This is a list of free Canadian Genealogy Records & Family History Collections at Library and Archives Canada (BAC-LAC).

BAC-LAC has free, digitized Canadian birth, marriage, & death records, land records, census records, immigration records, ethnic records, photo collections and more.

Canada  Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Canada
• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937

Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Canada
• Marriage Bonds, 1779-1858 – Upper and Lower Canada
• Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968
• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937

Death Indexes &  Death Records

• Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Canada
• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937

Wills & Probate

• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937 (estate inventory)
• Heir and Devisee Commission

Canada Residence Records

Census

• 1825 – Census of 1825, Lower Canada (Quebec, Heads of households)
• 1831 – Census of 1831, Lower Canada (Quebec, Heads of households)
• 1842 – Census of 1842, Canada West (Ontario, Heads of households)
• 1842 – Census of 1842, Canada East (Quebec, Heads of households)
• 1851 – Census of 1851 (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario (Canada West), Quebec (Canada East), Heads of households, Nominal)
• 1861 – Census of 1861 (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario (Canada West), Quebec (Canada East), Heads of households, Nominal)
• 1870 – Census of 1870, Manitoba (Manitoba, Nominal)
• 1871 – Census of Canada, 1871 (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Nominal)
• 1871 – Census of Canada, 1871: Ontario heads of household (Ontario)
• 1871 – Why are there two databases for 1871? (Heads of households)
• 1881 – Census of Canada, 1881 (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Nominal)
• 1891 – Census of Canada, 1891 (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Nominal)
• 1901 – Census of Canada, 1901 (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Nominal)
• 1906 – Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906 (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nominal)
• 1911 – Census of Canada, 1911 (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Nominal)
• 1916 – Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916 (Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nominal)
• 1921 – Census of Canada, 1921 (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Nominal)
• 1926 – Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926

Directories

Directories Searchable Database includes:

• Almanach des adresses Cherrier de la Ville de Québec… juin 1886
• Business … Directory…of All Cities in Ontario…1899-1900
• Canada Directory 1851
• Cherrier & Kirwin’s Ottawa Directory for 1872-73
• City of Ottawa Directory 1873-74
• Counties of Carleton, Lanark…and Ottawa Directory 1884
• Directory for the City and Suburbs of Quebec 1790
• Directory of the City of Kingston 1855
• Eastern Ontario Gazetteer and Directory for 1898-99
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Carleton, Dundas,…1885-6
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Dundas, Frontenac, 1892
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Dundas, Glengarry, 1891
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Frontenac, Grenville…1894
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Frontenac, Hastings…1884-5
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Frontenac, Hastings…1886
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Frontenac, Hastings…1899
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Carleton, Dundas,…1886-7
• Farmers’ and Business Directory…Dundas, Glengarry,…1888
• First Victoria Directory 1860
• Fuller’s Counties of Leeds, Grenville…Directory 1866-67
• Guide…de la cité et du district de Trois-Rivières, pour 1867-1868
• Hunter, Rose & Co.’s City of Ottawa Directory for 1870-71
• Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory, for 1864/65
• Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory, for 1866/67
• Lovell’s Province of Ontario Directory for 1871
• Lovell’s Province of Nova Scotia Directory for 1871
• Lovell’s Province of Quebec Directory for 1871
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1869-70
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1871-72
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1872-73
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1873-74
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1874-75
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1875-76
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1876-77
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1877-78
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1878-79
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1879-80
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1880-81
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1881-82
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1882-83
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1883-84
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1884-85
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1886-87
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1887-88
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1888-89
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1889-90
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1890-91
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1891-92
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1892-93
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1893-94
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1894-95
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1895-96
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1896-97
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1897-98
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1898-99
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1899-1900
• McAlpine’s Halifax City Directory for 1900-01
• McAlpine’s Nova Scotia Directory, 1868-69
• McAlpine’s Nova Scotia Directory, 1890-97
• Mitchell & Co.’s Carleton and Ottawa Directory 1864-5
• Mitchell & Co.’s Canada Classified Directory for 1865-66
• Montreal Directory for 1842-3
• Ontario Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1884-5
• Ontario Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1886-7
• Ontario Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1888-9
• Ontario Gazetteer and Directory for 1892-3
• Ontario Gazetteer and Directory for 1895
• Ottawa and Counties of Carleton and Russell Directory
• Ottawa Citizen Directory of Ottawa, 1863
• Ottawa City Directory, 1891-92
• Ottawa City Directory, 1893-94
• Ottawa City Directory, 1895-96
• Ottawa City Directory, 1896-97
• Ottawa City Directory, 1897-98
• Ottawa City Directory, 1898-99
• Ottawa City Directory, 1899
• Ottawa Directory 1875
• Ottawa Directory 1881
• Ottawa Directory 1882
• Ottawa Directory 1883
• Ottawa Directory 1884
• Ottawa Directory for 1874-75
• Ottawa Directory, 1885
• Ottawa Directory, 1886
• Ottawa Directory, 1887
• Ottawa Directory, 1888-89
• Ottawa Directory, 1889-90
• Ottawa Directory, 1890-91
• Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory 1869
• Regina Directory for 1885
• Renfrew County Directory 1888
• Sutherland’s City of Ottawa Directory, for 1868
• Sutherland’s City of Ottawa Directory, for 1869-70
• Waterloo County Gazetteer and Directory for 1884-5
• Western Ontario Gazetteer and Directory for 1898-99

Directories available as PDFs (see right-hand column to open PDFs):

The following files are not searchable in our original database but are available in this list as PDF files. Once a PDF has been chosen and opened, the entire file can be searched by using your PDF viewer’s search function. Because of their size, some editions have been packaged into multiple parts, i.e.: e010780480_p1.pdf (part 1), e010780480_p2.pdf (part 2), etc.

Hamilton, Ontario

• 1853 – City of Hamilton directory
• 1856 – City of Hamilton directory
• 1858 – City of Hamilton directory
• 1866 – Sutherland & Co.’s Hamilton city directory for …
• 1870 – Sutherland’s city of Hamilton directory for …
• 1874 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1895 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1896 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1897 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1898 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1899 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1900 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1862/1863 – Hutchinson’s Hamilton directory for 1862/63
• 1865/1866 – Mitchell & Co.’s county of Wentworth and Hamilton city
• 1867/1867 – Sutherland’s city of Hamilton and county of Wentworth
• 1871/1872 – City of Hamilton directory for …
• 1872/1873 – Cherrier & Kirwin’s Hamilton directory for 1872/73
• 1875/1876 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1876/1877 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1877/1878 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1878/1879 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1879/1880 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1880/1881 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1881/1882 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1882/1883 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1883/1884 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1884/1885 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1885/1886 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1886/1887 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1887/1888 – City of Hamilton annual alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1888/1889 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1889/1890 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1890/1891 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1891/1892 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1893/1894 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• 1894/1895 – City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,
• City of Hamilton … annual street, alphabetical, general,

Kingston, Ontario

• 1865 – Mitchell & Co.’s general directory for the city of Kingston…
• 1867 – Sutherland’s general directory for the city of Kingston
• 1875 – McAlpine’s Ottawa & Kingston city directory
• 1894 – Foster’s Kingston Directory
• 1873/1874 – Directory of the city of Kingston with villages of Barrifield…
• 1881/1882 – Charlton’s general, street and business directory of the city of Kingston…
• 1883/1884 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous and classified…
• 1885/1886 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous and classified…
• 1887/1889 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous and classified…
• 1889/1890 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous…
• 1890/1891 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous…
• 1891/1892 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous…
• 1892-1893 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous…
• 1893-1894 – City of Kingston street, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous…
• 1895/1896 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1895-96
• 1896/1897 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1896-97
• 1897/1898 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1897-98
• 1898/1899 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1898-99
• 1900/1901 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1900-01
• 1901/1902 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1901-02
• 1902/1903 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1902-03
• 1903/1904 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1903-04
• 1904/1905 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1904-05
• 1905/1906 – Foster’s Kingston Directory 1905-06

London, Ontario

• 1875 – McAlpine’s London city and county of Middlesex directory
• 1883 – City of London and county of Middlesex directory… : to
• 1884 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1886 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1887 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1890 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1891 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1892 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1893 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1894 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1895 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1900 – Foster’s London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1901 – Foster’s London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1856/1857 – Railton’s directory for city of London, C.W
• 1863/1864 – City of London directory for … /
• 1871/1872 – City of London and county of Middlesex directory for… :
• 1872/1873 – Cherrier & Kirwin’s London directory for 1872/73
• 1874/1875 – City of London and county of Middlesex gazetteer and
• 1876/1877 – City of London annual, alphabetical, general, miscellaneous
• 1881/1882 – City of London and county of Middlesex directory… : to
• 1888/1889 – London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1896/1897 – Foster’s London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1897/1898 – Foster’s London city and Middlesex County directory
• 1898/1899 – Foster’s London city and Middlesex County directory

Southwestern Ontario Counties

• 1864 – County of Waterloo gazetteer and general business directory for 1864
• 1867 – Gazetteer and directory of counties of Haldimand and Brant, 1867
• 1867 – Gazetteer and directory of county of Wellington
• 1867 – Gazetteer and directory of county of Waterloo
• 1877 – County of Lambton gazetteer and directory for 1877
• 1879 – County of Wentworth gazetteer and directory
• 1879 – Gazetteer and business directory of Lincoln and Welland counties for 1879
• 1880 – Kent county directory
• 1881 – Oxford county directory
• 1883 – County of Wentworth gazetteer and directory
• 1886 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Elgin, Essex, Kent & Lambton
• 1887 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Norfolk & Oxford
• 1887 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland & Wentworth
• 1887 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Huron, Middlesex & Perth
• 1887 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Waterloo and Wellington
• 1888 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Haldimand, Halton, Lincoln, Welland & Wentworth
• 1888 – Union Publishing Co. (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton
• 1888 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Elgin, Middlesex, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1889 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Haldimand, Halton, Lincoln, Welland & Wentworth
• 1889 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Lambton, Middlesex, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1889 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Perth, Waterloo & Wellington
• 1890 – Union Publishing Company’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Haldimand, Lincoln, Norfolk, Welland and Wentworth
• 1891 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton
• 1892 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Middlesex, Oxford and Perth
• 1894 – Union Publishing Company’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Haldimand, Lincoln, Norfolk, Welland and Wentworth
• 1895 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers and business directory for counties of Brant, Elgin, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1895 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Halton, Lincoln, Welland and Wentworth
• 1895 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton
• 1895 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Grey, Waterloo and Wellington
• 1896 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland and Wentworth
• 1896 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Huron, Middlesex and Perth
• 1896 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Halton, Waterloo and Wellington
• 1897 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers and business directory for counties of Brant, Elgin, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1897 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton
• 1897 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Halton, Waterloo and Wellington
• 1898 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland and Wentworth
• 1898 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Huron, Middlesex and Perth
• 1899 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers and business directory for counties of Brant, Elgin, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1899 – Union Publishing Co.’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Halton, Waterloo and Wellington
• 1900 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers and business directory for counties of Brant, Elgin, Norfolk and Oxford
• 1900 – Union Publishing Co’s (of Ingersoll) farmers and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland and Wentworth
• 1900 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Essex, Kent and Lambton
• 1864/1865 – County of Kent gazetteer and general business directory for 1865/65
• 1864/1865 – County of Lambton gazetteer and general business directory for 1864/65
• 1865/1866 – County of Brant gazetteer, and general business directory for 1865/66
• 1865/1866 – O.L. Fuller’s counties of Elgin & Norfolk directory for 1865 & 1866
• 1866/1867 -County of Essex gazetteer and general and business directory for 1866/67
• 1866/1867 – Gazetteer and directory of counties of Kent, Lambton and Essex
• 1869/1870 – County of Brant gazetteer and directory for 1869/70
• 1870/1871 – Sutherland’s counties of Kent and Essex gazetteer and general business directory for 1870/71
• 1870/1871 – Counties of Perth and Waterloo gazetteer and general business directory for 1870/71
• 1871/1872 – Gazetteer and directory of county of Wellington for 1871/72
• 1874/1875 – Charlton & Co.’s county of Kent gazetteer, general and business directory, for 1874/75
• 1874/1875 – Fisher & Taylor’s gazetteer and general directory of county of Oxford
• 1875/1876 – Fisher & Taylor’s gazetteer and general directory of county of Wellington
• 1878/1879 – Perth county gazetteer and business directory for 1878/79
• 1879/1880 – County of Wellington gazetteer and directory for 1879/80
• 1882/1886 – County of Perth gazetteer and directory for 1882/86
• 1883/1884 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and classified business directory for counties of Elgin, Middlesex & Oxford
• 1883/1884 – Wellington county gazetteer and directory for 1883/84
• 1884/1885 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Halton, Waterloo and Wentworth
• 1884/1885 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Norfolk and Welland
• 1885/1886 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Brant, Norfolk, Waterloo & Wellington
• 1885/1886 – Union Publishing Co’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Lincoln, Welland & Wentworth
• 1885/1886 – Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for counties of Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford and Perth
• 1892/1893 – Union Publishing Company’s (of Ingersoll) farmers’ and business directory for counties of Haldimand, Halton, Lincoln, Welland and Wentworth
• 1896/1898 – Vernon’s county of Wentworth gazetteer and directory

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Citizenship Registration Records, 1851-1945 – Montreal Circuit Court
• Home Children – Boards of Guardians
• Home Children Records
• Immigrants at Grosse-Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
• Immigrants Before 1865
• Immigrants from China, 1885-1949
• Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922 (LI-RA-MA Collection)
• Immigrants Sponsored by the Montreal Emigrant Society, 1832
• Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics 1899-1949
• Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 – Upper Canada and Canada West
• Naturalization Records, 1915-1951
• Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922
• Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
• Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 – Nominal Indexes
• Ship Registration, 1787-1966
• Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930
• Border Entries
• Ocean Arrivals, Form 30A, 1919-1924

Exploration & Settlement

• Citizenship and Naturalization Records
• Citizenship Registration Records, 1851-1945 – Montreal Circuit Court
• Gaspé Land Commission — names of claimants, 1819-1825
• Home Children Records
• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
• Immigrants before 1865
• Immigrants from China
• Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922
• Immigrants Sponsored by the Montreal Emigrant Society, 1832
• Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
• Indian Reserves – Western Canada
• Land Petitions of Lower Canada (1764-1841)
• Loyalists
• Merrilees Transportation Collection – Canada, by Train (Database)
• Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 – Upper Canada and Canada West
• Naturalization Records, 1915-1951
• New France Archives
• Passenger Lists
• Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 – Nominal Indexes
• Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922
• Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
• Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
• Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
• Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930
• Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804)
• Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
• Western Land Grants (1870-1930)

Land & Property

• Land Grants of Western Canada, (1870-1930)
• Land Petitions of Lower Canada, (1764-1841)
• Land Petitions of Upper Canada, (1763-1865)
• Gaspé Land Commission — names of claimants, 1819-1825
• Land Boards of Upper Canada, (1765-1804)
• Upper Canada Land Books

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Maps, Charts, and Architectural plans and how to search them at BAC-LAC

Canadian Military Records

• Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807- Port Roseway Associates
• Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes
• Carleton Papers – Loyalists and British Soldiers
• Courts-martial of the First World War
• Faces of the Second World War
• Loyalists in the Maritimes — Ward Chipman Muster Master’s Office, 1777–1785
• Military Medals, Honours and Awards, 1812–1969
• North West Mounted Police (NWMP) – Personnel Records, 1873-1904
• Personnel Records of the First World War
• Photographs, War Records Office
• Service Files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1941 – Ledger Sheets
• Service Files of the Second World War – War Dead, 1939-1947
• South African War, 1899-1902 – Service Files, Medals and Land Applications
• War Diaries of the First World War
• War of 1812
• Veterans Death Cards: First World War
• Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
• Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War
• British military and naval records (RG 8, C Series) – Digitized documents
• British military and naval records (RG 8, C Series) – Introduction and index

Canada Daily Life Records

Art

• Canadian Illustrated News: Images in the News, 1869-1883
• Rare Book Illustrations, Before 1800

Biography

Biographies

• 100 Stories: Canadians who served in the First World War
• Emma Albani
• Marie-Anne Asselin
• Pierre-Aurèle Asselin
• Jack Ayre
• Roméo Beaudry
• Juliette Béliveau
• Joseph Fournier de Belleval
• Mary Travers Bolduc
• Rosario Bourdon
• Henry Burr
• Craig Campbell
• Thérèse Casgrain
• Choir of the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac
• Herbert L. Clarke
• Eugène Daignault
• Alexandre Desmarteaux
• Pauline Donalda
• Blanche DuBuisson
• Damase DuBuisson
• Tommy Duchesne
• Joseph Dumais
• The Dumbells
• Willie Eckstein
• Henrietta Muir Edwards
• Hubert Eisdell
• First World War Centenary: Honouring Canada’s Victoria Cross Recipients
• Sarah Fischer
• Howard Fogg
• Éva Gauthier
• J. Hervey Germain
• Elzéar Hamel
• Ross Hamilton
• Johana Harris
• May Irwin
• Harold Jarvis
• Kilties
• Henri Lacroix
• Forrest Lamont
• Orphée Langevin
• Arthur Lapierre
• Hercule Lavoie
• Édouard LeBel
• Christie MacDonald
• Harry Macdonough
• George MacFarlane
• Agnes Macphail
• Albert Marier
• Nellie McClung
• Louise McKinney
• Marshall McLuhan
• Henri Miro
• Alfred Montmarquette
• Edmond Moreau
• Placide Morency
• Billy Munro
• Emily Murphy
• Red Newman
• Alfred (Rochon) Nohcor
• Nurses (First World War)
• Victor Occellier
• Geoffrey O’Hara
• Rose Ouellette
• Lionel Parent
• Irene Parlby
• Kathleen Parlow
• Hector Pellerin
• Albert Plunkett
• Mert Plunkett
• The Prime Ministers of Canada (Archived)
• Quatuor Alouette
• Quatuor Octave-Pelletier
• Gitz Rice
• Joseph Saucier
• Joseph-Henri Thibodeau
• Andy Tipaldi
• Cora Tracey
• Fannie Tremblay
• Albert Viau

Educational

• Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
• Canadian Olympians
• Home Children – Boards of Guardians
• PIKA: Canadian Children’s Literature Database (Archived)
• School Files Series – 1879-1953 (RG10)

Ethnic Records

Indigenous Records

• Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
• Indian Reserves – Western Canada
• Project Naming (Database)
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements 
• Photographs by Locale
  • Alberta
  • British-Columbia
  • Manitoba
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut
  • Ontario
  • Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
  • Saskatchewan
  • Yukon

Minorities

• Citizenship and Naturalization Records
• Citizenship Registration Records, 1851-1945 – Montreal Circuit Court
• Disc-O-Logue
• Home Children Records
• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
• Immigrants before 1865
• Immigrants from China
• Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922
• Immigrants Sponsored by the Montreal Emigrant Society, 1832
• Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
• Indian Reserves – Western Canada
• Loyalists
• Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 – Upper Canada and Canada West
• Naturalization Records, 1915-1951
• New France Archives
• Passenger Lists
• Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 – Nominal Indexes
• Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922
• Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
• Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
• Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
• Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930

Genealogy

• Ancestors Search

Government & Politics

• Cabinet Conclusions
• Canada Gazette: A Nation’s Chronicle (Database) (Archived)
• Canadian Patents, 1869-1919
• Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Federal Publication Locator (Archived)
• Government of Canada Web Archive
• Index to Federal Royal Commissions
• Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
• Orders-in-Council
• Public Opinion Research Reports
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada’s Patriot Statesman (Database)
• Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
• Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
• Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
• Thérèse Casgrain
• Henrietta Muir Edwards
• Agnes Macphail
• Nellie McClung
• Louise McKinney
• Emily Murphy
• Irene Parlby
• The Prime Ministers of Canada (Archived)

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Mass-Digitized Archives

Literature

• Canadian Poetry Audio Archives
• Electronic Collection: A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals (Archived)
• History of the Book in Canada (Archived)
• PIKA: Canadian Children’s Literature Database (Archived)

Medical

• Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937

Music, Film, Videos, & Sound Recordings

• Canadian Feature Film Database
• Canadian Music Periodical Index
• Canadian Poetry Audio Archives
• Disc-O-Logue
• Film, Video and Sound
• RPM
• Sheet Music Collection
• Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings

Names & Surnames

• Ancestors Search

National Identity

• Canadian Feature Film Database
• Canadian Patents, 1869-1919
• Merrilees Transportation Collection – Canada, by Train (Database)
• New France Archives
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Newspapers

• Canada Gazette: A Nation’s Chronicle (Database) (Archived)
• French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) (Database) (Archived)

Photography

• Canadian Olympians
• Images Canada (Archived)
• Photographs, War Records Office
• Portrait Portal

Postal & Shipping

• Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
• Canadian Post Office Publications
• Post Offices and Postmasters
• Philatis Postal Archives (Archived)
  • Visual search (Archived)

Sports

• Canadian Olympians

Sundries

• Upper Canada Sundries

Canada Modern Helps

• Research Resources
• 1940 National Registration
• Aboriginal Documentary Heritage (Archived)
• Aboriginal Peoples: Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada (Archived)
• Ancestry.ca (subscription required; available free at many public libraries)
• ArtVenture: A Collector’s Challenge (Archived)
• Automated Genealogy
• Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective
• Bands and Agencies
• Battle of Passchendaele: Resources at Library and Archives Canada
• Battle of Vimy Ridge: Resources at Library and Archives Canada
• Black History in Canada
• Blog of Library and Archives Canada
• Canadian Historical Association Booklets
• Children’s Literature Service (Archived)
• Conducting Research on Residential Schools
• Directory of Library Symbols in Canada
• Early Chinese Canadians, 1858 to 1947
• Educational Resources for teachers (Archived)
• Electoral Atlas of the Dominion of Canada (1895) (Archived)
• Employment – Genealogy and Family History
• Family Search
• File and Item Descriptions for Aboriginal Heritage
• File History Cards, 1872-1984
• From Colony to Country: A Reader’s Guide to Canadian Military History (Archived)
• Genealogy and Family History
• General Index – card catalogue (Archives)
• Guide to Sending Organizations and Receiving Homes (Home Children)
• Holocaust-related holdings at Library and Archives Canada
• Home Children, 1869-1932
• The Home Front (1914-1918)
• Immigration Documents
• Indian Affairs Record Group 10 (RG10) Inventory
• Jacob M. Lowy Collection
• LAC Forum on Canadian Democracy (Archived)
• Land Grants to Veterans
• Learning Centre (Archived)
• Lest We Forget: Cenotaph Research
• Literary Archives: A Guide to the Literary Fonds at Library and Archives Canada
• Lord Elgin
• Maps, Charts and Architectural Plans Collection: A Search Guide
• Métis Genealogy
• Métis Scrip Records
• Military Heritage
• Multicultural Resources and Services (Archived)
• Music Archives at the National Library of Canada: A Guide (1994, 2003) (Archived)
• Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography (Archived)
• Newfoundland and Labrador: Census and Enumerations
• Newspaper Collection
• Nursing Sisters – Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters
• Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
• Portrait Portal
• Rare Book Collection
• Read Up On It (Archived)
• Residential School Records Resources
• Resources for Researchers
• TD Summer Reading Club
• The 1852 and 1881 Historical Censuses of Canada
• The History of Women’s Vote
• The War of 1812 at Library and Archives
• Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages and Deaths
• Voters Lists
• War Graves
• Yousuf Karsh: A Selective Bibliography