Canada Resources
Name of site |
URL |
Focus |
Automated Genealogy
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Automated Genealogy hosts several projects to index Canadian
censuses. An interesting feature of the site is the ability to
link various records associated with a person together.
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Bruce- Grey Genealogical Society |
Bruce & Grey County OGS is a non-profit branch of the Ontario
Genealogical Society (OGS). To join a branch you need to join
OGS and then select our branch. See Branch Info tab for further
details. |
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Canada 1831 & 1842 census |
FamilySearch.org has added 92,000 records from the 1831 census
of Lower Canada (modern day Quebec) and created a new collection
composed of 47,000 records from the 1842 census of Lower Canada.
Both record sets can be searched by first and last name. Access
is free. |
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Canada/US Border ports |
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html |
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has released a collection of
some 121,000 images of new immigration records for people who
passed into Canada from United States border posts between 1908
to 1918 and 1925 to 1935. These are browseable images. One thing
to note is that there were many unmanned border posts between
the two countries during this period. It is possible someone
migrated from the United States to Canada without formally
declaring themselves to the Canadian government during this time
period. Nevertheless, it is definitely worth checking this
collection. With this latest batch, LAC has released all the
immigration records in its custody from 1865 to 1965. Access is
free. |
Canadiana Discovery Portal |
Enter keywords in this site to discover articles and books
related to the topic. Most articles and books can be viewed
online. |
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Historic Mail Order Catalogues |
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/catalog/cat0000e.shtml |
The Canadian Museum of Civilization has put online a fascinating
collection of Canadian mail order catalogues. The catalogues
span the years from 1880 to 1975. If you are trying to date an
old photograph by the type of hat or dress worn by the women in
the image, or by the date of other artifacts in the image, then
a collection of old catalogues can be a very valuable resource.
Hats and dresses go in and out of fashion and (with a bit of
practice) by cross-comparing cloths in an old photograph to the
cloths in a catalogue you can reasonably narrow down the date
range when an image was taken. Access to the catalogues is free. |
The Canadian County Atlas 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. Township maps, portraits and properties have
been scanned, with links from the property owners' names in the
database. |
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The Ontario Vital Statistics Project |
If you have relatives in Ontario Canada, this is a free site
that has information on vital statics based on volunteer
transcriptions. |