Researchers drawing from a vast data set of Quebec church records from the 17th and 18th centuries say the steep population jump in New France may have been prompted by an unlikely category of people: grandmothers.
The data shows that the closer in geographic proximity a woman lived to her daughter, the more children her daughter was likely to have — and the more likely those children were to survive...more
From the wonderful blog As Canadian As Can Be, Jackie Corrigan explains the navigation of the 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces...more
The Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926 (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta).
Other Census years of the Prairie Provinces include the 1906 and 1916.
The national government of Canada has taken censuses every ten years since 1871 and every five years since 1971. The 1871 census covers the four original provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. The first coast-to-coast census was taken in 1881. Newfoundland was not part of Canada until 1949. For Newfoundland, there are few, found 19th-century censuses that list names. They mostly contain statistical summaries.
These censuses list a large quantity of the population in the areas surveyed. However, portions of some have been lost, and some areas within the provinces were missed by the census takers.
To Browse This Collection
You can browse through images in this collection by visiting the browse page for Canada Census. 1926.
Earls Grey's Famine Orphan Scheme
Between 1848 and 1850 over 4000 adolescent female orphans emigrated from Irish workhouses to the Australian colonies, arriving at Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Their emigration has become known as the ‘Earl Grey scheme’ after its principal architect, Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord John Russell’s Whig government at the time of the Great Irish Famine...more
After the brutal conditions in the workhouses, life onboard was a significant improvement...more
3 February 1832 Information Wanted
Son of Terence McLaughlin and Susan O'Brien, a native of the Parish of Dromore, Tyrone, Ireland, arrived about 14 days ago, at St. John's New Brunswick.
He visited Pennsylvania and Maryland. He has not been heard of for the last eight years.
Any information concerning him will be thankfully received by his sister, Mary Potts, Charlestown, Massachusetts.
