To all:- One story we hear over and over again, is of people HOPING to be able to trace family members, learn names of family members, ages, WHEN and IF we are allowed to view the 1911 Canadian census. The 1901 census was the first one that included dates of birth -- often family members guessed prior to this, and why tombstone inscriptions are not always as they should be. Personally, I have ONE aunt, 98 years young, resident of Queen's Manor, Liverpool, Nova Scotia. She is hoping to learn of the release of census records because the 1911 census would be her FIRST Canadian census. My Aunt Iva, born in 1902 in Bucksport, Maine, came to Liverpool as a child, as did my mother, born in 1904. The parents, George Warren Adams of Dedham, Maine and his wife, Jane Maria Conrad (Davis) brought their family "home" to live. My grandmother was born in West Berlin, at one time called Blueberry, d.o. Eliza Conrad and James MacKenzie Davis. Many know the above -- my personal reason for wanting the Canadian census records released. Aunt Iva told me "the politicians have it all wrong -- my parents told me what they wrote on their first enumeration papers." She is an educated lady -- knows the "secrecy" never existed -- except for enumerators not to run to the next house and tell what they had already learned. [We call it GOSSIP!] There are many "Aunt Iva people" -- she wants to know she is included on a Canadian census -- others want to find family members. So -- let's stop procrastinating -- when you are shopping buy some colored No. 10 envelopes -- hot pink would be noticeable!!!! Next time I will tell you what to do with these -- at last count you will need 205 envelopes -- the FENCE-SITTERS and the BLUE ????? Muriel M. Davidson <davidson3542@home.com> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census/index6.htm