CANADIAN

Census Records

1916

===========

 

This was a special census that covered the Western

 Territories Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan only.

 

UPDATED AUGUST 23, 2021

 

ALBERTA

 

LUCIEN PUTNAM  Bow River, Alberta

He is 37 US and his wife Vienna is 35 US. They have Lavina 2 ALB. He is a farmer. They were in Red Deer, Alberta in 1911. He is a son of Adelbert and Hannah Putnam in Putnam County Missouri. Adelbert was a son of Dexter and Ruby Putnam. They were in Red Deer, Alberta in 1911 and are back in Putnam County Missouri in 1930, and probably in 1920 but not indexed.

 

ANNIE PUTMAN  Calgary, Alberta

She is 25 and born in Nova Scotia. She is single and a stenographer, She is living with Louis and Hannah Mumford.

 

BERNIE PUTNAM  Edmonton East, Alberta

He is a farmer 27 USA, his wife Anna 26 ONT and they have Lillian 4 ALB and Laura 2 ALB. He is Bernie Noyes Putnam a son of Wallace Rolland Putnam and Sarah Ann Noyes and was born in Waushara County Wisconsin March 16, 1889 and was in Towner County North Dakota with his folks in 1900. He immigrated in 1908 and they are here in 1921.

 

ROWLIN (ROLLAND) PUTNAM  Edmonton East, Alberta

He is 18 USA single and working on a farm. He is Rolland Wallace Putnam a son of Wallace Rolland Putnam and Sarah Ann Noyes and was born in Towner County North Dakota in January 1898 and with his folks there in 1900. He was with them in Spokane, Washington in 1910 and immigrated here in 1912 and he is here in 1921.

 

WORTHY PUTNAM  Edmonton East, Alberta

He is 27 USA and his wife Marjorie Louise Waters is 17 ENG and his brother Dale 24 USA is here too. He is Albert Worthy Putnam a son of Albert Edward Putnam and Emmaline May Babcock. He was born in Hayes County Nebraska. He was with his folks in Sturgeon Alberta in 1901 and 1906. He just married Marjorie here on September 27, 1915. His brother Benjamin Dale will marry Hazel Rhinehart here February 4, 1931. New England line.

 

LORING PUTNAM  Blairmore, Macleod, Alberta

He is 32 NS and his wife Annie 26 NS. He is a barrister. He is a son of Captain William Putnam and his second wife Elizabeth Jane Carr from Maitland, Hants Nova Scotia. He was born there in 1886 and will die here in Calgary, Alberta in 1924.

 

NANNIE PUTNAM  Millarville, Macleod, Alberta

She is a housekeeper/servant 32 USA and has her daughter Lakie 11 USA with her.

 

PHILEAS (PHILETAS) PUTNAM  Macleod, Alberta

He is a farmer 56 US and his wife Caroline 54 US. They came up here in 1912. He was born in Bronson, Branch County Michigan. He is a son of Teunis and Emeline Putman from Amsterdam, Montgomery County NY. Another Dutch line. They are in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in 1920. Caroline is alone there in 1930. Think she is widowed but says she’s married.

 

CHARLES PUTNAM  Medicine Hat, Alberta

He is 51 NS and his wife Nita Coates is 35 NS and her brother Laurie Coates is 35 NS. He has a cattle ranch. Laurie is a salesman in a clothing store. He is a son of Robert Putnam and Elizabeth Sprout from Middle Stewiacke Nova Scotia. He was born in Nova Scotia August 2, 1864. He’ll die in 1926.

 

WILLIAM M. (MURRAY) PUTNAM  Medicine Hat, Alberta

He is a farmer 39 NS and his wife Ida Jean King is 41 NS. They now have Robert M. 10 ALB, James M. 8 ALB, Jean S. 6 ALB, Betty G. 4 ALB and Norman F. 6/12 ALB. He too is a son of Robert Putnam and Elizabeth Sprout from Middle Stewiacke Nova Scotia. He was born in Nova Scotia and die out here in Alberta August 15, 1938. He married Ida December 29, 1905 in Nova Scotia. She will die in Victoria, British Columbia in June 1957.

 

FREDERICK PUTMAN  Red Deer, Alberta

He is 81 ENG, his wife Eliza Rebecca is 75 ENG and their son Edward is 34 ENG. They came over in 1904 from England. He is a farmer. I don’t find them in the 1911 census.

 

ORLEAN PUTNAM  Bentley, Red Deer, Alberta

He is a Porter 57 US and single. He came up in 1899. He is a son of Ira J. Putnam and Rosanna Longnecker, and was born January 1, 1863 in Jefferson, Cass County Michigan. He was in Lacombe Alberta in 1901 and Stratcona Alberta in 1906, as was his dad Ira. J. Putnam. 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 had six children most in Nebraska and one in Texas in 1895. They were divorced in the late 1890s. Nellie and the kids are there now and she will be through the 1930. Orlean will die in 1946.

 

W. J. (WALDO JACKSON BROWN) J. PUTMAN  Red Deer, Alberta

He is 50 USA and his wife Alice is 40 USA. He is a cigar maker. They just immigrated here in 1916. He is a son of Elijah Brown Putnam and Lucy M. Fuller of Sutton. He was born there June 1, 1866. He married Leonora Johnson November 21, 1888, then Jennie Eaton in 1892 and Alice around 1914 or 1915. He and Alice are back in Sutton in 1920 and 1930. He will be till he dies in 1942.

 

WALLACE PUTNAM  Strathcona, Alberta

He is 62 US, his wife Florence 28 US, and they have Wallace 12 US, Joy Aris 10 US, Wallace R. 8 US and Allen E. 7 ALB. He is a son of Levi and Isa Putnam from New Hampshire. He was at home with his folks in 1860 and 1870 in Waushara County Wisconsin where he was born in 1855. He will be divorced and in Portland, Oregon living with his daughter in 1930.

 

 

MANITOBA

 

ISABEL PUTNAM  Springfield, Manitoba

She is 65 NS and widowed. She lives with her married daughter Agnes Macdougall 42 NS and husband Everett Macdougall 55 NS and their six kids. Also here is her daughter Lillian Putnam 34 NS, and sons William 27 NS and John 24 NS. Isabelle Blair was married to Stephen Putnam in Maitland, Hants. He died there January 11, 1902. Isabelle came out here with her other daughter Lillian and will be out here till she dies November 16, 1860. The sons Earle and George Macdonald and William and John Putnam are all soldiers probably getting ready to head overseas.

 

JOHN H. (HUNTER) PUTNAM  Souris, Manitoba

He is 58 Nova Scotia, his wife Janet Wilkie 57 ONT and they have at home Anna (Grace Alma) 31 MAN, Robert Hunter 27 MAN, Emma May 21 ONT, Maggie 18 MAN, Janet B. 15 MAN and George P. 12 MAN. He is a farmer. They were all in Riverside, Lisgar Alberta in 1901 and here in 1906 and still in 1921. He is a son of Robert Hunter Putnam and Christina McLachlin from Colchester District Nova Scotia. He was born in Hants, Nova Scotia January 2, 1858 and will die in Winnipeg, Manitoba May 13, 1947.

 

EASLEY PUTNAM  Winnipeg Center, Manitoba

He is 38 Nova Scotia, his wife Edna 25 NS. Rand thinks this is a poorly written Perley Lewis Putnam a son of Arthur Putnam as shown in 1901 in Colchester, Nova Scotia. Perley was married to Laura Campbell. I wonder if Edna is another writing thing. Edna and Perley’s kid Lloyd are here in Winnipeg in 1921. Confusing to say the least.

 

 

SASKATCHEWAN

 

BEN PUTNAM  Lakeside, Humboldt, Saskatchewan

He is 30 USA, his wife Grace 25 USA and they have Lloyd 3 SASK and Mayme 9/12 SASK. He is a farmer. He is a son of George Putnam and Emma Lukehart from Marshall County Iowa. He was home there in 1900 and 1910 and here in Humbolt in 1911, and is back there with Grace in 1920.

 

WILLIAM H. PUTMAN  Kindersley, Saskatchewan

He is 56 USA, married a boarding with a Chinese Family. He came up here in 1911. Hard to read, but think he is a minister.

 

MAY PUTMAN  Last Mountain, Saskatchewan

She is 21 ONT single and boarding.

 

JAMES WILLIAM PUTMAN  Qu’appelle, Saskatchewan

He is 39, his wife Mary Ellen 40 and Mary 6 all born in England they say. He is a drayman. He came here in 1913

 

EUGENE R. (ROSS) PUTNAM  Regina, Saskatchewan

He is 28 born in Nova Scotia and single. He is a son of Arthur Putnam and Elizabeth Jane Lightbody and was born in Colchester, Nova Scotia August 4, 1887.

 

THOMAS PUTMAN  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

He is listed as 51 ONT and boarding. He says he is married, but he is in a rooming house with a zillion other guys. He was here in 1911 as well and boarding and saying he is married. He will be in St. Mary’s, Perth, Ontario in 1921, again boarding by himself but saying he is married for the second time. The 1911 showed the middle initial ‘M’ and finally shows he is Thomas Merritt Putman the son of Peter James Putman and Jane Secord from Dorchester South, Elgin East, Ontario and was shown at home in 1871 and 1881 and then in Middlesex East with his folks in 1891. Thomas will die in Leeds, Ontario May 3, 1936. Peter is a son of Henry Putman and Ann Hawn, grandson of Henry Putman and Hannah Anguish. The line is Dutch and is Peter James > Henry Putman and Ann Hawn > Henry and Hannah Anguish > Johannes Putman and Gertrude Six > Arent Janse Putman and Elizabeth Akerman > Johannes ‘Jan’ Poutman and Cornelia Brandt > Rutger Poutman and Joanna Vandenburgh back in the Netherlands.

 

J. C. (JAMES CARRIEL) PUTMAN  Swift Current, Saskatchewan

He is 67 born in USA. He is single and boarding. He is a laborer.  He was listed as Jas. Putman and was married in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan in 1906. He says he came here in 1903 and became a citizen in 1909. 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.