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Canadian Genealogical Resources

• Adoption
  • My Telus Phone Book
  • Adoptee and Birth Family Registry
  • Adoption.com
    • Adoption Forums
    • Adoption Registry
    • Adoption Assistance Information Support Home Page
      Support Forums, FAQ on Adoption, FAQ on Searching, Surrogacy, Search Assistance, Adoptee/Birth Parent Free Search Registry
  • Canadopt.ca
  • Canadian Adoptees Registry and Classifieds
    • Registration form
  • Cyndi's List - Adoption
  • Cyndi's List - Finding People
  • Cyndi's List - Orphans
  • Kindred Pursuits
    Kindred Pursuits is a free registry available to anyone searching for kin in Canada or the United States. 19,847 Registrations and growing!
  • Post-Legal Adoption Support Group (Manitoba)
  • The Triad Society For Truth in Adoption of Canada
  • Together Again
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• Archives
  • Archives Canada
  • Library and Archives of Canada
    As of October 2, 2002 the National Library of Canada and the Canadian National Archives Converged to become the Library and Archives of Canada
    • ArchiviaNet Online Databases
      Records created by department and agencies of the Federal Government of Canada: Census Records, Military Records, Métis Script, Post Offices, Home Children, Dominion Land Grants, Immigration Records, Colonial Archives, Prime Minister Papers, Audio Visual records-Films, Photography, Works of Art and Caricatures
      • 1871 Ontario Federal Census Index
      • 1901 Canadian Census
        Access digitized images of the original census returns, which record age, nationality, religion, profession, income, education, etc for every single resident of Canada on 31 March 1901.
      • 1906 Census of the Northwest Provinces
      • 1911 Census of Canada
      • Indian Reserves - Western Canada
        
      • Métis Scrip Records
        Contains over 15,000 digital images
      • Colonial Archives
        The Colonial Archives Database contains over 70,000 detailed descriptions (file or item) of textual documents in the archival collection, pertaining primarily to the British and French colonial periods and archives collections relating to the Catholic Church.
      • Government of Canada Files
        The database contains about 1,2 million descriptions of files created by departments and agencies of the Federal Government of Canada as well as have access to over 1,000 digital images on-line about the 1970 Cabinet conclusions.
      • Home Children 1869-1930
        Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the National Archives of Canada.
      • Immigration Records 1925-1935
      • Photographs
        Over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. This search tool allows you to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, modern and old, as well as have access to some digitized images on-line.
      • Post Offices and Post Masters
      • Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
        An index to the personnel files of over 600,000 soldiers who enlisted during the First World War
      • War Diaries of the First World War
      • Western Land Records
        Records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia, c. 1870-1930.
    • AVITUS - Directory of Resources
      The Directory of Canadian Genealogical Resources, AVITUS, enables you to access databases, catalogues and Web sites regarding genealogical fonds and collections all over Canada.
      • Simple Search
      • Detailed Search
      • Browse the List
      • Browse by Subject
    • AMICUS
      As a national catalogue, AMICUS not only shows the published materials held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) but also those located in over 1300 libraries across Canada.
    • General Inventory Search
      Database provides descriptions of archival holdings of Library and Archives Canada.
    • CAIN - Canadian Archival Information Network
      Your Gateway to Canada's Past. The Canadian Archival Information Network (CAIN) provides access to holdings of more than 800 archival institutions across Canada.
      • Search
        Search archival holdings across Canada
      • Access
        Access Provincial and Territorial Archival Networks
      • View
        View digitized photographs, maps, documents and online exhibits developed around Canada's history
    • Government of Canada Files Search
      Database provides descriptions of files created by departments and agencies of the Government of Canada.
  • Canadian Genealogy Center
    • Directory of Resources
      Browse by list or subject. The Directory of Canadian genealogical resources - AVITUS enables you to access databases, catalogues, and Web sites regarding genealogical fonds and collections all over Canada.
    • Databases
      The Canadian Genealogy Centre develops databases on various aspects of the population of Canada and hosts other databases created by their partners.
  • Canadian Council of Archives
  • CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
    Listing of all Museums, Art Galleries, and Archives in Canada
  • Hudson's Bay Company Archives
  • Japanese Canadian Museum
  • Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
  • United Church of Canada Archives
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• Birth, Death and Marriage Records
  • Births Deaths & Marriages Exchange - Olive Tree Website
    The purpose is to provide genealogists a free resource
    for sharing information about details contained on
    certificates registered in Canada.
  • British Columbia Vital Records Search
  • Divorce in Canada 1841-1868
    This database contains 12732 references to acts published in official publications of the Government of Canada between 1841 and 1968.
  • Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds
    7899 marriage bonds for Upper Canada (Ontario) issued between 1803 and 1865. 2960 marriage bonds for Lower Canada (Quebec) issued between 1779 and 1858.
  • Manitoba Vital Statistics
    • Birth, Death, and Marriage Searchable Index
      Births more than 100 years, Marriages more than 80 years, Deaths more than 70 years ago
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• Cemetery and Obituary Records
  • Alberta Family Histories Society Cemetery Transcriptions
  • Alberta Genealogical Society - Listing of Cemeteries and
    Other Surname Sources
  • Canada Obituaries
  • Canadian Funerals Online
  • Find a Grave
  • Finnish Names in Canadian Cemeteries
  • Free Obituaries On-line
  • Canadian Cemetery Transcription-by Province
  • International Association of Jewish Genealogical
    Societies - Canadian Cemetery Project
  • Obituary Daily Times
    Index of published obituaries worldwide, has searchable database
  • The Recents
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• Census Records
  • 1698 Census - Acadian - Tim Hebert website
  • 1871 Ontario Federal Census Index
  • 1881 Canadian Census - FamilySearch.org Website
  • 1901 Canadian Census
    Access digitized images of the original census returns, which record age, nationality, religion, profession, income, education, etc for every single resident of Canada on 31 March 1901.
  • 1901 Census Searchable Index
    The Alberta Genealogical Society has a searchable index for the 1901 census for Alberta and Saskatchewan (Districts 202-206)
  • 1906 Census Northwest Provinces
    • 1906 Census Transcriptions - AFHS website
  • Automationgenealogy.com
    Volunteer project to produce a free, online index to the 1901 and 1906 Census of Canada. The site is based on transcribing from the census images provided by the National Archives of Canada.
    • 1901 Census Index
    • 1906 Census Index
    • 1911 Census Index
  • AllCensusRecords.com
    Your One-Stop Site for links to USA Census Records, Canadian Census Records, Census Indexes & Images, Census Transcriptions, Blank Census Forms, City Directories, Tax & Assessment Lists, Voters Registrations,
  • Catalogue of Census Returns on Microfilm 1666-1901
  • Census Finder - Canada
  •  Veterans Census, Questions on Census Records
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• Churches
  • Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
  • Religion and Churches - Cyndi's List
  • LDS Meeting House Locator
  • The Episcopal Church
  • United Church of Canada Archives
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• Courts on the Web
  • Law Society and Legal Reference Libraries
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• Databases
  • In search of your Canadian Past-The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project
    McGill's Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of the property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases. Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned, with links from the property owners
  • Sessional Papers of the Government of Canada and British Parliamentary Papers
    Royal Sappers and Miners - Rideau Canal 1831 Teachers granted/renewed certificates in Ontario 1868 (this is a work in progress) Militiamen of 1812 paid pensions in 1884 CPR Employees in British Columbia in 1884 North West Territories (Criminal and Other Cases Tried in the NWT) Land Patents report in 1837 to the British Government Return of the Number of Tavern Licenses Issued in each County, City, Town Claims to Pensions Immigration and Shipping Reports Cadets at the Military College in 1877 - later named the Royal Military College (RMC) Cadets since opening and Cadets from 1880 to 1884 Pilots and Lighthouse Keepers on the St. Lawrence in 1866
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• Directories
  • Pre-1901 Canadian City Directories Index
    Search the Database
    Some of the early directories for Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada can be searched by surname. Choose Search Database right below the banner
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• Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Groups
  • African Americans
    • The North Star: Tracing the Undergound Railroad
      Documentation of slaves who escaped to freedom
      using the Underground Railroad
  • Acadian and Cajun
    • Acadian Genealogy Homepage
      Census records 1671-1809, maps, surnames and much more
    • Acadian History and genealogy - Site by Tim Hebert
      Tim Hebert's site has Acadian history, census records from 1671 to 1752, church records, surnames passenger lists and much more
    • Acadian, Cajun & Creole - Cyndi's List
    • Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755
    • Planter Studies Center
      Acadia University's Planter Studies Centre is a research institute which focuses scholarly attention on the 8000 New England residents who to Nova Scotia between 1759 and 1774. Known as "Planters" (the old English term for colonists), they settled in townships throughout the frontier colony of Nova Scotia (which included the modern Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). They were among the first anglophone immigrants to the mainland area of present-day Canada.
  • Germans
    • Ger-Rus People Into & Out of Canada
      Crossing the Can/USA Border 1895-1954
    • German Immigrants to Canada Report of 1887
  • Hutterites
    • Crystal Spring Colony - Alberta, Canada
    • Hutterites Genealogy Cross-Index
    • The Chronicle of the Hutterian Brethren - I" Appendix #3 (Pages 811-813) Current Place Names with German Equivalents
    • Hutterite Genealogy Homepage
  • Jewish Resources
    • International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Canadian Cemetery Project
    • Jewish Resources - Cyndi's List
  • Loyalists
    • British Headquarters Papers, New York City 1774-1783 - The Carleton Papers
    • Loyalists - Cyndi's List
    • The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
  • Mennonites
    • Canadian Mennonite Board of Colonization Extraction Project
      20,000 settlement records, 1923-30
    • Mennonite Heritage Centre
    • Mennonite Brethren Herald
    • Canadian Mennonite Genealogical Resources
      Composite Index of Early Manitoba Mennonite Church Registers, compiled by Loren Koehler; Reinlaender Gemeinde Buch (Manitoba) Index; Sommerfeld Gemeinde Buch (Manitoba) Cumulative Index
    • Mennonite - Cyndi's List
  • Native Canadian
    • Indian Reserves in Western Canada
    • Aboriginal Peoples
      Includes an index of bands and agencies, and a number of maps
      • Métis Scrip Records
        Contains over 15,000 digital images
    • Native Web
      Resources for Indigenous Cultures of the World
    • Native American - CyndisList
  • Quakers
    • Canadian Friends Historical Association
    • Canadian Friends Service Committee
    • Canadian Quaker History Journal
    • Canadian Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
    • The Dorland Room-The Canadian Quaker Archives at Pickering College
    • Peaceweb
    • Quakers - Edmonton Religious Society of Friends Monthly Meeting
    • Society of Friends (Quakers) St. John's (Newfoundland) Worship Group
  • Miscellaneous Ethnic Groups
    • Donna Speer Ristenbatt Genealogy
      Dutch research, Mennonites, Palatines, Loyalists, etc.
    • Hungarian Immigrants to Canada - Report of 1887
    • The Olive Tree's Genealogy Index
      Loyalists, Mohawk Nation, Mennonites, Palatines, Huguenots
    • Irish-Canadian List
    • The Icelandic Colony - Report of 1887
    • Hutterite, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, LDS, Etc - Cyndi's List
    • Huguenot - Cyndi's List
    • Scandinavian Immigrants to Canada Report of 1887
    • Ukrainian Internments between 1914-1920 by the Canadian Government
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• Government of Canada
  • Government of Canada
  • Canadian Parliament
  • Canadian Vital Records
    Addresses and holdings of Canadian Vital Records as
    per province.
  • Statistics Canada!
  • Copyright Act (1997 Amendments)
  • Copyright Act (Prior to 1997 Amendments)
  • Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
  • Privacy Commissioner of Canada Annual Reports
  • Prime Ministers of Canada 1867-1996
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• Immigration, Emigration, Ships, Passenger Lists
  • Canadian Archives
    • Canadian Archives Immigration Records
    • Immigration Records 1925-1935
    • Immigration records at the Archives of Ontario
    • National Archives of Canada Miscellaneous Immigration List
      14,000 name data base
  • 1659 Passenger List - Saint Andre
  • 1749 Early Settlers, Nova Scotia Halifax County (Partial List)
  • Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database
    Database gives the name of the master (captain), the name of the owner, the name of the builder, the date and place of construction, the date and place of the vessel's registration, a good physical description of the ship, its intended function, and its registration number, sailing dates and ports, captain's full name, birthplace, and certificate number, and much more
  • Digitalarkivet: Ship lists Bergen-Quebec 1865-1873
  • Doukhobor Genealogy: Ship passenger lists
    Doukhabor surnames extracted from ship passenger lists from 1898 - 1930
  • Emigrants from Belgium to the United States and Canada
  • Immigrants at Grosse-Île
    This database includes information on 33,026 immigrants who stayed at the Grosse-Île Quarantine Station between 1832 and 1937.
    • Search Form
  • Marj's Homepage
    • Immigrants to Canada: 1834 Emigrants Handbook
    • Immigrants to Canada - Land records
    • Immigrants to Canada-Information of the Nineteenth Century
      Lists of ships sailing to Canada, information on ports, people, name of the ship, Master, Port of Departure, Port of Arrival, and organization which sponsored the emigrants
    • Young Immigrants to Canada
  • Immigration List 1813- Scotland to Canada on "Prince of Wales"
  • Irish Famine: Migration to New Brunswick: 1845 - 1852
    23,318 Irish individuals who migrated to New Brunswick as a result of famine.
  • Irish Emigrants
    Lists of ships arriving in the US or Canda from Ireland or England, and their Irish passengers.
  • inGeneas Database
    The inGeneas Database contains passenger list records for immigrants arriving at Canadian ports between 1748 and 1873. Also contains records from a variety of immigration records (other than passenger lists) for the time period of 1748 to 1906.
    • National Archives of Canada-Miscellaneous Immigration Index
      Great Britain to Canada 1801-1849
    • inGeneas Passenger List Database(1751-1873) and Immigration Database(1748-1855)
  • Montcalm sails for Europe Juy 16, 1936
  • Maritime Provinces Canada to New Zealand
  • Mennonite Immigrants
  • Nova Scotia Ships, Passenger Lists
  • Olive Tree
    • Passenger Lists to Canada
    • Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1400-1800
    • Search for Ancestors in Ships Passenger Lists
    • J.J. Cooke Ships Passenger Lists
    • Article on Immigration Records Before 1865
  • Passenger Lists of Ships to different areas of Canada
    Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec
  • Pier 21
    List of ships that have arrived and/or departed from Pier 21. 1.5 million immigrants entered this Halifax Waterfront between 1928 - 1971
  • Prince Edward Island Register Shipping Stories, Info, and Folklore-Dave Hunter Webpage
  • Shipping Terminology - with a Prince Edward Island Slant!
  • The Ships List.com
  • Young Immigrants
    • Home Children 1869-1930
      Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Online database.
      • Search Home Children Database
    • Young Immigrants to Canada
    • The Voyage Over on a Ship of the Allan Line
  • Canadian Maritime Commerce
    Maritime Heritage Links with searchable databases,
    Wallace list of over 3,000 Canadian ships 1786-1920
    and the Mills list of over 6,000 steamships from 1817-1930
  • Ship's Passenger Lists and Indexes
    Canadian Ship's Passenger Lists before 1865, Passenger
    Lists between 1865 and 1919, Canadian Passenger and
    Immigration Information after 1919
  • Passenger Lists on the Internet
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• Land Records
  • Western Land Records 1870-1930
    Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior. The records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia
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• Libraries & Museums
  • Libraries
    • National Library of Canada
      • Digial Music
      • History
      • Literature
      • Amicus Services
        Search over 25 million full records from 1,300 Canadian libraries and access the entire database including National Library records
      • Images Canada
        Search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada for thousands of digital images
      • National Library of Canada - Genealogy Section
      • Historical Documents from the Natrional Library of Canada
      • National Library of Canada-Special Collections
    • Canadian Library Association
    • Canadian Library Index
      This is an index of Canadian Library Home Pages and
      connections to telnet/web based OPACS.
    • Genealogical Research Library
      A databank of indexed information for more than 5,000,000 people who lived in Canada between the years 1600 and 1915
    • LDS & LDS Family History Centers - Cyndi's List
    • Queen's University Libraries in Kingston
      • Queens University Library - Genealogy
      • Queens University Library - Genealogy Resources in Government Documents
  • Museums
    • Canadian War Museum
    • CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
      Listing of all Museums, Art Galleries, and Archives in Canada
    • Japanese Canadian Museum & Archives Society
    • Museum of the Regiments
    • Virtual Libraries/Museums in Canada
      Listed by Province
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• Mailing Lists
  • Canada Mailing lists
    John Fuller and Chris Gaunt Site have an excellent site
    containing all of the Canadian mailing lists
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• Maps, Gazetteers, Books
  • Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives - ACMLA
    • Historical Maps of Canada - ACMLA
  • Historical Atlas of Canada
  • In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project
    Ontario - The County Atlas Digital Project is a searchable database of the property owners' names which appear on the township maps in the county atlases. Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned, with links from the property owners' names in the database.
  • Canada's official geographical names Web site
    • Query Canadian Geographical Names
  • Genealogy Resources in Government Documents
    Map of 1871 Census Districts
  • genealogyunlimited.com
    Interlink Bookshop and Genealogical Services, Atlases, Maps, Historic Maps - Central and Eastern Europe, Germans from Russia Research Marketplace, Books on European Research, Modern and Historical Maps - England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland
  • Interlink Bookshop - Genealogical Services
  • Maps and Atlases of Canada
  • The Atlas of Canada
    Base maps, geographical names and thematic maps
  • Large Canadian Map
  • Panoramic Canadian Maps
    Canada, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
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• Magazines, Online Newsletters, Newspapers
  • Family History News
  • Global Gazette Online Family History Magazine
    • Global Gazette Back Issues
  • Paper of Record
    Search the World's Largest Searchable Archive of Historical Newspapers with over 8,000,000 Pages Digitized so far
  • The Paperboy - online Newspapers Worldwide
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• Naturalization
  • Naturalization Records of Canada
    Lists of naturalization certificates issued between 1915 and 1932 have been scanned
    • 1915-1932 Canadian naturalization Search
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• Organizations and Societies
  • Alberta Family Histories Society Index
    Cemetery indexes, members surnames, Calgary births and
    obituaries, Canadian links, Adoption, births, census,
    church records, deaths, divorces, immigrants, land
    records, marriages, military records, wills
  • American-Canadian Genealogical Society
  • Canadian Association for Irish Studies
  • Canada's National History Society - CAIS
  • Pier 21 Society
  • Le Centre De Genealogie Francophone D"Amerique
  • Society Hill - Canadian Directory
    The Internet Directory of Genealogical and Historical
  • The Jewish Historical Societies on the Web
  • The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
  • Transylvania Saxon Genealogy and Heritage Society
  • Ukranian Genealogical and Historical Society of Canada-UGHSC
  • Vermont-French-Canadian Genealogical Society
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• Search Engines, Directories, Message Boards
  • Books We Own
    A Look-Up Resource for International Genealogical Research. Its a list of resources owned/accessed by ROOTS-L mailing list members and others who are willing to look up genealogical information and e-mail or snail mail it to others who request it.
  • Canada 411
  • Ancestry.com message boards
  • I Found It!
    Search for genealogical sites on Internet, locate surnames, name studies, ship passenger lists, genealogical societies and associations, researchers, software, books, family mailing lists, online records of churches, census data and cemeteries
  • Westminster - Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service
    Postal codes and Postal rates
  • ROOTS-L Canadian Resources
  • Society Hill - Canadian Directory
    The Internet Directory of Genealogical and Historical
    Societies
  • The Seeker-People Finding Service
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• Surname Lists and Databases
  • Rootsweb.com Canadian Records Database
  • Zichydorf Village Association - Surname Index
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• Miscellaneous Canadian Genealogical Resources
  • Black Sheep Ancestors
    Directory of Links for Prison and Convict Records, Court Records, Executions, Famous Outlaws, Criminals & Bandits in the US and Canada
  • Borrow microfilm from the National Archives of Canada
  • Canada Schoolnet
  • Canadian Genealogical Projects Registry
    Search all Provinces for BDM, census. Alberta Family History Society Website.
  • Genealogical Resources in Canada
  • Early Canadiana Online
    Collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history
  • Genealogy Helplist Canada
    Volunteers willing to lookup specific information related to genealogy in Canada using reference materials at institutions near them
  • General Canada Sites - Cyndi's List
  • ROOT-L Resources Canada
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• Canada and Provincial GenWeb
  • Provincial Gen Web Sites
    • Acadian GenWeb
    • Alberta GenWeb
    • British Columbia GenWeb
    • Manitoba GenWeb
    • New Brunswick GenWeb
    • New Foundland and Labrador GenWeb
    • Northwest Territories and Nunavut GenWeb
    • Nova Scotia GenWeb
    • Ontario GenWeb
    • Prince Edward Island GenWeb
    • Quebec GenWeb
    • Saskatchewan GenWeb
    • Yukon GenWeb
  • Canada GenWeb
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