Greetings All. Prior to the 2001 National Census of Canada being taken we suggested that respondents should make use of the "Comments" section on the Census form to voice their support for access to Historic Census. We also posted a brief statement of that support that could be printed and included with the form. In making these suggestions we did so without any real expectations of being able to find out the numbers of those that followed them. I recently asked Statistics Canada about the numbers of comments supporting access that had been written on the forms. This morning I received the following response from Mary Ledoux of Statistics Canada "Gordon, I've heard back from Census Operations Division and have been told that a systematic review is being undertaken of the notes that appeared on the forms for the 2001 Census but this work is still underway and a summary of the findings has yet to be completed. Certainly these notes would have been examined as part of the various edits which are performed on the forms (at the enumeration stage, and again at the high level edit of household completeness) if the information in the note was relevant to the operation being performed. But the more systematic review, which selects a sample of forms and categorizes the comments in order to produce weighted estimates to represent the universe of comments received, will provide much more insight into the feedback given by Canadians. This study is expected to be completed within the next couple of months. In addition to written comments on the questionnaires, we received a number of inserts which supported the release of historical census information. I am told there were approximately 400 such inserts included with questionnaires." I have asked to receive a copy of the summary of findings when it is completed. In a population exceeding 32 million 400 is an insignificant number. We are pleased that at least that number included our inserts with their Census forms. Insignificant as it may be, 400 of these inserts is certainly sufficient for the bureaucrats to take notice of them. I await with interest the summary of the written comments yet to come. The support of all is appreciated. 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