Canadian

Census Reports

1906

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This was a special census that covered the Western Territories

Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan only.

 

UPDATED AUGUST 23, 2021

 

ALBERTA

 

CHARLES PUTNAM  Alberta, Alberta

He is 41 born in Nova Scotia, and lives with his brother William and his family. They are sons of Robert Putnam Jr. and Elizabeth Sprott from Middle Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia.  Charles will marry Nina Coates and will die here in 1926. See William’s listing coming up.

 

GEORGE PUTMAN  Alberta, Alberta

He is 48 and his wife Anneta is 41. They have Lyle 11. They were all born in Nova Scotia.

 

P. C. PUTNAM  Alberta, Alberta

He is 31 and says married, but no wife is with him. He was born in America.

 

WILLIAM M. (MURRAY) PUTNAM  Alberta, Alberta

He is 28 born in Nova Scotia. His wife Ida Jean King is 30 and they have Robert E. just born November 22, 1905. I have it that he married Ida back in Nova Scotia December29, 1905, but it must have been a year earlier. His brother Charles 41 is with them. They are sons of Robert Putnam Jr. and Elizabeth Sprott from Middle Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia. The line is William > Robert > Robert > Timothy > Timothy > Stephen > Benjamin > Nathaniel > John.

 

A. E. (ALBERT EDWARD) PUTNAM  Edmonton, Alberta

He is 47 born in the United States. His wife Emmaline May Babcock is 47. At home are Worthy 17, Dale 14, Joyce (Calvin J.)13. Everyone was born in the United States. He is a son of Thomas Worthy Putnam and Lucretia Wealthy Towne. The family was from Chautauqua County New York and then in Wabasha County Minnesota where Albert was born. Then by 1870 they were in Dodge County Nebraska through the 1880 and then he and Emma were here in 1901. They will be in Redlands, California in 1910 and 1920.

 

IRA J. PUTNAM  Strathcona, Alberta

He is 78 born in the United States. Son of a gun. Ira is a son of Ira H. Putnam and Polly Markham and was born in Cass County Michigan. He was married to Rosanna Longnecker who died in the 1860s. In 1900 he was in Cass County living with his daughter Estella Ashcraft. He must have come out to see his son Orlean, but is not living with him.

 

OLEAN E. (ELHANNA) PUTNAM  Strathcona, Alberta

He is Orlean Putnam 47 born in the United States, and single. He would be the guy listed as Ozlian Putnam in Lacombe Alberta in 1901. At any rate he is a son of the above Ira J. Putnam and was also born in Jefferson, Cass County Michigan. He was home in 1870 in Michigan, then single in Knox County Illinois in 1880. In 1884 he married Nellie Henderson there March 11, 1884 and they were divorced in the late 1890s. I haven’t found him yet in 1910.

 

 

MANITOBA

 

JOHN PUTMAN  Macdonald District, Manitoba

He is 36 and born in the United States. He has Roy 15, and Victor 12. He lives right next to Orville. He would be his brother John and the age should be 37. He too was born in Kansas. See Orville’s listing for this line.

 

ORVILLE PUTMAN  Macdonald District, Manitoba

He is 33 and his wife Lulu May Crabbe is 35. They have Esther 10, Leona 8 and Orville 2. Also here is her mother Caroline Crabbe 70. Everybody was born in the United States. He is Orville Monroe Putnam, a son of Uzziel Franklin Putnam and Martha Jane Cannon. He was born in Neosha County Kansas and then returned with his folks to McDonough County Illinois and was there in 1900. He came up here in 1905 and will be here a while. Then they are in Toole County Montana by 1920 and eventually they will move to Portland Oregon where he will die July 1, 1950. His dad was from Michigan, and the family was from Vermont and Massachusetts before that. The line here is Orville > Uzziel Franklin > Ira H. > Uzziel > Uzziel > Amos > John > Nathaniel > John.

 

ERNE B. PUTNAM  Portage la Prairie, Manitoba

He is listed as 21 born in Ontario, single and boarding. The birth date would be in 1885, that is the age for Elmer Sidney Putnam, son of William Henry Putnam in Moulton, Monck Ontario in 1891. I don’t find that family now in 1906. Handwriting not the best back then. Erne B. could be Elmer S.  Rand Putnam pretty sure this is the guy.

 

J. H. (JOHN HUNTER) PUTNAM  Souris District, Manitoba

He is 48 born Nova Scotia. His wife Janet Wilke is 47 born Ontario and they have Anna 21, Grace 19, R. H. (Robert Hunter) 17, May 11, Margaret 8, Beatrice 6 and Perley 2. Also here is Christina Putnam 76 born Nova Scotia listed as widowed mother. He is a son of Robert Hunter Putnam and Christina McLachian from Colchester District Nova Scotia. He was born in Hants, Nova Scotia January 2, 1858 and will die in Winnipeg, Manitoba May 13, 1947. They were in Manitoba in 1891 and in Lisgar County Alberta in 1901 and are still here in 1911 and 1921.

 

EMMA PUTMAN  Winnipeg, Manitoba

She is listed as Emma Pulman 50 and single. May or may not be a Putman.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Winnipeg, Manitoba

He is 22 single and boarding. He was born in Nova Scotia. He is a son of Stephen Putnam and Isabel Blair from Maitland Hants. His dad died back in ova Scotia in 1902. His brother John and sister Lillian will be here in 1911 and shortly after that his mother will come out here and stay till she dies in 1937. George will soon marry Florain Isabel Thompson and they will be in Vancouver British Columbia in 1911 and be there all their lives. The family was originally from New England.

 

JOSEPH PUTMAN  Winnipeg, Manitoba

He is 40 married and boarding by himself. He was born in England.

 

MAURICE PUTNAM  Winnipeg, Manitoba

He is 45 born in Ontario, his wife Kate Townley Totten 36 Ontario and Nora 7 Manitoba. He is a son of Lester Norval Putnam and Jane Meredith. He was born in Kingston, Ontario February 7, 1857 and was with his widowed mother in Montreal in 1881 and here in Winnipeg in 1891. He married Agnes Sarah Archibald and she died December 11, 1894. I don’t find him in 1901 and he will soon die on February 17, 1907.

 

 

SASKATCHEWAN

 

JAS PUTNAM  Assiniboia, Saskatchewan

He is 58 and married. He is in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1916 and says he was born in the US and is single. He came here in 1903. He looks like James Carriel Putnam, a son of Nathan Carriel Putnam and Rachel McMillian from Oneida County, New York. He was home there in 1850 and 1860 and then with his father in Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1880.

 

LEE PUTMAN  Mackenzie, Saskatchewan

He is 28 single, and born in the United States.

 

CHARLES PUTMAN  Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan

He is 33 single and boarding. He was born in England.

 

MARK PUTNAM  Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan

He is 27 born in the United States, single and working on a farm.

 

E. PUTNAM  Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan

He is 28 single and boarding. He was born in England.