1921 Canadian Census Indexing Complete

Elizabeth Lapointe from Genealogy Canada Blog Reports

Ancestry.ca will hold an official launch party in Toronto on the 29^th. Glen Wright, Dr. Kevin James, and Mark McGowan will be there to give brief comments about the census.  

So keep the 29^th open as it will be the day that the every name index to the 1921 Canada census will become available to the world!  

1921 Canadian Census, having trouble locating them on Ancestry?

Having trouble finding the Canadian 1921 Census on Ancestry.com.

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1921 Canadian Census

From "Anglo-Celtic Connections"

On Wednesday afternoon the word finally came, officially, from Library and Archives Canada that the 1921 Census, Thursday 8 August at around 2 pm, eastern time. It will be available, with the geographic index, free of charge on Ancestry’s platform at www.ancestry.ca/census
I'm told there will be a geographic index only but that Ancestry is working on a name index to be available to their subscribers this fall, and made freely through LAC after three years. That's the same arrangement under which Ancestry indexed the previous Canadian censuses.
When it become available you'll want to search those images for which you know the geographic location of those you seek. With any luck, and given the large number of servers Ancestry has at its disposal, there should be no service outages as would likely occur if LAC was inundated with users.
When you've concluded your searches you might want to reflect on the process we've been through.

• Why did it take 67 days for images that were already in electronic form and well geographically indexed before they ever got to LAC to be placed online?
• How was Ancestry selected as LACs partner?
• Is the arrangement exclusive or can other organizations obtain the images and produce their own indexes?
• With the images available since the beginning of June on microfilm why were they not made available promptly on-site at 395 Wellington?

1921 Canadian Census Release

SGS has just received news from OGS that apparently the 1921 Census will be released tomorrow on Ancestry.ca at 2:00 pm EDT.  It is free.

 

There are no other details.

 Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

1921 Census

Taken from the

 

Anglo-Celtic Connection Blog

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/

The 1921 census. If we don't ask we won't get.

According to an item in the

Global Genealogy newsletter

"... the entire 1921 census of Canada has already been digitized plus a geographical index. It's sitting on a server ready to go online (free). Problem is that the Harper Government has put a hold on its release."

Please help persuade the government to put the 1921 census online. Email Heritage Minister James Moore. A long email isn't required. The more people call for release the sooner it will happen. Numbers count, the length of your email does not. You don't have to be a Canadian either.

Just email

james.moore@parl.gc.ca with the Subject 1921 Census and write:

Dear Minister Moore:
Please instruct management of Library and Archives Canada to make images of the 1921 census available online immediately.

(name)

Any additional information you want to add is fine, but make it short. It's number of such emails received that will count. Ask you friends and relatives to send emails too.