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
- Citizenship and Naturalization Records
- Citizenship Registration Records, 1851-1945 - Montreal Circuit Court
- Gaspé Land Commission. List of names of claimants (1819-1825)
- Home Children Records
- Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
- Immigrants before 1865
- Immigrants from China
- Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922
- Immigrants Sponsored by the Montreal Emigrant Society, 1832
- Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
- Indian Reserves - Western Canada
- Land Petitions of Lower Canada (1764-1841)
- Loyalists
- Merrilees Transportation Collection - Canada, by Train (Database)
- Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 - Upper Canada and Canada West
- Naturalization Records, 1915-1951
- New France Archives
- Passenger Lists
- Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 - Nominal Indexes
- Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922
- Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
- Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
- Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
- Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930
- Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804)
- Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
- Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Digitized Microforms
Electronic Collection
Reference Websites
Research Aids
Thematic Guides
Virtual Exhibitions
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