Chief statistician Wayne Smith said this year's collection was the "best census since 1666." Statistics Canada said the first census in Canada was initiated by Jean Talon, the first intendant of ...

A full 13,000,000 households across Canada will get census forms in the mail starting Tuesday. Canada's first census was initiated by Intendant Jean Talon in 1666. The census counted the colony's ...

1666: Canada's first census is initiated by Intendant Jean Talon, with the intent of using the data to plan and develop the colony of New France. The, age, sex, occupation and marital status of ...

The first census of the colonial population in what would become Canada was conducted in 1666 by the first intendant of New France, Jean Talon.

Talon had bent sent to North America by Louis XIV’s finance minister, the famous Jean-Baptiste Colbert. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

Chief statistician Wayne Smith said this year's collection was the "best census since 1666." Statistics Canada said the first census in Canada was initiated by Jean Talon, the first intendant of New ...