Canadian Deaths 1878-1886. Abstracted from The Dominion Annual Register and Review. Mainly obituaries of prominent citizens (nationally and locally), accidental deaths, suicides, murders, executions, and deaths from longevity.
Island Cemeteries : Amherst Island in Lennox and Addington County, Howe Island and Wolfe Island in Frontenac County.
Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804) : The Land Boards were created in 1789 to oversee land matters and facilitate settlement in what is now Ontario. This research tool includes more than 16,400 references to the Upper Canada Land Board records.
The History of King's County (Nova Scotia). Digitized edition of this book by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton published in 1910. Includes a 340 page Family Sketches section (starting at page 542).
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919). Selected French-language newspapers from across Canada, in a digitized, fully-searchable format. These newspapers form the Library and Archives Canada collection of first, final and special editions of French-Canadian newspapers.
Immigrants to Canada before 1865. There are no comprehensive nominal lists of immigrant passengers arriving in Canada before 1865. Some lists have been identified and indexed by name in this database.
Alberta cattle and horse brands (Free digitized book) : Brands recorded during the period from 1st of January, 1907, to 31 of December, 1913. Published as a supplement to the Alberta and Saskatchewan Brand Book. Includes index.
Registre de l'Abbé Charles-François Bailly 1768 à 1773. Registers of Abbot Charles-François Bailly, based in Halifax, but who served Acadian populations throughout the Maritime Provinces. Transcript of the original document in French. Includes an extensive index (starting page 115).
The Canadian Gravemarker Gallery. The primary objective of this free access website is to provide visitors the ability to browse through the online cemeteries to find the burial places of their ancestors.
Prince Edward Island Baptism Card Index, 1721-1885. Before 1906, there was no systematic recording of births, deaths, and marriages on Prince Edward Island. The Vital Statistics Services created this index of baptism records from the church baptism records in the region. The earliest records date from 1751, but the majority date from 1830 onwards.
Tableau généalogique des premières familles de Tignish : Genealogy of the first families of Tignish, Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Digitized edition of this article published in the newspaper L'Impartial Illustré in 1899.
Parish censuses of Notre-Dame-de-Québec : Censuses of Quebec City Roman Catholics taken by ecclesiastical authorities in the years 1792, 1795, 1798, 1805, 1806, 1818.
Name Index to Upper Canada Sundries 1766 to 1815 : Sundries include petitions for land, requests for government jobs, military communications, people wanting to settle in Upper Canada, testimonies regarding traitors, petitions for clemency, and many other matters.
Census of Canada, 1891. Through this research tool, you can access digitized images of original census returns which list the name, age, country or province of birth, nationality, religion, and occupation of Canada's residents at the time of the 1891 Census.
British Columbia Births 1854-1903. The registration of births began in 1872, but because of delayed registration, this collection includes births from 1854-1903.
History of the county of Annapolis (Nova Scotia). Including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament : and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families. Free online edition of this book by William Arthur Calnek and Alfred William Savary published in 1897.
Recensement de l'Acadie de 1671. Transcription of the 1671 census of Acadia with links to further genealogical information for most of those enumerated. All but a few lived in Port Royal, today Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Quebec City Militiamen in 1775 : 1) Rôle général de la milice canadienne de Québec passée en revue le 11 septembre, 1775; 2) Nouveau Role de la milice Canadienne qui a fait le service pendant le blocus de Québec depuis le 14 novembre 1775 ...
Métis National Council Historical Online Database. Includes census records 1881, 1891 and 1901; Northwest Scrip; and Manitoba Affidavit. The database covers what is now Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Yukon Archives Genealogy Research Database : The Yukon Genealogy database is made up of eight separate databases that have been donated to or created by the Ykon Archives since 2002 : Yukon Residents database 1894-1958; Pioneer Cemetery 1900-1965; Grey Mountain Cemetery 1960-1976; Yukon News Obituary Index 1966-2000; Yukon River Basin Deaths and Burials 1887-2007; Francophone Yukoners; Sourdough Air Display 1971-2006; Yukon Barristers Roll 1898-1997.
Hudson's Bay Company Biographical Sheets. Biographical sheets have been created by Hudson's Bay Company Archives (HBCA) staff to provide employment information on individuals who were employed by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and/or the North West Company.
Winnipeg Estate Indexes 1870-1983. Indexes to provide information about the estates of individuals who died in Winnipeg and the surrounding areas.
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Canada Death Penalty Index. The aim of this site is to list all persons executed in Canada. Names of most persons executed under Canadian jurisdiction between 1867 and 1962 plus many others before Confederation have been found.
Nanaimo Obituaries. The Obituaries database includes; In Memoriam, Notice to Creditors and Cards of Thanks. The database was compiled from three Nanaimo newspapers. The clippings collected cover the period of late 1998 to December 2004.
Les pionniers de Trois-Rivières 1634-1665. List of early settlers of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec with links to genealogical data for those with descendants living today.
Le vieux Lachine et le massacre du 5 août 1689 Free digitized edition of this book by Désiré Girouard published in 1889. An account of the deadly Iroquois raid on the Lachine settlement near Montreal in 1689. Lists of names appear at the end of the book such as : inhabitants of Lachine in 1689, census of 1681, those who died, disappeared or were made prisoners during the 1689 raid, confirmations of 1681, 1688 and 1690 (in French).
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Répertoire général du clergé canadien. A biographical directory of Catholic clergy in Canada by genealogist Cyprien Tanguay. Covers all the priests who served from the origins of New France to the date of publication in 1860. Entries are in chronological order but an index is provided at the end of the volume. Date of birth and names of parents of each individual are usually given.
Notes sur les archives de Notre-Dame de Beauport : Free online edition of this book by Jean Langevin published in Quebec City in 1860. One of the oldest parishes of New France, these gleanings from the archives of Notre-Dame de Beauport contain details on many of the earliest French settlers on the American continent. In French.
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À travers les registres : Free online edition of this book by Cyprien Tanguay published 1886. Gleanings of unusual facts as they appear in Quebec historical documents, mainly parish registers of births, marriages, and deaths. Covers the period from the beginning of New France to 1799. (in French).
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La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesses des «Retrouvailles 94» : Genealogy of 37 Acadian families. An extensive article by Stephen A. White published in Les Cahiers de La Société historique acadienne in April and September 1994 (volume 25, no. 2-3) (pdf document) (in French).
