This is a list of free Northwest Territories (Canada) Genealogy Records online at FamilySearch.

Included are Northwest Territories cemetery records, native races records and more. We’ll continue to add more Northwest Territories collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

These collections are all free to search. Due to contractual obligations, you’ll need to be logged in with a free FamilySearch account to view some of these records.  If you follow the link and find the record is locked, login to FamilySearch on your computer and this may unlock the collection. If you’re logged in and still see a key icon, this collection may require you to view them online at a local library. Use this Locator tool to find a location near you. 

How to View the Collections

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2. Other links take you to a catalog description page where you will have to select the link.

   • Look for a camera icon and select that icon

   • or look for red print and select “here”

3. If there is a key icon above the camera, this collection may be digitized and online, but you will either have to be signed in to your account at FamilySearch or they may need to be viewed at your local family history center or affiliate library. Find the nearest viewing center near you.

4. In a few cases, the collection may be in queue to be digitized and you’ll need to check back at a later date.

Northwest Territories Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Northwest Territories Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index

Northwest Territories Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index

Northwest Territories Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
• Canada – Canada Census Mortality Schedules, 1871, index

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
• Northwest Territories, Hay River – Hay River and Peace River, Canada cemeteries listings

Northwest Territories Residence Records

Census

• Canada – Canada Census, 1851, index
• Canada – Canada Census, 1871, index
• Canada – Canada Census, 1881, index & images
• Canada – Census schedules, 1881
• Canada – Canada Census, 1891, index
• Canada – Census schedules, 1891
• Canada – Canada Census, 1901, index & images
• Canada – Census schedules, 1901
• Canada – Canada Census, 1911, index
• Canada – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911 : schedule 1, population

Land & Property

• Northwest Territories – The Canadian North-west, its early development and legislative records : minutes of the Councils of the Red River colony and the Northern Dept. of Rupert’s Land

Northwest Territories Daily Life Records

Biography

• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – The Yellowknife years
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Yellowknife, N.W.T., an illustrated history

Description & Travel

• Northwest Territories – Canada on the Pacific : being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the Dominion with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific Railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia
• Northwest Territories – Roughing it in the North-West Territories of Canada twenty years ago

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• Northwest Territories – The riders of the plains : a record of the Royal North-West Mounted Police of Canada

Ethnic Records

Native American Records

• Northwest Territories – Canada on the Pacific : being an account of a journey from Edmonton to the Pacific by the Peace River Valley and of a winter voyage along the western coast of the Dominion with remarks on the physical features of the Pacific Railway route and notices of the Indian tribes of British Columbia
• Northwest Territories, Holman – The Northern Copper Inuit, a history

History

• Northwest Territories – The Canadian North-west, its early development and legislative records: minutes of the Councils of the Red River colony and the Northern Dept. of Rupert’s Land
• Northwest Territories – Indiana and the old Northwest : an exhibition in honor of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Indiana Historical Society, November 1980-February 1981
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Yellowknife
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – The Yellowknife years
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Yellowknife, N.W.T., an illustrated history
• Northwest Territories, Holman – The Northern Copper Inuit, a history

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Archives of the City of Yellowknife
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Archives of the Northwest Territories Council, 1921-1951
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Preliminary guide to holdings of the Northwest Territories Archives

Public Records

• Northwest Territories – The Canadian North-west, its early development and legislative records: minutes of the Councils of the Red River colony and the Northern Dept. of Rupert’s Land
• Northwest Territories, Yellowknife – Archives of the City of Yellowknife

Social Life & Customs

• Northwest Territories, Holman – The Northern Copper Inuit, a history