Dear Listers Where have all the BHCers gone? Since the CCC has come on, all the BHC letters seem to have stopped. Is there nothing more to say or do? I know we all are waiting for the release of the 1911 census, but surely other things are happening, eh. I wonder what date the census was taken. My Gran moved to Alberta between 1901 and 1911, but, ther is no record of her anywhere. Here she was, married in 1900, had 5 chidren and lost her husband (also a BHC) in 1911 and there is no record of her existence. I guess that is the reason we all hunt. I sent this message several days ago actually, but it never came through on the BHC list Lorraine granddaughter of 2 BHC's

Hi Lorraine You directed your query to the Canada-Census-Campaign mail list and I see nothing to indicate you sent it also to the British-Home-Children mail list so I copy them in on this response. I am not certain on which Rootsweb server the BHC list is on but there have been problems on their Server 2 for the past week or more. That may explain why your message did not come through. If so, when the server is up and running all the backed up messages will likely come through. To answer your question regarding the date of the 1911 Census - the following was extracted from the Instructions to Officers and Enumerators for the 1911 Census. "4. Date for recording population. The date selected for recording the population is Thursday, first day of June 1911. The decisive hour of reckoning is made 12 o'clock or midnight on the night of 31st May to 1st June, so that every one born before that hour and every one dying after it are to be counted in the population." In accordance with the Access to Information and Privacy Acts, the 1911 Census should have been made available to us after 1 June 2003. As everyone is aware that has not happened. Because of one individual -- the Chief Statistician of Canada -- who refuses to obey the laws of Canada we do not have the access that we are entitled to. If your grandmother was in Alberta from 1901 she should be found on the 1906 Census of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba which is online at the National Archives website. You express probably the main reason we seek to regain public access to Historic Census records -- to find information on our ancestors. To achieve this goal we will all have to work a little longer. I hope that all who read this message will download and collect signatures on our NEW petitions. I wish you, and everyone else - including BHC descendants - every success in finding their family. Happy Hunting Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorraine Nason" <lorrainenason@webtv.net> To: <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [CCC] missing Dear Listers Where have all the BHCers gone? Since the CCC has come on, all the BHC letters seem to have stopped. Is there nothing more to say or do? I know we all are waiting for the release of the 1911 census, but surely other things are happening, eh. I wonder what date the census was taken. My Gran moved to Alberta between 1901 and 1911, but, ther is no record of her anywhere. Here she was, married in 1900, had 5 chidren and lost her husband (also a BHC) in 1911 and there is no record of her existence. I guess that is the reason we all hunt. I sent this message several days ago actually, but it never came through on the BHC list Lorraine granddaughter of 2 BHC's