Newfoundland and Labrador Census

Online Records

 * Newfoundland, Canada Census Records CensusFinder
 * Newfoundland's Grand Banks Census - starting as early as 1675
 * Newfoundland, Canada, Census, 1921, index and images, ($)
 * Newfoundland, Canada, Census, 1935, index and images, ($)
 * Newfoundland, Canada, Census, 1945, ($)
 * NL GenWeb 1881 England Census, Entries reporting Newfoundland as place of birth
 * Newfoundland's Grand Banks Census, Fishing Rooms and Planter Listings
 * Newfoundland, Canada, Census, 1945, ($)
 * NL GenWeb 1881 England Census, Entries reporting Newfoundland as place of birth
 * Newfoundland's Grand Banks Census, Fishing Rooms and Planter Listings

Earlier Census Records

 * [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/Pages/Finding-Aid-300.aspx#i
 * Newfoundland, Canada Census Records CensusFinder

In addition to the Canada censuses taken every ten years starting in 1851, very early census records exist for British and French settlers in Newfoundland.

French

 * New France Archives New France, for the purposes of this site, is made-up of Canada, Acadia, Newfoundland, the Great Lakes region and Louisiana. The documents in this database date mainly from the early 16th century until the Treaty of Paris in 1763, including some documents after this period.

In general, the French records are for Plaisance (Placentia) which French held from 1650 -1711. The town was given up to the British in 1711. They are transcripts of copies at the National Archives of Canada. The original records are in France. The French had some limited fishing rights on the island but were not allowed to settle on the island of Newfoundland which was Britain's oldest colony. (All of the above census records are available at the National Archives of Canada. Transcripts of most of these are in “Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française,” vols. 10-11.)
 * 1671, 1673, 1691, 1693 Names all household members.
 * 1698, 1704,1706, 1711 Names head of household only.

British

 * 1796 Names heads of households for St. John’s.
 * 1800–1801 Names heads of households for Trinity Bay.
 * 1836–1951 Names statistical abstracts.
 * 1911 Names all household members only for Fogo and Port de Grave.
 * 1921 Names all household members. Does not include the districts of Bay de Verde, Bonavista, Fogo, and Labrador.
 * 1935, 1945 Names all household members for entire province.

(These censuses are available at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador (P.A.N.L.)