JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Canada) 1926 Prairie Provinces Census Online at Library of Canada and FamilySearch #general
Jan Meisels Allen
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and FamilySearch working
collaboratively published the index to the 1926 Canadian census of the Prairie Provinces: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. While Canada usually conducts a census every ten years since four years after the Confederation in 1871, due to the rapidly expanding population of the Prairie provinces a more frequent census was undertaken in 1906 -- in between the Canada-wide censuses -- and every ten years thereafter. The 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces were transferred >from Statistics Canada to Library and Archives Canada on June 1, 2018. The census was on 46 microfilm reels (48,529 images) LAC digitized the images into PDF and JPG formats FamilySearch has indexed the images so that they will be searchable on the LAC website. While the indexes are up on FamilySearch at https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3005862, they are not expected to be available on the LAC website http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/pages/census.aspx until the beginning of March. This site contains all the Canadian censuses available on LAC. To access the 1926 Prairie Census on FamilySearch you will need to have a free account. You can access and register for the free account by clicking on "free account" in the upper right corner of the aforementioned FamilySearch url. There are some indexes linked to images, but not all. If it is there it is on the right side. The blog My Genealogy Life explains what to do if no image appears: https://mygenealogylife.ca/2019/02/25/1926-prairie-province-census-index-released-by-family-search/ Thank you to Gail Dever and her blog, Genealogy a la carte for sharing the information. See: http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=27303 Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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