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 Library and Archives Canada holds Lower Canada Land Petitions 1764-1841 (RG 1, L3L) and records of the Gaspé Land Commission (RG 1, L 7, vols. 79-80) which are nominally indexed in their finding aid 1801. Both the records and the index are microfilmed. The microfilm shelf list is posted on Library and Archives Canada website. The petitions may have information on the petitioner, his family parentage, military service and time of settling the land making them very valuable genealogically. The patents that were granted gave the name of the grantee, a description of the land and the date of the grant, also very useful.<br>
+=== Land Transfers after the First Grant  ===
+Subsequent sales, gifts, bequests, or other transfers of land have been a matters of '''local''' record since about 1831, under the responsibility of the ''Ministère de la Justice'' and registered at the ''Bureau d’enregistrement'' [Legal Registry Office] of the various Judicial Districts. In 1996 there were 55 different land registry offices. Current addresses are given in the ''Canadian Almanac'' or in a current Québec Government Telephone Directory, or Québec Legal Telephone Directory, and probably other legal directories. Ask your librarian. You must know the street address or Range and lot number and it helps to know the Ward or Parish.
+Be prepared for very high search fees. I was once told offices were very busy in May, and to check opening hours before visiting. Remember, these offices are there for lawyers and notaries to search titles for current land sales, not for genealogists.
+Most land transfer documents will have been drawn up by the local Notary, and if over 100 years old, may be in his ''greffe'' in the ANQ. That is a less expensive way to search for such records, so if you can find one land transfer document and get the name of the Notary, you can search the ''greffe'' for other papers and probably track other sales backward or forward.<ref>Douglas, Althea. "Québec Land, Judicial, Tax Records (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Qu%C3%A9bec_Land,_Judicial,_Tax_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref>
 ==== Jésuit Estates  ====
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 :'''Société généalogique canadienne-française''' <br>3440, rue Davidson <br>Montréal, Québec H1W 2Z5 <br>Telephone: 514-527-1010 <br>Email: [mailto:info@sgcf.com info@sgcf.com]<br>
 Both societies have many links to other resources.<ref>Murphy, Sharon L., Brenda Dougall Merriman, and Frances Coe. "Québec Additional Land Records (National Institute)," ''National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Québec_Additional_Land_Records_(National_Institute).</ref>
 '''A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:'''<br>
 [[Quebec, Quebec Judicial District, Guardianships (FamilySearch Historical Records)|Quebec, Quebec Judicial District, Guardianships (FamilySearch Historical Records)]]<br>
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