{"id":14018,"date":"2021-09-16T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T03:38:54","slug":"1950-census-instructions-for-canadian-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/16\/1950-census-instructions-for-canadian-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"1950 Census Instructions-for Canadian Natives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1950-instructions-french-canadian.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1950-instructions-french-canadian.jpg 500w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1950-instructions-french-canadian-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1950-instructions-french-canadian-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>1950 US Census instructions for places of birth for natives of Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The instructions for 1950 US census enumerators indicated that a Canadian who spoke French upon their arrival in the US should be classified as &#8220;Canada-French.&#8221; All other Canadian natives should be classified as &#8220;Canada-Other.&#8221; One might be tempted to think the &#8220;Canada-French&#8221; means Quebec and &#8220;Canada-Other&#8221; means outside of Quebec. That&#8217;s not necessarily how I would have interpreted those terms had I not read the instructions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always read the instructions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/history\/pdf\/1950instructions.pdf\">1950 Census instructions can be viewed online at the www.census.gov website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/1950-census-webinar\/\">getting ready for the 1950 census release by viewing my webinar on that very topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instructions for 1950 US census enumerators indicated that a Canadian who spoke French upon their arrival in the US should be classified as &#8220;Canada-French.&#8221; All other Canadian natives should be classified as &#8220;Canada-Other.&#8221; One might be tempted to think the &#8220;Canada-French&#8221; means Quebec and &#8220;Canada-Other&#8221; means outside of Quebec. That&#8217;s not necessarily how I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}