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Historic counties are listed below as government records were created in this jurisdiction. Counties in Quebec were | Historic counties are listed below as government records were created in this jurisdiction. Counties in Quebec were dissolved in the early 1980s, and Quebec was then divided into regional county municipalities. However, the regional county municipality jurisdiction is not used in the vital records system, and therefore has little meaning for genealogy. Each county page, under "History" lists the modern RCMs associated with that county.<br> | ||
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Guide to Quebec ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
Quebec Information[edit | edit source]
Quebec is located in Central Canada. The province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. It was then called Lower Canada until 1841, when it was then called Canada East until 1867. Quebec's official language is French.[1] See Quebec History for more information.
Quebec Map[edit | edit source]
Historic Counties[edit | edit source]
Historic counties are listed below as government records were created in this jurisdiction. Counties in Quebec were dissolved in the early 1980s, and Quebec was then divided into regional county municipalities. However, the regional county municipality jurisdiction is not used in the vital records system, and therefore has little meaning for genealogy. Each county page, under "History" lists the modern RCMs associated with that county.
Defunct or Renamed Historic Counties:
Migration Routes[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Quebec" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec (accessed 28 Feb 2025).