The 1852 Canadian census database based on this enumeration represents 20% of the population of Upper Canada and Lower Canada which was enumerated in 1852 and for which schedules of the manuscript census survive, an equivalent of 235,341 cases.
The 1852 Census will also serve to close the period of observation covered by the Registre de la population du Québec ancien, a family reconstitution database which comprises Québec Catholic baptismal, marriage and burial certifications which date back to 1624.
First, the 1852 and 1881 Canadian census microdata can be used in conjunction with Canadian census microdata from 1871 (York University), 1891 (Guelph University), 1901 (University of Victoria), as well as twentieth-century Canadian census microdata currently under construction by the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure.
Canada's constitution is made up of a variety of statutes and conventions that are either British or Canadian in origin, which gives Canada an almost identical system of government as the UK and other Commonwealth Realms.
In Canada the legal personality of the State is referred to as "Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada", and likewise for the provinces and territories (i.e., "in Right of Ontario," etc.).
Similarly the oath of allegiance to Canada, sworn by new citizens, the Canadian Forces, police officers, and parliamentarians, is an oath of allegiance to the monarch as sovereign of Canada, and to his/her heirs and successors according to law.