SUBMISSION TO EXPERT PANEL ON ACCESS TO HISTORICAL CENSUS RECORDS by Lyndall H. Winters PART I - INTRODUCTION Perhaps I should begin this submission by explaining who I am, providing a little of my background and why I am vitally interested in this matter of census records. I am a retired Officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Superintendent), having served in that organization for 35 plus years. Following retirement, I worked as an investigator with the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, investigating complaints from citizens who believed they were denied access to records they had requested under the Access to Information Act. I worked in that capacity for eight years, finally retiring in 1994. During those eight years, my work took me into many federal government departments in several provinces. Not only did I have a firm grounding in the Access to Information Act, the work required me to understand the provisions of the Privacy Act. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< To all:- The above are only the first two paragraphs of a wonderful, well-written article re Census, Access to Information and Privacy Act. It is due to an article by the same writer,published in the Nova Scotia Genealogist that I became aware of the post-1901 census records problem. Go to: <http://www.globalgenealogy.com/census> >>>> Other Sites There is a great deal of weekend reading material at this site -- you may also print the necessary petitions!! Muriel M. Davidson <davidson3542@home.com> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7843/poll.html