1842 Census of Canada East

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Ancestry.com. 1842 Census of Canada East [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

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This collection includes census records from Canada East.

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1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Since Canada didn’t officially become a country until 1867, the first national census wasn’t held until 1871. The 1851 Census of Canada is a collection of the censuses of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Censuses were taken from 1849 through 1852 and each is organized differently.

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