Canadian census 1921 and 1931

[devonliz]

A recent short article on the website of WDYTYA? magazine is entitled What Canadian census records are available?

Rosemary Collins writes that 1921 records are available on Library & Archives Canada [LAC], Ancestry and MyHeritage. She also mentions that the 1931 census has just been released and can be searched by name on Ancestry, and browsed on LAC and Findmypast.

I have found a browsable census on the Canadian website but I have had no luck so far on Ancestry. Am I somehow looking in the wrong section? It does seem unlikely that Ancestry would have a searchable census when the other two sites are still browse-only.

[AdrianBruce]

1931 is there on Ancestry - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62640/

(I went to their Card Catalogue, filtered by location Canada, then clicked Census & Electoral Rolls - the 1931 Census of Canada is at the top of the list if you are sorting by Date Added.)

It is indeed searchable by name:

Thanks to our proprietary handwriting recognition technology, the 1931 Census of Canada records are now searchable. Please keep in mind that diacritical and accent marks may not appear and are not required to search names. Transcription accuracy is dependent upon the quality of the document being scanned. For best results, view the census image.

I think this must be the same technology used to index the 1950 US Census.

[devonliz]

Thanks so much - I have found the census info - and found my relative