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From: "Muriel M. Davidson" <>
Subject: Post-1901 Census -- Please Gather Signatures but Read Instructions First
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:16:17 -0400


To all readers:-

Parliament will soon be opening -- on October 4th -- so we
have been hoping to have as many as possible petitions
for release of the 1911 (and later) census records.

Go to http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/
You will find INSTRUCTIONS and downloadable PETITIONS.
If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, it is available at this site - free.

The Instructions are very simple but important. The petitions for the
House of Commons and Senate of Canada are for CANADIANS
to sign.
The NON-RESIDENT petition is for all other petition signers.

All petitions may be signed again even if one has signed prior to
June, 2004 -- these are NEW petitions so use any old ones for
scrap paper. In Canada, a person may sign both petitions.

End of lecture!!!

To date, but not tabulated as yet, are the following numbrs:-

House of Commons -- to Gordon Watts == 87
Senate of Canada == 852
Non-Resident == 265

A note from Stewart Green, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa:-
"Attached please find my petition for public access to Canada's
historic census records. I am signing this petition because my
grandfather lived in British Columbia in the 1910's and 1920's
and access to post-1901 census data will assist me greatly in
researching my family history. I would like to thank the post
1901 census project for the work they have done and wish
you all the best in your endeavour.
Signed -- Stewart C. Green.

These type of notes act as adrenalin to us -- they keep us "charged"!

Just keep census petitions being signed in all available places, please.
NOT NOTES on census petitions -- a sticky note will do!!

Muriel M. Davidson
Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/post1901census.htm




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