Quebec Land and Property: Difference between revisions

* Québec (Province).''Législature. Assemblée legislative.'' ''Land Grants of Seigneuries 1674–1760 Quebec: Appendice du Onzième Volume des Journaux de L'assemblée Legislative de la Province du Canada, Appendice (H.H.H.H.)''. Québec, Canada: Secretary's Office, 1853. (FHL book 971.4 R2s; film 1036410 item 10; fiche 6046787.) Text in English.  

* Matthews, Geoffrey J. ''Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume 1, From the Beginning to 1800,'' Editor R. Cole Harris. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1987. (FHL book 971 E7h.) The map is plate 51.  

* Trudel, Marcel. ''Le Terrier du Saint-Laurent en 1663'' (Lands Occupied in the St. Lawrence Valley in 1663). Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1973. (FHL book 971.4 R2t.) Text in French.  

Roy, Pierre Georges. ''Inventaire des concessions en fief et seigneurie, foi et hommages et dénombrements conservés aux Archives de la province de Québec'' (Inventory of Seigneurial Records at the Archives of the Province of Québec). Six Volumes. Beauceville, Québec, Canada: L'Éclaireur, 1927–1929. (FHL book 971.4 R2q; on 24 fiches numbered 6046791.) Text in French. Includes index.  

Mathieu, Jacques, and Alain Laberge. ''L'Occupation des terres dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent: aveux et dénombrements, 1723–1745'' ''(Occupation of the St. Lawrence River Valley: Oaths of Allegiance and Censuses, 1723–1745).'' Sillery, Québec, Canada: Éditions du Septentrion, 1991. (FHL book 971.4 R2m.) Text in French. Describes each seigneury, lists its farms, and gives the names of the habitants. Has information on approximately 7,400 farms (more than 98 percent of the seigneury farms in Québec during the French régime). Includes indexes of the names of the seigneurs and habitants. <!--{12091692121131} --> <!--{12091692121132} -->  

''List of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Québec from 1763 to 31st December 1890''. Québec, Canada: Charles- François Langlois, 1891. (FHL films 413121–22.) This book is a transcription of information from land patents. It is an especially good source to begin with if you are looking for English-speaking settlers. It gives the date of the patent and the county, township, and lot number where the grant was located. The index at the end of the volume is alphabetical only by the first letter of the surname.  

Lower Canada. Executive Council. Land Committee. ''Land Petitions and Related Records, 1637–1842''. National Archives of Canada series RG 1, L 3 L. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Public Archives of Canada, 1965–1995. (On 126 FHL films beginning with film 1831844.) Indexed.  

Upper Canada. Executive Council. ''Petitions for Land Grants and Leases, 1791–1867''. National Archives of Canada series RG 1, L 3. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. (On 257 FHL films beginning with film 1832344.) Includes records for the years between 1842 and 1867, when Canada East (Québec) was part of the Province of Canada. Index films and some series films are available at the Family History Library.  

''Québec, Lower Canada, Upper Canada, Canada Executive Council. Minute Books (on Land Matters) 1787–1867.'' National Archives of Canada series RG 1, L 1. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: National Archives of Canada, [19—?]. (NAC films C-94 through C-96 and C-100 through C-110). Includes records of hearings before land committees of various executive councils. Although these are not at the Family History Library, microfilms of the "Land Books" can be loaned by the National Archives of Canada to any public library which participates in the interlibrary loan system.