The Dominion Bureau of Statistics was a
Canadian government
The government of Canada (french: gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown-in ...
organization
An organization or organisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences), is an legal entity, entity—such as ...
responsible for conducting
censuses.
It was formed in 1918 by the
Statistics Act, but was replaced by
Statistics Canada in 1971.
References
Former Canadian federal departments and agencies
National statistical services
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