Railway Employees Provident Fund (Canada). The provident fund for retirees of the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railway was established in 1907. This research tool provides access to 21,710 references to people who received allowances, including Black Porters.
Immigrants from China. The Government of Canada created documents specifically for new arrivals from China. This research tool provides access to 98,361 references to Chinese immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1885 and 1949.
1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization. The Canadian naturalization databases contain references to about 200,000 people who applied for and received status as naturalized Canadians from 1915 to 1932.
OGSPI. This Ontario Genealogical Society Provincial Index - abreviated OGSPI - is a hypertext library established in 1997 as a volunteer project to index an unlimited range of genealogical information on Ontario families. There are currently over 3 million names in more than 78,000 files.
Census of Canada, 1911. This database of 1911 census data allows researchers to search by geographic location only. As this is not a nominally indexed database, it is not searchable by family name.
New Brunswick Census Central Access. Links to all known online census information for New Brunswick, its lands prior to formation of the Province & its once-disputed border areas.
Off The Record..... Clifford Archives (Ontario, Canada). The purpose of this site is to provide FREE resources and information of a genealogy nature to assist you in the search of family members who have roots in the village of Clifford now part of the Town of Minto, Wellington County, Ontario.
Saskatchewan Homestead Index (Canada). The Saskatchewan Homestead Index is a file locator database to the homestead files at the Saskatchewan Archives. It contains 360,000 references to those men and women who, from 1872 to 1930, under the terms of the Dominion Lands Act, took part in the homestead process in the area now known as Saskatchewan. Also included are those who bought or sold North West Métis or South African scrip or received soldier grants after World War One.
Canada : Métis Scrip Records : Affidavits and Applications. These documents provide information of interest to genealogists, such as the name of the claimant, his/her date of birth, parents' names, parish affiliation, affidavit number, and claim number.
Misc. St. Joseph's Colony Records. St. Joseph's Colony is located in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada on the border of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. It was settled by German Catholic immigrants who left the USA and headed for Canada.
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Nova Scotia Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes 1759-1960. Although accumulated and retained in Halifax these files include most divorces granted in Nova Scotia. Individual files may contain marriage records, divorce petitions, and other documents recording court proceedings and decisions.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online : Dictionary of Canadian Biography, whose first volume appeared in 1966, is a joint project of the University of Toronto and the Université Laval and presents the work of researchers and writers in many fields from across Canada and around the world.
Grantbook Database, New Brunswick, Canada. This database consists of records of land settlement in New Brunswick in the period 1765-1900. County or place of settlement can be searched, as can be primary grant holder names.
Beyond our Prairie Trails. Online edition of this local history book published by the Carstairs (Alberta) History Book Committee in 1995 : Community history - Family histories
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Census of Canada, 1901. Digitized images of the original census returns, which record age, nationality, religion, profession, income, education, etc for every single resident of Canada on 31 March 1901. The database allows you to search by geographic location but not by family name.
Loss of the Steamship Atlantic, White Star Line, March 30, 1873. Story and passenger list. When the Atlantic was wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia in March of 1873. she became the worst marine disaster for Canada of the nineteenth century, with 546 out of 975 lives lost.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial. This site contains a registry of information about the graves and memorials of more than 116,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served valiantly and gave their lives for their country.
Manitoba Vital Statistics Search. Access to the following records: Births more than 100 years ago; Marriages more than 80 years ago; Deaths more than 70 years ago.
Alberta Newspapers Collection (Canada). The Early Alberta Newspaper collection will contain all Alberta newspapers. Both dailies and non-dailies included. There are currently over 750000 images in the Newspaper collection.
Alphabetical Listing of the Filles du roi. The filles du roi, or King's Daughters, were some 770 women who arrived in the colony of New France (Canada) between 1663 and 1673, under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV of France.
Ontario Birth Registrations. The site has been created to house transcriptions of Ontario birth registrations covering the period 1869 to 1908, and has a good representation of most Ontario counties and districts.
Federal Census of 1871 : Ontario, Canada Index. This database contains the names of the heads of households in the Province of Ontario as they were recorded in April 1871 in the official enumeration of the population of Canada.
Barnwell History (Alberta, Canada). Free online edition of this book published in 1952. Includes over 200 pages of family histories and genealogies. Barnwell is a village in the Municipal District of Taber, southern Alberta.
1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces (Canada). In order to track the high rates of population growth in western Canada, the Canadian government called for a special census of the prairie provinces (Manitoba, and the two newly created provinces of Saskatchewan, and Alberta). Through this research tool you can access digitized images of original census returns, which recorded the names of family members, their sex, marital status, year of immigration to Canada, post office address, etc. As this is not a nominally-indexed database, it is not searchable by family name. This search tool allows researchers to search by Province, District Name, District Number, and Sub-district Number.
Legion Magazine - Last Post (Canada). Death notices of about 125,000 Royal Canadian Legion members with military backgrounds, Canadian war veterans and Legion members with police service.
Canadian Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918). Over 600,000 Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918). The CEF database is an index to those personnel files, which are held by the National Archives of Canada. In addition, over 765,000 images of Attestation papers have been scanned and are being made available on-line.
Banner County : history of Russell & district, 1879-1967 : History of Russell County, Manitoba, Canada. Free searchable online edition of this book published by Russell Women's Institute. Includes several chapters on pioneers and family histories.
Acadians Deported to Massachusetts : Part 1 - Part 2
Immigrants at Grosse-Île (Quebec). This database includes information on 33,026 immigrants who stayed at the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
That's My Family. A new search engine maintained by Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec leads to genealogy and family history databases hosted by federal, provincial or territorial archives centres and libraries, or by other partners from across Canada.
The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project. The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of the property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases (1874 to 1881). Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned, with links from the property owners' names in the database. The database presently covers the Ontario map, totalling forty-three atlases.
Les 5 000 premiers noms de famille par ordre alphabétique, Québec - The 5000 most frequent surnames in Quebec in alphabetical order : A-B, C-D, E-K, L-M, N-R, S-Z
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid. The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid is a pointer database consisting of the surnames, cemetery name and location of over 2 million interments from several thousand cemeteries, cairns, memorials, and cenotaphs in Ontario Canada.
Pictonians at Home and Abroad. Sketches of professional men and women of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Online edition of this book by Rev. J. P. MacPhie M.A. Published in 1914.
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Mennonite Archives : Obituaries 1864-2005. Nearly 75,000 obituaries from the Herald of Truth (1864-1908), the Gospel Witness (1905-1908), the Gospel Herald (1908-1998), The Mennonite (1998-2005), and the Mennonite Weekly Review (1897-2005).
Online Databases of the National Archives of Quebec Several databases are currently available (in French) :
- The parish censuses of Notre-Dame-de-Québec 1792, 1795, 1798, 1805, 1806, and 1818.
- List of transcriptions of notarial acts
- Coroners' inquests in the judicial districts of Beauce (1862-1947), Charlevoix (1862-1944), Montmagny (1862-1952), Québec (1765-1930) and Saint-François (Sherbrooke) (1900-1954)
- Non-Catholic marriages and burials and in the Montréal area 1766 to 1899
- Inventories after death of the judicial district of Rimouski 1822-1918, in the Montréal area 1791-1840, and in the judicial districts of Québec, Charlevoix, Beauce, Montmagny and Kamouraska, 1785-1955
- Applications for free grants of land to families with 12 living children under the 1890 law of Premier Honoré Mercier.
- Register of interments in Mount Hermon Cemetery (1848-1904)
- Marriage contracts in the Charlevoix region (1737-1920), the Saguenay region (1840-1911), and in the Québec City area, (1761-1946).
- Jail logs of Québec City prisons in the 19th century.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Cemeteries. Database of people interred more than 25 years ago (close to 60,000 people) that are in Edmonton Municipal Cemeteries.
Canadian Health Obituary Index 1833-2000. The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal has, for many years, maintained an "obituary file" of Canadian medical obituaries and death notices. The file has been converted to allow web access and now contains listings for obituaries and notices of death which appeared in over 25 medical periodicals.
Surnames of Ontario, Canada. Surnames of Ontario is designed to help bring together researchers interested in the same surname.
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Brantford, Ontario, Canada Births, Marriages, Deaths Index. This index covers birth, marriage, and death notices appearing in the Brantford Expositor. 1852-1916 (weekly) (some years are missing on the microfilm), 1917-1940 (daily), 1960-1984 (daily), 1988-2004 (daily).
1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization. The Canadian naturalization databases contain references to about 200,000 people who applied for and received status as naturalized Canadians from 1915 to 1932.
Hamiltonians and the Civil War (Ontario). A significant number of men residing in Hamilton, Canada West prior to or during the American Civil War years served in the war.
An Acadian Parish Remembered : The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 (Nova Scotia, Canada). A fully searchable database containing information for over 3500 baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in the parish registers of St.-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755. These two volumes are Nova Scotia's earliest surviving church registers, and a tangible link to the last generations of Acadian French living at Annapolis before the Deportation.
