Canadian laws dictate that the country's census records must be kept private for 92 years. After that time, the records are transferred to Library and Archives Canada and will be opened for public use. That means that the census taken on June 1st, 1921, should be transferred on June 1st, 2013. However,the census records will NOT be available to the public on that day.
The law stipulates that the records are to be transferred to Library and Archives Canada on that date and the records are to be made available. However, government personnel will require some time to receive the records, catalog, scan, and place the images online. The work cannot begin until June 1st of 2013 so we can assume that public availability will not occur until some time after that date.
The Library and Archives Canada Blog states, "Our intention is to make it available to researchers online, in the same format as previous censuses, as soon as possible after that date."
You can read more at
http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/03/27/1921-census-countdown/A few facts about the 1921 Census:
it was taken on June 1, 1921
it is the sixth comprehensive decennial census to be taken since the creation of the Dominion
there were five schedules with a total of 565 questions
241 commissioners and 11,425 enumerators were employed
the most important growth of the population was in the prairie provinces with 47% since the 1911 Census
the overall population of Canada was 8,788,483 individuals
