1916 Census of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan

[stonechat]

Hi

This is now online (no images) at the LDS Pilot site Recordsearch
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0
Found some of mine already
Just a partial transcript (no occupations, but it's good)

Bob

[Lydart]

Thanks for that !   

I've just found some of mine too !    I'll look for more later !



Forgot to ask ... what do you suppose this means ?

Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia

They were living in Sask, Battleford

[stonechat]

I have some like that
Not sure what it means

I have two families actually living together in Winnipeg

but their mother Caroline (Emma) Edwards seems absent!

Bob

[KarenM]

Hmm, that's strange cause I was looking at the originals yesterday 

Karen

[jeffster]

Quote
Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia

That I believe refers to either the previous  land location they were living and/or the present(picture it the area on graph paper) so the bigwigs could find you you...like a vamped up battleship..  Britannia probably refers to the town or something similiar to where they were living in this case may be BC

Jeff

[jeffster]

Or I think Edmonton or close by 

Jeff

[AnneMc]

When it first came out I was looking at the actual census pages and last night I went on the site and the census pages are gone. you only get a transcription.  Wonder if they are having problems.  I did manage to find my families on there.

Cheers

Anne

[cosmac]

Collections Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/western-land-grants/index-e.html

If you enter your relatives name you will get the location of their Land Grant and a map - there are some names that have images of documents attached as well.

The numbers in the 1916 census refer to the location of the land.
First number is the township
Second number is the range
Third is the Meridian
I'm not sure what the name refers to - perhaps the nearest town - place where mail might be picked up?
I did have a good site, I thought through Collections Canada, that explained how to use the coordinates to locate land in the western provinces.  It had a wonderful interactive map but it has been deleted from my favourites and I can't seem to pull it up from Collections Canada - perhaps they have restructured their site.

Debbie

[Jacquie in Canada]

When it first came out I was looking at the actual census pages and last night I went on the site and the census pages are gone. you only get a transcription.  Wonder if they are having problems.  I did manage to find my families on there.

Not only are the images gone but the index page where all the collections are listed now says the 1916 census database has no images. I hope it's temporary too.

Jacquie