If they had just read a few pages further on, or even a few lines further on, they would have found in the 1906 instructions that the census takers were directed to write clearly because the census was intended to form a permanent record to be held in the archives of the Dominion.
S'ils avaient lu quelques pages, voire quelques lignes de plus, ils auraient constaté que, dans les instructions de 1906, on demandait aux recenseurs d'écrire lisiblement parce que le recensement était destiné à constituer un document permanent qui serait conservé dans les archives du dominion.
