Dear group, I recently signed on to this group. Like many others, I live in the US, but my grandparents met and married in Toronto, and I still have cousins there. Since my relatives immigrated 1903-1910, I have been following this struggle with much interest, if not a feeling of somewhat uselessness (I suspect as a non-Canadian, my opinion wouldn't carry much weight). Ms. Sparling said, "The Federal Court action was for the release of the 1906 census only because it was, essentially, a Writ of Mandamus. You cannot use a Writ of Mandamus until the government official has failed to do his duty. We cannot commence that sort of action for the release of later census until the 92 years is up for each." If I may ask from ignorance, aren't we well past the 92-year cutoff for the 1911 census, since it's now 2003? So isn't this "Writ of Mandamus" a possibilty for that census now? I will help any way I can. Hilary Henkin Atlanta, Georgia
Dear Hilary The 92 years is up June 1, 2003. Ideas, moral support and, sometimes financial donations, are all very useful. I guess you won't be driving up for any demonstrations, though. (We are not fund-raising at this precise moment.) Lois Sparling Hilary Henkin wrote: > Dear group, > I recently signed on to this group. Like many others, I live in the > US, but my grandparents met and married in Toronto, and I still have > cousins there. Since my relatives immigrated 1903-1910, I have been > following this struggle with much interest, if not a feeling of > somewhat uselessness (I suspect as a non-Canadian, my opinion wouldn't > carry much weight). > > Ms. Sparling said, > "The Federal Court action was for the release of the 1906 census only > because it was, essentially, a Writ of Mandamus. You cannot use a > Writ of Mandamus until the government official has failed to do his > duty. We cannot commence that sort of action for the release of later > census until the 92 years is up for each." > > If I may ask from ignorance, aren't we well past the 92-year cutoff > for the 1911 census, since it's now 2003? So isn't this "Writ of > Mandamus" a possibilty for that census now? > > I will help any way I can. > > Hilary Henkin > Atlanta, Georgia > > >