WikiTree Sourcer support for Library and Archives Canada
Location: Canada
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WikiTree Sourcer support for Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
As of 19 October 2023 WikiTree Sourcer supports searching for and creating citations from records on the Library and Archives Canada site. This site has Canadian census records plus other searchable collections.
Supported Collections
Sourcer aims to support all collections except "Film, Video and Sound". Let me know if you find one that it doesn't work on.
The new and old sites
The LAC site is in the process of transitioning from an old web site design to a new one. Sourcer only supports creating citations on the new design pages (since we don't want to cite links that may soon stop working).
To assist in the transition I added a feature to find the new page. When on an old format record there is a menu item "Search new LAC site for this record". It works for all the census pages and some other collections. If you find an old style page where this doesn't work well please let me know and send me a link to the record page - I need to add a case for each old collection.
There appear to be some records on the old site that have not yet been moved to the new site. For example Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930.
Links in citations
The new design of the website includes a "Link to this record" button which says "This link identifies the web page describing this particular record. Unlike the temporary link in your browser, this link will allow you to access, and reference, this page in the future. To link to this descriptive record, copy and paste the URL where ever needed (wiki, blog, document).". WikiTree Sourcer will attempt to automatically use that permalink in the citations it generates.
Search across sites
For the census records Sourcer knows the collections names on different sites so you can search from a LAC census record to an Ancestry census record for example. Since the LAC site doesn't have an transcription of households this allows you to create a household table on Ancestry, FamilySearch or FindMyPast for example.
Example: from this LAC 1881 census record you can search for the same record on Ancestry and find this record and vice versa.
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