Introduction

The Library and Archives Canada web site titled Catalogue of Census Returns on Microfilm 1666-1901 states that the most extensive and most comprehensive census records in their custody are those for the year 1871. Each enumeration district in the 1871 census contains the following nine sections.

1. Nominal return of the living.
2. Nominal return of the deaths within the last twelve months.
3. Return of public institutions, real and personal estate.
4. Return of cultivated land, of field products and of plants and fruits.
5. Live stock, animal products, home-made fabrics and furs.
6. Return of industrial establishments.
7. Return of products of the forest.
8. Return of shipping and fisheries.
9. Return of mineral products.

Section six, industrial establishments, is a valuable source of material for those researching nineteenth century shipyards and sawmills.

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Examples from the Industrial Section of the 1871 Census