Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Contact Information Address: 395 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0N4 CANADA E-mail: Ask a Question Genealogy Inquiry Form Ask Us a Question Form Request for Retrieval of Documents User Card Registration Form Reproduction Requests Telephone:     613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll-free in Canada and the US)     TTY: 613-992-6969 or 1-866-299-1699 (toll-free in Canada) Fax: 613-995-6274 Hours and holidays: Registration Desk (Ground floor)     Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.     Closed on Statutory Holidays Canadian Genealogy Centre (3rd floor)     Monday  8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.     Tuesday  8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.     Wednesday  8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.     Thursday  8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.     Friday  8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.     Saturday/Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Map, parking, and public transportation: Map. Online map. Parking. There are paid parking spaces for Library and Archives Canada visitors on the west side of the building. Also, there are public parking lots and some metered street parking nearby. Public Transit.    Ottawa's OC Transpo take any bus travelling on Wellington, Albert, Slater, Queen or Bank streets.    Gatineau's STO take any bus travelling on Wellington Street in Ottawa. Internet sites and databases: LAC Internet Site discover the collection, genealogy and family history, censuses, military records, research by topics, copies and visiting, services and programs, forum, news, photo gallery. Genealogy and Family Hisory how-to-begin, birth, marriages, deaths, census, immigration, military, land, and employment records. Search all of LAC's collections at once. Ancestor search - by name. Library search - digital books, journals, and theses. Archives search - fonds, photos, maps, and art. Collection Description Canadian national (or regional) databases and collections which include millions of books, newspapers, and periodicals, 21.3 million photos, 343,000 works of art about topics like genealogy and family history, portraits, aboriginal peoples, biographies, censuses, citizenship, disasters, ethno-cultural groups, educational resources, exploration, film and broadcasting, immigration, literature, land records, maps, military, music and performing arts, Canadian national identity, philately and postal history, politics and government, roads, canals, and railroads, settlement, sports, births, marriages, deaths, and divorces. Tips Preparing for a visit to the LAC. Guides Genealogy and Family History how-to-begin, vital records (see following bullet entry), census, immigration, military, land, and employment records Births, Marriages and Deaths in church/civil records, adoptions, cemeteries, divorces, and wills The LAC has dozens of research aids. For example, some of interest to genealogists include: Aboriginal Peoples—Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada Canada's Digital Collections archived at Library and Archives Canada Canadian Immigration Since Confederation and the Department of External Affairs Grosse-Île Quarantine Station (Québec) (immigration) Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1918 Immigration of Farm Labourers to Canada, 1918-1945 Most Frequently Used Immigration Records Jacob M Lowy Collection (Hebraica and Judaica collection) Newspapers at Library and Archives Canada Rideau Canal Alternate Repositories Many Canadian libraries and archives have complementary collections. And some have microfilm copies of records from Library and Archives Canada. If you cannot visit or find a source at Library and Archives Canada, a similar source may be available at one of the following. Overlapping Collections Military History Research Centre, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Québec City Cloverdale Branch, Surrey Public Library in BC, including LAC genealogy microfilms and more Archives of Ontario, Toronto Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg Canadian Pacific Railway Archives, Montreal Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, including many Canadian records. American-Canadian Genealogical Society, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA The National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew, Surrey, England  British records relating to early Canada and associated territories Similar Collections various Provincial and Territorial Archives Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies, Carlton University Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies, University of Ottawa Programme de recherche en démographie historique, Université de Montréal, over 2 million births, marriages, and burials 1621-1850 mostly from 153 Roman Catholic parishes in Québec. Neighboring Collections National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, Canadian border crossings, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room is part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources. Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, and Canadians. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, national scope, 100 million name databases, 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, 20 million manuscrpt pages, vital records, periodicals for U.S., Canada, and Britsh Isles. Newberry Library, Chicago, a large repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and British Isles. Sources