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======'''Canada Censuses with Online Links'''======

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For more information about these censuses, visit [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/census.aspx Library and Archives of Canada].

The national government of Canada has taken censuses every ten years since 1871 and every five years since 1971. The 1871 census covers the four original provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. The first coast-to-coast census was taken in 1881. Newfoundland was not part of Canada until 1949. For Newfoundland few 19th-century censuses that list names have been found. They mostly contain statistical summaries.  

Canadian national censuses, taken for these dates, are available to the public:  

*1911 (June 1)

Personal information from later censuses is not available, but some information on deceased persons is available from the National Registration of 1940. Write for application form to:  

'''Census Operations Division'''  

*Canada

The 1871 and later censuses list for each member of the household:  

*Birthplace (country or province).

The 1871 and 1881 censuses list for each person:  

*For parents’ birthplaces.

The 1901 census asks for:  

*The year of naturalization.

[http://genealogycanada.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-1921-canada-census-will-be-released.html The 1921 Canada Census will be released August 8th, 2013]<br>

Search available indexes before using the census records. As indexes may be incomplete or incorrect, if you have reason to believe your ancestor should have been in the census, search the census even if your ancestor is not in the index.  

When there are no census indexes, look for your ancestor’s location in other kinds of indexes. See [[Canada Church Records]], [[Canada Directories]], [[Canada Emigration and Immigration]], [[Canada Genealogy]], and [[Canada Land and Property Records]] and in Wiki articles of the provinces.  

National census records are arranged by province and within provinces by census districts and subdistricts. Census districts are voting districts, not counties. Although a voting district may have the same name as a county, it may not include the same townships. In some provinces, townships are equivalent to census subdistricts. To determine which townships and counties eastern Canadian cities and villages were located in, look in:  

[http://landing.ancestry.ca/CACensus/en/wim/index.html Canada Census Interative Map]. Click on Census Questions for a list of questions that were asked on each census.

Colonial, provincial, and local governments also took censuses. Content varied by time period and by locality. Censuses taken in the 1600s under the French regime sometimes included much more family information than those taken in British North America in the early 1800s. (See Wiki articles of the provinces.)<br><br>Fifteen partial censuses of New France and nine of Acadia were taken between 1666 and 1754. Find microfilm numbers of Acadian censuses and book call numbers of published transcriptions in the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:<br>  

'''1861 Nova Scotia Census'''--A free Internet index and images to the 1861 Prince Edward Island Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search Site. For a description of this collection see [[Nova Scotia Census 1861 Index - FamilySearch Historical Records|1861 Nova Scotia Census]]

Most available Canadian censuses are listed province by province, subdistrict by subdistrict, and year by year in:  

The microfilm numbers in the above books are for the National Archives of Canada. Public libraries can use these numbers to order microfilms through the interlibrary loan system.

See the [[Canada Census#Online_Canadian_Census_Indexes_and_Images|table]] above for online Canadian resources.  

'''Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:'''<br>  

*[[Canada, Census 1891 - FamilySearch Historical Records]]