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 gordon_watts@telus.net 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