1911 Canada Census Questions

The actual enumeration of the population took weeks or months. Enumerators were instructed to record the information on the census returns as it existed on the official enumeration date, June 1, 1911. This was the 5th regularly scheduled census enumeration in Canada since Confederation in 1867.

The enumerators registered information for 7,204,838 individuals distributed as follows: British Columbia (392,480), Alberta (374,663), Saskatchewan (492,432), Manitoba (455,614), Ontario (2,523,274), Quebec (2,002,712), New Brunswick (351,889), Nova Scotia (492,338), Prince Edward Island (93,728), Northwest Territories (17,196), and the Yukon (8,512). Newfoundland was not counted since it was a British colony and did not join Canada until 1949.

Column	Question
	Numbered in order of visitation (1-2)
1	House no
2	No of family, household, or institution
	Residence and personal description (3-10)
3	Name of each person in family, household, or institution
4	Place of habitation
5	Sex (M or F)
6	Relationship to head of family or household
7	Single, married, widowed, divorced, or legally separated
8	Month of birth
9	Year of birth
10	Age at last birthday
	Citizenship, Nationality and Religion (11-16)
11	Country or place of birth
12	Year of immigration to Canada, if an immigrant
13	Year of naturalization, if formerly an alien
14	Racial or tribal origin
15	Nationality
16	Religion
	Principal Profession or Trade (17-21)
17	Chief occupation or trade
18	Living on own means
19	Employer
20	Employee
21	Working on own account
	Wage earner (22-29)
22	State where person is employed (on farm, in drug store, etc)
23	Weeks employed in 1910 at chief occupation or trade
24	Weeks employed in 1910 at other than chief occupation of trade, if any
25	Hours of working time per week at chief occupation or trade
26	Hours of working time per week at other than chief occupation or trade, if any
27	Total earnings in 1910 from chief occupation or trade
28	Total earnings in 1910 from other than chief occupation or trade, if any
29	Rate of earnings per hour when employed by the hour - cents
	Insurance Held at Date (30-32)
30	Upon Life - $
31	Against accident or sickness - $
32	Cost of insurance in census year - $
	Education and Language of each person five years of age and over (33-37)
33	Months at school in 1910
34	Can read
35	Can write
36	Language commonly spoken
37	Cost of education in 1910 for persons over 16 years of age at college, convent, or university
	Infirmities (specify age when infirmity appeared) (38-41)
38	Blind
39	Deaf and dumb
40	Crazy or lunatic
41	Idiotic or silly

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