Just had a quick look through the Canadian 1901 Census for Sydney, Cape Breton. Sydney changed from "a sleepy little village" to a town with a population of about 25,000 when many came to work at the newly opened steel plant the opened at the turn of the century. Many came for a few more years. My relatives didn't get to Sydney until 1913. In Sydney - specifically a section called the Pier - lived many Newfoundlanders as well as many other new arrivals who came from around the world seeking employment at the new plant. Places in the Pier are found in the census pages as noted below. There are 48 pages. There may be a the odd page without Newfoundlanders but most pages contain quite a few. You find more people from Newfoundland if you start at the last page and work up from page 48. If you do a search on the Canadian Archives site: http://www.archives.ca/02/02012202_e.html click Nova Scotia and search using Sydney. The one you want should be item # 18 or Province/Territory: Nova Scotia District Name: CAPE BRETON District Number: 28 Sub-district Name: Sydney (Town/Ville) Sub-district Number: z-5 Schedule: 1 Reference: RG31 , Statistics Canada Microfilm Reel Number: T-6448 Finding Aid Number: 31-40 Jeri