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Per prevailing government policy, explained in detail on the LAC site, the information retained from the 1906 census event was made available there in an indexed digital form to the public no sooner than 1996. (See the attached note for more elaboration of that aspect of the archived records)
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For subscribers to the Ancestry service, this records collection is searchable and with a more informative description in this proprietary Records Collection.
In addition, members such as your host can avail themselves of this source to attribute citations for people and families on their trees. These appear on the profiles as "Other Sources".
Visitors to this website will see each citation by your host on a profile bears considerable information; information transcribed from the source records themselves.
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Of potentially greater interest to visitors here, the original source material and possibly more information can be reviewed here on the free public service operated by Library and Archives Canada.
From: Library and Archives Canada
Described as : Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1906
Details : Only a microfilm copy of the census exists as an archival holding
Only Schedule 1 has been preserved.
Microfilmed 1955 (originally created 1906)
Their reference: Statistics Canada Fonds Series RG2, volume 908, PC1906-0887 dated 1906-05-15; RG31
Location : Library and Archives Canada; 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0N4
This research tool contains 802,442 records that are searchable by name.
The 1906 census was the first regularly scheduled collection of statistics specifically for the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It officially began on June 24, 1906.
Further:
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) provides free public access to these specific records with an extensive elaboration of and background for the material, and additonal references to other similar record collections via this page on their website.
LAC's mandate for the collection, care, and maintenance of materials such as these, and constant efforts aimed at improving access to them for archivists, academic researchers, the Canadian public, and people around the world will mean this online service may well exceed the Ancestry version of the same records over time.
OF NOTE: This is but one part of a vast collection, assembled over the past 140+ years, that includes the following:
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- more than 90,000 films, including short and full-length films, documentaries and silent films, dating as far back as 1897;
- more than 550,000 hours of audio and video recordings;
- over 425,000 works of art, including watercolours, oil paintings, sketches, caricatures and miniatures, some dating back to the 1600s; as well as medals, seals, posters and coats of arms;
- approximately 550,000 items constituting the largest collection of Canadian sheet music in the world; documentation related to music in Canada; and recordings on disks and records of all formats, including piano rolls, reels and spools, and eight-track tapes;
- the Canadian Postal Archives;
- textual archives for various individuals and groups who have contributed to Canada's cultural, social, economic and political development;
- national newspapers from across Canada, from dailies to student newspapers, and from Aboriginal magazines to ethnic community newsletters
Your host invites you to explore this public resource of enormous value in the conduct of and and all family history research efforts relating to people who have lived in Canada, even if only for a short time.
This part of their website is suggested by way of an introduction to this wealth of information.
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Or consult the full set of resources available via their home page
As another way of learning to appreciate the depth and breadth of the free and pubicly accessible resources LAC makes available to family history researchers and professional genealogists, your host invites you to review the list of links available on this "Ancestor Search" page of their website.
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