Canadian census?

Question

Is there anywhere besides LDS to see an 1881 Canadian census? Or where I can see the actual census? Why is there a gap from the 1850s to 1901 in Canadian censuses on Ancestry? Just how reliable is LDS?

Take a look at this,

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp

The names don't seem like they are spelled right or they were messed with. Agree? Comments?

Answer 1

I had forgotten why I gave up on the 1881 census ... it was because the information I could get online through LDS was next to useless (pretty well all my family names were messed up on the actual lists; on the 1901 census it took forever to find my Denomy family ... it was spelled Danoumie). With the actual census listings (I used 1911 before it was transcribed too, and I was lucky with a couple of districts for the 1851 census), it's an awful lot of work but you're rewarded by seeing the whole family together, and who their neighbours were, etc. The LDS search, you cannot specify a location unless you put in a first name ... so you can't pull up all the people with the family name in one location. Incredibly frustrating. I wonder if Collections Canada will eventually have a transcription of their own online. They might ... doubt that we'll get access to 1921 for a while, given all the fuss made over 1911, so maybe volunteers will be recruited to transcribe the earlier ones.

Sorry ... all I'm adding are my sympathies.

Answer 2

You don't mention which province, but the Archives of Canada has everything online that's been put online. Ancestry.com got their records from the Archives, so it's as comprehensive as you can get. Scroll down to the bottom of this page and you'll find them all. They're not all in a single comprehensive database.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genea...

Answer 3

Your link doesn't appear to work.

What part of Canada ?  There seem to be separate results for different provinces.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archi... help.