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Exploration and Settlement
Library and Archives Canada holds vast resources related to exploration, immigration, naturalization and citizenship. Some of the types of resources available include immigrant diaries, Geological Survey of Canada records, fur trade records, Hudson's Bay Company records, land grants, quarantine records, French and British colonial records, maps and artwork. Notable literary works such as the Jesuit Relations highlight our collection of early Canadiana.
Databases
- ARCHIVED - Canada, by Train (Database)
- Canadian Directories: Who Was Where
- Canadian Historical Association Booklets
- Canadian Naturalization 1915-1951
- Citizenship Registration Records for the Montreal Circuit Court (1851-1945)
- Home Children (1869-1930)
- Immigrants at Grosse-Île
- Immigrants from China
- Immigrants to Canada
- Immigration Records (1925-1935)
- Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
- Indian Reserves - Western Canada
- Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection
- Lower Canada Land Petitions
- ARCHIVED - Maps, Plans and Charts
- Microform Digitization
- Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
- Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
- Port Roseway Associates
- ARCHIVED - Private Archives and Colonial Records
- Quebec City Passenger Lists Index, 1865-1900
- Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
- Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
- Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records (1828-1850)
- Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804)
- Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
- Ward Chipman, Muster Master's Office (1777-1785)
- Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Research Aids
- ARCHIVED - Aboriginal Documentary Heritage
- Aboriginal Peoples - Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada
- Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography (archived site)
- Arctic Exploration and the Search for the Northwest Passage (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Arctic Quest: The Northwest Passage
- ARCHIVED - Black History Month
- Genealogy and Family History. What to Search: Immigration and Citizenship
- Genealogy and Family History. What to Search: Land
- Canadian Immigration Since Confederation and the Department of External Affairs - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Deportation from Canada, 1893-1977 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Early Meteorology Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- ARCHIVED - From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History
- Grosse-Île Quarantine Station (Québec) - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration Instructions: A Chart of Circulars, Directives and Operations Memoranda, 1909-1978 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration of Farm Labourers to Canada, 1918-1945 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration Records Most Frequently Used - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France (archived site)
- Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Most Frequently Used Immigration Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Organized Crime in Canada After 1945 and Immigration Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Records on the Immigration of Domestics - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Rideau Canal - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The Search for Franklin and Franklin Relics: 1847-1880 (archived site)
Virtual Exhibitions
- ARCHIVED - The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
- Canada at Scale: Maps of our History (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Canada By Design: Parliament Hill, Ottawa
- Canada - A Collector's Passion: The Peter Winkworth Collection (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Canada, by Train
- ARCHIVED - Canadian Confederation
- ARCHIVED - The Canadian State: Documents and Dialogue
- ARCHIVED - The Early Chinese Canadians, 1858 to 1947
- ARCHIVED - Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
- Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832-1937
- ARCHIVED - The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement
- ARCHIVED - The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains
- ARCHIVED - Life of a Rock Star
- ARCHIVED - Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience
- New France New Horizons: On French Soil in America
[www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/
accueil_en.html] - Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration (archived site)
- Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers (archived site)
- Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (archived site)
- ARCHIVED - Paul-Emile Miot: Photographs of Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
- ARCHIVED - The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf: Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at LAC
- ARCHIVED - Shipwreck Investigations
- ARCHIVED - SOS! Canadian Disasters
- ARCHIVED - Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
- ARCHIVED - Treaty 8
- ARCHIVED - Under a Northern Star
- ARCHIVED - A Virtual Schoolhouse
- ARCHIVED - "Without Fear, Favour or Affection" The Men of the North West Mounted Police
- ARCHIVED - Written in Stone: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada
