Québec Resources

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Ressources disponibles pour les profils ayant vécu au Canada, Nouvelle-France et Province of Québec, Bas-Canada et maintenant, Province de Québec, Canada. Voir Quebecois Project

Resources available for profiles who lived in Canada, Nouvelle-France, Province of Québec, Bas-Canada and modern Province of Québec, Canada See Quebecois Project

Quebecois Genealogical Resources

Genealogical Sources

• 1. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles Canadiennes, by L'Abbé Cyprien Tanguay, 1887
  • What is it?
  • 1a. American French Genealogical Society (membership)
  • 1b. Tanguay, space page (free from BAnQ)
  • 1c. Many Public Libraries with Genealogical Research (free)
  • 1d. Google Books (free)

• 2. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Quebec, by René Jetté
  • Many Public Libraries with Genealogical Research (free)
  • American French Genealogical Society (membership)

• 3. Fichier Origine, by Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie
• Contains data on immigrants to the colony and their known family in France.
  • Fichier Origine (free)

• 4. The Drouin Collection
  • What is it?
  • The Drouin Institute (Subscription EN)
  • Institut Généalogique Drouin (Subscription FR)
  • Ancestry.ca (Subscription)
  • American French Genealogical Society (membership)

• 5. Familysearch (Free, unindexed)
  • • Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 by name
    • Search in Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979
    • Quebec, Non-Catholic Parish Registers, 1763-1967
    • Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923
      • Attention!' This page is not trustworthy in FamilySearch:FamilySearch baptisms Note: These pages are all based on the 1681 census which was completed in November 1681, it gives a month of birth to all the noted children on the census for whom a baptism was not found by the author (author unknown), do not use as source. Use the census itself. Ages on census are estimates at best.

• 6. University of Montreal, PRDH (subscription) New link exists, PRDH database now under management by Institut Drouin (IGD)

• • PRDH also exists in multiple volumes found at libraries, for English users the following links bring you to a 4 part guide on how to use them:
  • Using the Printed PRDH for Your French-Canadian Research
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
    • Part 4

• 7. Recensement 1681 Census Sulte Wikisource (free)

• 8.TREE SITE Nos Origines (Généalogie du Québec et française d'Amérique) (free **Repository**)
  • Nos Origines is a tree site contributed to by multiple users, with variable sourcing, sometimes useful as a guide but not an actual original source.

• 9. Migration, by Jocelyne and Bernard Nicol Quillivic and their collaborators'
  • Migration website (free)
  • Contains copies and transcriptions of many original source documents for Filles du Roi, Filles à marier, and Régiment Carignan-Salières, Note: copyright protected

• 10. Commission des Champs de bataille nationaux / The National Battlefields Commission : Plaines d’Abraham / Plains of Abraham (free)
  • The site is well developed in both French and English. Most of the information about troops can be found through the menu selections on the left under Histoire et patrimoine (French) or History and Heritage (English)
  • Base de données des militaires de 1759-1760 / Database of the 1759-1760 soldiers
    • Cette base de données présente les militaires, des armées française et britannique, présents à Québec en 1759 et 1760. Elle comptabilise 11 358 entrées, dont 4079 français et 7279 britanniques. Les militaires français proviennent des Troupes de Terre, des Troupes de la Marine et de la Marine française alors que les effectifs britanniques, quant à eux, sont membres des régiments d’infanterie; ultérieurement, les membres de la Royal Navy seront intégrés à l’ensemble.
    • This is a database of the French and British army soldiers in Québec in 1759 and 1760. There are 11,358 entries, 4,079 for French and 7,279 for British fighters. French military personnel were members of Troupes de Terre, Troupes de la Marine, and the French Navy, while the British were from infantry regiments, joined later by Royal Navy personnel.
    • Information in each person's record includes birth dates and places, death dates and places, parentage, marriage dates, places and names and sometimes comments about battles in which a person was wounded or killed.
  • Additional pages describing the troops are located under other parts of the History and Heritage Menu on the left, particularly under the SIEGE OF QUÉBEC. These pages mention a number of specific individuals, especially officers, with links to their pages in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

• 11 Société de recherche Archiv-histo, database on arrivals in Nouvelle-France and in the Province of Québec (1763-1791), summary list showing years and origins, all origins included. Work in progress, updated periodically.
  • Archiv-histo (free)

• 12 Société de généalogie de St-Hubert: Les oubliés de la généalogie, le clergé/ The forgotten of genealogy, the clergy. Database of clergy, including priests, nuns, monks, from New France days to modern times. Registration required, free.
  • Clergénéalogie.org

• 13 Mélanges historiques, études éparses et inédites de Benjamin Sulte, compilées, annotées et publiées par Gérald Malchelosse, G. Ducharme Libraire-Éditeur, Montréal 1923 (PDF) : La famille Godefroy pg 7-38; Les Godefroy de Mauboeuf pg 39-70; La famille Garneau pg 71-94.
  • Mélanges historiques, études éparses et inédites de Benjamin Sulte PDF FR

• 14 Through the records by Cyprien Tanguay, various notes collected by abbé Tanguay, PDF in French (free)
  • À travers les registres notes recueillies par l'Abbé Cyprien Tanguay, Montréal, Librairie St-Joseph, Cadieux & Derome éditeurs, 1886

• 15 père Archange Godbout
  • Origine des familles canadiennes-françaises Archange Godbout; SOCIÉTÉ SAINT- AUGUSTIN, DESCLÉE, DE BROUWER& V 41.RUE DU METZ, LILLE 1925
  • Origine des familles canadiennes-françaises R.P. Archange Godbout 1925 PDF FR
  • Families who came from La Rochelle:Rapport de l'Archiviste de la province de Québec, 1970 Familles venues de La Rochelle en Canada Père Archange Godbout (débute pg 119) (starts page 119)

• 16 Ship lists with passengers
  • Navires venus en Nouvelle-France listing the ships that came to New France and their known passengers and crew, by year and ship (in French). Due to the state of records of the era, known to be incomplete.
  • Navires et marchands, Nouvelle-France 1660-1760 J F Bosher Ships and merchants listing, English PDF link on the page.
• 17 Almanach de Québec, 1779-1840, 1792, FR & EN
  • À Québec : chez Guillaume Brown, à la Haute-ville derriere l'Eglise Cathédrale, [1779-1840]
  • Vol 1: Miscellaneous items/Items divers
  • Vol 2: Civil and military register for the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada/ Registre civil et militaire pour les provinces du Haut et Bas Canada 1792
  • Vol 3: Index

• 18 Our French Canadian Ancestors, Thomas J. Laforest, translated from the work of Gérard Lebel Nos ancêtres, can be found at FamilySearch (multiple volumes)
  • FamilySearch catalog with links to individual volumes

• 19 Space page: SOURCE: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec/Québec National Library and Archives multiple documentary sources from BAnQ (free PDFs)

• 20 Some notarial acts in their entirety or nearly so are currently being made available on-line by BAnQ, they are being added to the Actes notariaux, Nouvelle-France / Notarial Acts , New France page

Parishes of Quebec

Quebec Parishes List Sorted by Name

Map of Quebec's Catholic Parishes up to 1912

17th Century Parishes of Canada colony of New France

(Arranged by general region and sequence along the relevant coast of the St-Lawrence river, dates are those of official opening of registries)

1. Tadoussac (Les Postes du domaine Roi), 1668
2. Baie-St-Paul, 1681
3. St-Joachim (côte de Beaupré), 1687
4. Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, 1651
5. Château-Richer, 1660
6. L'Ange-Gardien (côte de Beaupré), 1666

1. Ste-Famille, Ile d'Orléans, 1666
2. St-Pierre, Ile d'Orléans, 1679
3. St-Laurent, Ile d'Orléans, 1679 (called St-Paul at first)
4. St-François, Ile d'Orléans, 1679
5. St-Jean, Ile d'Orléans, 1680

1. Beauport, 1664
2. Québec (Notre-Dame), 1616
3. Sillery, 1638
4. Charlesbourg, 1666
5. Ste-Foy (Notre-Dame-de-Foye), 1667
6. L'Ancienne-Lorette, 1676
7. St-Augustin, 1681
8. Neuville (Pointe-aux-Trembles de Neuville ou de Québec) 1669
9. Cap-Santé, 1679
10. Deschambault, 1681
11. Grondines, 1676
12. Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, 1679
13. Batiscan, 1669
14. Champlain, 1669
15. Cap-de-la-Madeleine, 1664
16. Trois-Rivières, 1634
17. Rivière-du-Loup (later became Louiseville) aka St-Antoine de la Rivière-du-Loup, 1676
18. Lanoraie, 1681
19. Lavaltrie, 1681
20. Repentigny, 1674
21. Lachenaie, 1681

1. Montréal (Notre-Dame), 1642
2. Pointe-aux-Trembles de Montréal, 1674
3. Lachine (Sts-Anges), 1675
4. Sault-St-Louis (Kahnawake), 1681
5. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue (bout de l'Île), 1686
6. Sault-au-Récollet (Montréal island), 1625
7. St-François-de-Sales de l'Île Jésus, 1681
8. Rivière-des-Prairies, 1687

1. Boucherville, 1668
2. Chambly, 1668
3. Contrecoeur, 1676
4. La Prairie, 1670
5. Varennes, 1681
6. Verchères, 1681
7. St-Ours, 1676
8. Sorel (St-Pierre de Saurel), 1666
9. Nicolet, 1681
10. Bécancour, 1681
11. Gentilly, 1681
12. Lotbinière (St-Louis), 1681
13. St-Antoine-de-Tilly, 1681
14. St-Nicolas, 1694
15. Pointe-de-Lévy (Lauzon), 1679
16. Beaumont, 1681
17. St-Michel-de-Bellechasse (La Durantaye), 1681
18. Berthier-en-Bas (later Berthier-sur-Mer), 1681
19. Montmagny (St-Pierre), 1679
20. Cap-St-Ignace, 1655
21. L'Islet, 1679
22. Rivière-Ouelle, 1685
23. St-Denis de la Bouteillerie, 1681

History

1. Canadian Museum of History

2. Relations des Jésuites - le père Paul Lejeune

3. Dictionary of Canadian Biography

4. A History of Quebec, Its Resources and People, by Benjamin Sulte page containing links to the first 2 volumes of his work.

5. Hudson's Bay: A history in brief of the Hudson's Bay and the multiple conflicts, including maps, and relation of what became of the territory, including Rupert's land and NWT. U of Laval work, with multiple internal links to more.La Baie d'Hudson (La mer du nord) 1682-1713, Université de Laval, historique (FR)

Miscellaneous

Understanding the linguistic variation in your ancestors’ names: English, French

• Les Canadiens-Français : origine des familles émigrées de France, d'Espagne, de Suisse, etc., pour venir se fixer au Canada, deupis la fondation de Québec jusqua ces derniers temps et signification de leurs noms (1914). English Translation = French Canadians: origin of immigrant families from France, Spain, Switzerland, etc., to be fixed in Canada since the founding of Québec up to modern times and meaning of their names (1914) Note: étude sur les noms seulement, aucune généalogie / study of names only, no genealogy.

les côtes de Montréal article on the côtes of Montréal island, in French but containing a few maps. The term côte in French can stand for both coast and hill, and Montréal was particular in using it in both senses for the territory.

Les grandes épidémies dans l'histoire du Québec -FR about epidemics in the colony and after.

Recension chronologique des contrats de concession de terre à l’Île d’Orléans (1652-1793), Jean-Claude Dionne a listing of land concessions on Île d'Orléans from 1652 to 1793 (FR)