1931 Canada Census - released on 1st June

[melba_schmelba]

"After the legislated 92 years in the vault, the highly anticipated 1931 Census of Canada will be made available to the public. Collected during the Great Depression and at a time of significant immigration, the census provides a snapshot of the more than 10 million people living in Canada in 1931. On June 1, 2023, Canadians can expect to browse the digitized census images by geographic district and sub-district on the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) website. Following the initial release, LAC will work collaboratively with Ancestry® and FamilySearch International to create an advanced searchable database for Canadians and those with Canadian heritage who wish to look for their ancestors.

In this collaborative effort to increase access to the 1931 Census of Canada, LAC has digitized all 234,687 pages of the census, and Ancestry will apply its state-of-the-art handwriting recognition technology to the digital images to create a full index of the entire census. FamilySearch will then review the computer-generated index to ensure a complete and accurate index of all fields at a level never achieved before. The images and indexes will be available and searchable online for free through Census Search, Library and Archives Canada’s new one-stop shop for national census records. The images and indexes will also be available on Ancestry.ca and FamilySearch.org."

https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/news/2023/03/1931-census-of-canada-to-be-released-on-june-1-2023.html

[polarbear]

This is great news for anyone who might be researching Canadian families.

PB

[Treetotal]

That's great news, I have a 10 year gap to fill.
Thanks for sharing.
Carol

[melba_schmelba]

Glad to share . As with the 1950 US Census release, although the images will be available immediately it might take a year or so for the index to be completed, although perhaps if Ancestry's 'state of the art handwriting recognition technology' is as good as they say, and Familysearch does a quick job checking it they might get it done sooner. This page shows the progress of the project and will show some behind the scenes info:

https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/corporate/website-updates/pages/census-1931.aspx

[dbree]

With bated breath 

Thanks for sharing MS.

[Biggles50]

Excellent News

[DianaCanada]

Recently able to see my father as an infant, his parents and siblings on the 1921 England census, soon I will be able to see them ten years later in Canada.  In that span they went to Canada for a couple of years, returned to England and then decided to go back to Canada for good.

[EdCan]

When the 1950 U S census was released I found a number of 4th and 5th cousins that I did not know about. Maybe I will have similar luck with the 1931.

Ed

[rosie17]

Thanks for the update great news 

Rosie