The Canadian Peoples Project

Peter Baskerville, University of Alberta
Kris Inwood, University of Guelph

The Canadian Peoples is a comprehensive public research database fashioned from Canada's decennial census enumerations 1852-1921. Nine Canadian universities and Ancestry.com contribute to the project, which is now in the advanced stages of data preparation. The project team is digitizing, coding and make useable for research the personal, family and household characteristics of every individual enumerated in each census from 1852 to 1921. Data from the Prairie postal censuses of 1906, 1916 and 1926 will be integrated to the extent possible. The new data will invigorate the study of Canada, by itself and in comparative perspective, by researchers in history, digital humanities, and the social, information, geospatial and health sciences.

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 Presented in Session 104. New Complete Count Canadian Census data