 The census was conducted by the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act of 1905.9,703 enumerators visited homes across the country, asked the required questions and recorded the responses from each household onto paper forms.For the census, each province or territory was subdivided into districts, usually based on electoral districts, cities or counties, which were in turn divided into sub-districts, which were towns, townships, city wards or parishes.