Tag Archives: Lower Canada

135 years of McGill University theses a good resource for family historians

McGill University has recently completed the digitization of 135 years of theses and dissertations, from 1881 to 2016. This collection of theses is a gold mine of history and social history for genealogists, especially those researching their roots in Lower … Continue reading

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Learn what happened to the French who fled to Canada during French Revolution

The Société généalogique canadienne-française (SGCF), the French Canadian genealogical society in Montreal, tweeted yesterday about a new book, Les Français émigrés au Canada pendant la Révolution française et le Consulat : 1789-1804, by Marcel Fournier. The book tells the story … Continue reading

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Book about 1837 Rebellion contains names of captives and traitors

Global Genealogy has added a new book, Patriotes, Reformer, Rebels & Raiders: Tracing your ancestors during the ‘troublous’ times in Upper and Lower Canada 1820-1851, to its catalogue that may interest genealogists with ancestors who lived in Upper and Lower Canada … Continue reading

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Ancestry adds Lower Canada 1825 and 1842 censuses

One of my favourite bloggers beat me to the news about Ancestry adding the Lower Canada 1825 and 1842 census records. You can read his blog post here: http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2014/03/ancestry-adds-lower-canada-censuses-for.html 

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