Comments on: Search the Canadian Census

Search the Canadian Census

TimTypeZed — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:22:05 -0800

When Library and Archives Canada placed online images of the 1901, 1906 and 1911 census, Automated Genealogy provided opportunity for volunteers to transcribe names into a database. Now the two early documents (1901, 1906) and most of the 1911 are fully indexed and searchable with links to the original image pages. Further projects are underway to link names between the documents and to other online sources, such as The Halifax Explosion Book of Remembrance and the British Home Children.

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:23:57 -0800

Compare with the accessibility of The Ancestry.com 1930 US Census(site) or the 1901 British census (site). Missouri is one government that is making efforts to place online its archived birth and death documents for open access.

By: birdsquared

birdsquared — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:46:31 -0800

Excellent - thanks. Found my great-grandfather and his family listing in the 1911 census.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:50:09 -0800

I've got a map of Montreal with the general location of where some of my ancestors lived, but I'm not sure how to relate this to potential Montreal listings on the 1901 Automated Genealogy index...any thoughts? Here's the location on Google Maps. I've got a few hits on the last name and first name of my relatives in Montreal, but I don't know what to call this "neighborhood", as it were.

By: TimTypeZed

TimTypeZed — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:11:33 -0800

There's a listing of 1901 census districts here, with maps. Looks like you might want district number 157 - Jacques-Cartier, which looks as if it at the time covered most of Montreal west and north of the mountain.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:12:25 -0800

Awesome! I have to go dig out the complete names of known family members to try to find them in there. Thanks for the pointer!

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:09:02 -0800

Yay, Library And Archives Canada!

By: tiamat

tiamat — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:36:35 -0800

Wowzers, I just found my great-grandfather's data. I'm going to need to get my eyes checked before I can read what all the data means though. Very cool.

By: Sk4n

Sk4n — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:41:16 -0800

The Canadian Civil Service are great at this kind of stuff - years back, I was searching for the military records of my Grandfather who was in the Canadian Navy during WW1 (incidentally, he was in Halifax in the immediate aftermath of the explosion referenced in the post), and they were the most helpful bunch of dedicated civil servants I've ever dealt with.