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'''Email:'''<br>

:*[http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/reproduction-requests/Pages/reproduction-requests.aspx Reproduction Requests]

'''Telephone:'''<ref name="ContactUs" /><br>    613-996-5115 or 1-866-578-7777 (toll-free in Canada and the US)<br>    TTY: 613-992-6969 or 1-866-299-1699 (toll-free in Canada)<br>'''Fax:''' 613-995-6274

'''Website:'''<br>

*[https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/Pages/Home.aspx Website]

'''Hours and holidays:'''<br>

*[https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services/public/visit/Pages/ottawa.aspx#a1 Hours - Registration Desk]

'''Map, parking, and public transportation:'''<ref>[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/visit-us/010001-1003-e.html Public Transit and Parking] at ''Library and Archves Canada'' (accessed 6 August 2013).</ref>

:'''''Map.'''''<br>  

::*[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/005/f1/parking_map_en_v6.jpg Online map].  

:'''''Parking.'''''<br>

::*[https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/services/public/visit/Pages/ottawa.aspx#a4 Parking]

:'''''Public Transit.'''''<br>

::*[http://www.octranspo.com/Main_MenuE.asp Ottawa's OC Transpo] take any bus travelling on Wellington, Albert, Slater, Queen or Bank streets.  

::*[http://www.sto.ca/index_e.asp Gatineau's STO] take any bus travelling on Wellington Street in Ottawa.<br><br>

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.<ref>[http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html Discover the Collection] at ''Library and Archves Canada'' (accessed 6 August 2013).</ref>  

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 '''''{{PAGENAME}}''''', a similar source may be available at one of the following.  

*[http://www.banq.qc.ca/ Bibliothèque nationale du Québec], Québec City

*[http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/access/our_collection.aspx Archives of Ontario], Toronto

*[http://www.ogs.on.ca/ Ontario Genealogical Society], Toronto

*[http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/index.html Hudson's Bay Company Archives], Winnipeg<br>  

*[http://www.cprheritage.com/ Canadian Pacific Railway Archives], Montréal<br>  

*[https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/ FamilySearch 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. <br>  

*[http://www.acgs.org/ American-Canadian Genealogical Society], Manchester, New Hampshire, USA<br>  

'''''Similar Collections'''''<br>  

*''various [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/022/022-802-e.html Provincial and Territorial Archives]''<br>

*[http://www3.carleton.ca/cimss/ Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies], Carlton University

*[http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/node/35 Centre d'études acadiennes], Université de Moncton

*[http://www.canada.uottawa.ca/en/ Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies], University of Ottawa

*[http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/main.htm 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.

*[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives I]], Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service &amp; pensions, passenger lists, Canadian border crossings, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees.<br>  

*[[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.<br>  

*[[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.<br>

*[[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.<br>

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