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From: "Muriel M. Davidson" <>
Subject: Post 1901 Census - It is time!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:52:49 -0400

Please add Genealogical and Historical societies, plus libraries
and LSD Centres for places to gather signatures.
I received 30 signatures from Lanark & District Museum,
gathered by the Lanark County Genealogical Society.
Great going! and THANKS!
Muriel M. Davidson -- Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon A. Watts" <>
To: "Canada Census Campaign" <>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:23 PM
Subject: Post 1901 Census - It is time!


> Greetings All.
>
> There is a song about the end of summer (and other things) with the line
> "Where have all the flowers gone?". For the past few days I have been
> humming the melody of this song but have changed the words to "Where are
> all the signatures?".
>
> For those of you who have been collecting signatures on our new
> petitions and waiting until you managed to get "just one more" -- now is
> the time to send what you have to us! (Send what you have already and
> then start a nice fresh clean petition page and continue collecting.)
> For those who have not yet collected any signatures -- what is holding
> you back??? If we want to regain the access to Historic Census records
> that the Chief Statistician continues to refuse us we must be prepared
> to put in a little effort.
>
> Parliament is scheduled to resume sitting on 4 October 2004 -- slightly
> more than two weeks from now. We want to have our petitions presented
> to the Senate and the House of Commons as soon after that as possible.
> It takes time, however, to collate those petitions sent to us and to
> send them to our 'champions' in the Senate and House of Commons. It
> then takes time for government scrutineers to check to make sure the
> petitions meet all the government rules before they can be presented in
> their respective Houses.
>
> It is expected that Senator Lorna Milne will continue to be our
> 'champion' in the Senate. We have yet to choose a 'champion' in the
> House of Commons to replace Murray Calder who did not retain his seat in
> the past election. A number of candidates are being considered and we
> will let you know when a decision has been made.
>
> In summary:
>
> -- we need petitions collected to date to be sent to us NOW!
>
> -- we need you to continue to collect signatures for future submission.
> We will continue to collect signatures until it is felt they are no
> longer needed. They will be submitted periodically as we receive
> suficient signatures to make it worthwhile.
>
> -- more than 62,000 signatures were collected on our original petitions.
> We would like to exceed that number, and in a much shorter time period,
> on our new petitions. Those who signed the original petitions are now
> eligible to sign the new petitons. Because they are directed to
> different places, people may sign BOTH the petition to the House of
> Commons AND the one to the Senate.
>
> -- Non-Resident petitions and petitions for the Senate are to be sent to
> Muriel M. Davidson. Petitions for the House of Commons are to be sent
> to Gordon A. Watts. Addressing information is on the same page of the
> Post 1901 Census Project website from which the petitons are downloaded.
> Please read the Instructions for Petitions on the same page. The URL
> for the website follows my signature.
>
> Thank you all for your support. With your help we WILL achieve our
> goal.
>
> Happy Hunting.
>
> Gordon A. Watts
> Co-chair Canada Census Committee
> Port Coquitlam, BC
>
> http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census
> en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f
>
> Permission to forward without notice is granted
>
>

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