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

Authors

  • 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.

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Published

1986-01-01

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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.

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Archivaria 23 (Winter 1986-87)

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Notes and Communications

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