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This file includes a viewer disc that allows users to quickly search the database of approximately 4.3 million individuals. The discs contain a transcription of the original 1881 Canadian census, enumerated on 4 April 1881. Information from the following fields was extracted: name, age, gender, location at the time of the census, birthplace, ethnic origin, occupation, religious affiliation, marital status, and notations. The census records enumerate individuals, grouped within households and institutions, for the Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec, and for the Northwest Territories. (The Northwest Territories in 1881 contained the current Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and parts of historical Manitoba, Quebec, and Ontario, plus the Territory of Yukon and the western part of the Territory of Nunavut.) To help you learn more about your ancestors by viewing their neighbors' records, a browse feature can show the households on each side of or across the street from your ancestors' household. The Advanced Query Search allows you to search on any word in the record. Note. Even though in 1881 your ancestor lived in what is now Canada, the discs may not contain your ancestor's name. A number of microfilms have pages missing, even in the Canadian National Archives. Some of the microfilm pages are illegible, or ''unreadable.'' In case viewing the complete census microfilms would help you, the census microfilm number at the Family History Library (in Salt Lake City, Utah) and the film number from the National Archives of Canada appear on each record. |
