Genealogy Chat

Does anyone know if Canadian records are available for 1910 onwards? My father in law's grandmother emigrated by herself at a young age, she was a servant. She had an illigitimate child at the time and there's a theory, not proven, that the childs well-to-do father paid for her to emigrate. Ive often wondered where she lived, how she supported herself, and when she died, and whether she lived in poverty.
(Got to sort families dinner, will check back tomorrow morning. Night all.)

The census only go up to 1911 but there are other records eg birth death marriage it all depends on what state they went to

ontario has quite a lot of records whilst quebec is not so good if you want me to look for them let me know and post details

lorraine

There's a list of immigrants to Canada on this site but only between the years 1925-1935.

http://search-recherche.collectionscanada.ca/archives/search.jsp?Language=eng

For other records it really depends what province she went to.

Ontario records here:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onvsr/index.htm

Saskatchewan here:

https://www.isc.ca/VitalStatistics/Genealogy/vsgs_srch.aspx

Manitoba here:

http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php

British Columbia here:

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm

Canada has provinces. Not states.

Privacy laws in Canada, Australia, even the United States, are much stricter than in the United Kingdom.

Some provinces are a little laxer, but a general rule is that no birth registration info can be disclosed for 100 years, and marriages and deaths for 50-75 years.

To find a province's BMD search site, if it has one, just search for the name of the province at google with "vital statistics". Margaret has listed most that are available. I think the only other one is Nova Scotia.

http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/vstat/history.asp

http://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/

I used the novascotiagenealogy site a few times to look up things for people here. You have to install a viewer in order to see images of original records, which have the details you're looking for. That seemed harmless enough, but then I realized that all the times my computer had been stalling for an hour were happening because the viewer program was updating itself. I de-installed it. If you use it, I recommend installing the viewer while you need it and dumping it right afterward.

Googling for names can be the most productive thing to do. If you go to the local google site

http://www.google.ca

you can select "pages from Canada" just as you can select "pages from the UK" at the .co.uk site. If you have a name that is not terribly common, you may find some local references to your people.


If your person may have married before 1925ish, you might find the marriage. Ontario marriage records, for example, usually show the parents' names. Ontario and British Columbia records are searchable at ancestry.ca.

The odds would be that she went to Ontario, with a much larger population than the other provinces, larger cities and more employment opportunities.

THANKYOU ladies, just logged in. I'll print this info off, I wasnt expecting this much! I'd googled but never thought of the Canadian google! Margaret, I'll copy and paste all those links, thankyou all.

The 1916 census has just been released - I don't know who has the films, but it only covered the prairies (AB, SK, MB). For more details on this and other stuff:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html

Although it wasn't part of Canada at the time, there are more recent censuses available for Newfoundland.

Lorraine,

Re "whilst quebec is not so good".

I wouldn't have thought this was the case now Ancestry has a large chunk of the Drouin collection online. I must admit I don't know, as I don't have the right subscription.