Hi Just a piece from Family Tree Magazine of Aug. 2004, pg. 33~ A quote from Susan Lumas's book "Making Use of the Census" 2002: .... in the week preceding census night, the appointed enumerator delivered schedules to all the households in the area to which he had been assigned...everyone who slept in the house on census night was to be included, even if it was not their permanent home. the instructions to the enumerator were that no person present on that night was to be omitted, and no person absent included. If individuals were working that night, or were travelling, they would be enumerated in their shift, or where they were to stay at the next stop on their journey. On the Monday after the census night the enumerator returned to collection the completed schedules. If they had not been filled in the enumerator had to do so by asking the householder for the information... Cheers, Edna - Ottawa