Quebec Directories
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Online Records[edit | edit source]
- Canada Phone and Address Listings at MyHeritage - index ($)
- 1819-1906 Canada, City and Area Directories, 1819-1906 ($) Select Quebec in right drop-down menu. Includes Eastern townships, Granby, Joliette, Longueuil, Montreál, Québec (and Lévis and surrounding counties), St. Hyacinthe, St. Scholastique, Tros-Rivières (and Sorel, Berthier, and surrounding counties] index and images ($)
- 1820-1979 Directories of Quebec City Use links in right sidebar to navigate.
- 1822-1978 - City Directories on Genealogy Quebec, includes Montreal, Quebec and Laval ($)
- 1842-1969 Collection of Lovell directories of Montreal and its region - Montreal and its suburbs Use links in right sidebar to navigate.
- 1853 Canada Directory, 1853 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
- 1871 Lovell's Canadian Dominion Directory, 1871, Quebec at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
- 1890-1891 Quebec city pocket directory, 1890-91($), index
- 1890-1891 Lovell's Business & Professional Directory of Quebec, 1890-91 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
- 1930 Gazetteer and Business Directory, Canada, 1930, Part 8 at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
History and Background[edit | edit source]
- Directories are alphabetical lists of heads of households and addresses.
- Some directories also give the wife's name and the family's address.
- Directories can help you locate a family, especially when the family does not appear in the censuses.
- Many city and county directories from the 1840s to the present are available.
Help With the Census[edit | edit source]
To use the census and most other lists efficiently, you should consult the city directories and find the family’s addresses, preferably before and after the year of the listing - people tend to move often in Québec cities. Be sure to check in the Street section, note the Ward or district, as well as the names of the cross streets, and anything else that will help locate the right “division” of what are often very large records.
Urban Areas[edit | edit source]
- Directories are probably the most useful genealogical tool when hunting down the residents of the major urban areas.
- There are a few early ones for Québec City.
- Montréal’s first directory dates from 1819, but publication was not an annual event for many decades.
- By the time of Confederation (1867) however, you will find annual directories for the large cities as well as rural or county Farmer’s Directories.[1]
Library and Archives Canada[edit | edit source]
Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) collection of directories includes national, provincial, territorial, as well as county and city directories, primarily of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in print, microform and electronic formats.
- The Library’s bibliography: Canadian Directories, 1790-1987 FamilySearch LibraryWorldCat[2] , The listings tells what exists and where it is held.
- Genealogy and Local History to 1900: a Bibliography ... at WorldCat, compiled by J. Brian Gilchrist and Clifford Duxbury Collier (Ottawa: CIHM-ICHM, 1995) Old and rare Canadian books, periodicals and serials available on microfiche and indicates which are available in microform and so can be obtained through inter-institutional loan services.
- The Eastern Townships Gazetteer and General Business Directory ... Containing Also Much Useful Information of a Miscellaneous Character, 1867 WorldCat(St Johns/St-Jean Quebec: Smith and Co., Proprietors of the "News", 1867). Describes every community, large and small, and lists businesses and many residents.
Library and Archives of Quebec[edit | edit source]
- Help with searching in city directories
- Collection of Lovell directories of Montreal and its region - Montreal and its suburbs Use links in right sidebar to navigate.
- Directories of Quebec City, 1877-1878a, Levis
FamilySearch[edit | edit source]
The FamilySearch Library has directories for:
Montreal[edit | edit source]
- 1842-1999 - "Annuaires Lovell de Montréal et sa banlieue" includes directories of residents as well as street addresses, also online at Library and Archives of Quebec
City of Québec[edit | edit source]
- 1877 - Bennett's Québec directory:. Includes surrounding cities and counties.
- 1885 - Cherrier's Quebec City directory
- 1890-1891 Quebec city pocket directory, 1890-91($), index
Cities and Counties[edit | edit source]
- Pre-1900 Canadian Directories = La Collection de répertoires d'avant 1900. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1988. (On 4,214 FS Library fiche. Not available at FamilySearch Centers.) The set includes directories for a number of cities and counties in the province of Québec.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Available on 28 microfiches is Lovell's Canadian Dominion Directory for 1871 Containing names of professionals and business men, and other inhabitants, of the cities, towns and villages, throughout the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island ... corrected to January 1871 (Montreal: J. Lovell [1871]).
- ↑ Bond, Mary E., Canadian Directories, 1790-1987: a bibliography and place-name index, 3 volumes (Ottawa: Library of Canada, 1989).