1916 Census of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan

[Timberhawk]

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

Residence: 52, 27, 3, Britannia

These numbers refer to the land location where they were residing.

Here is a link that describes the system in Saskatchewan.  Alberta works the same way as does the part of Manitoba that lies west of the 1st or prime meridian.
 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/homesteadlocation.html

Type at you later...

KDB

[Lydart]

Welcome to RootsChat, Timberhawk !   You'll be a very useful person to have on board, and I hope you'll find RC people useful to you too !


I finally understand the system from that link you gave !   Many thanks.

[canadian_girl]

That number is a legal land description, used primarily for rural homes. Britannia would probably be the municipality, Saskatchewan is very into the municipalities,, more so that Alberta or anywhere else I am sure.

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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

[Mike Fisher]

Hi All

I can't seem to find the 1916 Census of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan on the family search pilot site, I am looking for Leslie Artiss and his wife Ann who show up on Ancestry( no worldwide sub) as Artiss Leslie and Artiss Ann.

What am I doing wrong ?

Mike

[KarieK]

Hi
I am trying to use the Record Search and the screen comes up blank, I had this happen before and had to update the browser but can't remember how to do it.  Is it my PC or is anyone else experiencing problems with FHS sites
Karen

[susano]

Hi Mike

The 1916 Canada Census for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba is only available on Ancestry.

You may want to start a new thread with a look-up request for your family members.

Susan

[Mike Fisher]

Why does the start of this thread say it is available on family search pilot

Thursday 22 January 09 22:07 GMT

"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 "


regards Mike

[susano]

Hi Mike

There is a discussion of what happened at the following site:
http://static.automatedgenealogy.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10999

In a nutshell, my understanding is that Ancestry paid for the digitization and owns the rights to publish it.

I have read of other instances where images of parish records, etc. have appeared on the familysearch site for a short period of time and then were removed and have not been put back up.  Some lucky researchers were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of it.

If you would like someone to look-up your family on the 1916 Census, I would suggest starting a new thread on the Canada board with the request.  The 1916 Census is also available on microfilm from the Library and Archives Canada or at your library if it has Ancestry library edition.

Regards, Susan