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Alberta Family Histories Society - Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry

A central registry which provides a bibliography of genealogical projects, both online and offline, in Canada. The registry is categorized by province/territory, then by record type: births, marriage, census, deaths, and other.

Ancestry.com - Search Census Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Automated Genealogy

Contains an index to the following Canadian Census Index to the 1901 Census of Canada; Index to the 1911 Census of Canada; Index to the 1906 Census of Canada for Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. They are working on these other projects as well: 1871 Census of Kings County; NB Record Linking Project; Halifax Explosion Linking Project; Soldiers of the First World War Linking Project; Canadian Virtual War Memorial Linking Project; Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Linking Project; British Home Children Linking Project; The Illustrated Index to the 1901 Census Project.

Canadian Census Dates

CanGenealogy.com – Census Genealogy Sources

Dave Obee's recommended links for genealogy research in Canada.

Catalogue of Census Returns on Microfilm 1666-1901 - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada

Database combines two published catalogues of census returns on microfilm.

Census - Canadian Genealogy Centre - Library and Archives Canada

Census Online - Canada

Links to online census records for Canada.

Doukhobor Census Records

This index describes various Doukhobor census records in Canada - their historical background, dates, content, usefulness and reliability, availability and published indexes.

Library and Archives Canada

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

Online Census Records & Indexes for Australia, Canada, Ireland, Scandinavia, United Kingdom

A directory of free and fee-based online census records and indexes for Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales.

OntarioGenWeb's Official Census Project

Orphan's Home Website

Transcriptions of orphan, adoptee, and foster children listings in orphanages, homes, and poorhouses from U.S. and Canadian censuses.

Post 1901 Census Project

From the Global Gazette. Many concerned Canadians believe that the legislation which enforces permanent concealment of post-1901 census from the public eye, must be changed. If new legislation is not passed by Canada's Parliament, those records may never be available for future generations or us. Worse yet, our detailed census records may be destroyed.

Post-1901 Census News (Canada)

Article by Gordon A. Watts.

Tom Nunamaker's Census Age Calculator