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This page contains the written submission of Margaret and Austin Clipton re: public access to 1906 and 1911 Census Record made to Environics Research Group. From: M. Clipton To: censusconsultations@environics.ca Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:40 AM Subject: census concerns We would like to add our names to the contributors to the census release concerns. If these records are forever held closed to the public, historians and future generations of Canadians will be very much the poorer. In Australia the census has not been available to the public so those people find themselves at a severe disadvantage when they search for records and the movement of their people. In Ireland, many of the census records were destroyed during the unrest in the 1920s. Historians have a hard time to find the same type of information that is readily available in the UK or the USA. In the United States the census records are open to 1920, and in that big country those records are even being indexed and available on the 'NET' at www.Ancestory.com/ with out apparently damaging the reputations of its citizens. Why can we not take a lead from them; we do in most other matters, don't we? When we filed our census returns for 2001, in the area for 'remarks', we asked that the information be made public at an appropriate time. We have heard that Australia even asked on their most recent census return, if the public would like to have the records made available at some time. Please record our names with those who are in favour of releasing the census records after an appropriate length of time, be it 80 years as in the USA or closer to 100 as in the UK, or the 92 years that we have enjoyed here in Canada. Sincerely, Austin Clipperton Margaret Clipperton Walford, Ont. |
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