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Census   Local Histories
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Acadians [back to menu]

Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, by Stephen A. White, Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999.

Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens by Bona Arsenault, Leméac, 1978, 6 volumes.

Le grand arrangement des Acadiens au Québec: notes de petite-histoire, généalogies: France, Acadie, Québec de 1625 à 1925, by Adrien Bergeron, Éditions Élysée, 1981, 8 volumes.

Census [back to menu]

Jews in the Maritime Provinces According to the 1861 to 1901 Censuses of Canada, by Glen Eker.

Employment, Fur Trade [back to menu]

Dictionnaire historique des Canadiens et des Métis français de l'Ouest, by A.G. Morice, Second Edition, Québec, J.-P. Garneau, 1912.

"Répertoire des engagements pour l'Ouest conservés dans les archives judiciaires de Montréal" by E.Z. Massicotte in Rapport de l'Archiviste de la Province de Québec, 1929-1932.

Employment, Merchant Marine [back to menu]

Men and ships in the Canada trade, 1660-1760: a biographical dictionary, by John Francis Bosher, Ottawa, National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1992.

Employment, Medical Personnel [back to menu]

Polk's dental register and directory of the United States and Canada, (various editions.)

Polk's medical register and directory of North America, Detroit, 1886-.

Dictionary of American medical biography: lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times, by Howard A. Kelly et Walter L. Burrage, Boston, Milford House, 1971.

The indomitable lady doctors, by Carlotta Hacker, Halifax, Formac, 2001.

Family Histories [back to menu]

Bibliographie annotée d'ouvrages généalogiques au Canada / Annotated bibliography of genealogical works in Canada, by Kathleen Mennie-de Varennes, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in association with the National Library of Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, ca. 1986-1987.

Bibliographie des ouvrages généalogiques au Québec 1980-1990, by the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie, 1997.

Bibliographie des ouvrages généalogiques au Québec, 1990-2000, under the direction of Marcel Fournier and Micheline Perreault, by the Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie et la Société généalogique canadienne-française, 2002.

Genealogies in the Library of Congress: a bibliography, edited by Marion J. Kaminkow, Magna Carta Book Co., 1972, 2 volumes.

A catalogue of published genealogies of Nova Scotia families, by Allan E. Marble, Genealogical Association of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1984.

Home Children [back to menu]

The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1939, by Marjorie Kohli, Toronto, Natural Heritage Books, ca. 2003.

The Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada (new edition), by Kenneth Bagnell, Toronto, Dundurn Press, ca. 2001.

The children's home-finder; the story of Annie MacPherson and Louisa Birt, by Lilian M. Birt, London, J. Nisbet, 1913.

Immigration [back to menu]

Canada: immigration and colonization, 1841-1903, by Norman Macdonald, Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, (1970, ca.1966.)

Canadian border entry lists, 1908-1918: Yukon Territory & British Columbia (part 1, by Mary Kearns Trace, Calgary, Traces, ca. 1997. (Index by name to the border entry lists for Yukon and B.C. ports.)

Doukhobor ship passenger lists, 1898-1928, by Steve Lapshinoff and Jonathan Kalmakoff, 2001.

Emigrants and Empire : British Settlement in the Dominions Between the Wars, edited by Stephen Constantine, Manchester University Press, 1990.

Encylopedia of Canada's peoples, edited by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Strangers at our gates: Canadian immigration and immigration policy, 1540-1990, by Valerie Knowles, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1992.

Books that include names of immigrants

A dictionary of immigrants to Nova Scotia, by Leonard H. Smith, Jr, Owl Books, ca. 1985.

A dictionary of Scottish emigrants to Canada before Confederation, by Donald Whyte, Ontario Genealogical Society, 3 volumes.

Canadian passengers inward bound, 1856 1858 by Mary Kearns Trace, Calgary, Traces, ca.1997.

Index of some passengers who emigrated to Canada between 1817 & 1849, compiled and edited by John A. Acton, Ontario Genealogical Society, ca. 2003. (Index to the lists found in the British Colonial Office 384 records.)

Names of emigrants : from the 1845 1847 records of James Allison, emigrant agent at Montreal, prepared by the Irish Research Group, Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1994.

Passengers to New Brunswick: The Custom House Records; 1833, 34, 37 & 1838, by Daniel F. Johnson, Saint John Branch, New Brunswick Genealogical Society, ca. 1987.

The Lanark Society settlers : ships' lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society, 1821, by Gerald J. Neville, British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, 1995.

The McCabe list : early Irish in the Ottawa Valley, by Bruce S. Elliott, Ontario Genealogical Society, 2002 (revised edition).

The people's Clearance : Highland emigration to British North America, 1770 1815, by J. M. Bumsted, University of Manitoba Press, 1982.

The Silver Chief: Lord Selkirk and the Scottish Pioneers of Belfast, Baldoon and Red River, by Lucille H. Campey.

Immigration, Quebec [back to menu]

You can consult the Université de Montréal's PRDH Web site [www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/main.htm] under Pioneers for background information about immigration from Old France to New France.

Engagements

Engagement records from a number of sources are transcribed and indexed in the following publications:

Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française (R.H.A.F.)

Volume 6, no 2, 1952, pages 177 233
Volume 6, no 3, 1952, pages 374 407
Volume 13, no 2, 1959, pages 247 261
Volume 13, no 3, 1959, pages 402 421
Volume 13, no 4, 1960, pages 550 561
Volume 14, no 1, 1960, pages 87 108
Volume 14, no 2, 1960, pages 246 258
Volume 14, no 3,1960, pages 430 440
Volume 14, no 4, 1961, pages 583 602
Volume 33, no 4, 1980, pages 583 586

Tourouvre et les Juchereau : un chapitre de l'émigration percheronne au Canada by Madame Pierre Montagne, Québec, Société canadienne de généalogie, 1965.

Passenger lists

"La Rochelle et le Canada au XVIIe siècle" by Marcel Delafosse in Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique Française, volume 4 (1951), pages 469 511, 1632 to 1693.

Les passagers du Saint André: La recrue de 1659, by Archange Godbout, Montréal, Société généalogique canadienne Française, 1964, 166 pages.

"Liste des navires venus en Nouvelle France de 1657 à 1665", by Michel Langlois in l'Ancêtre (Québec), Volume 3 (1976), pages 3 15.

Biographies

Dictionnaire biographique des ancêtres québécois 1608 1760, by Michel Langlois, 4 volumes.

Nos ancêtres, by Gérard Lebel and Jacques Saintonge, 29 volumes

Portrait de familles pionnières, by Robert Prévost, Montréal, Libre Expression, 5 volumes. 1992 1996.

La contribution du Haut Poitou au peuplement de la Nouvelle France, by Robert Larin, Moncton, Les éditions d'Acadie, 1994.

Les Français au Québec 1765 1865, un mouvement migratoire peu connu, by Marcel Fournier, Sillery, Éditions du Septentrion, 1994, 386 pages.

Les Européens au Canada des origines à 1765, by Marcel Fournier, Montréal, Éditions du Fleuve, 1989, 352 pages.

De la Nouvelle Angleterre à la Nouvelle France, L'histoire des captifs anglo américains au Canada entre 1665 et 1760, by Marcel Fournier, Montréal, Société généalogique canadienne française, 1992, 282 pages.

Origine des familles pionnières du Québec ancien. Bibliographie et répertoire, by Marcel Fournier, Montréal, Société généalogique canadienne française, 1997, 304 pages.

Les filles du roi au XVIIe siècle, by Yves Landry, Montréal, Leméac, 1992, 430 pages.

Catalogue des immigrants 1632 1662, by Marcel Trudel, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH, 1983, 569 pages.

Justice [back to menu]

Justice et justiciables: La procédure civile à la Prévôté de Québec, 1667-1759, by John Alexander Dickinson, Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, 1982, 289 pages.

Crimes et criminels en Nouvelle-France, by André Lachance, Montréal, Boréal Express, 1984, 184 pages.

La justice criminelle du Roi au Canada au XVIIIe siècle, by André Lachance, Québec, Presses de l'université Laval, 1978, 187 pages.

La vie libertine en Nouvelle-France au 17e siècle, by Robert-Lionel Séguin, Montréal, Léméac, 1972, 2 volumes.

Lands [back to menu]

Cadastres abrégés des seigneuries du Bas-Canada, by les Commissaires sous l'Acte seigneurial de 1854, Québec, Stewart Derbishire et George Desbarats, 1857-1871, 11 volumes. (This book gives the names of the land owners at the time of the abolition of the seigneurial system in 1854.)

Inventaire des concessions en fief et seigneurie. Fois et hommages et Aveux et dénombrements conservés aux Archives de la Province de Québec, by Pierre-Georges Roy, Beauceville, L'Eclaireur, 1927-1929, 6 volumes. (This book gives historical information on each seigneury and its owners.)

Les débuts du régime seigneurial au Canada, by Marcel Trudel, Montréal, Fides, 1974, 313 pages.

Seigneuries et fiefs du Québec. Nomenclature et cartographie, by Serge Courville et Serge Labrecque, Université Laval, 1988, 202 pages.

The Seigneurial System in Early Canada, a geographical study, by Richard Colebrook Harris, Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984, 247 pages.

Local Histories [back to menu]

Local histories of Ontario municipalities, 1951-1977: a bibliography: with representative trans-Canada locations of copies, by Barbara B. Aitken, Ontario Library Association, 1978.

Local histories of Ontario municipalities, 1977-1987: a bibliography: with representative cross-Canada locations of copies, by Barbara B. Aitken, Ontario Library Association, 1989.

Local histories of Ontario municipalities, 1987-1997: a bibliography with representative cross-Canada locations of copies, by Barbara B. Aitken, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1999.

Aitken Local Histories 1998+, by Barbara B. Aitken, Kingston, 2002.

La Province de Québec, by André Beaulieu and William F.E. Morley, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1971.

A bibliography of Manitoba local history: a guide to local and regional histories written about communities in Manitoba, by Christopher Hackett, ed., Winnipeg, Manitoba Historical Society, 1989.

British Columbia local histories: a bibliography, by Linda L. Hale and Jean Barman, Victoria, British Columbia Heritage Trust, ca. 1991.

Local histories of Alberta: an annotated bibliography, by Joanna Krotki, Edmonton; Dept. of Slavic and East European Studies, University of Alberta; Central and East European Studies Society of Alberta, 1983.

The Atlantic Provinces: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, by William F. E. Morley, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1967.

Ontario and the Canadian North, by William F. E. Morley, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, ca. 1978.

Alberta's local histories in the Historical Resources Library, Provincial Archives of Alberta. Historical Resources Library, Edmonton: the Library, 1989.

Loyalists [back to menu]

A Bibliography of Loyalist source material in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, by Gregory Palmer, Meckler Pub., ca. 1982. 3 volumes.

Loyalist lineages of Canada, 1783-1983. Toronto Branch, the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada. Generation Press, ca. 1984 and ca. 1991.

Loyalist literature: an annotated bibliographic guide to the writings on the Loyalists of the American Revolution, by Robert S. Allen, Dundurn Press, 1982.

Loyalists in the southern campaign of the Revolutionary War, by Murie June Clark, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981, 3 volumes.

New Brunswick Loyalists: a bicentennial tribute, by Sharon Dubeau, Generation Press, 1983.

The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons and Daughters of the American Loyalists of Upper Canada, by William D. Reid, Hunterdon House, 1973.

The Loyalists of Quebec, 1774-1825: a forgotten history, by the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada. Heritage Branch-Montreal. Price-Patterson, ca. 1989.

UE Loyalists & military claimants of Upper Canada: registered warrants & fiats, 1798-1865, by Barbaranne Wright, Pathfinder Genealogical Services, 2001.

Loyalist military settlers of Upper Canada: registered warrants and fiats, volume III, by Barbaranne Wright, Pathfinder Genealogical Services, 2003.

Loyalist children of Upper Canada: a collection of names: source, Ontario Archives, published by Pathfinder Genealogical Services, 2000.

Military, Canada [back to menu]

A Military History of Canada: from Champlain to Kosovo, by Desmond Morton, 1999.

Military, French Regime [back to menu]

"Le Canada militaire: état provisoire des officiers de milice de 1641 à 1760" by Claude De Bonnault in Rapport de l'Archiviste de la Province de Québec pour 1949-1950 et 1950-1951. (Gives names of militia officers by rank and by parish.)

Carignan-Salière, by Michel Langlois, La Maison des ancêtres, 2004.

"Les soldats de la Guerre de sept ans" in Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française, volumes 4 to 20. (Contains an incomplete list of the soldiers who participate in the Seven Years' War.)

The Good Regiment: the Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada 1665-1668, by Jack Verney. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991.

Military, British Forces [back to menu]

British Army Pensioners Abroad, 1772-1899, by Norman Crowder (Alphabetical index to the names of pensioners who settled in Canada.)

Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army, 1660-1960, by William Johnston, 1968.

In search of the "forlorn hope": a comprehensive guide to locating British regiments and their records, by John M. Kitzmiller, II, Salt Lake City, Utah, Manuscript Pub. Foundation, ca. 1988.

Officers of the British forces in Canada during the War of 1812-15, by L. Homfray Irving, Welland Tribune Print., 1908.

Roll of officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers: from 1660 to 1898, by R.E. Institute, Chatham, edited by R. F. Edwards, 1898.

Military, German Troops [back to menu]

The Hessians of Nova Scotia, by Johannes Helmut Merz, Hamilton, Ontario, German Canadian Historical Book Pub., 1994.

The Hessians of Upper Canada, by Johannes Helmut Merz, Hamilton, Ontario, German Canadian Historical Book Pub., 1997.

The Hessians of Quebec: German auxiliary soldiers of the American Revolution remaining in Canada, by Johannes Helmut Merz, Hamilton, Ontario, 2001.

Les mercenaires allemands au Québec du XVIIIe siècle et leur apport à la population, by Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy, Beloeil, Maison des Mots, 1984, 331 pages.

German Military Settlers in Canada After the American Revolution, by Virginia Easley DeMarce, 1984.

Military, Canadian Forces before 1914 [back to menu]

Canadian veterans of the War of 1812, by Eric Jonasson, Wheatfield Press, 1981. (This book relates only to veterans who were still alive in 1875.)

Men of Upper Canada: militia nominal rolls, 1828-1829, by Dan Walker, Fawne Stratford-Devai, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1995.

Les officiers de milice du Bas-Canada, 1812-1815 / Lower Canada's militia officers, 1812-1815, by Luc Lépine, Montréal, Société généalogique canadienne-française, 1996.

Officers of the British forces in Canada during the War of 1812-15, by L. Homfray Irving, Welland Tribune Print., 1908. (Includes Canadian militia officers.)

Répertoire des officiers de milice du Bas-Canada, 1830-1848, by Denis Racine, Société de généalogie de Québec, 1986-2000.

Répertoire des officiers de milice du Bas-Canada, la milice sédentaire ou non active (1846-1868), by Denis Racine, Société de généalogie de Québec, 2000.

The New Brunswick militia: 1787-1867, by David Facey-Crowther, New Brunswick Historical Society, ca. 1990.

Military, First World War [back to menu]

The Official history of the Canadian Army in the First World War, by Colonel G. W. L. Nicholson.

Parish Registers [back to menu]

Annuaire de l'Église catholique au Canada, Montréal, Novalis, 2001.

Guide to the Holdings of the Archives of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, by The Archivists of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, Agincourt, Ontario, Generation Press Inc.

Guide to Family History Research in the Archival Repositories of the United Church of Canada, by Committee on Archives and History, The United Church of Canada, Toronto, Ontario Genealogical Society. 1996.

Guide des registres d'état civil et recensements du Québec: catholiques, protestants et autres dénominations, 1621-2000, by Francine Fortin, Société généalogique canadienne-française, 2001. (To know if a repertoire exists for a specific parish in the province of Quebec.)

Inventaire des registres paroissiaux catholiques du Québec 1621-1876, by Pauline Bélanger and Yves Landry, Montréal, Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1990.

Les registres paroissiaux au Québec avant 1800, by André Larose, Québec, Archives Nationales du Québec, 1980.

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