The 1741 Montreal city census has just been added to PRDH-IGD.com, thanks to the generous contribution of author and genealogist Marcel Fournier.

In addition, every individual listed in this census has been identified and linked with their PRDH-IGD Individual file.

These 553 new records can be viewed now with a subscription to PRDH-IGD.com.

What is PRDH-IGD.com?

PRDH-IGD is a directory of ALL vital events (baptisms, marriages and burials) recorded by the Catholic church in Quebec and French Canada from 1621 to 1849, as well as a genealogical dictionary of families. The PRDH-IGD database contains over 2 500 000 records.

What makes PRDH-IGD unique is how these records are connected to one another through genealogical links, which we refer to as Family Reconstructions. In addition to the baptism, marriage and burial files, PRDH-IGD contains individual and family files.

Any individual mentioned in a BMD record from the database is attributed an individual file. Similarly, any married couple mentioned in a BMD record gets their own family file, which lists all of the couple’s children.

To learn more about PRDH-IGD, you can read this article on the Drouin Institute blog.

You may also be interested in this article, which explains the similarities and differences between GenealogyQuebec.com and PRDH-IGD.com.

PRDH-IGD and Genealogy Quebec in a library near you!

Several libraries and genealogical societies now offer free-access to Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD, mainly in Quebec but also in the rest of Canada and the United States. Contact your local library or genealogical society to see if free access to the websites is available!

Libraries and genealogical societies tend to rely on suggestions and demand when selecting resources to add to their catalog. As such, the best way to have your local institution provide Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD access is simply to ask them to!

You can do so by calling or visiting the library, and letting the librarian or person in charge know about the websites.
Some libraries even allow you to suggest resources through an online form.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

43 164 baptism, marriage and burial records from 21 parishes of the Mauricie region have been added to the NBMDS tool, one of the 16 collections offered to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These records extend from 1846 to 1999 and were provided by the Société généalogique de Shawinigan. You can visit their website at http://www.histoireshawinigan.org/.

These new records can be consulted right now in the NBMDS tool (requires a subscription to Genealogy Quebec).

What is the NBMDS tool?

The NBMDS tool is an index of Catholic and Protestant baptism, marriage and burial records, mostly from the province of Quebec. The tool contains over 1.2 million records and is divided in 3 sections; baptisms, marriages, burials.

The regions covered by the tool are:

• The Bas-St-Laurent region (1727 to 2011)
• The Laurentides region (1727 to 2011)
• The Outaouais region (1727 to 2011)
• The Mauricie region, specifically the Shawinigan region (1846 to 1999)
• The city of St-Hubert (1727 to 2011)

The marriage section also contains some 120 000 marriage records from the United States and Ontario, dated from between the 17th century and the end of the 20th century.

You will find more information about the NBMDS tool as well as search tips and best practices in this blog article.

Maple Stars and Stripes – French-Canadian genealogy podcast

Want to learn even more about the NBMDS tool? Do not miss a comprehensive overview of this collection in the latest episode of the Maple Stars and Stripes podcast, featuring Bertrand Desjardins and Sandra Goodwin.

Maple Stars and Stripes is a podcast dedicated to the genealogy and history of French -Canadians. 3 other episodes dedicated to the Drouin Institute collections are also available for listening:
Ep. 65: The Drouin Institute’s Lafrance Database and the PRDH
Ep. 72: Drouin Collection Records-part 1
Ep. 73: Drouin Collection Records-part 2

The Forgotten in Genealogy – Clergenealogy

The Drouin genealogical Institute is proud to support the Société de généalogie Saint-Hubert and its brand new website Clergenealogie.org, a free genealogical research website focusing entirely on members of the clergy. Clergenealogie.org currently lists over 128 000 members of the clergy who lived between the 16th century and today. You can explore this incredible database for free by registering at this address: https://clergenealogie.org/newacctform.php

“Some researchers estimate that over 120 000 young women and men in French America have dedicated their lives to religious service from the beginnings of New France to the present day. Their contribution to society is significant; they have worked in the fields of education, health and helping the most deprived (orphans, disabled, elderly, patients with intellectual disabilities, etc …) in addition to their religious functions.

The birth of these people is overwhelmingly recorded in baptismal records. But anyone who tries to follow the lives of these children to reconstruct the story of a family often loses their trace. Their religious commitment, regularly involving a name change, often “separated them from the world”. The vow of chastity they pronounced prevented them from getting married, leaving us with no marriage records to track them. Information about their deaths is often difficult to find, as religious communities sometimes have their own cemeteries and registers. They have become the “forgotten in genealogy”. ”

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

All of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1918 have been added to the LAFRANCE, one of the 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com‘s subscribers!

This update represents the addition of 11 167 marriage records to the database.

About the LAFRANCE

The LAFRANCE, one of 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers, is a detailed index with link to the original document of ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1918, ALL Catholic baptisms and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861 as well as ALL Protestant marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1760 and 1849.

You can start tracing your ancestors on the LAFRANCE by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec right now!

Finding the original document associated with a 1918 marriage

When you view a marriage certificate on the LAFRANCE, an image of the original parish document is usually associated with it.

In the case of Quebec’s 1918 Catholic marriages, the association between the certificate and the image will be made within the next few weeks. In the meantime, you will need to refer to the Drouin Collection Records to view the original document.

To do so, start with the marriage certificate for which you want to find the original document. We will use the marriage of Charles Emile Fillion and Yvonne Boucher on June 18, 1918 in Matane as an example.

We begin by opening the Drouin Collection Records tool and clicking on the “Québec” folder, which contains every parish register recorded in the province of Quebec between 1621 and the 1940s.

It is then a question of finding, within the folders, the parish in which the desired marriage was recorded. In our case, the parish is Matane, as indicated in the marriage certificate. We will find it under the “M” folder.

Opening the 1918 folder under Matane provides us with the list of images pertaining to the Matane register for that year. The images are sorted in chronological order; the first images will contain the January records, while the last few images will contain the December records. Since the marriage we are looking for was recorded on June 18th, we know that it will be found around the middle of the image series.

After browsing through a few images, we are able to find the original document pertaining to Charles Emile Fillion and Yvonne Boucher’s marriage.

New articles on the Drouin Institute Blog

French-Canadian “dit names” and nicknames, by François Desjardins

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Two new collections of historical documents were added to the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections, one of the 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers.

These new documents contain judicial records from the Trois-Rivières region dating back to New France, as well as notarized contracts from the Cornwall region of Ontario.

Trois-Rivières – Judicial records from New France

3909 images of historical judicial documents from the Trois-Rivières region have been added to the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections. You will find these images under the folder “27 – Trois-Rivières (Jurisdiction)”

Here is what you will find in these new documents:

• Royal and Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Trois-Rivières (1655 – 1757)
• Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Cap-de-la-Madeleine (1659-1685)
• Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Batiscan (1662, 1742-1753)
• Champlain District Court of Justice (1762-1764)
• Minutes of the notary Jacques Latouche (1664-1669)

These archives contain details and judgments surrounding the various civil and criminal cases undertaken by these courts over the highlighted periods.

You can consult these documents in the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collectionswith a subscription to GenealogyQuebec.com.

Ontario notarized documents

2673 images of notarized contracts from the Cornwall region of Ontario are now available in the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections, under the folder “26 – Contrats notariés de l’Ontario“.

These notarized documents date from the 1860s to the 1980s. Most of these contracts are wills and letters of administration concerning the estate of a deceased person.

The notarized contracts are sorted under the last name of the person concerned by the contract, in alphabetical order. You can browse these documents in the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections with a subscription to GenealogyQuebec.com.

What are the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections?

The Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous collections contain a mix of images, documents, books, pictures and directories of historical and genealogical significance.

• Fonds d’archive (Archival fonds): Contains various archival fonds obtained from different sources and authors.
• Archives municipales (Municipal archives): Contains the municipal archives of multiple Quebec cities. Can be browsed by city or by type of document.
• Dictionnaire Jetté: The Jetté dictionary is a genealogical dictionary published in 1983. It covers the Quebec population of French origin.
• PRDH: The original 47 PRDH volumes, which contain all Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials from Quebec for the 1621-1765 period. 300 000 records in total.
• Autres documents (Other documents): Contains various archives and documents of historical and genealogical interest.
• Lignes de vie (Lifelines): Contains lifelines organized by family name.
• Journaux anciens (Old newspapers): Contains digitized old newspapers.
• Lignées généalogiques (Genealogical charts): 2358 genealogical charts from the Planète Généalogie website
• Statuts de la province de Québec: A variety of legal documents pertaining to adoptions, name changes and inheritances. The documents are sorted by the subject’s family name.
• Contrats notariés de l’Ontario (Notarized documents from Ontario): 2673 images of notarized documents from the Cornwall region in Ontario, dated from between 1860 and 1990.
• Trois-Rivières (Juridiction):  3909 images of judicial documents (juridiction royale et seigneuriale) from the Trois-Rivières region from the New-France era, 1655 – 1764.

This section is organized in a file tree. The names of the folders are used to identify and describe their content.

You can browse the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

4 new historical newspapers are now available on Genealogy Quebec!

You will find these 4696 new images in the Drouin Institute Miscellaneous Collections under the “23 – Journaux anciens” folder. These 4 newspapers join the Union de Woonsocket (1935-1971) and Union des Cantons-de-l’Est (1867-2008), already available on the website.

L’Avant-Garde (1896-1898)

L’Avant-Garde was a political newspaper published in the Quebec City area starting from 1896. Conservative in nature, this newspaper was dedicated to protecting the French-speaking Catholic communities of Canada.

L’avenir de Québec (1893)

L’Avenir was a daily newspaper founded in Quebec City on May 27, 1893 by J. C. Langelier. It ceased publication shortly after, in July 1893.

Le Canada-Français (1961-1963 and 1968)

Le Canada-Français is a daily newspaper from the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu region which is still published to this day.

The Advertiser (1856-1861)

The Advertiser, and Eastern Townships Sentinel was a newspaper founded in 1856 by Lucius Seth Huntington and published in Knowlton, Estrie. It was the very first newspaper published in the region.

New GenealogyQuebec.com user guide

A new version of the user guide is now available on our blog at this address.

You will find instructions on how to subscribe, log in, recover your password and access tools as well as useful links and guides for each tool.
You will also find a concise overview of the period, regions and types of documents covered by each of Genealogy Quebec’s tools (a subscription is necessary to access these collections) :

Period

17th century

• LAFRANCE
• Drouin Great Collections (10 – Prévôté de Québec)
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Acadia – Families
• Drouin Collection records
• Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File

18th century

• LAFRANCE
• Drouin Great Collections
• Petit NBMDS
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Acadia – Families
• Drouin Collection records
• Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File

19th century

• LAFRANCE (Catholic baptisms and burials until 1861, Protestant marriages until 1849)
• Obituaries
• Drouin Great Collections
• Petit NBMDS
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Notarized documents
• Acadia – Families
• Drouin Collection records
• Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File
• City directories

20th century

• LAFRANCE (Catholic Marriages up until 1917)
• Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
• Obituaries
• Drouin Great Collections
• Petit NBMDS
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Notarized documents
• Postcards
• Drouin Collection records
• Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File
• City directories

21th century

• Obituaries
• Petit NBMDS (Baptisms, marriages and burials up to 2011)
• Connolly File
• Postcards

Location

Quebec

• LAFRANCE
• Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
• Obituaries
• Drouin Great Collections
• Petit NBMDS (Laurentides, Outaouais, Bas-St-Laurent and the city of St-Hubert.)
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Notarized documents
• Postcards
• Drouin Collection records
• Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File
• City directories (Cities of Quebec and Montreal)

Acadia

• Drouin Great Collections (05 – Fichier HISTOR, 06 – Fiches Acadiennes)
• Acadia – Families
• Drouin Collection Records (“Acadie” and Registres paroissiaux du Nouveau-Brunswick” folders)

Rest of Canada

• Obituaries (Online obituaries and tombstones)
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Drouin Collection Records (“Ontario” and “Registres paroissiaux du Nouveau-Brunswick” folders)
• Kardex (Ontario)
• Petit NBMDS (Ontario)

United States

• Drouin Great Collections (05 – Fichier HISTOR, 21 – Fiches franco-américaines)
• Drouin Collection Records (“États-Unis” and “Registres divers” folders)
• Antonin-Loiselle File (Fall River, MA et Manchester, NH)
• Petit NBMDS

Religion

Catholic

• LAFRANCE
• Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
• Obituaries
• Drouin Great Collections
• Petit NBMDS
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Acadia – Families
• Drouin Collection Records
• Kardex
• Antonin-Loiselle File

Protestant

• LAFRANCE (Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849)
• Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
• Obituaries
• Drouin Great Collections (05 – Fichier HISTOR)
• Petit NBMDS
• Connolly File
• Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
• Drouin Collection Records
• Kardex

Other

• Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
• Obituaries
• Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

We are happy to announce that we have completed the addition of ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period to the LAFRANCE.
This project, which debuted in 2015, represents the addition of some 652 502 baptism and burial records from 422 different parishes.

The LAFRANCE now contains:

• ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1917
• ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
• ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
• ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
• 68 401 Quebec Catholic baptisms and burials from between 1862 and 2019

For a grand total of 3 755 659 parish records from the province of Quebec.

You will find these parish records under two formats in the LAFRANCE:

Original documents – a digitized image of the original parish register, as it was originally drafted.

Record certificate – Every record in the database is indexed under what we refer to as a certificate. The certificate contains all the relevant information extracted from the original record such as the names, dates, roles, occupations, relationships, marital status, etc.

You can use the LAFRANCE with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

For more information about the LAFRANCE as well as research tips, take a look at this article on our blog.

What’s next?

The development of the LAFRANCE continues! Our focus will now be on the indexation of every Ontarian and Acadian parish register available in the Drouin Collection, as well as all of Quebec’s Protestant baptism and burial records from 1760 to 1861. Protestant marriages from the 1850 – 1861 period will also be indexed.

Here is the list of Ontarian parish registers we plan to index up to 1861:

And here is the list of Acadian parish registers that will be indexed up to 1861:

The indexing of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials is therefore temporarily put on hold, but we will come back to it as soon as possible! We intend to index all of Quebec’s parish registers up to 1940, at a pace which will be dictated by our financial and human resources.

This massive task is entirely funded by the revenues generated from Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD.com subscriptions. We would like to thank you for the trust you place in us, without which we wouldn’t be able to preserve and share Quebec’s genealogical and historical heritage.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

The Connolly File, one of 16 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, has been updated.

A total of 46 444 baptism, marriage and burial files have been added to this collection. 105 corrections suggested by our users were also applied.

What is the Connolly File?

The Connolly File is an index of Catholic and Protestant baptisms, marriages and burials from Quebec and part of the United States covering a period extending from 1621 to 2018.
In total, the tool contains 6 500 000 baptism, marriage and burial files.

You will find more information about this collection as well as some research tips and best practices in this article.

Update details

Here is the list of regions and parishes affected by this update, which includes the number of records added and the years they cover.

Holy Blood, Holyoke MA,US
Marriages 1860-1889: 566 records added

St-Mathew de Fall River MA, US
Marriages 1885-1986: 1960 records added

Jay & Winthrop ME, US
Marriages 1872-1983: 3160 records added

St-André de Biddeford ME, US
Marriages 1899-1978: 4454 records added

Burials published in newspapers around the Quebec region
434 files added

Our Lady of Peace, Berwick ME, US
Marriages 1919-1982: 469 records added

St. Michael, South Berwick ME, US
Marriages 1818-1982: 1016 records added

Notre-Dame, Springvale ME 
Marriages 1888-1981: 1138 records added

N-D-de-Lourdes, Saco ME, US
Marriages 1927-1986: 1121 records added

St-Alphonse de Stornoway (Frontenac), QC
Baptisms 1909-1940: 921 records added
Burials 1909-1940: 264 records added

St. Louis, St. Paul MN, US
Marriages 1869-1900: 594 records added

St-Jean-Baptiste de Brunswick ME, US
Marriages 1877-1979: 3496 records added

St. Charles Borromeo de Brunswick ME, US
Marriages 1931-1980: 642 records added

St. Francis de Sales, Waterville ME, US
Marriages 1782-1989: 3988 records added

N-D-de-Lourdes de Fall River MA, US 
Marriages 1874-1962: 6509 records added

St-Thomas, Compton QC
Baptisms 1854-1939: 3990 records added
Burials 1855-1939: 1450 records added

Blessed Sacrement, Fall River MA, US
Marriages 1883-1933: 685 records added

Notre-Dame, Southbridge MA, US
Marriages 1834-1917: 2741 records added

Directeur de l’état civil du Québec
Births: 156 tardy declaration of filiation files added
Marriages: 17 057 civil/religious marriage files and civil union files added

You can browse these new documents with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec on the Connolly File at this address.

Free-access obituaries

The Online obituary section, available for free at this address, has just hit over 2 300 000 death notices!

This section contains Canadian death notices published online between 1999 and today and is updated regularly.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

More updates to Genealogy Quebec‘s tools and collections!
You will find the details of the most recent additions to the website in this newsletter.

New York state parish registers

11 000 images of parish registers from the state of New York have been added to Genealogy Quebec.

You will find these images in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “Registres divers” folder.

The registers are from the following regions:

The records cover a period stretching from the early 19th century to 1915. Note that the records can be in English, French as well as Latin.

Death files from the QFHS

5000 death files have been added to the Kardex tool. You will find them under the “01_Fiches BMS” folder, sorted by the subject’s or the husband’s last name.

Most of these files are from between 1845 and 1855 and pertain to individuals of Protestant and Catholic faith who lived in or near Quebec.

The QFHS (Quebec Family History Society) is a genealogical society located in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. It offers many resources as well as courses, conferences and seminars. You will find more information on their website.

Consulat général de France – Civil registers

1000 images from the Consulat général de France de Montréal et de Québecare now available in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “Registres divers/Québec” folder.

These images contain civil records recorded at the consulate between 1859 and 1935 and pertain to French nationals residing in Canada.

Most of the records in these registers are transcripts of vital events recorded in churches and other places of worship in Canada.

You can browse these new documents as well as 44 million images and files by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

An update has been applied to the LAFRANCE in early February. This update pertains to the Catholic baptism and burial records recorded in the province of Quebec between 1850 and 1861.

LAFRANCE update figures

Catholic baptisms 1850-1861 : 34 116 records added
Catholic burials 1850-1861 : 15 145 records added

The corrections suggested by our subscribers over the past month have also been applied.

About the LAFRANCE

The LAFRANCE, one of 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers, is a detailed index with link to the original document of ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1917, ALL Catholic baptisms and burials celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1849 as well as ALL Protestant marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1760 and 1849.

Baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period are added gradually through bimonthly updates.

Updated parishes

Here are the parishes that have been updated:

*(b = baptism, s = burial)
**the additions are dated from between the min year and the max year

Only 2 parishes remain to be added to the LAFRANCE in order to complete the addition of every Catholic baptism and burial recorded in Quebec up until 1861. Namely, the Ste-Marthe parish as well as the baptisms and burials of the year 1861 for the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.

You can use the LAFRANCE and find your ancestors by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec right now!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

More new content on GenealogyQuebec.com! This time, we’ve added over 130 000 marriages to the NBMDS tool. These marriages were transferred from the Planète Généalogie website.

Ontario marriages

83 000 marriages from various Ontario parishes have been added to the NBMDS database. These marriages were recorded between the 17th century and the end of the 20th century.

New England marriages

Around 53 000 marriages from New England were also added to the NBMDS tool.
These marriages are from the following parishes and regions:

NY, Schenectady, St-Columba
NY, Schuylerville, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
NY, Schuylerville, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
NY, Troy, St-Jean-Baptiste
NY, Troy, St-Patrick
NH, Auburn, St-Peter
NH, Goffstown, St-Lawrence
NH, Hooksett, Holy Rosary
NH, Lakeport, Our Lady of the Lake
NH, Littleton, Ste-Rose-de-Lima
NH, Manchester, St. Anthony
NH, Portsmouth, Immaculee Conception
NH, Portsmouth, Ste-Catherine
NH, Portsmouth, St-James
Mass, Swansea
CT, Grosvenor Dale, St-Joseph
CT, West Thompson, Sacred Heart
RI, Pawtucket, Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation
RI, Woonsocket, Ste-Famille

What is the NBMDS tool?

The NBMDS tool contains baptism, marriage and burial files created from the original document recorded in church.
Originally, the tool extended from 1727 to 2011 and covered the Laurentians, the Outaouais and Bas-St-Laurent regions as well as the city of St-Hubert.
We are now extending the period and regions covered to include parts of Ontario and the United States.

The NBMDS is equipped with a multiple field search engine. As with most of our tools, we recommend that you limit your initial search to only a few fields; a family name and the year of the event. If this produces too many results to navigate through, a first name or a second family name should be added.

You may browse the NBMDS tool with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Records and documents from the United States and Ontario available on Genealogy Quebec

Even though Genealogy Quebec primarily focuses on Quebec genealogy, the website offers multiple collections from Ontario and the United States.

Drouin Collection Records

You will find various documents from the United States and Ontario in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “États-Unis” and “Ontario” folders.

These documents are mostly Catholic parish registers but you will also find some newspapers and other bits of historically relevant publications.

Here are the parish registers available under the Ontario folder:

Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)

The 1881 Ontario census is available on Genealogy Quebec. If you are subscribed to the website, you may browse it here.

Antonin-Loiselle File

The Antonin-Loiselle File is an index of marriage files from Quebec but also from the United States, specifically Fall River, MA and Manchester, NH.

Genealogy Quebec subscribers may browse this collection at this address.

Finally, you will find various documents pertaining to Ontario and the United States in the Drouin Great Collections, the Kardex, and the Obituary section.

What’s new on the Drouin Institute blog?

Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
An article about the Census tool, which is available on GenealogyQuebec.com

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team