What's New

What's New

New documentary heritage and research tools on-line at Library and Archives Canada (2010-11)

On-line Research Aids for Military Records:

• British Military and Naval Records (RG 8 Index) 1757-1906
• An index of 517,101 cards referring to military and naval records from 1757 to 1906 in Canada.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html

• Medals, Honours and Awards
• A database of 113,000 archival references to medal registers, citation cards and records of various military awards, which includes some digitized images.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/medals/index-e.html

• Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
• New data added to the index to personnel service files of over 600,000 men and women enlisted as soldiers, nurses and chaplains in the CEF. Includes most of the original Attestation papers; as copies are purchased, the resulting digital files are gradually added to LAC's website.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-130-e.html

• List of Abbreviations used in Military Service Files (6,400 abbreviations)
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-909.011-e.html

On-line Genealogy Research Aids and Databases:

• Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
• Index of 77,000 references to petitions for grants or leases of land made between 1763 and 1865 in Ontario (RG1 L 3).
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/upper-canada-land/index-e.html

• Upper Canada Land Board 1765-1804
• Database of 16,400 references to Upper Canada Land Board records (RG 1 L4). Every name found in the records has been indexed.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/uclandboard/index-e.html
• Department of Immigration and Colonization: Passenger Lists, 1925-1935 (RG 76 C1)
• Addition of 182,000 digital images to this database of official immigration records for those who arrived in Canada by ship. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-130-0005-e.html?PHPSESSID=rm8gi6u536ukullqelr7okp056

• Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916
• A searchable database of the 1916 census. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1916/index-e.html (database)
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html (microfilm reels page by page)

• Canadian Naturalization database (1915-1951)
• Addition of lists of Canadians naturalized between 1932 and 1951.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/naturalization-1915-1932/index-e.html

• Ocean Arrivals (1919-1924)
• Digitized images of individual ships' manifests (Form 30A, RG 76 C1j), which include declarations of passengers (including children) who arrived at Canadian ports, in roughly alphabetical order.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.004.01-e.html

• 1851 Canadian Census (sometimes referred to as the Census of 1852)
• Addition of images to the database of the 1851 Census of Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1851/index-e.html

• Canadian Families (database with 5,651 entries)
• A database of references to baptisms, marriages and burials from a small collection of copies of church records held at LAC. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/families/index-e.html

• Canada Gazette (1841-1997)
• The database now contains over 95% of all issues of the Canada Gazette.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canada-gazette/index-e.html

• Orders in Council (1911-1916)
• Addition of indexed descriptions of orders-in-council from 1911 to 1916.
  www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/orders/index-e.html
• Immigration Records Headings - transcriptions of headings of different forms used to record the names of immigrants arriving in Canada between 1865 and 1935.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.012-e.html

• Immigration Records Indexes - links to different databases and websites offering nominal indexes or digitized images of immigration records.
• www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.013-e.html