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About the Canada Census, 1881 The 1881 Canada Census was carried out by the Census Branch of the Department of Agriculture and by fourteen Chief Census Officers. The Census Officer for British Columbia in 1881 was J.W. McKay a former Hudson's Bay Company officer. The Yale District of British Columbia encompassed much of the southern interior of the province, ranging from Hope, north to Kamloops, east to the provincial border and south to the International Boundary. This district included the Kootenay region. The Yale District in 1881 was divided into subdivisions. For the Yale and Hope subdivisions, the enumerators were John Glassey and J.B.Good. Good was an Anglican minister at Lytton, and was responsible for enumerating the Native peoples in that region. Indeed, this was a common procedure in this era, as it was thought that missionaries and priests knew the Native population well and could secure reliable information. Rev. Good also enumerated in the areas of Spences Bridge, Kamloops, Nicola and Spuzzum. In the Shuswap, J.M.J. Lejacq, OMI, was the enumerator responsible for both the native and non-native population. For the Nicola and Okanagan, enumerators were John T. Edwards and Pierre Richard, OMI. The enumerator for the Osoyoos subdivision was J. Nicholson and Angus McDonald, D. Griffith, and L. Fouquet, OMI, were enumerators for the Kootenay subdivision. |
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