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1901 Census of Canada - Schedule no. 1 - Population

1. Dwelling house
2. Family or Household
   • Personal Description
3. Name of each person in family, or household on 31st March 1901
4. Sex
5. Colour
6. Relation to head of family or household
7. Single, married, widowed or divorced
8. Month and date of birth
9. Year of birth
10. Age at last birthday
    • Citizenship, Nationality and Religion
11. Country or place of birth (If in Canada specify Province or Territory, and add "r" or "u" for rural or urban, as the case may be)
12. Year of immigration to Canada
13. Year of naturalization
14. Racial or Tribal origin
15. Nationality
16. Religion
    • Principal Profession or Trade
17. Profession, occupation or trade or means of living of each person (If person has retired from profession or trade, add "r" for retired)
18. Living on own means
19. Employer
20. Employee
21. Working on own account
    • Wage Earner
22. Working at trade in factory or in home. (Specify by "f" for factory and "h" for home, or both as the case may be)
23. Months employed at trade in factory
24. Months employed at trade in home
25. Months employed in other occupation than trade in factory or home
26. Earnings from occupation or trade $
27. Extra earnings (from other than chief occupation or trade) $
    • Education and Language of each person 5 years of age and over
28. Months at school in year
29. Can read
30. Can write
31. Can speak English
32. Can speak French
33. Mother tongue (If spoken)
34. Infirmities (If infirmity dates from childhood, add "from childhood") a. Deaf and Dumb. b. Blind. c. Unsound mind.

1901 Census of Canada - Schedule No. 2 - Buildings and Lands, Churches and Schools

1. Page
2. Line
3. Place of habitation: a. Name of Municipality, Township or Parish. b. Range or concession, lot, or cadastral number. c. Street and house number. d. Or other description
   • Houses
4. In construction
5. Vacant
6. Inhabited
   • Institutions
7. Special or legal name
8. Number of buildings
9. Number of families in house or Institution
10. Number of rooms in house or Institution for each family
11. Number of inmates in Institution, exclusive of families, officers and employees
    • Real Estate owned
12. Grand total of acres
13. Number of town or village lots
14. Number of dwelling houses
15. Number of stores, warehouses etc.
16. Number of barns, stables and other outbuildings
17. Number of silos and capacity in cubic feet
18. Number of manufacturing establishments
    • Real Estate leased or otherwise held
19. Grand total of acres
20. Number of town or village lots
21. Number of dwelling houses
22. Number of stores, warehouses etc.
23. Number of barns, stables and other outbuildings
24. Number of silos and capacity in cubic feet
25. Number of manufacturing establishments
    • Church or place of worship
26. Religious denomination
27. Number of communicants
28. Seating capacity of edifice
    • Sunday school
29. Religious denomination
30. Number of officers and teachers
31. Number of scholars
    • Public school
32. Number of rooms
33. Number of teachers
34. Number of scholars
35. Date of visit
36. The reason, if not enumerated, on first visit
37. Date when enumerated

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