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Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 7,623 Send Message	mgnv	Report	19 Jan 2009 22:54
	Images for the Canadian census of 1916 (which covered the provinces of AB, SK, MB only) are now online. Census district were based on electoral districts, and I don't know how often they were redistricted. The only online help I could find (which may not really be applicable) is at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1911/001003-1300-e.html Info - usual name, age, relationship to head, marital stat, occup, pob, worker/employer. - info on military service added - address - cols for Township, Range, Meridian, Municipality, but not for section (so two addresses with the same TRM could be 12 m apart by road or 8m for the proverbial crow). - no dob info, just age - info on y of immig, y of naturalization, citizenship added (or retained). - language info - asked if can speak Eng, French, what other. - literacy - asked if can read and if can write. - no question on religion There is a nominal search and one can also browse the images (but no subdistrict titles - just #). I don't know how complete the transcription is, but there were 4700 hits for Smith, so pretty complete, I'm guessing. To access this database, go to http://www.familysearch.org/ and select "Search Records - Record Search pilot" from the blue bar at top, and drill down.