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Québec Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Québec Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index
• Québec – Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979, index & images
• Québec – Quebec Births and Baptisms, 1662-1898, index
• Québec – Quebec, Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies, Family Origins, 1621-1865, index links to images
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Church records, 1826-1848
• Québec – Index de l’état civil, naissances, mariages, sépultures, Québec, catholiques, 1800-1990
• Québec – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Québec – Parish town guide to the province of Quebec
• Québec – Quebec index to civil copy of church records, 1642-1902
• Québec – Quebec, non-Catholic parish registers, 1763-1967
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres, 1840-1850
• Québec – The Baptists of Canada: a history of their progress and achievements
• Lévis, Québec – Church records, 1827-1900(Church of England)
• Maniwaki, Québec – Québec, Gatineau, Maniwaki, registres paroissiaux, 1843-1920
• Maniwaki, Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1843-1876
• Montréal – Fichiers de l’état civil, district judiciaire de Montréal , 1642-1899
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1900-1925
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1926-1950
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1951-1960
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1961-1969
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal, catholique, par le nom de l’épouse, 1900-1960
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Church records, 1840-1875 (Church of England)
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Québec, Rivière-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup,Church records, 1888-1899, 1908-1912
• Saint-Martin, Québec – Church records, 1842-1859 (United Church of England and Ireland. St. Stephen)

Québec Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index
• Québec – Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979, index & images
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Church records, 1826-1848
• Québec – Index alphabétique des mariages de certaines paroisses du Québec : supplément à la Collection Loiselle
• Québec – Index to marriages of Quebec and adjacent areas, 1670-1964, approx.
• Québec – Loiselle card index to many marriages of the province of Quebec and adjacent areas
• Québec – Lower Canada marriage bonds, 1779-1844, 1860
• Québec – Mariages de Québec : comtés de Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Richmond, Wolfe, Compton, Nicolet, Arthabaska, Mégantic et Frontenac (sud-ouest)
• Québec – Nominal card index for the Lower Canada marriage bonds
• Québec – Index de l’état civil, naissances, mariages, sépultures, Québec, catholiques, 1800-1990
• Québec – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Québec – Parish town guide to the province of Quebec
• Québec – Quebec index to civil copy of church records, 1642-1902
• Québec – Quebec, Catholic parish registers, 1621-1979
• Québec – Quebec, non-Catholic parish registers, 1763-1967
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres, 1840-1850
• Québec – The Baptists of Canada: a history of their progress and achievements
• Lévis, Québec – Church records, 1827-1900(Church of England)
• Maniwaki, Québec – Québec, Gatineau, Maniwaki, registres paroissiaux, 1843-1920
• Maniwaki, Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1843-1876
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1900-1925
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1926-1950
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1951-1960
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1961-1969
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal, catholique, par le nom de l’épouse, 1900-1960
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Church records, 1840-1875 (Church of England)
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Québec, Rivière-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup,Church records, 1888-1899, 1908-1912
• Saint-Martin, Québec – Church records, 1842-1859 (United Church of England and Ireland. St. Stephen)

Québec Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
• Québec – Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979, index & images
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Québec – Church records, 1826-1848
• Québec – Father John MacDonald’s diary of deaths, 1819-1866 & 1839 census, in part
• Québec – Index de l’état civil, naissances, mariages, sépultures, Québec, catholiques, 1800-1990
• Québec – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Québec – Parish town guide to the province of Quebec
• Québec – Quebec index to civil copy of church records, 1642-1902
• Québec – Quebec, Catholic parish registers, 1621-1979
• Québec – Quebec, non-Catholic parish registers, 1763-1967
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Québec – Registres, 1840-1850
• Québec – The Baptists of Canada: a history of their progress and achievements
• Lévis, Québec – Church records, 1827-1900(Church of England)
• Maniwaki, Québec – Québec, Gatineau, Maniwaki, registres paroissiaux, 1843-1920
• Maniwaki, Québec – Registres paroissiaux, 1843-1876
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1900-1925
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1926-1950
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1951-1960
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1961-1969
• Montréal – Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal, catholique, par le nom de l’épouse, 1900-1960
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Church records, 1840-1875 (Church of England)
• Rivière-du-Loup, Québec – Québec, Rivière-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup,Church records, 1888-1899, 1908-1912
• Saint-Martin, Québec – Church records, 1842-1859 (United Church of England and Ireland. St. Stephen)

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
• Québec – St. Francois Xavier cemetery

Obituaries

• Québec – Nécrologies de la Vallée de la Rivière des Outaouais, Québec & Ontario : pour l’année 1988, Le Droit
• Québec – Québec, les avis de décès et nécrologies, 1940-1990

Wills & Probate

• Québec – Québec, district judiciaire de Québec, tutelles et curatelles = Quebec, Quebec judicial district, guardianships, 1639-1930
• Montréal – Tutelles et curatelles, district judiciaire de Montréal, 1658-août 1871

Québec Residence Records

Census

• 1666 – Le premier recensement de la Nouvelle-France
• 1666-1681 – Recensements : 1666-1681
• 1825 – Lower Canada – Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1825, index & images
• 1825 – Lower Canada – Census of Lower Canada [now Québec], 1825
• 1831 – Lower Canada – Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1831, index & images
• 1831 – Canada – Census returns: 1831
• 1842 – Lower Canada – Canada, Lower Canada Census, 1842, index & images
• 1842 – Canada – Census returns: 1842
• 1851 – Canada – Canada Census, 1851, index
• 1851 – Canada – Census of Canada, 1851
• 1861 – Canada – Census of Canada, 1861
• 1861 – Quebec – Quebec Census, 1861, index links to images
• 1871 – Canada – Canada Census Mortality Schedules, 1871, index
• 1871 – Canada – Canada Census, 1871, index
• 1871 – Canada – Canada census mortality schedules, 1871
• 1871 – Canada – Canada census, 1871
• 1871 – Canada – Census of Canada, 1871 (“nominal return of the living” schedule no. 1 only)
• 1871 – Canada – Census of Canada, 1871 (schedules no. 1-9)
• 1881 – Canada – Canada Census, 1881, index & images
• 1881 – Canada – Census schedules, 1881
• 1891 – Canada – Canada Census, 1891, index
• 1891 – Canada – Census schedules, 1891
• 1901 – Canada – Canada Census, 1901, index & images
• 1901 – Canada – Canada census, 1901
• 1911 – Canada – Canada Census, 1911, index
• 1911 – Canada – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911: schedule 1, population

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
• Quebec, Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies, Family Origins, 1621-1865, index links to images
• Immigration Form 30A, ocean arrivals, 1919-1924
• Miscellaneous records on emigration from England and Scotland to Canada located in the Public Archives of Canada
• Quebec City passenger lists, 1865-1900; index, 1865-1869
• The Scot in New France : an ethnological study read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 29th November, 1880
• The Scot in New France : an ethnological study, inaugural address, lecture season, 1880-81, read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 29th November, 1880
• Ships’ passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935
• Extracts from letters written during a first year’s residence in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada

Land & Property

• The clergy reserves : their history and present position, showing the systematic attempts that have been made to establish in connection with the state, a dominant church in Canada : with a full account of the rectories …
• Land records for the Province of Quebec, 1788-1867
• Land records, 1784-1857
• List of lands granted by the crown in the province of Québec from 1763 to 31st December 1890
• Lower Canada land petitions and related records, 1637-1842
• Return … to the Governor General, 7th March last : list of the Patents granted in Lower Canada for lots and land exceeding five hundred acres, from 1795 to 1848 … and the conditions contained therein
• The seigniorial system in Canada : a study in French colonial policy
• A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada, with remarks upon Upper Canada and the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America
• Documents relating to the seigniorial tenure in Canada, 1598-1854

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• County maps of Canada (provinces of Quebec and Ontario)
• Map of Lake Champlain from Fort Chambly to Fort St. Frederic or Crown Point
• Some early maps depicting the Lake Champlain area, 1542-1792
• Répertoire géographique du Québec
• A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada, with remarks upon Upper Canada and the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Court records, 1794-1811

Québec Daily Life Records

Biography

• Les Anciennes familles du Québec
• The back forty : farm life in the Ottawa Valley
• Dictionnaire biographique du clergé canadien-français : les contemporains
• Notice sur les fondateurs de Montréal

Church

• Fichiers de l’état civil, district judiciaire de Montréal , 1642-1899
• Index alphabétique des mariages de certaines paroisses du Québec : supplément à la Collection Loiselle
• Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1900-1925
• Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1926-1950
• Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1951-1960
• Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal et région, catholiques, 1961-1969
• Index de l’état civil, mariages, district judiciaire de Montréal, catholique, par le nom de l’épouse, 1900-1960
• Index de l’état civil, naissances, mariages, sépultures, Québec, catholiques, 1800-1990
• Index to marriages of Quebec and adjacent areas, 1670-1964, approx.
• Loiselle card index to many marriages of the province of Quebec and adjacent areas
• Quebec, births and baptisms, 1662-1898
• Quebec, Catholic parish registers, 1621-1979
• The Baptists of Canada : a history of their progress and acheivements
• Baptêmes, mariages, et sépultures des cantons de l’est,1840-1846
• Church records, 1826-1848
• Church records, 1827-1900
• Church records, 1840-1875
• Church records, 1842-1859
• Father John MacDonald’s diary of deaths, 1819-1866 & 1839 census, in part
• Mariages de Québec : comtés de Drummond, Sherbrooke, Stanstead, Richmond, Wolfe, Compton, Nicolet, Arthabaska, Mégantic et Frontenac (sud-ouest)
• Parish town guide to the province of Quebec
• Quebec, Catholic parish registers, 1621-1979
• Quebec, non-Catholic parish registers, 1763-1967
• Québec, Gatineau, Maniwaki, registres paroissiaux, 1843-1920
• Québec, Rivière-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup,Church records, 1888-1899, 1908-1912
• Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Registres paroissiaux, 1843-1876
• Registres, 1840-1850
• A genealogical guide to the Catholic churches of the Province of Quebec
• Church history file
• The clergy reserves : their history and present position, showing the systematic attempts that have been made to establish in connection with the state, a dominant church in Canada : with a full account of the rectories …
• Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d’Ottawa et de la colonisation dans la vallée de l’Ottawa
• Story of the first hundred years of the Diocese of Quebec
• Dictionnaire biographique du clergé canadien-français : les contemporains

Court Records

• Québec, district judiciaire de Québec, tutelles et curatelles = Quebec, Quebec judicial district, guardianships, 1639-1930
• Tutelles et curatelles, district judiciaire de Montréal, 1658-août 1871

Description & Travel

• Copy of the journal of Isaac Allen, 1804, 1805, as he travelled by horseback in the Pennsylvania, Maine, Quebec, and New York areas
• Cursory View of the local, social, moral and political State of the colony of Lower Canada
• A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada, with remarks upon Upper Canada and the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America
• Travels through Lower Canada, interspersed with Canadian tales & anecdotes and interesting information to intending emigrants
• The tourist, or pocket manual for travellers on the Hudson River, the western canal and stage road to Niagara Falls, down Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec : comprising also the routes to Lebanon, Ballston, and Saratoga Springs

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• Applications for medical licenses, 1788-1848
• The back forty : farm life in the Ottawa Valley

Genealogy

• Quebec, Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies, Family Origins, 1621-1865, index links to images
• Dictionnaire genealogique des familles canadiennes
• Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu’a nos jours
• Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu’à nos jours
• La famille Canac-Marquis et familles alliées : dictionnaire généalogique
• Genealogical dictionary o[f] our origins
• Institut généalogique Drouin : une oeuvre nationale : its history, its documentary evidence, its professional character, its personnel, its future, its diverse works, testimonials
• Our French-Canadian ancestors
• Tracing ancestors through the province of Quebec and Acadia to France
• Le Mois généalogique : organe mensuel de la Société généalogique canadienne-française
• Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française
• Saguenayensia (Société historique du Saguenay) : la revue d’histoire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
• La Voix des Fréchette

Government & Legal

• Cases selected from those heard and determined in the Vice-Admiralty Court for Lower Canada [1836-1856 ; 1859-1874] relating chiefly to the jurisdiction and practice of the court, or involving questions of maritime law of frequent occurrence in the trade and navigation of the river and gulf of St. Lawrence: preceded by the rules and regulations established under the authority of the Imperial Parliament: with an appendix containing the original commission constituting the court, and other documents relating to the same

Government & Politics

• Canada in 1837-38 : showing, by historical facts, the causes of the late attempted revolution, and of its failure; the present condition of the people, and their future prospects; together with the personal adventures of the author, and others who were connected with the revolution
• A few more words upon Canada

History

• Arnold’s march from Cambridge to Quebec : a critical study, together with a reprint from Arnold’s Journal
• Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
• Devant la statue de Mercier : discours et recits de l’inauguration du monument
• Ecrin d’amour familial : détails historiques au sujet d’une famille, comme il y en a tant d’autres au Canada qui devraient avoir leur histoire
• A few more words upon Canada
• Histoire de la province ecclésiastique d’Ottawa et de la colonisation dans la vallée de l’Ottawa
• Le Québec de 1663
• Mélanges historiques : études, éparses et inédites
• The Patriotes of ’37 : a chronicle of the Lower Canadian rebellion
• Pioneers of the Eastern Townships : a work containing official and reliable information respecting the formation of settlements, with incidents in their early history, and details of adventures, perils, and deliverances
• Quebec : portrait of a province
• The Scot in New France : an ethnological study read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 29th November, 1880
• The Scot in New France : an ethnological study, inaugural address, lecture season, 1880-81, read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 29th November, 1880
• Genealogical dictionary o[f] our origins
• Saguenayensia (Société historique du Saguenay) : la revue d’histoire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean

Language & languages

• Le parler franco-acadien et ses origines

Magazines & Periodicals

• Index to the Québec gazette, 1764-1823
• Le Mois généalogique : organe mensuel de la Société généalogique canadienne-française
• Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française
• Saguenayensia (Société historique du Saguenay) : la revue d’histoire du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
• La Voix des Fréchette

Names & Surnames

• French-Canadian surnames: aliases, adulterations and anglicizations
• Quebec, Quebec Federation of Genealogical Societies, Family Origins, 1621-1865, index links to images

Notarial Records

• The notaries of French-Canada, 1626-1900 : alphabetical, chronologically, by area served
• Québec, notarial records, 1800-1900

Public Records

• Dispatches from U.S. Consuls in Montreal, Canada to the Secretary of State, 1850-1906

Religion and religious life

• Civil liberty in Lower Canada

Societies

• St. George’s Society, Quebec, founded M.DCCC.XXXV : officers and members, with the reports, ending 5th January, 1850
• Le Mois généalogique : organe mensuel de la Société généalogique canadienne-française

Québec Military Records

• Lower Canada and Canada East, rebellion records, 1837-1838
• Canada in 1837-38 : showing, by historical facts, the causes of the late attempted revolution, and of its failure; the present condition of the people, and their future prospects; together with the personal adventures of the author, and others who were connected with the revolution
• Histoire de la milice canadienne-française, 1760-1897
• Canada in 1837-38 : showing, by historical facts, the causes of the late attempted revolution, and of its failure; the present condition of the people, and their future prospects; together with the personal adventures of the author, and others who were connected with the revolution