This afternoon, possibly due to a power shortage in Toronto, I was unable to open the internet -- instead, I started on a needed post-census cleaning -- The following from the South Shore Genealogist Society in Lunenburg is one items I had saved. Just a bit of history!!! Note the ancient email address! Muriel M. Davidson muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Brampton, ON -- formerly Nova Scotia ===================== The following article was found during a “house-cleaning” task of sorting old papers -- The South Shore Genealogical Society newsletter of Jan. 18, 1999 =============================================== Census Taking in 1911 The Weekly News, Lunenburg, June 1, 1911 Canada’s numbering will be an elaborate work. It costs something to take the census in Canada. The Appropriation for the purpose is $1,000,000. But Mr. Archibald Blue, the Census Commissioner, says that the cost would exceed this amount. The commissioners have been appointed and their names will soon be announced. There are 220 in all. Three permanent officers of the Census Bureau will be assigned to meet the commissioners at various convenient points through the Dominican. There will probably be four or five meeting places in Ontario and the same number in Quebec. There will be one meeting place in the Maritime Provinces and one in each of the western provinces. The instructions to the enumerators will be given in May. The latter have not, as yet, been appointed. Actual work on the census will be commenced June 1, 1911. It has been arranged that the factors or district managers of the Hudson Bay Co. will take the census at the different stations of this company and one of the principal officers of the company has been appointed a commissioner. The Indian agents of the Government will take the census at Indian agencies. They will receive instructions direct from the Census Bureau and report to it instead of to the Department of Indian Affairs. At the last census there were 93,400 full-blooded Indians in Canada and 34,481 half-breeds. It is expected that the aborigines, while not showing any great increase will be able to hold their own. While the population of Canada will be found in the cities, rapid strides have been made in the rural districts of Ontario and the West. The Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta will, it is expected, show the greatest increase. Manitoba will show a substantial gain, but the province is a comparatively small one and a large portion of it has been settled for years. ======================================================== The 1911 Canadian Census is the one WE have had released. I do not know the writer of the above article, but the name of the paper was given. Muriel M. Davidson farquhar@netcom.ca NOW muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html> NOW http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/post1901census.com