Last week Ancestry added the Canada, Quaker Meeting Records, 1786-1988 database to its website. The database contains records from various Quaker meetings in Canada.
Most of the records come from Ontario, but you will also find records from other provinces, as well as a few from areas in the United States that fell under jurisdiction of a Canadian yearly meeting.
I managed to find records in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia, but it wasn’t easy. Entering the name of a province in a search box does not guarantee that a province’s records will automatically appear at the top of the list. It took me a few minutes to dig.
This collection includes a wide assortment of records, including membership registers, marriage records, meeting minutes, certificates of removal, death registers, disciplinary records, and others. Details vary by record type, but they may include:
- name
- place and date of birth
- parents’ names
- spouse’s name
- place and date of marriage
- place and date of death and/or burial
- residence/address
- event date
- witnesses
- meeting name and location
