"As Accurate as is Humanly Possible": Accessing the Manuscript Industrial Schedules of the 1871 Census of Canada

  • Elizabeth Bloomfield

Author Biography

Elizabeth Bloomfield
Elizabeth Bloomfield is a private scholar who has taught geography and history at the Universities of Auckland, Guelph, and Waterloo. One research interest has been the role of municipal elites in fostering urban-industrial growth in Ontario since 1870. She has also developed computer methods for accessing industrial data from the 1871 manuscript census of Canada and for bibliographic compilation, and contributes annual bibliographies of international and Canadian urban history to the Urban History Review.
Published
1986-01-01
How to Cite
Bloomfield, Elizabeth. 1986. “ "As Accurate As Is Humanly Possible": Accessing the Manuscript Industrial Schedules of the 1871 Census of Canada”. Archivaria 23 (January), 185-92. https://www.archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11405.
Section
Notes and Communications