Dwayne & Francine Meisner's Family Tree

The Genealogy of Dwayne Meisner and Francine Williams

Some Districts, like cities and towns have more than one Sub-District included in the table. Click the next button in sequence below the image viewer to jump to the next set of images. If there are no extra Sub-Districts for the area, no buttons will be shown. The extra buttons will be shown when you choose which viewer you want to use. The number total number of images shown from Ancestry & LAC may not be the same. I removed duplicates and any unnecessary or blank images in the LAC viewer. Where possible, I have put the Ancestry images in order. You can choose to use either the Ancestry image viewer (if you have a subscription), or the image viewer I created to view Library & Archive Canada's free images.

1871 Census - Cape Breton County - District 205 - Roll: C-10567, C-10568, C-10569

The census for 1871 was the first census that was conducted by the Government of Canada, after Confederation in 1867, rather than by each individual Province. The 1871 census helped set the standard for how future censuses were held. National censuses have been taken every 10 years since 1871 and every five years since 1971. The 1871 census includes the four original provinces – Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. For the 1871 census each province was divided into census districts. These districts were subsequently divided into sub-districts. Districts were roughly equivalent to electoral districts, cities, and counties. Sub-Districts were based off of towns, townships, and city wards. I have also attempted to transcribe all the names with the common spellings used today.

Click the buttons below to see the complete Cape Breton County census records for 1871.
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