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From: Library and Archives Canada
Described as : Census of Canada, 1871
Details : With some exceptions, most of the 9 schedules have been preserved.
Only Schedule 1, Nominal Return of the Living, is searchable in the database.
Content related to the province of PEI has an unclear status on the "About" page
Their reference: RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds.
Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.
Location : Library and Archives Canada; 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0N4
This research tool contains 3,485,761 records that are searchable by name.
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There are two databases for 1871. The Ontario Genealogical Society indexed the Census of Canada, 1871, Ontario, heads of household in the 1980s. This index was digitized and became the first genealogy database available on our website.
(Note: this database does not include links to digitized images.)
Another partner indexed the Census of Canada, 1871. This index contains all provinces and territories, including Ontario, with links to digitized images. You will find differences in the indexing of some names between the two databases.
The 1871 Census marked the first regularly scheduled collection of national statistics. It officially began April 2, 1871.
The Mortality Schedule for this census is also available as an indexed and searchable resource via https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61498/" target="_blank">this page on the Ancestry service website and as a SourceS1543259058.
There is a separate set of census records for the new province of Manitoba (1870) taken in that year and available via https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1870/Pages/about-census.aspx" target="_blank">this page on their website.
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 https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871/Pages/about-census.aspx" target="_blank"> and to the https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1871-on/Pages/about-census.aspx" target="_blank">Ontario, heads of household material, here.
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:
- some 20 million books published in various languages, from rare artists' books and first editions
to literary classics and popular fiction;
- 250 linear kilometres of government and private textual records;
- more than 3 million architectural drawings, plans and maps, some dating back to the early 16th century;
- about 5 billion megabytes of information in electronic format, including thousands of Canadian theses,
periodicals and books available online;
- nearly 30 million photographic images, including prints, negatives, slides and digital photos;
- 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 conductof 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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