Newfoundland’s Grand Banks website has free transcriptions of historic Newfoundland census records and census substitutes. Free census records are available for the following locales and years:

• 1675 John Berry’s Census
• 1675 Bonavista Census (Thomas Cole Collection)
• 1675 Bonavista Census (Thomas Cole Collection)
• 1681 Bonavista Census (Thomas Cole Collection)
• 1686 Newfoundland Census (Non-Nominal)
• 1691-1692 Newfoundland Census (Non-Nominal)
• 1696-1697 Newfoundland Census (Non-Nominal)
• 1698 Newfoundland Census (Non-Nominal)
• 1701 Census from French Plaisance area of Placentia Bay
• 1702 and 1708 Census of Trinity Bay
• 1706 Census from French Liasance area of Placentia Bay
• 1708/1709 Bonavista Census (Thomas Cole Collection)
• 1708 (aug 23/26) Bonavista Census (Thomas Cole Collection)
• 1711 Newfoundland Census (Non-Nominal)
• 1753 Census of Trinity Bay
• 1771 Merchants of Twillingate, Tilton & Fogo
• 1774 Apprencticed to the Poole, Dorcet Merchants
• 1794 Census of St. John’s
• 1800 Census for the Ferryland District
• 1817 Brigus Census for the Port de Grave District
• 1836 Census of Newfoundland
• 1838 St. Barbe Census
• 1845 Census of Fortune Bay District
• 1853-1867 Census of Labrador
• 1856 Population Census on French Shore
• 1857 Census
• 1869 Census Conception Bay-Harbour Main (Non-Nominal)
• 1872 Names of Protestant Families in Bonne Bay and on the Coast from Trout River down
• 1872 Heads of Protestant Households Bay of Islands
• 1873 French Shore Census
• 1874 Southern Labrador Census
• Census of so-called French Shore Point Riche to Rocky Harbour December 1874
• 1884 Burin Methodist Census
• 1911 Partial Census for 6 districts
• 1921 Census of Newfoundland (html)
• 1921 Census of Newfoundland (database format)
• 1935 Census of Newfoundland
• 1945 Census of Newfoundland

This site also has free transcriptions of Newfoundland Censuses of Fishing Rooms and Planters and other Census substitutes:

• 1800-1801 Census of Trinity Bay Fishing Rooms
• 1805-1806 Census of Bonavista Bay District Plantation Books
• 1700-1825 Census of Fogo District Planters
• 1746-1806 Census of Harbour Main District Fishing Rooms
• 1700-1825 Census of Planters of Labrador
• 1700-1825 Census of Planters of Twillingate
• 1806 Register of Rooms at Twillingate and Vicinity