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135,000 images from the registers of 158 Catholic and Protestant parishes in Quebec have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec, to improve their quality and clarity.
Over a million images from the Drouin collection have been rescanned and made available on the website over the past few years.
Source: Drouin Collection Records, GenealogyQuebec.com
The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous copy, which ensures superior clarity.
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The Drouin Collection Records
The Drouin Collection Records are a collection of parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) covering all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States, from the parish’s foundation up to the 1940s and sometimes 1960s.
You can browse the Drouin collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
The LAFRANCE, also available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, is a search engine allowing you to explore these parish registers by searching for the individual(s) mentioned in them.
You can browse the LAFRANCE at this address.
List of rescanned parishes
Here is the list of the parishes that have been rescanned in this update.
| Arthabaska (Missions) | Caughnawaga (United Church) | Delson (United Church) |
| Dorion | Drummondville (St-Frédéric) | Durham-Sud (St-Fulgence) |
| East Broughton | Frampton (St-Édouard) | Greenfield Park (United Church) |
| Hampstead (United Church) | Hudson (United Church) | Lac-Etchemin |
| Lachine (Sœurs Ste-Anne) | Lachine (United Church Grace) | Lachine (United Church Saint Andrew) |
| Lac-Mégantic (Ste-Agnès) | Lambton (St-Vital) | Longueuil (United Church Gardenville) |
| McMasterville (United Church) | Montréal (Aide à la Femme) | Montréal (Anglican, Christ Church) |
| Montréal (Assistance Maternelle) | Montréal (Basilique Notre-Dame) | Montréal (Cimetière de l’Est) |
| Montréal (Congrégation Notre-Dame) | Montréal (Couvent des Franciscains) | Montréal (Crèche de la Miséricorde & Hospice de la Maternité) |
| Montréal (Holy Cross) | Montréal (Hôpital Notre-Dame) | Montréal (Hôpital Ste-Justine) |
| Montréal (Hôpital Ste-Justine) | Montréal (Hôpital St-Luc) | Montréal (Longue-Pointe, St-François-d’Assise) |
| Montréal (Monastère des Carmélites) | Montréal (Monastère du Bon-Pasteur) | Montréal (Saint Anthony of Padua) |
| Montréal (St-Bernard) | Montréal (St-Charles) | Montréal (Ste-Jeanne-d’Arc) |
| Montréal (Ste-Marguerite-Marie) | Montréal (Ste-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus) | Montréal (St-Jean-Baptiste-Vianney) |
| Montréal (St-Louis-de-Gonzague) | Montréal (St-Sauveur) | Montréal (Très-Ste-Trinité) |
| Montréal (United Church All Nation) | Montréal (United Church Calvary) | Montréal (United Church Calvin Westminster) |
| Montréal (United Church Centenary) | Montréal (United Church Central) | Montréal (United Church Chalmers) |
| Montréal (United Church Chinese Montreal) | Montréal (United Church City Mission) | Montréal (United Church Côte-des-Neiges) |
| Montréal (United Church Crystal Springs) | Montréal (United Church Dominion Douglas) | Montréal (United Church Emmanuel) |
| Montréal (United Church Erskine & American) | Montréal (United Church French Saint John) | Montréal (United Church French Sauveur) |
| Montréal (United Church French Summerlea) | Montréal (United Church Hospital Mission) | Montréal (United Church Hungarian) |
| Montréal (United Church Inspector Mission) | Montréal (United Church Italian of the Redeemer) | Montréal (United Church La Croix) |
| Montréal (United Church Livingstone) | Montréal (United Church Main Memorial) | Montréal (United Church Mount Royal) |
| Montréal (United Church Mountain Street) | Montréal (United Church North End) | Montréal (United Church Norwood) |
| Montréal (United Church Port de Montréal) | Montréal (United Church Private Chapel) | Montréal (United Church Rockfield) |
| Montréal (United Church Rosedale) | Montréal (United Church Saint Columba House) | Montréal (United Church Saint Cuthbert) |
| Montréal (United Church Saint Georges) | Montréal (United Church Saint Giles) | Montréal (United Church Saint Giles) |
| Montréal (United Church Saint James) | Montréal (United Church Saint Luke) | Montréal (United Church Saint Mark) |
| Montréal (United Church Shaw Memorial) | Montréal (United Church Westminster Central) | Montréal, Rosemont (United Church Central) |
| Montréal, Rosemont (United Church First) | Montréal-Est (St-Octave) | Montréal-Est (United Church) |
| Montréal-Nord (Ste-Gertrude) | Montréal-Nord (St-Vital) | Montréal-Sud (United Church) |
| Montréal-West (United Church) | Mont-Royal (United Church First) | Pointe-aux-Trembles (Crèche St-François-d’Assise) |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles (Filles Consolatrices du Divin Cœur) | Pointe-aux-Trembles (Pères Capucins) | Pointe-aux-Trembles (United Church, Française Évangélique) |
| Pointe-Claire (Ste-Jeanne-de-Chantal) | Pointe-Claire (United Church, Lilly Memorial) | Pointe-Fortune (United Church) |
| Princeville (St-Eusèbe-de-Stanfold) | Richardville | Rigaud (Jardin de l’Enfance) |
| St-Albert-de-Warwick | St-Alfred | Standon (St-Léon) |
| St-Anselme | St-Benjamin | St-Benoit-Labre |
| St-Cœur-de-Marie (Mégantic) | St-Côme-Kennebec | St-Cyprien (Dorchester) |
| St-Cyrille-de-Wendover | Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (United Church Union) | Ste-Claire (Dorchester) |
| Ste-Clotilde (Dorchester) | Ste-Clotilde-de-Horton | St-Edmond-de-Grantham |
| Ste-Élisabeth-de-Warwick | Ste-Hélène-de-Chester | Ste-Jeanne-d’Arc (Drummond) |
| St-Elzéar-de-Linière | St-Éphrem-de-Tring | Ste-Séraphine |
| Ste-Sophie (Ste-Sophie-d’Halifax) | St-Eugène-de-Grantham | St-Évariste-de-Forsyth |
| St-Ferdinand (St-Ferdinand-d’Halifax) | St-Frédéric (Beauce) | St-Germain-de-Grantham |
| St-Hubert (St-Jean-Eudes) | St-Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Vianney | St-Lambert (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur) |
| St-Lambert (United Church) | St-Laurent (United Church Saint Andrew) | St-Léonard (St-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice) |
| St-Lucien | St-Majorique-de-Grantham | St-Nicéphore |
| St-Norbert-d’Arthabaska | St-Paul-de-Chester | St-Pierre-Baptiste |
| St-Rémi-de-Tingwick | St-Rosaire | Sts-Anges |
| St-Valère | Thetford Mines (St-Alphonse) | Thetford Mines (St-Maurice) |
| Tingwick (St-Patrice) | Vallée-Jonction | Victoriaville (Ste-Victoire) |
| Ville-Émard (St-Jean-de-Matha) | Warwick (St-Médard) | Westmount (Ascension of Our Lord) |
| Westmount (United Church Saint Andrew) | Wickham |
Genealogically yours,
The Drouin team
