In 1861, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier had a population of 2,039: 1,013 male and 1,026 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1861	2,039
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 1861

In the 1861 census, Ottawa, Victoria Ward—Quartier shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1861

The 1861 census recorded 105 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1861). This community's record includes 2,039 total population, 1,026 females, 1,013 males, Female members of the family who are present: 892, Male members of the family who are present: 859, 654 single males, 619 single females, 362 married females, 341 married males, 194 males attending school, Males present who are not members of the family: 154, Females present who are not members of the family: 134, 134 females attending school, 71 adult females unable to read or write, 54 adult males unable to read or write, 45 widowed females, 43 female births, 40 male births, 18 widowed males, 4 lunatic males, 1 deaf and dumb males. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Age structure (1861). This community's record includes 136 married females aged 20 to 30, 116 females aged 5 to 10, 115 married females aged 30 to 40, 109 single females aged 15 to 20, 109 single males aged 20 to 30, 108 married males aged 30 to 40, 106 single females aged 10 to 15, 105 single males aged 15 to 20, 102 single males aged 10 to 15, 101 males aged 5 to 10, 90 married males aged 40 to 50, 89 married males aged 20 to 30, 74 married females aged 40 to 50, 62 single females aged 20 to 30, 41 females age 3 to 4, 40 married males aged 50 to 60, 39 males aged 1 to 2, 36 females aged 1 to 2, 35 males aged 3 to 4, 35 males aged 4 to 5, 34 single males aged 30 to 40, 30 females aged 2 to 3, 30 females aged 4 to 5, 30 males aged 2 to 3, 27 single females aged 30 to 40, 15 married females aged 50 to 60, 15 single males aged 40 to 50, 10 females of unknown age, 10 widowed females aged 40 to 50, 10 widowed females aged 50 to 60, 9 married females aged 60 to 70, 9 married males aged 60 to 70, 9 widowed females aged 30 to 40, 9 widowed females aged 60 to 70, 8 married females aged 15 to 20, 5 males of unknown age, 5 single females aged 40 to 50, 5 widowed males aged 40 to 50, 4 married females aged 70 to 80, 4 married males aged 70 to 80, 4 widowed males aged 30 to 40, 3 single females aged 60 to 70, 3 widowed females aged 20 to 30, 3 widowed females aged 70 to 80, 3 widowed males aged 60 to 70, 3 widowed males aged 70 to 80, 2 single males aged 50 to 60, 2 widowed males aged 50 to 60, 1 married females aged 80 to 90, 1 married males aged 80 to 90, 1 single females aged 80 to 90, 1 single males aged 70 to 80, 1 single males aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed females aged 80 to 90, 1 widowed males aged 80 to 90. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

Ethnic origin (1861). This community's record includes 958 persons native to Canada, not of French origin, 387 persons originating in Ireland, 245 French Canadians, 193 persons originating in England or Wales, 142 persons originating in the United States, 89 persons originating in Scotland, 9 persons whose origin is unknown, 7 persons originating in New Brunswick, 5 persons originating in France, 2 male negroes or coloured persons, 2 persons originating in Germany or Holland, 2 persons originating in Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T1; V1T5.)

Deaths & mortality (1861). This community's record includes 29 total number of deaths, Deaths in the past year among males of all ages: 16, Deaths in the past year among females of all ages: 13, Deaths in the past year among males under age 1: 10, Deaths in the past year among females aged 10 to 15: 3, Deaths in the past year among females of unknown age: 3, Deaths in the past year among females aged 1 to 2: 2, Deaths in the past year among males aged 70 to 80: 2, Deaths in the past year among females aged 15 to 20: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 20 to 30: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 3 to 4: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 4 to 5: 1, Deaths in the past year among females aged 5 to 10: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 1 to 2: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 2 to 3: 1, Deaths in the past year among males aged 30 to 40: 1, Deaths in the past year among males of unknown age: 1. (Source: 1861 Census of Canada, V1T5.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 68 people connected to this place who were alive in 1861, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
Louis-Théodore Besserer	1785–1861	died here
Joseph Larocque	1787–1866	died here
Nicholas Sparks	1794–1862	died here
Solomon Yeomans Chesley	1796–1880	died here
Lucius James O’Brien	1797–1870	died here
William Henry Lee	1799–1878	died here
William Agar Adamson	1800–1868	died here
Alfred Penderell Waddington	1801–1872	died here
Étienne Parent	1802–1874	died here
Ezra Churchill	1804–1874	died here
Benjamin Wier	1805–1868	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
William Henry Chipman	1807–1870	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
Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair	1815–1867	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
Henry James Friel	1823–1869	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
T. A. (Theodore Arthur) Burrows	1857–1929	born here
Robert Henry Grant	1860–1930	born here

Identifiers

TCP UID: ON111004 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_ON104004_1861 — 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 1861 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 (1861 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/on/ottawa-victoria-ward-quartier-on111004-1861/.