Visitor Comments

I found my husband's great grandfather and his family in the 1906 census, Saskatchewan, District #14 (Mackenzie) subdistrict #11 ... boy was it ever nice to search with the new system!!!! Thank-you for all your hard work! (Merrilee, BC, Jan 2006)

The location in sub district 26 is not Sheep Creek as indicated, but Steep Creek. I was originally from that community. Great Work! (Randy Robert, Viscount, SK, April 2005)

Please accept my sincere thanks for the transcription of this census. I have looked in vain for years to find the Canadian location of my great grandfather and family. I wept when I located them through your diligent efforts. Thank you. [Elizabeth Warren, Mar 2005]

...Thank you and the society for making this transcription available. It has helped me locate, with minimal eyestrain, at least some of my ancestors who settled in Winnipeg. [Roy Parker, Greely, ON, Feb 2005]

Thanks for the wonderful job you people have done with the transcriptions. It certainly is a tough job. [Brian Broda, Feb 2005]

I admire the amazing job you have done. It was easy to go through the entire Saskatchewan census for District 12, Assiniboia West. Thank you for making the census search so convenient. (Glen Roberts, a U.S. fan, Jan 2005)

I think you have done an awesome job (Joy Heselton, January 2005)

A big Thank You to all the volunteers. This is indeed a huge huge task and we as descendants really appreciate the good work being done. Betty D. (Lust) Loeppky, Dec 2004)

Thank you for your efforts in putting this information on-line, it's wonderful! (Louise Graham, Oct 2004)

I'm searching the 1906 records for my great-grandfather Capt. Samuel Ward Dick who arrived from New Brunswick to start ranching near High River Alberta. They had a house in town and a ranch nearby in the Chain Lakes area. Through your finding aid, I found the reference to the 1906 page of the census that I'll need...no doubt, it saved me TONS of time and I would like to thank you for all the work you've done to create this resource for genealogists to use. I found him on page 8 of [Alberta District 18, Subdistrict 21].

Dick, Samuel W.
Dick, Ellen S. (actually his second wife)
Dick, Ward J.
Dick, Archie S. (my grandfather)
Dick, Gertrude
Dick, Ada

Their daughter Nellie married Henry Harvie (yes Harvie) Dexter and together they had two children Ward James (known as Ladd) and Lilla. They lived next door to Capt. Sam and his family ... I have some lovely photos. They are all buried in the Highwood Cemetery in High River. ... When Archie S. Dick's wife (my grandmother) died when my dad (Archie F. Dick) was 10, Lilla Dexter (his cousin) moved in and became the housekeeper. Over the years, she became my surrogate grandmother and we played canasta for days at a time when she arrived for the Christmas holidays. I personally know these people, but such is the life of the dedicated transcriber who does the best he/she can... [some deleted portions of this note indicate errors that have been corrected in the AFHS transcription] . In keeping with actual transcriptions, unfortunately poor Lilla should remain as Lillie. Many thanks for all the work you've done. It's a mammoth task and has certainly made my job easier. [from Marion Rex, Edmonton, MB, Oct 2004]

Thanks for the wonderful transcriptions!!! I now know approximately what year my grandfather and his brothers came to Canada and that makes the search easier. [Janet Rumsey, Oct 2004]

Thanks! Your site is a great resource that I've only just discovered. [Mike Giandomenico, Sep 2004]

Thanks for all your efforts in transcribing these records. They are a great resource and have been helpful to me. [Tony Ballegeer, Aug 2004]

From your transcriptions I finally found my great grandparents who left Ontario after the 1901 census and "disappeared" into Alberta. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication to genealogy. Thank you especially transcriber Lillian Parent, Calgary. You've made my genealogical week. [Malcolm Campbell, Windsor, ON, Aug 2004]

I sincerely appreciate the efforts of individuals and societies such as yours who provide information and services to all who have an interest in their heritage. Thanks! [Allan Wrubell, Challis, ID, Jul 2004]

How wonderful to have this access point into the 1906 Census - congratulations on the tremendous amount of work done. [from Kaye Steward, Edmonton, AB, Jul 2004]

I really do appreciate all the hours of work that has been put into the transcription by Lillian Parent, Calgary. [Elaine Watt Vanderwal, May 2004]

Keep up the good work!!! Thankyou. [Murray J. Watt, SK, May 2004]

What wonderful work you have been doing. I can't get over the amount of family history that I have found. The many hours of work that must have gove into this is mind boggling. [from Floyd Sayese, summer 2004]

I sincerely appreciate the hard work involved in creating your wonderful site. I look forward to reading more on this matter in the future. [Lorn Thomas Quick, Prince Goerge, BC, Jun 2004]

Fantastic work! [from John Schwandt, Winnipeg, MB, Apr 2004]

Great site! ... Love the ease of using your listings of the pages of the Census vs. the drop downs of the NA [National Archives]. [from Mike Webber, Oakville, ON, Mar 2004]

I have found in {Manitoba] District 10, Subdistrict 2b, not only my Father, at age one, but my G-Father, G-Mother and her parents all living under one roof. What a throve of information, so I say a great big thank you to John Tracy and any of the other transcribers that have , and continue to work on this material. Thank You All. [from Dennis King, Jan 2004]

Wonderful project you people have. Congratulations for all the hard work. [from Jim Poling, Jan 2004]

Thank you for a wonderful source of Information, well done! [Janet Penrose, Australia, Dec 2003]

You and all of the transcribers have done a beautiful job of compiling this information. [AnnMarie (Sinclair) Gibson, Nov 2003]

Many thanks to all who have taken the time to do this work. [Diane Hamilton, Cold Lake, AB, Nov 2003

Your organization is doing a tremendous job of transcribing this census and making these available online. The transcribers deserve a big pat on the back for volunteering to undertake this difficult and tiring task of peering at microfilm which is not always that readable and decyphering the handwriting of the enumerators. [George Goos, Oct 2003]

Your help has been invaluable. The map in the national archives is the wrong way round and as a result I was unable to recognise anything! [N. Gregor Macgregor, Oct 2003]

Hello! I was so happy to find the transcription of the 1906 census for Alberta on the Internet. My mother’s father acquired a section of land in 1905, and my great-grandfather (my mother’s maternal grandfather) around the same time. I wanted to see who was living with them, etc., in 1906.... Again, thank-you so much for providing novice family history researchers with this valuable tool. [Mary Risebrough, Oct 2003)

Would you please give a great big Thank you to transcriber, Elizabeth Rodier. I have been searching for some years for the address of my Grandfather's ranch CA 1906. He moved his family from Olds to a ranch south east of Olds, but I could not find where. Now I know Thanks to Elizabeth's work on the 1906 Census. If only we can get the 1911 Census released. [Gordon Becker, May 2003]

Great job on transcribing Census data! I never would have found any relevant information using just the scanned copies. [Jan Main Burton, Maryland, Mar 2003]

Last Updated: 27 Jan 2006