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1835 Family Size, Personal Property, and Geographical Location of Landowners, in The Genealogy of the First Metis Nation compiled by D.N. Sprague and R.P. Frye [Book published by Pemmican Publications, Winnipeg]
1851
1861
1871
1881
1881 Census of Canada [CD: LDS Church]
1891 Icelanders: "The 1891-92 Census of Icelanders in Canada" (1980) [Publication - Publisher: Wheatfield Press. Author: Baldwin L. Baldwinson. ISBN 0-920374-03-4]
1901 Census of Canada, 1901 (background) [National Archives of Canada]
1901 Census Indexing Project, Alberta and Saskatchewan Edmonton Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society]
1901 Census Indexing Project [Automated Genealogy] French-Canadian & Metis Genealogies [Database Query: The Société historique de Saint-Boniface]
1906 Saskatchewan District (16), Subdistrict 14 [Underway: MHSA]
1940 National Registration, 1940 (fees apply) [Statistics Canada]
1918 Census of Independent Doukhobors [Doukhobor Genealogy]
The Records
The enumeration effort and the data published were all based around the basic census documents known as schedules. Originally, 11 schedules, or pages of census questions, were compiled. The schedules were as follows:
Living persons (also known as the Census of Population)
Buildings and lands, churches and schools
Deaths
Farm land, fruits and plantations
Field products
Live stock and animal products
Agricultural values
Manufactures
Forest products and furs
Fisheries
Mines
References
1901 Census References
The Census Office, Bulletins Nos. 1-18 (Ottawa: 1901-1903);
The Census Office, Fourth Census of Canada, 1901 (Ottawa: 1902), 4 volumes;
The Census Office, Instructions to Chief Officers, Commissioners, and Enumerators (Ottawa: 1901); and
Thomas A Hillman, Census Returns: Recensements 1901 (Ottawa: 1993).