1871 Census of Canada

General documentation

• Manual Containing "The Census Act" and the Instructions to Officers Employed in the Taking of the First Census of Canada (1871)
• Schedules (Library and Archives Canada)
• Information about this census is avaialble from Library and Archives Canada

Data files

• Microdata file created by the Canadian Historical Mobility Project, available in odesi. This is a stratified sample of households from the census, extracted from the 1871 nominal census on microfilm.
• The Central Ontario Historical Census Linkage Study, 1861-1871. Produced by Gordon Darroch & Michael Ornstein, Sociology, York University. Available via SDA.
• Aggregated tables available in ODESI (343 files in total, covering the period 1665-1871, Beyond 20/20 & CSV formats). Transcribed from Censuses of Canada. Volume IV. 1665-1871.
• Searchable database of census returns available on the Library and Archives Canada website (only scanned images can be downloaded)

Geospatial data

• Census Districts and Subdistricts geospatial files are available openly on Scholars Geoportal

Published statistics

• Table of contents of all census volumes
• Census of Canada, 1870-71, vol. I (Early Canadiana Online)
• Census of Canada, 1870-71, vol. II (Early Canadiana Online)
• Census of Canada, 1870-71, vol. III (Early Canadiana Online)
• Census of Canada, 1870-71, vol. IV (Internet Archive) Note: this volume contains "Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871" a compilation of data from previous censuses
• Census of Canada, 1870-71, vol. V (Internet Archive) Note: this volume contains "Censuses of Canada, 1608 to 1876" a compilation of census and administrative data from prevcious censuses