Land Records

• Land records are available at the Ontario atlas project which has actual land maps with residents names
• Land grants database from 1870-1930.            
• Alberta Homestead Records
• Saskatchewan Homestead Index
• Index to Land Petitions: Original Series 1783-1918
• Index to New Brunswick Land Grants 1784 - 1997
• Index to Registers of Letters Patent and Supplementary Letters Patent Issued, 1885-1976

Births, Marriages & Deaths ( and divorce)

• British Columbia births from 1872-1903 marriages from 1872-1931 and deaths from 1872-1986
• Saskatchewan births more than 100 years ago (soon, marriages )
• Saskatchewan deaths prior to 1917o 1917
• Manitoba births more than 100 years ago marriages more than 80 years ago and deaths more than 70 years ago
• New Brunswick births 1800-1908 marriages 1847-1951 and deaths 1815-1953
• Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds
• Manitoba divorce (search by name, files were updated many years after the fact)

Cemetery and Burial records

• Ontario and BC also have cemetery finding aids, in which volunteers have transcribed cemeteries and those who are in them.
• Also, Ontario Cemetery Ancestor Search from OGS
• Marriage Bonds - Upper (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec)
• Saving Graves Canada

Census

• Census 1851 - Canada East [Quebec], Canada West [Ontario], New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - images of original returns
• 1871 Canadian heads of households & strays index
• You can start a census search at the LDS site, it holds the 1881 Canadian census.
• This site has the actual 1901 census images. Always view originals, transcriptions can be wrong!
• 1901 transcribed census
• Census 1906 - Western Canada - images of original returns
• Census 1891 - Southern Alberta - searchable database
• Census 1906 - Western Canada - index linked to images of original returns (Manitoba Saskatchewan & Alberta)
• 1911 Canadian Census actual images. Always view originals, transcriptions can be wrong!
• 1911 transcribed
• Census Substitute 1853 - Toronto, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls
• 1871 Ontario Census

  Good clues from personal histories Our Roots

	Ancestry.ca Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1907 pay site $14.99
	Ancestry.ca Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1932 pay site $14.99
	Ancestry.ca Ontario Marriage Index, 1858-1899 pay site $14.99

Immigration         

• Upper Canada (Ontario) and Canada West (Ontario) Naturalization Registers (1828-1850)
• Port of New Westminster (British Columbia)- Register of Chinese Immigration (1887-1908)
• Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
• Immigrants at Grosse-Île 1832 and 1937
• If your relatives came to Canada between 1925 and 1935, you can find the date and ship they came on through Canada archives.
• If they came between between 1865 and 1883 through assisted immigration, check here   
• Canadian Naturalization database(200,000 folks between 1915 and 1932)
• 1898-1922 Passports and identity papers is comprised of about 11,400 files on Jewish, Ukrainian and Finnish immigrants who came to Canada from the Russian Empire. The series includes passport applications and questionnaires containing general information.
• Passenger lists (RG 76) were the official immigration documents from 1865 to 1935. This database provides access to passenger lists for the ports of Québec (1865-1921), Halifax (1881-1912, to 1922 shortly), to Saint John (1900-1912), North Sydney (1906-1908), Vancouver (1905-1912) and Victoria (1905 to 1912), shortly.
• Ingeneas database Canadian passenger and immigration records from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement.
• Port Returns including Passenger Lists, 1816-1838
• Irish Famine Migration to New Brunswick 1845-1852
•  Newspaper Records of Passengers to Canada
•  Ship Passenger Lists to Nova Scotia, Canada: Miscellaneous Ships

Military

• If you had a male relative born around 1900 he may have served in the      first world war his attestation papers may be here these often have a wealth of information as they show where born, next of kin, and more.
• Courts-Martial of the First World War

• The Canadian Merchant Navy War Dead Database

• 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.
  
• WW I Veterans Interviews
• Executed Soldiers 1914-18
• Unit War Diaries - WW I
• Diaries & Letters WW I
• Diaries & Letters WW II
• The Soldiers - S. African War A total of 7,368 Canadians and 12 Nursing Sisters served in South Africa. 
• Last Post not a source record, but covers the difficult period to research because of the privacy act, Royal Canadian Legion members with military backgrounds, Canadian war veterans and Legion members with police service. It  holds year of death, rank, period of service and location. Always be sure and confirm these details as this should be used only as a clue to obtain a death certificate.
• Muster rolls of Loyalists, and their families, who were members of demobilized regiments and who settled in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This research tool provides access to nearly 19,000 references to Loyalist families.

MISC RECORDS

• Canadian Police Officers Honour Roll

• Orders-in-Council, 1867-1882  The term Orders-in-Council refers to all reports submitted to the Committee of the Privy Council which receive the Governor General's approval. Generally, Orders-in-Council refer to appointments of Deputy Ministers and other government officials, transactions between Government and private sectors, commutations of death sentences, etc.
• This is a digitized copy, in PDF format of the dictionary done by Abbe Cyprien Tanguay
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online This first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1920 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. A major research and publishing project launched by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval in 1959, will provide a much easier access to the published biographies and the information that interests you. Integrated into the country's largest archival repository, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online paves the way to more extensive research.
  
• Lists of United Empire Loyalists
• Post Offices & Postmasters
• Canadian Patents (inventions), 1869-1894
• Métis Scrip Records
• Administrative records of Aboriginal people from 1872 to the 1950s from Department of Indian and Northern Affairs
• Index to Saint John, NB Burial Permits, 1889-1919
• New Brunswick Cemeteries 
• Canadian Forces Base Gagetown NB- Cemeteries
• PEI Aerial Photographs
• Community Photographs
• Lovell Directory of New Brunswick 1871
• Hutchinson Directories 1865-1868
• Records of Old Revolutionary Soldiers and Their Widows
• Index to Justice of the Peace Appointment Register, 1863-1963
• Historical Images of New Brunswick
• Index to Petitions for Teachers' Licences & Payment 1812-1882
• New Brunswick Newspaper Directory 1783-1996
•  Lennox County, Ontario Canada 1851 Census
•   Wellington County, Ontario Canada 1851 Census
•  Ontario, Canada: Roman Catholic Marriages, 1827-1870
•  Addington County, Ontario Canada 1851 Census
•  Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875 Part 1
•  Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875. Part Two
•  Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875 Part Three