1931 Canada Census - released on 1st June

[*Sandra*]

All I have is Vancouver B.C. Canada. John Flecther died in 1966 at Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and was buried at  White Rock. His wife Maggie died in 1967 at Peace Arch District Hospital, White Rock, B.C., Canada, and was buried at Victory Memorial Park, Surrey, B.C., Canada. They married in Vancouver.
A big guess is they lived in the area.
Any help is much appreciated
 Carol

Just in case you haven't seen it and it may be useful - obit John Fletcher

The Province
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sat, 10 Dec 1966 Page 38

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province/125722607/

obit Meggy Fletcher

Surrey Leader
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 
Thu, 12 Oct 1967 Page 6

https://www.newspapers.com/article/surrey-leader/125722624/

Sandra

[aghadowey]

I know exactly where most of my close Canadian relatives lived so had a look in 1931 census. Selected Province, district and sub-district then clicked on search button but got error message. Tried again looking for other side of the family in another area with same results  Will try again after a while ...

[melba_schmelba]

Well, it's so supposedly released, but I can't get any images to load, anyone else have any success ? I navigate to the Province, district, click on a sub district, then click browse, but I just get a 'Unable to open [object Object] error?

https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census2/index1931

[melba_schmelba]

hmm, oh dear, hopefully it's just an initial blip with everyone trying to access at once, but no one seems to be able to access anything, and I am not sure how anyone is going to help index it, if they can't see it

https://twitter.com/LibraryArchives/status/1664249237213724672

https://twitter.com/LibraryArchives/status/1664273553108389890?cxt=HHwWhMDS4dL-15guAAAA

https://twitter.com/LibraryArchives/status/1664267673050423296?cxt=HHwWgICx9bCo1ZguAAAA

[genealogyem]

I know exactly where most of my close Canadian relatives lived so had a look in 1931 census. Selected Province, district and sub-district then clicked on search button but got error message. Tried again looking for other side of the family in another area with same results  Will try again after a while ...

I have had the same thing happen to me every time that I try to search records for the city of Toronto. Do we know if all pages are currently available online or if they only started to upload them yesterday?

Em

[polarbear]

It is my understanding that all pages should now be available to browse but there seems to be an issue with the downloading.

PB

[fhtess1165]

This is most people's experience at this point 

I know exactly where most of my close Canadian relatives lived so had a look in 1931 census. Selected Province, district and sub-district then clicked on search button but got error message. Tried again looking for other side of the family in another area with same results  Will try again after a while ...

[fhtess1165]

If buried in White Rock, they likely lived in that area, which is south of Vancouver in the city of Surrey. That would be in Division 4 (Lower Fraser Valley), Subdivision A, according to the info from the official Stats Canada report on the Census. Sadly, LAC doesn't seem to have set up their Browsing parameters to match *sigh*. I checked the Fraser Valley Division, but there's nothing for Surrey.

See this post here from Ken McKinlay, a genealogy blogger who has found a way to get in the back door to view images, but it's still a frustrating experience: https://familytreeknots.blogspot.com/2023/06/1931-census-of-canada-release-fiasco.html.

If I can glean anything more for you, I'll let you know...

All I have is Vancouver B.C. Canada. John Flecther died in 1966 at Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and was buried at  White Rock. His wife Maggie died in 1967 at Peace Arch District Hospital, White Rock, B.C., Canada, and was buried at Victory Memorial Park, Surrey, B.C., Canada. They married in Vancouver.
A big guess is they lived in the area.
Any help is much appreciated
 Carol

[melba_schmelba]

Seems to be working now , about a 10 second wait for images to load. You can browse by province - town/city/district, but you will likely need to browse 10s of images, 50+ for large city districts assuming you know where you looking for.