The 1906 Canadian census was the first of a series of special conducted by the

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conducted covering the rapidly expanding Northwest Provinces of

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Saskatchewan Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...

, and

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. These censuses were conducted every ten years from 1906 to 1946. The paper records of responses were

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ed and the original paper forms were destroyed. The microfilm has since been scanned and converted into a series of images which are now available online at the Library and Archives Canada web site. The previous census was the nationwide 1901 census and the following census was the nationwide

1911 census The United Kingdom Census 1911 of 2 April 1911 was the 12th nationwide census conducted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The total population of the United Kingdom was approximately 45,221,000, with 36,070,000 recorded in England ...

External links

Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
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Censuses in Canada

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