To: anyone who has research interests in Canada- I am forwarding this message from Gordon Watts regarding: " a petition to the Hon. Senator Lorna Milne who is preparing to work on OUR behalf to get us access to post 1901 Census information. The posting below has been put out by someone on another list. She knows Senator Milne and worked with her in developing the petition below. The hope is to get a substantial number of petitions sent to support her in OUR quest to gain access to post 1901 census information. This is extremely important to ALL genealogists who have roots in Canada, regardless of where they are living now. PLEASE respond by sending the petition in to the e-mail address shown in the posting below. Don't forget to add your own interests and comments, while keeping it down to a single page. If you subscribe to other lists having Canadian interests please forward this posting to them. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! -- IF WE DO NOT LET OUR FEELINGS KNOWN NOW WE MAY NEVER SEE ANOTHER CANADA CENSUS RELEASED!!!! THE SENATE RECONVENES AFTER EASTER. PLEASE SEND YOUR PETITION NOW!!! If you wish to send additional information to Senator Milne her email address is milnel@sen.parl.gc.ca . She also has a website at http://sen.parl.gc.ca/lmilne Gordon A. WATTS Port Coquitlam, British Columbia gordon_watts@bc.sympatico.ca I have gone to find myself. If I get back before I return, Please ask me to wait. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- To all Family Researchers who depend on Canadian Census Records: I have been requested by The Hon. Lorna Milne, Senator, to get a petition going so she will have added backing in her fight, on our behalf, to obtain release of Post-1901 Canadian Census Records. Forward, one page only, the following paragraph, complete with YOUR personal comments, your city/town, families being researched and the areas of Canada. Send to <Farquhar@netcom.ca> (Muriel Davidson) P E T I T I O N Family researchers, attempting to complete their family roots, depend greatly on Canadian census records even though these are only released at 10-year intervals. These records help the genealogist research his/her ancestors to form a picture of the past. Since many church denominations are sealing records, as well as the government withholding the census, how are we able to learn our personal roots. We are concerned over the prospect of not being permitted to gain access to the 1911 and subsequent census records 92 years after the taking of those censuses in accordance with the provisions in Section 6 of the Privacy Regulations. WE do not need to know financial status or other personal data. WE support the initiative of Senator Lorna Milne in introducing a Bill in the Senate which would lead to the restoration of our rights to see all census records. Tourism is a major factor in genealogical research -- people want to visit their roots. Signed: