Canadian industry in 1871 project (CANIND71), University of Guelph, Ontario, 1982 - 2008

The Canadian Industry in 1871 project involved digitizing the manuscript schedules of the 1871 Census of Canada, the only detailed industrial census returns to survive so completely from the past. The database includes more than 45,000 industrial establishments, each with up to 100 variables, including many that never appeared in the published census reports. This resource provides uniquely valuable snapshots of industrial activity just after Confederation, at a time of transition in technology, business organization and work discipline. As part of the project, a website was developed to provide access to the CANIND71 database, including an online search interface and a detailed user guide. The search tool was a SAS application that dynamically returned records from the underlying CANIND71 database in response to queries from links on pages within the website, and from user-customizable queries submitted via a search tool on the website. As of 2021, the CANIND71 website and online search tool were decommissioned. The database and supplementary materials are now available through the University of Guelph Research Data Repository.

1871年加拿大工业（Canadian Industry in 1871）项目旨在对1871年加拿大人口普查的手稿报表开展数字化处理——该普查是迄今为止唯一留存得如此完整的官方详细工业普查档案。该数据库收录超过4.5万家工业企业，每家对应至多100项变量数据，其中包含诸多从未在公开普查报告中刊载的内容。本数据集为加拿大联邦成立初期的工业活动提供了极具独特价值的全景快照，彼时正值技术、企业组织模式与劳动规制转型的关键历史阶段。作为项目的配套环节，开发方搭建了专属网站以提供CANIND71数据库的访问渠道，内含在线搜索界面与详尽的用户使用指南。该搜索工具基于SAS应用程序开发，可响应网站页面内链接触发的查询请求，以及用户通过网站搜索工具提交的自定义查询指令，动态从底层CANIND71数据库中调取相关记录。截至2021年，CANIND71网站与在线搜索工具已正式停用。目前该数据库及配套补充材料可通过圭尔夫大学（University of Guelph）研究数据仓储获取。