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Ontario is the most multicultural province in Canada. Its population of 12 million includes First Nations and immigrants from 200 countries who speak as many as 130 languages. These resources will help you improve Ontario profiles as part of Team Ontario or discover how your own ancestors helped shape today’s Ontario.

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Ontario Parish Registers-

Parish registers Items 5-8 Baptisms, 1761-1767 Marriages, 1760-1767 Baptisms, 1767-1771 Marriages, burials, 1768-1771 Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1772-1808 Registres paroissiaux Items 1-4 Registres paroissiaux Citation "Canada, Ontario Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YW8-GX?cc=1927566&wc=M6VY-768%3A221001501%2C221169501%2C221169502%2C221169503 : 22 April 2021), Essex > Windsor > Assumption > Baptisms 1761-1767 > image 2 of 9; Catholic Church parishes, Ontario.

posted by Arora (G) Anonymous
Please change the now dead link for Peel Heritage Property Research Guide to

https://archive.org/download/heritage-property-research-guide-2014/HeritagePropertyResearchGuide2014.pdf

And also add Peel fire insurance plans : https://www.archeion.ca/fire-insurance-plans

posted by M Ross
Mississauga, Heritage Mississauga https://heritagemississauga.com/ has many different ways you can find information about people and places in current day Mississauga, Clarkson, Port Credit, Dixie, Streetsville, Cooksville, Sheridan, and others.

They will do paid research.

Their blog includes a feature called Way Back Wednesday, it describes in detail the settlement of and the original residents of specific parts of the city. These posts include family histories and often photos .You will need to search through the posts to find entries for the particular areas. https://heritagemississauga.com/blog/

posted by M Ross
For those with ancestors in the Orangeville area, including Alton, County Wellington and County Dufferin.

The Dufferin Museum has a wonderful collection of records including:

By-Laws & Municipal Council Minutes, Assessment & Collectors Rolls, Land Records, Genealogy / Family History Records, Local Newspapers dating from 1861, School Records, Maps, Atlases, Cemetery Transcriptions and Indexes to Church Records, Photographs and Post Cards.

The Newspaper collection has many marriage announcements, obituaries and social events, I have found it incredibly useful in linking extended family members.

https://www.dufferinmuseum.com/about-our-collections/

posted by M Ross
I am not sure if this is posted or not ..I did not see it

Toronto City Directories online https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/history-genealogy/lh-digital-city-directories.jsp

I find it useful for seeing where people lived & Occupations when trying to compare similar names etc..

Lynda

posted by [Living Hill]
Not sure if this is a valid source but it sure makes my research easy.

http://jacquest.fortunecity.ws/index.htm Can I rely on this information? I would think if I can back it with other valid information if possible. What do you think?

Can someone help? I'm not too familiar with WT, but I think this is a great resource and also befitting a new category "Settlers of West Nipissing, Ontario"

https://www.societehistoriquenipissingouest.com/

Excerpt: This region, called West Nipissing, contains ten municipalities: Cache Bay, Crystal Falls, Desaulniers, Field, Kipling, Lavigne, Monetville North, River Valley, Sturgeon Falls and Verner.

My ancestors are settlers from this area and would like to attach them if possible. What do you think?

Hi Gilberte,

I've sent you a private message.

Laurie

posted by Laurie Cruthers
Ontario Historical County Maps Project- this project is a collaboration between several Canadian universities- in essence The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project is being brought into the 21st century. The maps have been scanned at a very high resolution, names have been digitally added, and the maps can be searched by name, location or both. This project is not finished so the area you wish to search, may not be available yet, the last update was in October 2019.

I have found this site very useful.

https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/hgis/countymaps/aboutus.html

This information is taken directly from their website: Nineteenth Century County Maps of Canada are considered an invaluable source of settlement history for Eastern Canada. The large wall maps usually covered one, but sometimes two or three counties, and included such features as the survey grid, roads, railroads, towns, buildings, and most importantly, the names of the rural residents. They also contained agricultural, cultural and natural features and information.

Fifty-four counties are known to have been mapped between 1856 and 1888, although 45 of these were produced between 1859 and 1869. Thirty two of these are of Ontario and rest were spread throughout Eastern Canada. Five Ontario county maps were revised to produce second editions. Of the few original maps still in existence, most are held in libraries and archives across the country.


Many of these maps are in poor condition. In this project we are compiling and creating a geospatial database of land occupancy, cultural information, and environmental change based on these maps. The database, along with the high resolution images will then be made available through this web mapping application. Crucial to the intent of the project is to make available to everyone these important 19th century land ownership maps and the information they contain.

Please be aware the Ontario Historical County Maps Project is a work in progress, many maps are currently being scanned, geo-referenced, and names continue to be added to the database.

posted by M Ross
The Historic Westmeath Project is a marvelous collection of local area history and well documented histories of local families. This township is located in the Upper Ottawa River Valley in Eastern Ontario, Canada, approximately 90 minutes north west of Ottawa, on the Ottawa river.

http://hwtproject.ca

posted by M Ross
Hi Laurie,

The link below is a free site that presents an 1880 Map of Ontario Counties, Townships and most towns and cities. The Search button at the bottom allows one to search for relatives in the selected County or Township and displays his land holdings by displaying the Lot, Concession, acreage and location on the map.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php

posted by John Campbell
Here is an directory for Ottawa and Hull for the Sons of England Lodges

https://archive.org/details/cihm_13830/page/n3

posted by Gaelynn Wall
Laurie,

I love all of the resources you have listed. I may have missed it in you list, but one of my favorite is here:

https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers2/home

May of my family settled in the Niagara area.

Jamie

posted by Jamie (Davis) Thompson

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