Canada Census, 1911 - FamilySearch Historical Records

Record Description
This collection includes records from 1911.

These records include population schedules of the census. They also contain indexes to population schedules of the census. The official census date was June 1st. The national government of Canada has taken censuses every ten years since 1871, and every five years since 1971.

Enumeration for the 1911 census began 1 June 1911. For the census, Canada was divided into districts within each province and the districts were subdivided into sub-districts. A number was assigned to a district, and a second number to the sub-district (there were some sub-district numbers that were not used and some that are missing). There were thirteen schedules taken originally but only schedule 1, "Population" was filmed. All paper copies of the thirteen schedules were destroyed. In the less-populated areas of northern Canada, a shortened version of schedule 1, known as schedule A1, was used. A few sub-districts in Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories have part of their enumeration on the schedule 1 form and part on the schedule A1 form. The schedule A1 forms are primarily filmed at the end of the census beginning with the Northwest Territories (no. 218), sub-district 26.

Since the boundaries varied from census to census, it is not easy to tell which Census District an eastern Canadian township or western Canadian village was in.

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Record Content
Census records may contain the following information:


 * Name of each person in family
 * Place of residence
 * Relationship to head of household
 * Marital status
 * Date of birth
 * Place of birth
 * Year of immigration
 * Year of naturalization
 * Nationality
 * Religion
 * Occupation

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 * Name of ancestor
 * Approximate year of residence
 * Place of residence

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Tips to Keep in Mind

 * Most of the records in this collection are in English, the collection also contains some French records.

Related Websites

 * The Canada 1911 Census at the National Archives of Canada
 * 1911 Census of Canada Indexing Project

Related Wiki Articles
Canada Census

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