Image by W.T. Sabel, published L’Opinion Publique (7 Juillet 1881 – Vol. XII, No.27)
In April of 1891 the Canadian government employed 4300 enumerators to ask an extensive set of questions at every household in the country. The result is a richly detailed snapshot of the Canadian people. Between 2003 and 2010 staff and students at the University of Guelph digitized a random 5% sample (10% in cities and in the west) of the 1891 population records. The data are now available through the Ontario Scholar’s Portal <odesi> and the North Atlantic Population Project . Support from the Canadian Fo
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