Atlantic Canada Resources

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Here you will find resource links to help you in researching profiles from New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. This page is maintained by the Atlantic Canada Team, part of the Canada Project.

Atlantic Canada

• FamilySearch provides indexed primary data and images from a large number of databases. They're free (although you need to register), and have preformatted citations.
• Library and Archives Canada gives you online, searchable access to Canadian resources such as Census records, military records, immigration, genealogy and Aboriginal ancestry. Just keep in mind that NS and NB joined confederation in 1867, PEI was not part of Canada until 1873, and Newfoundland didn't join until 1949.

New Brunswick

• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick contains searchable databases of records of births, marriages, deaths, and immigration; land records; cemeteries, and other resources.
• Canadian Encyclopedia, New Brunswick chapter.
• List of famous people from New Brunswick
• List of people from New Brunswick.
• GeoNB Online maps of New Brunswick including the Grant Reference Plan (GRP) Viewer which has the original land grants marked on it.
• The New Brunswick Genealogical Society is a volunteer-based non-profit organization with low-cost memberships for individuals and families, which comes with access to a quarterly journal, a forum to post queries, and a wide variety of genealogy related material associated with our New Brunswick ancestors.

Newfoundland

• Newfoundland's Grand Banks Site is a collection of transcribed birth, death, and marriage records; censuses; wills; headstones and other material of genealogical value.
• Newfoundland GenWeb is a collection of transcribed birth, death, and marriage records; censuses; wills; headstones and other material of genealogical value. It overlaps, but not entirely, the content on the Newfoundland's Grand Banks Site.
• The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland, at Memorial University. (note, as of Aug 21, this is down, but is expected to return this month.)
• The Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador is a volunteer-based non-profit organization with low-cost memberships, which comes with access to a quarterly journal, a forum for queries, and a wide variety of genealogy related material associated with our Newfoundland and Labrador ancestors.
• The Rooms Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Museums and archives.

Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia Resources

Prince Edward Island

• Prince Edward Island Public Archives Online (PARO). Search a surname, and you will find lists of vital records for baptism, death and birth, links to Census information and other documents (maps, photos, court records, etc) held by the Prince Edward Island Public Archives
• Island Archives.ca is housed at the University of PEI, and contains newspapers, maps, stories and other collections that can be super-useful.
• The Island Register is a genealogy website for PEI ancestors, which provides access to early census indexes, maps and various other useful resources
• The Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society is a volunteer-based non-profit organization with low-cost memberships, which comes with access to a quarterly journal, and a wide variety of genealogy related material associated with our Nova Scotia ancestors.
• FamilySearch has published microfilm of original cemetery transcripts found at the P.E.I. Heritage Foundation, Charlottetown, P.E.I.