* Canada: 1916 Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan an

[gerrynuk]

Has anyone prepared a template for the 1916 Canadian Census for Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, please? If not, is anyone willing to prepare one from the following (numbered) column heading?

1916 Census - Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta - Schedule no. 1 - Population
Number in the order of visitation
1. Dwelling House
2. Family, Household or Institution
Residence and Personal Description
3. Name of each person in family, household, or institution
4. Military Service. If Overseas write 'O'; if in Canada write 'C' and give name of Camp in Col. 8
5. Place of Habitation: Township
6. Place of Habitation: Range
7. Place of Habitation: Meridian
8. Place of Habitation: Municipality
9. Relationship to head of family or household
10. Sex
11. Single, married, widowed, divorced or legally separated
12. Age at last birthday
Nativity and Religion:
13. Country or place of birth. If in Canada, specify province or territory
14. Religion
Citizenship
15. Year of immigration to Canada
16. Year of naturalization
17. Nationality
Race and Language
18. Racial or tribal origin
19. Can speak English
20. Can speak French
21. Other language spoken as mother tongue
Education
22. Can read
23. an write
Profession, Occupation or Means of Living
24. Chief Occupation or Trade (Give as define information as possible)
25. Employer 'E', Employee or worker 'W', Working on own account 'O.A.'
26. State where person is employed as 'on farm', 'in cotton mill', 'in foundry', 'in dry goods store', 'in saw-mill', ect. (sic)

Gerry

ID:5039

[Cambiz]

I have one. I've exported it to an .xml file and can email it to you if you like - camichael.fh1@gmail.com You may need to amend it to your own needs.

To be honest it was fairly easy to set up using the Census > Census Templates option.

Open up a census that looks fairly like what you want (1910 Canada?) and click on the COPY button. Change the date to 1916 and click on new and then the PASTE button.

Then fiddle about with the fields. Mostly I was happy with the defaults but for occasional fields I changed the RECORDING method to create a Local Note. I didn't bother with making any lists.

Chris

[gerrynuk]

Nick,

I eventually decided to do my own template which worked fine on my copy of AS running on my Mac under Parallels. I used the export facility to save the XML file. But when Chris tried to load it AS crashed. If I send you the XML file could you have a look at it and see where the problem lies, please?

Thanks also to Chris for rising to the challenge.

Gerry

[nsw]

Hi Gerry

Chris emailed it through to me last night. I haven't had time to investigate at all but it also crashed when I imported it. This is obviously my fault as A.S. should never crash! The good thing is that as it crashes for me I'll be able to track down the problem. Will look at this later when I get home.

Thanks

Nick

[nsw]

I've found the cause of this problem and it will be fixed in the next version of Ancestral Sources. In case anyone else experiences this problem, if you plan to import a template, before going into the Census Templates screen, first to go to the Census Countries screen (Tools->Census Countries). When the Census Countries screen opens you can just close it again but you should then find that importing templates works correctly.

Sorry about that and thanks to both of you for reporting it.

Nick

[gerrynuk]

Jane,

I was trying to upload my AS template for the 1916 Canadian Census but the uploader won't accept XML files.

Gerry

[nsw]

Jane asked me a couple of weeks ago if I wanted her to set-up an AS Census Template download section but I forgot to reply oops - sorry Jane. As Gerry suggests it would need to accept XML files.

[Jane]

This should be working now.