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Indians. Registration for Indians
time records were held by individual
registering officers. All records since is carried out on a similar basis in
1891 are with the Registrar General, each provi.nce. She Indian Agents
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Department of Health and WeIfare, are Civil Servants and act as District
Registrars of births, marriages and
St. Johns, Newfoundland.
deaths and fomard their original
Nova Scotia. It is not known when registrations to the Director of Vital
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civil registration became compul- Statistics in each province where
sory but a11 inquiries should be they are rctained separately from
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addressed to the Registrar General other records.
of Nova Scotia.
Cayman Islands. No records are
available prior to 1886 when civil
Ontario. Many church records go
registration began. Inquiries should
back to 1812. The civil records date
be made to the Registrar General
from 1869 and are avaiIable from
(Cornmissioner).
The Registrar General of Ontario,
Montreal.
Censns - A com~lete record of the
population taken as a' a s~ecific
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date. Tlie census is held every ten
date from 1906 and are available
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yearS excePt during Ihe War years
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from ne Registrar Genera], Vital
of 1941, commencing in 1801.
census of value to the
Statistics Branch, Department of
ne
Health and WeIfare Charlottetown,
Genealogist is that of 1841 which is
Prince Edward Island.
available for research purposes at
the Public Record Office (q.~.).
Quebec. Du~licate registers Xe
Returns of the ansus taken
b~ each of the principal
on 30th Mar&, 1851, which are aIso
denominational churches. One copy
and
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far as concerns ~
must be sent to the prothonotary of
WaIesl among the H~~~ office
Records in the Public ~~~~~d offifice
the Superior Court of the District in
which the registers are kept. Regis-
m.0.107), full names, exact
give
go back to as early as 1617.
ages, the relationship of each rnem-
ber of a household to its head, and
Smkatchauan. Civil registration the sex, occupatjon and Pari& and
began in 1879 pri0r to whicli there
County of Birth of ,=a& person
are no records of anY sort. Inquiries
enumerated. The same information
may be sent to the Division of Vital
is also given in the Returns of the
Statistics, Department of Public Census taken on 7th April, 1861 ~ l ~ ~ d
Health, Regina, Saskatchewan. which are (so far as concerns Eng-
land and Wales) among the Records
Yukon. Registers dating €rom of the General Register Office in the
1898 are maintained by the Regis- Public Record Office (R.G.9).
trar of Vital Statistics, Adrninistra-
tion Building, Dawson, Y.T. Census Returns of 1841, 1851 and
1861 - The Census Returns of 1841,
Northwest Terriiories. The regis- 1851 and 1861 for addresses in Eng-
ters. which date from 1870, are kept land and Wales are preserved in the
by the Registrar General of Vital Public Record Office, where they
Statistics Bureau of Northwest Ter- may be inspected without charge by
ritories and Yukon Mairs, Ottawa. the holders of Readers' Tickets.
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