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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

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. See Quebec History for more information.

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Historic Counties

Historic counties are listed below as government records were created in this jurisdiction. Counties in Quebec were reorganized in 1979 into "regional County Municipalities (MRC). 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.

Abitibi Acton Argenteuil Arthabaska Bagot Beauce Beauharnois Bellechasse Berthier Bonaventure Brome Chambly Champlain Charlevoix-Est Charlevoix-Ouest Châteauguay Chicoutimi Compton Deux-Montagnes Dorchester Drummond Frontenac Gaspé-Est Gaspé-Ouest Gatineau Hull Huntingdon Iberville Île-de-Montréal Île-Jésus Îles-de-la-Madeleine Joliette Kamouraska Labelle Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Lac-Saint-Jean-Ouest Laprairie L'Assomption Lévis L'Islet Lotbiniere Maskinongé Matane Matapédia Mégantic Missisquoi Montcalm Montmagny Montmorency No 1 Montmorency No 2 Napierville Nicolet Papineau Pontiac Portneuf Québec Richelieu Richmond Rimouski Rivière-du-Loup Rouville Saguenay Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Jean Saint-Maurice Shefford Sherbrooke Soulanges Stanstead Témiscamingue Témiscouata Terrebonne Territoire-du-Nouveau-Québec Vaudreuil Verchères Wolfe Yamaska

Defunct or Renamed Historic Counties:

Jacques Cartier Laval

Migration Routes

Lake Champlain St. Lawrence River Chambly Canal Champlain Canal Halifax Road or Grand Communication Route Lake Champlain Trail