User talk:Shawkins

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Editing Source:Canada. 1851 Census of Canada [3 April 2012]

I just attempted to use the newly edited source above for a Canada West census citation.

I now get a reference of

   ↑ Canada East, United Province of Canada. 1851 Census of Canada. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada), C-11743, page 11, line 45ff, 12 Jan 1852.

This is in Person:Mercy Card.

The problem lies in Place:United Province of Canada which (apparently) contains the colony of Canada East and the former province of Canada West (1841-1867).

The explanation from Wikipedia is The Province of Canada, United Province of Canada, or the United Canadas was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867. I have read through the whole of Wikipedia's article on the making of Canada and feel it leaves a lot to be desired.

In Libraries and Archives Canada (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/census/index-e.html), the current holder of the original data, the title is Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia).

The solution (which I don't feel qualified to make) is to set up a redirect from United Province of Canada to United Provinces of Canada and give Canada East and Canada West equal weight as former provinces with explanations that they are the modern-day Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and the previous Colonies of Lower and Upper Canada. United Provinces of Canada itself should be considered a former colony.

The two censuses of 1851 and 1861 should have exactly the same source descriptions with the exception of the year of enumeration. The LAC doesn't mention the 1861 census because it does not have an online presentation of it yet. I understand it is due this year, maybe on or shortly after 1 July (Canada Day). The 1921 census will be available to the public next year.

--goldenoldie 06:56, 3 April 2012 (EDT)