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==History and Background== | |||
*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== | |||
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=== | |||
*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.<ref>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]).</ref> | |||
==Online Directories== | |||
===Library and Archives of Canada=== | |||
*[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/directories-collection/Pages/directories-collection.aspx '''Canadian Directories Collection'']<br> | |||
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''<ref>Bond, Mary E., ''Canadian Directories, 1790-1987: a bibliography and place-name index'', 3 volumes (Ottawa: Library of Canada, 1989).</ref> , tells what exists and where it is held. The listings in the ''Genealogy and Local History to 1900/ … Bibliography''<ref>''Genealogy and Local History to 1900: a Bibliography ...'', compiled by J. Brian Gilchrist and Clifford Duxbury Collier (Ottawa: CIHM-ICHM, 1995) '''Old and rare Canadian books, periodicals and serials available on microfiche'''.</ref> , from the CIHM-ICMH, indicates which are available in microform and so can be obtained through inter-institutional loan services. Be aware that gazetteers and atlases may include directories, e.g. Smith’s 1867 ''Eastern Townships Gazetteer and General Business Directory<ref>''The Eastern Townships Gazetteer and General Business Directory ... Containing Also Much Useful Information of a Miscellaneous Character'' (St Johns/St-Jean Quebec: Smith and Co., Proprietors of the "News", 1867) Reprinted by Page-Sangster Inc., 1967.</ref>'' which described every community, large and small, and listed businesses and many residents. Three Rivers/''Trois Rivières'' and Sorel are often found in the same Directory, as are Québec City and Levis; Ottawa, Hull and Gatineau; and Montréal with its surrounding suburbs. Sometimes, however, they are not, so check just what geographic area is covered.<ref>Douglas, Althea. "Québec Censuses and Lists of Residents (National Institute)," ''National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Qu%C3%A9bec_Censuses_and_Lists_of_Residents_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | The Library’s bibliography: ''Canadian Directories, 1790-1987''<ref>Bond, Mary E., ''Canadian Directories, 1790-1987: a bibliography and place-name index'', 3 volumes (Ottawa: Library of Canada, 1989).</ref> , tells what exists and where it is held. The listings in the ''Genealogy and Local History to 1900/ … Bibliography''<ref>''Genealogy and Local History to 1900: a Bibliography ...'', compiled by J. Brian Gilchrist and Clifford Duxbury Collier (Ottawa: CIHM-ICHM, 1995) '''Old and rare Canadian books, periodicals and serials available on microfiche'''.</ref> , from the CIHM-ICMH, indicates which are available in microform and so can be obtained through inter-institutional loan services. Be aware that gazetteers and atlases may include directories, e.g. Smith’s 1867 ''Eastern Townships Gazetteer and General Business Directory<ref>''The Eastern Townships Gazetteer and General Business Directory ... Containing Also Much Useful Information of a Miscellaneous Character'' (St Johns/St-Jean Quebec: Smith and Co., Proprietors of the "News", 1867) Reprinted by Page-Sangster Inc., 1967.</ref>'' which described every community, large and small, and listed businesses and many residents. Three Rivers/''Trois Rivières'' and Sorel are often found in the same Directory, as are Québec City and Levis; Ottawa, Hull and Gatineau; and Montréal with its surrounding suburbs. Sometimes, however, they are not, so check just what geographic area is covered.<ref>Douglas, Althea. "Québec Censuses and Lists of Residents (National Institute)," ''National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Qu%C3%A9bec_Censuses_and_Lists_of_Residents_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||