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THE CENSUS
Very Minute Details Will be Gleaned by the Enumerators
[Welland Telegraph, 27 March 1891]
The machinery necessary for taking the census of the Dominion of Canada will be set in motion on the 6th of next month, when the enumerators will go forth armed with a code of querries of voluminous length. The questions to be put by the enumerators are divided into eight schedules. Schedule No 1. is a “nominal return of the living,” and the querries to be answered a re as follows:
- Name?
- Sex?
- Age?
- Married or widowed?
- Birthplace of father and mother?
- Religion?
- Profession, occupation or trade?
- Employer or wage earner?
- Whether employed?
- Number of hands employed, if employer?
- Able to read and write?
- Deaf, dumb, blind or of unsound mind?
Schedule No. 2 is a “nominal return of the deaths within the last twelve months.” No 3 is a return of real estate, orchard products, nurseries, vineyards and market gardens, and asks for the amount of real estate owned, buildings, etc., the real estate occupied, and a minute detail of the crops harvested from orchards, vineyards and gardens. No. 4 is a return of farm products. No. 5 is asks of details concerning live stock, animal products, home-made fabrics, furs and labor. No. 6 is a return of industrial establishments. No. 7 gives the products of the forest, and No. 8 relates to shipping and mining.
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