If you wanted to acquire land in Upper Canada, there was a process or path to follow. The essential steps were the same, but depending on who you were, your particular circumstances, and where the land was situated, the path and the settler’s experience could be quite different. The key […]
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This is the second of a series of posts about Township Papers—an important set of early Ontario land records—arranged alphabetically by township and sometimes town. You’ll find the first post here. This record group, RG 1-58 from the Archives of Ontario, is big—72 metres of paper records, microfilmed on 541 […]
This is the first in a series of posts about an important set of records for Crown Land research, Township Papers. Think of it as a conveniently organized gateway into the massive collection of Crown Land records at the Archives of Ontario. It may be a gateway, but it is […]
This post was written to support a presentation by the same name—and is a revised version of a post from 2014. In preparation for the talk, I’ve dug pretty deeply into records spanning 1914 to 1919 and found some really good reasons why all Ontario researchers should pay special attention […]
I’ve written this post to accompany a presentation to the Quinte Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. I’ll be concentrating on records from Prince Edward and Hastings Counties, although much of what I have to say will apply across the province. If you have ancestors from Hastings or Prince Edward, […]
I travelled virtually to speak to Sudbury Branch of OGS this week, pretty happy to avoid the real snowstorm predicted to follow the next day. The talk focussed on Northern Ontario surrogate courts—and my efforts to become the expert in the room been fascinating. While I admit that I don’t […]
For a presentation earlier in 2019, I combed through a particularly interesting set of records at the Archives of Ontario. Known as RG 11, they were created by the agencies promoting and analyzing immigration to Ontario from about 1834 to about 1902. This post is about a single file of […]
In this post, I’ll give you some details of the sources I used in my search for members of the Thirteen Club. Many of the sources were new to me, and some were old standards but viewed through a different filter. I hope you’ll find them useful. Here’s a link […]