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Guide to Canada Online Genealogy Records for researching ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth, marriage, death, census, church, military, immigration, and naturalization records.

Canada Online Databases This chart shows links to province-wide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county, town, or parish), go to Locating Online Databases. Ancestry.com, findmypast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Vital Records The Drouin Church and Vital Records, French-Canadian and English historical records from 1621-1967 Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946, index and images, ($) British Civil Service Evidence Of Age, index ($) Births Canada, Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959 Index only. Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register BMS2000 Genealogical Database, index British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, index and images, ($) Marriages Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949 Index only. Canada Parliamentary Marriage and Divorces, 1867-1919 ($) BMS2000 Genealogical Database, index Jacques-Henri Fabien Collection British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages,, index and images, ($) Loiselle card index to many marriages of the province of Quebec and adjacent areas Supplement to Loiselle card index to many marriages of the province of Quebec and adjacent areas Canada, Nova Scotia, Marriage Bonds 1763-1864 & Marriage Registrations, 1864-1942 at My Heritage, index ($) Divorce Canada Parliamentary Marriage and Divorces, 1867-1919 ($) Library and Archives Canada Divorce in Canada 1841-1968 Index Death Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955 Index only. Canada Burials, 1800-2019 Canada, Burials, 1800-2019, index ($) Ontario, Canada, Deaths and Deaths Overseas, 1869-1948, index and images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($) Archives With Multiple Record Sources BMS2000 Genealogical Database, index Canadiana Online Canadian National Digital Heritage Index (CNDHI) Biography Online Dictionary of Canadian Biography Hudson's Bay Company Archives--Biographies of employees Cemeteries CanadianHeadstones.com Index ($). Also at MyHeritage, ($), index Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948 Index ($) FindAGrave Index Canada Billion Graves Cemetery Index Index Canada GenWeb Cemetery Index I Dream of Genealogy Canada Index Commomwealth War Graves Commission, index Royal Canadian Mounted Police Graves Census Automated Genealogy census indices for 1851, 1901, 1906, 1911. Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1825, index/images. Also at MyHeritage, ($), index. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1831, index/images Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842, index/images. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). Canada, Upper Canada Census, 1842, index/images. Also at MyHeritage, ($), index Canada Census, 1851, index. Also at Ancestry.com, ($), index/images. Also at Findmypast, index, ($) 1861 Census of Canada, ($), index/images. Also at Ancestry.com, ($), index/images. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). Canada Census, 1871, index . Also at Findmypast, index, ($). Canada Census Mortality Schedules, 1871, index. Also at Ancestry.com, index, ($) Canada Census, 1881 Index and Images. 1881 Census of Canada from Library and Archives Canada free! Index and images. 1881 Census of Canada ($) Index and Images. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). Canada Census, 1891 Index only. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). 1891 Census of Canada ($) Index and Images. Canada Census, 1901 Index only. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). 1901 Census of Canada from Library and Archives Canada Index and images. 1901 Census of Canada ($) Index and Images. Canada Census, 1911 Index only. Also at Findmypast, index, ($). 1911 Census of Canada from Library and Archives Canada Index and images. 1911 Census of Canada ($) Index and Images. Canada Census, 1916, index 1921 Census of Canada ($) Index and Images. Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926, index and images. MyHeritage, ($), index Church Records and History Library and Archives Canada Church Records Index Parish Registers of the Dutch Reformed Christian Church, United States, 1856 to 1970, index and images, ($). Brethren in Christ Membership Directory 1880 Brethren in Christ Membership Directory 1886 Brethren in Christ Membership Directory 1903 Mennonite Immigrants Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association Databases GRanDMA's Window Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Mennonite Heritage Center Online Collections Database Menno Simons Historical Library Online Databases Vertical Files Index U.S., Evangelical Covenant Church, Swedish American Church Records, 1868-1970, index and images, incomplete, ($) U.S., Evangelical Free Church of America, Swedish American Church Records, 1842-1947, index and images, incomplete, ($) U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1947, index and images, incomplete, ($). Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Registers The Canadian Quaker Genealogical Index The Canadian Quaker Collections Online Transcriptions of Quaker Meeting Minutes Digital Quaker Collection Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988, index and images, at Ancestry.com ($). U.S. and Canada, Quaker Yearly Meeting Annual Reports, 1808-1930, index and images, at Ancestry.com ($). Compiled Genealogy North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, index & images ($) Canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s. ($), index Canadian Headstones, Famiily Trees, index GEDCOM Index, Canada Court and Criminal Records Canada's Criminal Databases Directories Canadian (Online) Directories Collection Library and Archves of Canada, index Canadian Phone and Address Directories, 1995-2002 ($) Canadian City and Area Directories, 1819-1906 ($) The Canada Directory, 1853/1854, ($), index Canadian Directories & Almanacs, index ($) Canada Phone and Address Listings, index ($) Ethnic, Political, and Religious Groups Metis National Council Historical Online Database Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988, ($), index/images Canada- Presbyterian Pioneer Missionaries, ($), index Immigrants from China, 1885-1949, index Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1897-1909, ($), index Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1909-1914, ($), index The Irishman In Canada, ($), index The Scotch-Irish In Canada, ($), index Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875, ($), index Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920 Ukrainian Immigrants, Library and Archives Canada, index. Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922, index United Empire Loyalist's Association of Canada, index Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807- Port Roseway Associates, index Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes, 1783, index. United Empire Loyalists, Parts I-II, ($), index The Loyalists Of America and Their Times From 1620 To 1816, ($), index History History of the Settlement of Upper Canada, ($), index/images History of French Canadians 1608-1880: origin, history, religion, wars, discoveries, colonization, customs, life dome (in French), ($), index/images Home Children 1869-1930 Home Children, 1869-1930 at Library and Archives Canada - index 1880s-1916 Home Children – Boards of Guardians at Library and Archives Canada - index British Home Children in Canada Immigration and Emigration Records Bef 1865 Immigrants Before 1865 at Library and Archives Canada 1780-1906 Canadian Immigrant Records, Part One at Ancestry ($) 1780-1906 Canadian Immigrant Records, Part Two at Ancestry ($) 1789-1935 Canada, Seafarers of the Atlantic Provinces, 1789-1935 at Ancestry ($), index 1817-1896 Canada, Immigration and Settlement Correspondence and Lists, 1817-1896 at Ancestry ($), index/images 1819-1838 Canada, St. Lawrence Steamboat Company Passenger Lists, 1819-1838 at Ancestry ($), index/images 1832-1937 Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937 at Library and Archives Canada 1862-1897 Canada, Ontario Immigration Records, 1862-1897 FamilySearch, index and images 1865-1935 Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 at Ancestry ($) 1865-1922 Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922 - at Library and Archives Canada 1865-1900 Quebec City passenger lists, 1865-1900; index, 1865-1869, images. 1865-1883 Toronto Emigrant Office Assisted Immigration Registers Database at the Archives of Ontario is an Index to four volumes of assisted immigration registers for the period 1865-1883 (Series RG 11-3). Over 29,000 entries in chronological order, the database is searchable by surname. 1865-1935 Canada, Ocean Arrivals, 1865-1935 - Ancestry ($), index and images. 1880-1899 Passenger lists, 1880-1899, Halifax (Nova Scotia), images. 1881-1922 Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922 FamilySearch - index and images. 1881 Canada, British Vessel Crew Lists, 1881 at Ancestry ($) - index 1899-1949 Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899-1949 at Library and Archives Canada - index 1900-1922, 1925-1935Ships' passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935, images. 1904-1954 U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1904-1954 at Ancestry ($) - index/images 1912-1939 U.S., Passenger and Crew Lists for U.S.-Bound Vessels Arriving in Canada, 1912-1939 and 1953-1962 at Ancestry ($), index/images 1919-1924 Canada, Immigration Records, 1919-1924 at FamilySearch, index & images 1919-1924 Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924 at Ancestry ($) Also at FamilySearch, free. 1923-1933 Canada, Nova Scotia, Records of Aliens pre-examined at Halifax, 1923-1933 at FamilySearch — index and images 1823-1849 Irish Canadian Emigration Records, 1823-1849 at Ancestry ($), index and images. 1926 Ireland, Parliamentary Papers on Emigration to Canada, 1826 at FamilySearch — index, images available through Findmypast 1929-1960 Canada, Immigrants Approved in Orders in Council, 1929-1960 at Ancestry ($), index/some images 1930-1965 Immigrants to Canada 1930-1965, index 1953-1962 U.S., Passenger and Crew Lists for U.S.-Bound Vessels Arriving in Canada, 1912-1939 and 1953-1962 at Ancestry ($), index/images Toronto Emigrant Office Assisted Immigration Registers database at Ontario Ministry of Gvernment and Consumer Services. Also at Canada, Ontario, Toronto Emigrant Office Records Index - Findmypast index ($).

Immigration and Emigration Records (Continued) Border Crossings 1895-1956 - United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956 at FamilySearch, index only. Includes records from seaports and railroad stations all over Canada and the northern United States. 1895-1960 - Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1960 at Ancestry, ($). 1895-1954 - Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954. These list travelers to the United States from Canadian Pacific seaports only. 1905-1963 - Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists, 1905-1963 at Ancestry, ($). 1906-1954 - Michigan, Detroit Manifests of Arrivals at the Port of Detroit, 1906-1954. Only from Michigan ports of entry: Bay City, Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. Marie. 1908-1935 - Border Crossings: From U.S. to Canada, 1908-1935 at Ancestry, ($), index and images. Some records in French.($) 1908-1918 Border port of entry lists for Canada, 1908-1918, images. Cultural Groups Database' 1823-1849 Irish Canadian Emigration Records, 1823-1849 at Ancestry ($), index/images 1885-1949 Immigrants from China, 1884-1949 at Library and Archives Canada - index 1898-1922 Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922, index 1899 Names of Doukhobor immigrants to Canada in 1899, e-book. 1891-1930 Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930, index. 1929-1930 Auswandererkartei der Rußlanddeutschen, 1929-1930 1946-1963 Canada and U.S., Dutch Emigrants, 1946-1963 at Ancestry ($), index/images Register of German military men who remained in Canada after the American Revolution, e-book. War Brides War Brides passenger Lists, WWII Canadian War Children born in the UK Canadian War Brides of World War I Land Records Canada, Soldier Homestead Grant Registers, 1918-1931, ($), index/images Patents Of Canada, 1824-1849, ($), index Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930, index Land Petitions of Lower Canada, 1764-1841, index Land Petitions of Upper Canada, 1763-1865, index Loyalists Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807- Port Roseway Associates, index Loyalists in the Maritimes — Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office, 1777–1785, index. Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes, 1783, index. Carleton Papers – Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772-1784, index. United Empire Loyalists, Parts I-II, ($), index The Loyalists Of America and Their Times From 1620 To 1816, ($), index United Empire Loyalist's Association of Canada, index The Old United Empire Loyalists List, index and images, ($) A collection of online books about U.E.L. Loyalists Military Records Canadian Virtual War Memorial, index. World War I Personnel Records of the First World War, index. Canadian Great War Project, index First World War Certificates of Military Training, Canada, 1867-1932, index and images, ($). Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918, index and images. On Ancestry, ($) index/images. Also at MyHeritage, ($), index Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948 ($). On Library and Archives Canada (free), images Canada, CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919, ($), index/images Veterans Death Cards: First World War. index. U.S., Residents Serving in Canadian Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1918, ($), index/images Canada, World War I CEF Personnel Files, 1914-1918, index and images, ($) England, Queen's Canadian Military Hospital Registers, 1914-1919, ($), index/images Canada, Ledgers of CEF Officers Transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1919, ($), index/images “Far From Home”, casualties sustained by the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Great Britain. World War II Service Records of the Second World War - War Victims, Canada, 1939-1947, index and images, ($)' Second World War (1939-1945) Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (RCNR) Officers 1939-1945, index Commomwealth War Graves Commission, index Service Files of the Second World War - War Dead, 1939-1947, index War Brides passenger Lists The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives, War Diaries, images. Other Military Records The Canadian Military Heritage Project Canadian Fallen Heroes, index The Naval Service of Canada: Its Official History, ($), index/images UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882, ($) index/images Canada, British Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900, ($), index/images Canada, British Navy Ship Muster Rolls and Pay Lists, 1757-1836, ($), index/images Canada, Records of British Military Headquarters, 1775-1856, ($), index/images UK, American Loyalist Claims, 1776-1835, ($), index/images Canada, Pension Applications For Widows and Family of British Military Officers, 1776-1881, ($), index/images Canada, British Army and Canadian Militia Muster Rolls and Pay Lists, 1795-1850, ($), index/images Canada, Registers of Prisoners of War, 1803-1815, ($), index/images British Army Regimental Rolls of Non-commissioned Officers and Soldiers, 1806-1892, ($), index/images Canada, Militia and Defence Forces Lists, 1832, 1863-1939 ($) Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1857-1922 ($) Canada, Fenian Raids Bounty Applications, 1866-1871, index and images ($) Canada, Military Honours and Awards Citation Cards, 1900-1961 ($) Canada, South African War Land Grants, 1908-1910, ($), index/images Naturalizations Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 - Upper Canada and Canada West, index Citizenship Registration Records (1851-1945) - Montreal Circuit Court, index/images Library and Archives Canada Naturalization 1915-1939 Index Library and Archives Canada Naturalization 1939-1951 By Date. Naturalization lists, 1915 to 1951, index and images. Newspapers Canada Newsppaers, 1752-2007, ($) Indexes to Canadian Newspapers Canada Gazetteer Index ARCHIVED - French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) Canada, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($ Canada, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current at Ancestry - index ($)) Obituaries Canadian Obituary Links Genealogy Buff canadian Obituaries Forum Canada Obituary Collection, ($), index Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police obituary card index and notices, 1876-2007, images only, no index United States and Canada, Index of Obituaries, 1900–2019 - index ($) MennObits Link Mennonitische Rundschau Obituaries Index: 1930-2001 Canada, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current at Ancestry - index ($) Occupations Canada, Merchant Marine Agreements and Accounts of Crews, 1890-1920, images only/no index Canadian Civil Servants Lists, 1872-1900, ($), images/index Civil Service List of Canada: 1911, ($), index Hudson's Bay Compay Archives, index Periodicals PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($) School Records Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901-2010, index and images, ($) Voter Lists Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 ($) Welfare Records Relief for unemployed Canadian settlers, Canada, 1932-1939, index and images, ($).

Province- and Territory-Specific Online Genealogy Records Pages

• Alberta Online Genealogy Records
• British Columbia Online Genealogy Records
• Manitoba Online Genealogy Records
• New Brunswick Online Genealogy Records
• Newfoundland and Labrador Online Genealogy Records
• Northwest Territories Online Genealogy Records
• Nova Scotia Online Genealogy Records
• Nunavut Online Genealogy Records
• Ontario Online Genealogy Records
• Prince Edward Island Online Genealogy Records
• Quebec Online Genealogy Records
• Saskatchewan Online Genealogy Records
• Yukon Online Genealogy Records

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