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2. Providing Contextual Data
We have created a series of contextual and meta databases. This contextual data will facilitate historical interpretations of the making and taking of the census. For example:
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(i) Newspaper commentaries of the time
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(ii) Enumerator Instructions
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Excerpt from Instructions
to Enumerators, 1911
136. Respect for the sensitiveness of relatives. The enumerator
is specially enjoined to use great care and tact in obtaining the
answers to the last four questions -- columns 38 to 41 [Infirmities:
Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Crazy or Lunatic, Idiotic or Silly] . People
as a rule are sensitive as to the existence in their family of infirm
persons, especially those designated in columns 40 and 41. Usually
idiots and nearly always the insane are cared for in “homes”
or “institutions.” There are but few cases in which
the enumerator cannot from personal knowledge or previous inquiry
gain the information, and so prevent him unnecessarily wounding
the sensibilities of parents or others by personal interrogations. |
(iii) Statistics Canada
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Statistics Canada documents,
text and tables from published volumes
bulletins, monographs and archival sources.
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(iv) Political Debates
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Excerpts from Ontario Hansards and Sessional Papers
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