Ontario Canada Resources

[audrey]

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

[J.J.]

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/

[DeniseA]

A searchable database of the 1871 Ontario Census

http://db.library.queensu.ca/census/

[KarenM]

You can now order Ontario Birth Certificates on-line.

http://www.serviceontario.ca/english/default.htm

Karen

[MJP]

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!

[J.J.]

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

[DeniseA]

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

[J.J.]

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

[J.J.]

City of Toronto Tax Assessment Transcription Project
city of Toronto - 1853 
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