Civil servant at trailer park, census 1925. Source: Wikimedia Commons {{PD-US}} Public Domain: Copyright expired |
The 1851 Census marked the second collection of statistics for the Province of Canada (consisting of Canada West and Canada East). Information was also collected for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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