Please add Genealogical and Historical societies, plus libraries and LSD Centres for places to gather signatures. I received 30 signatures from Lanark & District Museum, gathered by the Lanark County Genealogical Society. Great going! and THANKS! Muriel M. Davidson -- Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <[email protected]> To: "Canada Census Campaign" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:23 PM Subject: Post 1901 Census - It is time! > Greetings All. > > There is a song about the end of summer (and other things) with the line > "Where have all the flowers gone?". For the past few days I have been > humming the melody of this song but have changed the words to "Where are > all the signatures?". > > For those of you who have been collecting signatures on our new > petitions and waiting until you managed to get "just one more" -- now is > the time to send what you have to us! (Send what you have already and > then start a nice fresh clean petition page and continue collecting.) > For those who have not yet collected any signatures -- what is holding > you back??? If we want to regain the access to Historic Census records > that the Chief Statistician continues to refuse us we must be prepared > to put in a little effort. > > Parliament is scheduled to resume sitting on 4 October 2004 -- slightly > more than two weeks from now. We want to have our petitions presented > to the Senate and the House of Commons as soon after that as possible. > It takes time, however, to collate those petitions sent to us and to > send them to our 'champions' in the Senate and House of Commons. It > then takes time for government scrutineers to check to make sure the > petitions meet all the government rules before they can be presented in > their respective Houses. > > It is expected that Senator Lorna Milne will continue to be our > 'champion' in the Senate. We have yet to choose a 'champion' in the > House of Commons to replace Murray Calder who did not retain his seat in > the past election. A number of candidates are being considered and we > will let you know when a decision has been made. > > In summary: > > -- we need petitions collected to date to be sent to us NOW! > > -- we need you to continue to collect signatures for future submission. > We will continue to collect signatures until it is felt they are no > longer needed. They will be submitted periodically as we receive > suficient signatures to make it worthwhile. > > -- more than 62,000 signatures were collected on our original petitions. > We would like to exceed that number, and in a much shorter time period, > on our new petitions. Those who signed the original petitions are now > eligible to sign the new petitons. Because they are directed to > different places, people may sign BOTH the petition to the House of > Commons AND the one to the Senate. > > -- Non-Resident petitions and petitions for the Senate are to be sent to > Muriel M. Davidson. Petitions for the House of Commons are to be sent > to Gordon A. Watts. Addressing information is on the same page of the > Post 1901 Census Project website from which the petitons are downloaded. > Please read the Instructions for Petitions on the same page. The URL > for the website follows my signature. > > Thank you all for your support. With your help we WILL achieve our > goal. > > Happy Hunting. > > Gordon A. Watts [email protected] > Co-chair Canada Census Committee > Port Coquitlam, BC > > http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census > en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f > > Permission to forward without notice is granted > >