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1906 Census of the Prairie Provinces
2/13/2003
The Saskatchewan Archives is pleased to announce that the 1906 census of the Prairie Provinces is now available for research in its Regina office. They anticipate that a second copy will also be available in its Saskatoon office within the next few weeks. Researchers are encouraged to visit either office to peruse the microfilm copy of these records. Contact information is provided below.
These records will be immensely valuable to family, community and academic historians, and to other researchers interested in demographic studies. The 1906 census is a "portrait" of a region that, at the time, was rapidly changing as hundreds of thousands of people from around the globe and other parts of Canada were settling in the West. The provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta had just been established one year before the census was taken.
The release of the 1906 census returns is largely thanks to several years of representations made by historians, archivists, genealogists and private citizens to the Government of Canada. Since restrictions to the records were lifted late in January, the National Archives of Canada has generously made microfilm copies of the census records available to several public institutions in Western Canada, including the Saskatchewan Archives.
There are 11 microfilm reels of the 1906 census covering Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This census collected only limited "tombstone" information such as name, address, age, sex, marital status and origin. A finding aid is available, organized by census sub-divisions, but as yet no nominal indexes have been prepared. Saskatchewan Archives has microfilm copies of the 1881, 1891 and 1901 census enumerations as well. The 1901and 1906 census records are also available on-line at www.archives.ca. Microfilm copies can also be purchased, or borrowed through interlibrary loan, from the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
Under the provisions of the Census and Statistics Act (which received Royal Assent 16 May 1905) a general census of Canada was to occur in 1911, and every ten years thereafter, and a census of population and agriculture was to be taken in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1906, and every ten years thereafter.
For further information contact:
Reference Services
Saskatchewan Archives
93 Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4
Phone (306) 933-5832
E-mail info.saskatoon@archives.gov.sk.ca
Reference Services
Saskatchewan Archives
3303 Hillsdale Street
Regina, SK S4S 0A2
Phone (306) 767-4068
E-mail info.regina@archives.gov.sk.ca
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