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http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm Link not working
Try http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/db/hawke.aspx
the above link is a great site if you had family went to Canada loads of info
audrey
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cemetery finding aid...new link update...
http://ocfa.islandnet.com/ocfa-search.php
http://ogs.andornot.com/CemeteryIndex.aspx
More Ontario cemetries
http://www.interment.net/can/on/index.htm
Now able to search some Toronto cemeteries...adding that it is about about 67% indexed so far!!!!
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1627831
Toronto archives http://www.toronto.ca/archives/photographs/index.htm
Early Toronto listings read text or actual scanned publication online
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL7496619W/Landmarks_of_Toronto
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over a century of newspaper entries
http://search.ourontario.ca/search
Where records might be found for vital stats before reg. / by locality
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onoxford/vital_stats.htm
Some misc. Ontario births ( family related)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~births/Blachford_Births.htm
some misc. deaths
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/deaths.htm
Go to records/Ontario deaths 1869 to 1947
http://labs.familysearch.org/
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Upper & Lower Canada Marriage Bonds https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/vital-statistics-births-marriages-deaths/marriage-bonds/Pages/search.aspx
Here's a great publication!
Landmarks of Toronto...historical sketches old town of York 1792- 1833 Toronto-1834-1898
http://www.archive.org/stream/landmarkstoronto03robeuoft#page/n261/mode/2up
and....
The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory 1869 ( hit plain text for OCR)
http://books.google.ca/books?id=z6wOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPP1,M1
Ontario records search
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=4630987&pageid=r&mode=ALL&t=s&query
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Some 19th century Ontario Censuses
http://allcensusrecords.com/canada/
map of Ontario from 1874 for 1871 census
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02010804_e.html
1871 Census for Ontario (head of household only)
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/1871-ontario/index-e.html
Early Presb. Upper Canada Marriages / baptisms
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/mcdowall.htm
1812-1842. marriages, a few baptisms
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/wsmart.htm
Register St. Paul's FORT ERIE 1836-1844
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/forterie.htm
Early London District Marriages 1784 - 1834
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/london_m.htm
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Ontario genealogy database
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/database.html
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More Ontario obits!- recent
http://www.ontarioobits.com/
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Ottawa newspapers http://www.bytown.net/timesott.htm
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=QBJtjoHflPwC&dat=19660721&b_mode=2&hl=en
Barrie newspaper INDEXED http://news.ourontario.ca/barrie/search
some info Lakeview Cemetery Tay Township, Simcoe County
http://www.ancestorsatrest.com/simcoe_county_ont/
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A searchable database of the 1871 Ontario Census
http://db.library.queensu.ca/census/
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You can now order Ontario Birth Certificates on-line.
http://www.serviceontario.ca/english/default.htm
Karen
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Ontario Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms c. 1825-1910
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wesleyan.htm
Over 100,000 transcribed Ontario baptism records for Wesleyan Methodists. Particularly useful for finding those elusive pre-1869 births...
The navigation of the lists is a bit unusual so make sure you read the instructions! ;D
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County atlas digital project Find the plot of land your ancestors owned...after
linking to information, hit maps to see the name written in the section of land...
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/search.htm
Making sense of your land records information
Karen has given us a breakdown
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,301870.0.html
Help with locating Villages, Towns, Cities, Townships, Counties & Districts
http://www.geneofun.on.ca/ontariolocator/
Ontario. BMD...and more...
www.rootsweb.com/~onvsr/
Ontario BMD exchange...scroll down to find indexing
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/bdm/index.shtml
Ontario 1891 farmer's directories
Plus earlier township records - surname search
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=32568390
ontario genealogy database
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/database.html
Cemetery addresses...Alphabetical listings for Ontario -
http://webhome.idirect.com/~griffish/gene/cem/cem1.html
Church records collection
http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/ARCH_DESC_FACT/FACTSDESC/REFD%2BF%2B978?SESSIONSEARCH
Once you find the right files you can order through interlibrary loan, or request a lookup...
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/archival-records/index-from-a-distance.aspx
Further to above reply by MJP: The Early Methodist Church in Wellington County
scroll down for a little mini bio or census info on members & ministers ...searchable site....
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~methodists/townships.htm
Also, a list of methodist churches across canada
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~methodists/churcha-c.htm
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Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/jveinot/search
Elgin County, Ontario
http://www.elginogs.ca/cemeteries/index.htm
Peterborough County, Ontario
Lakefield Cemetery Burial Register Index, Lakefield
http://www.lakefieldcemetery.com/
Lambton County, Ontario
Lakeview Cemetary, Sarnia
http://www.lakeviewcemetery.ca/default.asp?q=search
Essex and Kent County, Ontario
Partial Transcripts
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~essexandkentcountytranscripts/cemindex.html
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NEW W.J. Miller Collection - 1,329 early Leeds County, Ontario family fonds-
surname search gives you Volume# Page# Microfilm & Reference#
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/001/098/001098-100.01-e.php
also index details for St Andrew's Church records Williamstown, Ontario - info for 1,442 Births/marriages
Some early Ontario records...LOTS of reading
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/earlyont.htm
Early settler's Land records
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/papers/land3.html
Here are some births for Nipissing 1869-1907 http://www.nipissingongenweb.org/vitstat.html
Township of Scugog
http://www.township.scugog.on.ca/
http://www.scugogheritage.com/history/index.htm
Some vital stats
North Ontario Observer 1894-1919 / Port Perry Star 1866-1913
http://www.scugog-net.com/library/history.html
Woodstock Newspapers! 1909 on
http://woodstock.news.halinet.on.ca/
Sarnia -Lambton
http://www.sarnia.com/groups/ogs/lambton_page.html
Lambton, Middlesex, Lanark and Carlton
http://www.100megsfree3.com/granny1/index.htm
Elgin County
http://www.elginogs.ca/
1842 Census Index!!!
Malahide Township, Elgin County
http://www.elginogs.ca/Home/ancestor-indexes/census
Great! Aylmer Elgin BMD in Newspapers!
http://www.elginogs.ca/newsindexes/aylmerexpress/
Essex & Kent county
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~essexandkentcountytranscripts/index.html
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Wellington county surname database....wonderful clippings, family stories, etc....
http://www.wcm.on.ca/tweedsmuir/results_name.php?start=249&name_first=&name_last=&township=o11
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Digital Kingston http://catalogue.kfpl.ca/kfplvw/Vubis.csp?Profile=DK
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City of Toronto Tax Assessment Transcription Project
city of Toronto - 1853 :D
http://www.ontarioroots.com/ogs/
Toronto Emigrant Office between 1865 and 1883
http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/HAWKE?DIRECTSEARCH
Ontario History Quest
http://ohqdigit.tpl.toronto.on.ca/
Toronto History
http://historicity.torontopubliclibrary.ca/
Toronto - Necrology-
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/necrology/search.cfm
Toronto Star $
http://thestar.pagesofthepast.ca/
early Toronto directories
http://www.rootschat.com/links/06v7/
some early 1900's directories for Ottawa & Toronto:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Might%20Directories%20Ltd.%22
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If you haven't found what you are looking for yet, you may find it here,
http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/ontario/index.htm
In particular, lots of historical information for Victoria County
~Denise
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Our Ontario New
http://ourontario.ca/
Our Roots
http://www.ourroots.ca/
Ontario Government
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/c-efile.htm
Surrogate Court Records - Elgin County Library
Database 1
http://www.elgin.ca/estates.htm
Database 2
http://www.elgin.ca/estates2.htm
Elgin County Archives
http://www.elgin.ca/collection.htm#Anchor-Surrogat-55446
Peterborough County - Ontario Surrogate Court Index 1793-1858
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onpeterb/court/surrogate-court.htm
Algoma District - Wills & Surrogate Court Index
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/landfrnt.htm
Wills and Estate Records
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wills.htm
Here are more sites for Ontario cemeteries.
There are photographs and details of plots, as well as many links to other sites.
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~clifford/?o_xid=0040956421&o_lid=0040956421&o_xt=40956421
Ontario Genealogical Society
http://www.ogs.on.ca/
Ontario GenWeb Answers to questions about research in Ontario, plus links to different districts within Ontario.
http://www.geneofun.on.ca/ongenweb/
Janice
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Durham County
Map of Cemeteries
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onwob22/cemeteries/durhamap.htm
Quaker Hill Cemetery - Uxbridge
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onwob22/cemeteries/quakhill.htm
For Pickering and Ajax area of Ontario, the Library has a digital archive listing 30 cemeteries in the area. They also have newspaper archives for this area, photographs and some births, deaths and marriages.
http://www.pada.ca/
Whitby Public Library
http://www.whitbylibrary.on.ca/local_history/index.php
http://www.whitbylibrary.on.ca/
Janice
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Brantford Ontario Library - searchable for births - marriages - deaths starting in 1852. Also has digital archive as well as links to other genealogy sites.
http://www.brantford.library.on.ca/
Janice
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OXFORD COUNTY
Oxford County Land Patents - (1798-1852)
http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/landrecords.pl
Oxford County Cemeteries
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dcoop/
Oxford County Genealogy
http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/
Oxford County - GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onoxford/
Oxford County Genealogy Records Database
http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/EarlyHistory/
THUNDER BAY DISTRICT
Thunder Bay Ontario
http://my.tbaytel.net/bmartin/sitemap.htm
Thunder Bay District - Cemeteries
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~murrayp/thunder/index.htm
Janice
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FRONTENAC COUNTY
Cemetery Inscriptions
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/6644/cem.htm
Frontenac County, Ontario Genealogy Links
http://www.genealogylinks.net/canada/ontario/frontenac-county.htm
Frontenac County - GenWeb
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/6644/
PETERBOROUGH COUNTY
Peterborough County GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onpeterb/
Smith - Ennismore Historical Society
http://www.sehs.on.ca/
Smith - Ennismore - Lakefield Public Library
http://www.mypubliclibrary.ca/
Peterborough County Genealogy and History
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/peterborough/index.html
Ontario Genealogy Historical Newspaper Collection - Peterborough County
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/ontarionewspapers/peterboroughcounty/index.html
Trent University Archives
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/genresources.htm#voters
Lakefield Cemetery and Crematorium
http://www.lakefieldcemetery.com/
Otonabee Township Genealogy
http://www.nexicom.net/~resson/county.html
Peterborough County Gen Search
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peterborough/
Marriages in Peterborough County 1857
http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/can/bdm/peterboromarr57.shtml
Fraserville Cemetery, Cavan Township, Peterborough County Ontario
http://ancestorsatrest.blogspot.com/2007/03/fraserville-cemetery-cavan-township.html
The 1825 Robinson Emigration Surname Quick List for Peterborough County
http://www.pcma.ca/surnamelist.htm
Janice
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Grey County
Grey County Soldiers - First World War
http://members.aol.com/Winfieldpb/ww1-home.htm
Grey County Gen-Web - Cemeteries - Military
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ongrey/
1865 Grey County Directory
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/greypref.htm
Blue Mountains Public Library - Grey County
http://thebluemountainslibrary.ca/Local-History1.html
Owen Sound Library - History & Genealogy
http://www.owensound.library.on.ca/links.php?Level=5
Vernon's Town of Owen Sound, street, alphabetical, business and miscellaneous directory 1917
http://www.archive.org/details/vernowensound00vernuoft
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Halton County
Oakville Public Library - Newspaper - Historical Atlas - Cemetery Records
http://www.opl.on.ca/LocalHistoryOnline.php
Halton County Gen-Web
http://www.halinet.on.ca/sigs/genweb/halton.htm
Georgetown Land Records
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/landsrch.htm
Halton's Historical Directories
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/histdir.htm
Halton's Historical and Newspaper Records
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm
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Huron County
Huron County Library
http://www.huroncounty.ca/library/index.html
Ontario's West Coast (Huron County)
http://www.ontarioswestcoast.ca/
Huron County Ontario Gen-Web
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onhuron/
Huron County Branch (O.G.S.)
http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~ogshuron/
Huron County Heritage (Ontario Gen-Web)
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8965/heritage.html
Reuben R. Sallows Digital Library
http://www.sallowsgallery.ca/
Farmers and business directory for the counties of Huron, Middlesex and Perth (1907)
http://www.archive.org/details/hurperthdirec190700uniouoft
The Union publishing company's farmers and business directory for the counties of Huron, Middlesex and Perth. -- (1909)
http://www.archive.org/details/unionpubcoperth00uniouoft
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Hastings County
Hastings County Gen Web
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onhastin/
Discover Hastings
http://www.hastingscounty.com/portal/discover/historygenealogy
1851 Census
(1)
http://web.ctsolutions.com/ogskingston/resources/census/1851/index.html
(2)
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eonhastin/Census/1851/1851ab.htm
Hastings County Cemeteries
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/greenwoodontario/HastingsCountyCemeteries.html
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Dundas cemetery listings (incomplete)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sbresearch/cemeteries.html
Lanark cemetery listings
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onlanark/cemeteries/index.htm
Hastings cemetery listings
http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/greenwoodontario/HastingsCountyCemeteries.html
Wolfe Island Frontenac cemetery listings
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Trail/6644/cemWolfeIndex.htm
Manitoulin some BMD and MORE!
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onmanito/index.html
ThunderBay & area
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jmitchell/cemeteries.html
Alton,Ont./ Photos & surnames
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hunterb/contents.htm
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Peel County Digital Library - Local History
http://www.pinet.on.ca/local.htm
Baptisms (Mono - Albion - Caledon)
http://www.pinet.on.ca/peeldiglib/Bib.asp?PubID=32
Marriages (Mono - Albion - Caledon)
http://www.pinet.on.ca/peeldiglib/Bib.asp?PubID=36
Burials - (Mono - Albion - Caledon)
http://www.pinet.on.ca/peeldiglib/Bib.asp?PubID=37
Halton Information Network - Maps - History - Images
http://www.halinet.on.ca/
Janice
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ELGIN COUNTY
Surrogate Court Records - Elgin County Library
http://www.library.elgin-county.on.ca/history/estate.html
Elgin County Genealogical Society
http://www.elginogs.ca/
Elgin County GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onelgin/
Elgin County Library
http://www.library.elgin-county.on.ca/history/history.html
Cemeteries for Elgin County
Interment.net
http://interment.net/can/on/elgin/index.htm
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I didn't see this posted - my apologies if it is a repeat.
A very dedicated project is the North Eastern Ontario Gravemarker Gallery . The focus is on such districts as:
ALGOMA, SUDBURY, NIPISSING, RENFREW, PARRY SOUND,
MUSKOKA, MANITOULIN, THUNDER BAY, TEMISKAMING and COCHRANE
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~murrayp/
Contains photos of grave markers and has a searchable database.
ard
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http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~cdobie/index.htm
Indi
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Dufferin County
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onduffer/dufferin.html
Wellington County
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onwellin/
Wellington County Directory and Gazetteer 1867
Ontario, Canada
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/welling.htm
Simcoe County
http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml
Northumberland County
http://www.cobourghistory.ca/
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/Northumberland/
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/
http://www.nhb.com/hunter/
http://www.brighton.ca/Municipal_Cemeteries.html
http://images.ourontario.ca/Cobourg/
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Halton-Peel Branch Index to Cemeteries
http://www.halinet.on.ca/sigs/ogshp/cemindex.htm
transcriptions
http://www.halinet.on.ca/sigs/ogshp/cemindex.htm#transcr
Halton census index
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/census.htm
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Ontario Government
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/c-efile.htm
Surrogate Court Records - Elgin County Library
http://www.library.elgin-county.on.ca/history/estate.html
Peterborough County - Ontario Surrogate Court Index 1793-1858
http://www.rootsweb.com/~onpeterb/court/surrogate-court.htm
Algoma District - Wills & Surrogate Court Index
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/landfrnt.htm
Wills and Estate Records
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wjmartin/wills.htm
Halton County - Surrogate Court Records
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/surrsrch.htm
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The New Tecumseth, formerly Tecumseth (http://www.waynecook.com/znewtecumseth.html) page on the web pages of Wayne Cook of Ontario, Canada lists several settlers from the north of Ireland who arrived in the 1820s.
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/ruralhistory/index.html
This is an excellent scholarly site to explore at length if any of your people were Ontario farmers, and you would like to know more about that experience. Many many links. Includes a long list of the Ontario Tweedsmuir Histories, a local history project of the Women's Institutes, all of which are held on microfilm at the university of Guelph; the Histories are evaluated according to how much info they give on individual farms.
McColl Pioneer Cemetery index (Elgin County): http://www.kilvicocharmaig.yk.net/McCollStory.html
www.trentvalleyarchives.com covers a lot of territory, includes an index to the Peterborough Examiner 1922-1962.
http://www.wallcustance.com/memorialforestlist.html Long list of people who have been remembered with tree planting at the University of Guelph arboretum. Not clear to me if the dates given are when they died or when the tree was planted. Presumably most were local people. Seems to cover primarily the last 20 years.
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Wentworth / Halton County Directories..1851
Ancaster - Township of Ancaster...
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/1851anc.htm
Dundas - Township of Flamborough
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/1851dund.htm
Flamboro West- Township of Flamboro
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/1851flam.htm
City of Hamilton
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/1851ham.htm
Waterdown - Township of Flamboro' East,
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/1851wat.htm
More Wentworth County information
wentworth cemeteries
http://www.interment.net/can/on/went/index.htm
http://www.hwcn.org/link/wengenweb/
Wentworth county pioneer list
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ejima/pioneers.html
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The Published Ontario medical registers http://tinyurl.com/4db4hf
Toronto/Ottawa/Vernon city directories 20th century http://tinyurl.com/4zhzep
Ontario History http://tinyurl.com/6yyot3
History - Leeds and Grenville Ontario - 1749 to 1879 / illustrations and biographical sketches
http://www.archive.org/details/leedsgrenville00leavuoft
The pioneers of Blanshard -(1899)
http://www.archive.org/details/pioneersofblansh00johnuoft
The new settlement on Lake Erie
http://www.archive.org/details/newsettlementonl00macduoft
Brantford History
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/historyofcountyo01reviiala
Renfrew
http://www.archive.org/details/storyrenfrew00smaluoft
Lennox and Addington
http://www.archive.org/details/lennoxaddington00herruoft
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Toronto & York Region
The Year Book 1913: Toronto Normal School
http://www.archive.org/details/yearbook191300unknuoft
The Year book (Volume 1914) (Toronto Normal School)
http://www.archive.org/details/1914yearbook00torouoft
Toronto Normal School, 1847-1947
http://www.archive.org/details/torontonormalschool00schouoft
Toronto Normal School jubilee celebration : (October 31st, November 1st and 2nd, 1897) : biographical sketches and names of successful students 1847 to 1875
http://www.archive.org/details/torontojubilee00schouoft
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Fellow Listers,
Here are some great links for Ontario
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onstormo
Stormont County Genweb
Cemetery Records, Obituaries and Tombstones
cornwallroots.com
A great site
St Andrew United Church Cemetery Transcription, Martintown, Glengarry South, Ontario
North Branch Cemetery Index Martintown, Charlottenburgh Township, Glengarry County, Ontario
Lilybell
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I have received so much kindness from strangers over the years...........
I am happy to visit any cemetary in Grey County, Ontario and search, take photos, etc.
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Our Ontario
(government documents 1889 - 2004 / photographs / audio / video)
http://www.ourontario.ca/
History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario):
http://books.google.ca/books?id=wq8NAAAAQAAJ
History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario
http://books.google.ca/books?id=ttEOAAAAYAAJ
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http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/history/whs.html
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The Lanark Era newspaper has been published in the village of Lanark since 1895. Lanark village is in the Township of Lanark Highlands, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
I have 3 volumes of the transcribed extractions of births, marriages and deaths which were published in the paper from 1895 to 1936.
I am willing to do looks-ups for anyone interested in this area of Ontario.
Karen
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Christian Guardian / Methodist newspaper Toronto
Birth Marriages Deaths from 1921-1925
http://www.geocities.com/tljhfamily/CGIndex.html
bits of newspaper tidbits from 1884 and early 1900s
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbcarlet/newspage64.htm
SomeCarleton County newspapers mid 20th century on
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbcarlet/beryl_dates.htm
Newspaper: Births, Marriages and Deaths for Halton Ontario - Online Index
Acton Free Press 1875-1991 Burlington Gazette 1899-1986
Georgetown Herald 1861-1992 Canadian Champion Milton 1862-1995
http://news.halinet.on.ca/
Ontario Genealogy Historical Newspaper Archives
http://www.ontariogenealogy.com/ontarionewspaper.html
Ingersoll Chronicle Online Database! 1854 - 1919
http://www.ocl.net/genealogy/chronicle/
Halton's Historical and Newspaper Records database!
http://www.halinet.on.ca/localhistory/forms.htm
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Sorry if you've seen this before but Ancestry have added Voters Lists for Ontario from 1867-1900.
Hope it helps someone...unfortuantely a bit too early for my lot!!
Kaz
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Borden Public and Military Library
http://home.interhop.net/bordenlibrary/history.html
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Ottawa Branch Ontario Genealogical Society
http://www.ogsottawa.on.ca/
Genealogical Societies - Ottawa
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/heritage/organizations/genealogical_en.html
Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group
http://uovgg.ca/index.html
Renfrew County GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onrenfre/index.html
Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
http://www.bifhsgo.ca/ottawa.htm
Directories & Books
The Ottawa City Directory 1901
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawacitydirect1901mighuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1909
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec190900midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1911
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec191100midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1912
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec191200midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1913
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec191300midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1914
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec191400midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1915
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec191500midiuoft
The Ottawa City Directory 1916
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirectory00ottauoft
Ottawa city directory 1923
http://www.archive.org/details/ottawadirec192300midiuoft
La Salle County centennial, 1831-1931: Directory of former Ottawa residents
http://www.archive.org/details/lasallecountycen00otta
A History of old Bytown and Vicinity, now the city of Ottawa
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1095
Pioneer sketches in the district of Bathurst. Volume 1
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=12343
Pioneers of the Upper Ottawa and the Humors of the Valley
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4269
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Finally, I have found a resource that explains those odd notations in the Land Records about various "Instruments".
First, the resource: an obscure article entitled "Tracing Property Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: a Guide to the Archival Sources", by R. W. Widdis. This article is found in Canadian Papers in Rural History, volume 2, ed. Donald H. Akenson. Langdale Press, 1980. [Well worth reading, as it is easy to understand; I found it enlightening. Available in Toronto Public Libraries, and it does circulate.]
What he says about interpreting the "instruments" in the Abstract Index to Deeds:
"B&S" = "Bargain and Sale". "This is a deed of contract between the bargainer and the bargainee where there is a bargain for money or equivalent consideration in goods, mineral, and timber rights. It signifies transfer of property or a thing from one to another by way of sale."
"Quit Claim" - he quotes this definition from R. Steacy, Canadian Real Estate (P.Martin & Assoc., 1968), p.28: "'This is a face-saving system of avoiding foreclosure. When a mortgagor has reached the point-of-no-return by being absolutely unable to bring his mortgage arrears up-to-date, he can sit down with the mortgagee and work something like this out. It is a release of all the mortgagor's interests in his property.'" Wittis continues, "A quit claim may also be used to clarify earlier errors in property transfer (such as clerical mistakes), as under it an individual permanently gives up his claim to a given piece of land."
"Sheriff's Deed" - "This is a deed of contract between the sheriff of a district who has claimed the peoperty of a settler for a legal reason preparatory to clearing title for a prospective buyer. The original owner may have lost his property because of failure to complete the settlement duties or to meet the financial responsibilities of the contract."
"Mortgage" - an assignment of real estate to a person as security for the payment of a debt, on the condition that if the money is repaid accordint to the contract, the grant becomes void. The borrower is the mortgagor and the lender is the mortgagee... Under land titles registration, mortgages do not involve transfers of property with the lender. Private loans were the most common type of mortgage monehy in early Ontario.
"Discharge" - "This signifies full payment of the mortage and the completion of the transfer. The key date is that of registry. While date of instrument for other instruments means, for all purposes, the transfer of property, only the registry date of discharge has the force of conveyance."
He adds, "we can assume a high level of accuracy in the Abstracts, since it was generally n the interests of the parties involved to have the facts recorded accurately. If the records fail to include the quantity or sales price of a specific piece of land, the researcher can go to the Copy Books and examine the individual deed."
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Uxbridge area Cemetery Database, with photos:
http://www.uxlib.com/?mod=cemetery&ctr=menu
Barrie Newspaper index bmd's 1847-1968:
http://news.ourontario.ca/barrie/
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Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
http://www.islandnet.com/cgi-bin/ms2/jveinot/search
Elgin County, Ontario
http://www.elginogs.ca/cemeteries/index.htm
Peterborough County, Ontario
Lakefield Cemetery Burial Register Index, Lakefield
http://www.lakefieldcemetery.com/
Lambton County, Ontario
Lakeview Cemetary, Sarnia
http://www.lakeviewcemetery.ca/default.asp?q=search
Essex and Kent County, Ontario
Partial Transcripts
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~essexandkentcountytranscripts/cemindex.html
Niagara Fall
http://www.niagarafalls.ca/city_hall/departments/parks_recreation_and_culture/cemetery/genealogy/index.asp
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London, Ontario Fire Insuance Maps, 1907 and 1915, online and free: http://geography.uwo.ca/maplibrary/fips.htm
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Useful links for Victoria County and Old Ontario County (Now Durham Region). I don’t think these are mentioned elsewhere in this thread:
Cemetery transcripts: Gregg Cemetery (Reach Twp., Ontario County); St. Malachy’s R.C. Church Cemetery (Brock Twp., Ontario County); Breadalbane Cemetery Utica (Reach Township, Ontario County)
http://www3.bell.net/gaylesen/cemeteries19.html
Books:
On the Shores of Scugog by Samuel Farmer (1913). You can download or read online from this site:
http://www.archive.org/details/shoresscugog00farmuoft
Ontario County by J.E. Farewell (1907). You can download or read it from this site:
http://localhistory.oshawalibrary.ca/pdfportal/pdfskins/farewell/farewell.pdf
Little Britain, Victoria:
E.Z. Yerex Diaries – held at Trent University Archives, but can be read online. From 1910 to 1921
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/02-1000.htm
Oshawa area:
Oshawa Library Historical Newspaper Index
http://news.ourontario.ca/oshawa/search
Oshawa Library Genealogy Resources
http://www.oshlib.ca/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=genhist&back=infres
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1837 Rebels and Sympathizers:
The Life and Times of Wm Lyon Mackenzie with an Account of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837, and the subsequent frontier disturbances, chiefly from unpublished documents… by Charles Lindsey (Toronto: P.R. Randall, 1862), Appendix. -- http://books.google.ca/books?id=OO1YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=%22life+and+times+of+wm+lyon+mackenzie%22+grieve&source=bl&ots=txx-p-a5H4&sig=uMLkIKK7ELbDPS2qYcQO7B6_YjM&hl=en&ei=GzR8TdKUEIyOrQGSzpDeBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Appendix for this book, which goes on for many pages, lists the men who were arrested in the Rebellions of 1837. In most cases, it also says what became of their cases, although I find it hard to understand some of that.
This is also available online at other websites in other formats.
London history:
http://blogs.canoe.ca/brandnewblog/ This is the blog of London Free Press journalist James Reaney. There is an index where you can search names, places etc. Some obits and related stories. For January to June 2011 he is reprinting small excerpts from the London Advertiser for the parallel dates in 1891.
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Frontenac County
Digital Kingston - "Kingston's History Online"
http://www.digitalkingston.ca/
Kingston and area directories - earliest 1873/74; most recent 1920/1921
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Kingston+%28Ont.%29+--+Directories%22
Business Directory - Multiple Locations, 1875/76
Boyd's Business Directory of all the merchants and manufacturers, tradesmen etc of Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, London and Kingston
http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_03714
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Waterloo County Ontario
I've just found a wonderful website that came on line in February 2011 called Waterloo Region Generations. It is being updated frequently with sources from the Waterloo Genealogical Society and has many contributors. The website contains family trees for the area based on the resources such as cemetary transcriptions, census records etc. Photos have also been uploaded.
http://generations.regionofwaterloo.ca/surnames.php
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More Ontario obits!- recent
http://www.ontarioobits.com/
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Hello J. J.
Janet's Ontario Obits website has been missing for some time. All that is at this link (above) is a parked page and you may wish to remove the link to the old URL.
I have attempted to locate Janet and her material but have had no luck.
Regards,
Susan
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Bradford, West Gwillimbury, Inisfill
Local database with cuttings, articles, historical documents, and vital statistics which appear to be transcribed from obituaries.
http://www.ibidnet.ca/index.php
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Found a site for burials at Walpole, Hardimand:
http://www.interment.net/data/canada/ontario/haldimand/walpole/stjohn/
but also the 1st part lets you search for others in the area.
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I found this very interesting book, published in Ontario in 1875: Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada There are a lot of names throughout and on pp180-182 there is a long list of deceased members along with the date of death. If you think your Ontario ancestor could have been a Freemason it might be worth checking. https://archive.org/details/grandlodge1875onta
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For people with connections to Barrie, Ontario, please check out the new Barrie Historical Archive site. Just launched in September, there are over 6,000 pieces (mostly photographs) from mid 1800s - present day. All free, organized and searchable. http://www.barriearchive.ca/
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I have my great great grandmother's diary for the year of 1875 (Ida Handy). She lived in Howard township and in her diaries mentions many names of both family and friends who lived in the surrounding areas. Not necessarily in detail, mostly just their coming and goings. I have most of this transcribed so can do lookups easily.
Some surnames of people mentioned: Atkinson, Baldwin, Bryant, Bury, Cavers, Colls, Davis, Delong, Downie, Fairchild, Handy, Hicks, Kennedy, MacFarlane, McAllister, McPhail (Peter & Neil tried for stealing clover), Miles, Mosher, Newcome, Oakes, Purvis, Ransom, Roome, Scarlet, Simons, Stewart, Storey, Teetzel, Turner, Van Allen (Dr.), Watson, Westlake, Willins (?), Willson
I also have my great great grandfather's diaries from about 1882 - 1913. He was politically active, ran the local post office and newspaper. He was also appointed 'Issuer of Marriages' in 1885, so I have a book of marriages he recorded from 1885 - 1895. Too many names to mention at this point.
I hope to be submitting both sets of diaries to the Rural Ontario Diary project soon, so eventually there will be transcriptions of both :)