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Archives and Libraries

Archives

Archives of Ontario
134 Ian MacDonald Blvd.
Toronto, ON M7A 2C5
Canada

Phone: 416-327-1552
Fax: 416-327-1999
Website

Both the Archives of Ontario and the National Archives of Canada lend copies of many of their microfilmed records to public libraries through the interlibrary loan service.

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Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa ON K1A 0N4
Canada

Telephone: 613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll free in Canada and the US)
Fax: 613-995-6274
TTY: 613-992-6969 or 1-866-299-1699 (toll free in Canada)
Website
Genealogy and Family History

Many records for the old pre-1867 "Province of Canada" (which combined present Ontario and Quebec) are at the National Archives of Canada.

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Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
Records of this fur trading company are some of Canada’s most important. Until 1870, the company controlled almost four-fifths of the territory of present-day Canada, including northern Quebec and Ontario and most of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Hudson’s Bay Company Archives (HBCA), home to the archival records of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), is part of the Archives of Manitoba operating under The Archives and Recordkeeping Act and 1994 gift agreement between HBC and the Government of Manitoba. HBCA operations are supported in part through the ongoing financial support of the Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation.
A very helpful source is:

• Hudson's Bay Company Archives
  • Resources
  • Name Indexes
  • Biographical Sheets
• Finding Aid to the Hudson Bay Company Archives. FamilySearch Library. WorldCat.

Libraries

Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON M4W 2G8
Canada

Phone: 416-393-7131
TTY: 416-393-7030
Website

The Toronto Reference Library houses and extensive genealogical research collection. While the strength of this collection is it's Canadian content, it also includes numerous resources for the U. K., Ireland and northeastern United States, as well as some international coverage.

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D. B. Weldon Library
The University of Western Ontario
1151 Richmond Street North
London, ON N6A 3K7
Canada

Phone: 519 661-2111 x81111
Fax: 519 850-2979
Website

Museums

Google: Museums / Newfoundland and Labrador Links to 55 museums throughout Ontatrio.

Record Offices

These guides have detailed step-by-step instructions and links in a logical pattern of methods for locating birth, marriage, and death records, using the microfilms at the Archives of Ontario, and at the FamilySearch Library. They do not apply to the online records:

• Pathfinder to Birth Registrations
• Pathfinder to Marriage Registrations
• Pathfinder to Death Registrations

Inventories, Registers, and Catalogs

• Taylor, Ryan. Important Genealogical Collections in Ontario Libraries and Archives: A Directory. Toronto, Ontario: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1994. (FamilySearch Library book 971.3 J54t.) WorldCat
• Bloomfield, Elizabeth, ed. Inventory of Primary and Archival Sources: Guelph and Wellington County to 1940. Guelph, Ontario: University of Guelph, 1989. (FamilySearch Library book 971.342 H23i; fiche 6104305.) WorldCat