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:National Archives of Canada. RG 8, Series I ("C" series). British Military Records, "C" Series, 1757–1899, Located at the National Archives of Canada. Ottawa: Central Microfilm Unit, Public Archives of Canada, 1966–91. (On 571 FS Library Microfilms beginning with film {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|397529|title-id|disp=1683760}}; .) This collection of records includes correspondence of the Military Secretary of the Office of the Commander of the Forces in British North America, records of the Canadian Command from 1785 to 1883, records of the Nova Scotia Command from 1762 to 1899, and miscellaneous records from 1757 to 1896. The miscellaneous records include some American Loyalist regiment muster rolls from 1777 to 1783 and muster rolls of some Canadian militia units for the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837 to 1838. Muster rolls may show each soldier’s name, regiment, and the dates and places he served. The index includes about 500,000 entries to subjects as well as to military members’ names. It covers only correspondence of the Military Secretary and the miscellaneous records series.

:Morton, Desmond. ''A Military History of Canada.'' Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig Publishers, 1985. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|649093|title-id|disp=971 M2mdm}}; .)

:Fryer, Mary Beacock. ''Battlefields of Canada''. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1986. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|633416|title-id|disp=971 M2fm}}; .)

:Cooke, Owen A. ''The Canadian Military Experience, 1867–1983: A Bibliography''. 2d ed. Ottawa: Directorate of History, 1984. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|729573|title-id|disp=971 M23c}} 1984)

:Roy, Régis, and Gérard Malchélosse. Le Régiment de Carignan: Son organization et son expédition au Canada. (The Carignan Regiment: Its Organization and Its Expedition to Canada) Montreal: G. Ducharme, 1925. (FamilySearch Library Call No.{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|71774|title-id|disp=971 A1 no. 14; film 1320669 item 19}}; .)

:''Lost in Canada? vols. 8–10 ''(August 1982 to May 1984). (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|92996|title-id|disp=book 971 B2c; fiche 6048073}})

:Kitzmiller, John M., II. ''In Search of the Forlorn Hope: A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and Their Records, 1640-WW I. 2 vols., supplemental volume''. Salt Lake City: Manuscript Publishing Foundation, 1988. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|942 M2kj|disp=942 M2kj}}.) FS Library microfilm numbers of British War Office records for these regiments are in the supplemental volume. Microfilm numbers are also in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under: GREAT BRITAIN - MILITARY RECORDS.

:Crowder, Norman K. ''British Army Pensioners Abroad, 1772–1899''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1995. (FamilySearch Library Call No. 942 M2cn.) This book contains about 8,000 names of pensioners, about half of whom were residents of Canada. This work indexes selected British War Office Series 120 records of the Chelsea Hospital Regimental Registers of Pensioners (volume 35 on FS Library Microfilm {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|315468|title-id|disp=854664}}; volume 69 on film {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|315468|title-id|disp=852021}}; volume 70 on film {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|315468|title-id|disp=852022}}.) The book usually shows only the soldier’s name, regiment, date of pension, place of residence abroad, and sometimes death date. The original records on microfilm may also include age and rank when admitted to pension, place of birth, and years of service.

:Jonasson, Eric. ''Canadian Veterans of the War of 1812''. Winnipeg, Man.: Wheatfield Press, 1981. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|75391|title-id|disp=971 M2c}}.)

:Gordon, Robert S., and E. Grace Maurice, eds. ''Union List of Manuscripts in Canadian Repositories (ULM)''. 2 vols., rev. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1975. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|971 A3cp |disp=971 A3cp 1975; Microfilm 1036731 items 1 and 2}}.) The FamilySearch Library has some of the supplements to this book that have been published since 1975.

:Christie, Carl A. ''"Military Sources at the Public Archives of Canada," Families''.1977, 225–241 (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|379950|title-id|disp=973.H2mri}})

:St-Louis-Harrison, Lorraine, and Mary Munk. ''Tracing Your Ancestors in Canada''.12th ed. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1997. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|659488|title-id|disp=971 D27k}} 1997.)

:Merriman, Brenda Dougall. ''Genealogy in Ontario: Searching the Records''. 3rd ed. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1996. (FamilySearch Library Call No. k {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|1482746|title-id|disp=971.3 D27m}} 1996.)

:Sabine, Lorenzo. ''Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an Historical Essay''. 2 Vols. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1864. (FamilySearch Library Call No.{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|47479|title-id|disp=973 F2sLb . Volume 1 only on film 928084 item 2}})

The originals of both series of claims are at the Public Records Office in London, England. They are called the Audit Office 12 series (A.O. 12, or "First Series") and the Audit Office 13 series (A.O. 13, or "Second Series"). The 146 volumes of Audit Office 12 records are at the FamilySearch Library, 31 films (FS Library Microfilms {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|16752|title-id|disp=1401467–497}}; ). An index to them is on FS Library Microfilm {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|16752|title-id|disp=1401498}}.  

The Audit Office 13 series was originally arranged in 140 "bundles," grouped mostly by state of origin of the claimants. They are at the FamilySearch Library (FS Library Microfilms {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|192412|title-id|disp=366694–869}}). A surname index to bundles 11 to 140 is on FS Library Microfilm {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|192412|title-id|disp=366693}}.  

:Fraser, Alexander. ''United Empire Loyalists: Enquiry into the Losses and Service in Consequence of Their Loyalty''. 2 parts. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994.  {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|688825|title-id|disp=FS Library book 971.3 A5o 1904}}. Online at: [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48255/ United Empire Loyalists, Part I] at Ancestry ($), [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/48256/ United Empire Loyalists, Part II] at Ancestry ($); {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|30919437|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.

:Antliff, W. Bruce. ''Loyalist Settlements, 1783–1789''. Toronto: Archives of Ontario (of) The Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, 1985. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|390753|title-id|disp=971 N29L; six microfiche 6101708}}.) This source contains transcriptions of about 350 claims that are not in the Second Report.

:Palmer, Gregory. ''Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution''. Westport, Conn.: Meckler Publishing, 1984. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|55581|title-id|disp=973 F2sLba}}.) This book contains about 3,800 entries that are alphabetically arranged. The introduction includes a rather complete list of Loyalist militia units.

:DeMarce, Virginia Easley. ''An annotated list of 317 former German soldiers who chose to remain in Canada after the American Revolution.'' DeMarce, 1981. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|36260|title-id|disp=FS Library US/CAN 971.4 W2d}}.

:DeMarce, Virginia Easley. ''The Settlement of Former German Auxiliary Troops in Canada after the American Revolution''. Sparta, Wisc.: Joy Reisinger, 1984. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|125910|title-id|disp=971 W2dv; microfiche 6101456}}) This book contains about 1,300 brief biographies. They may include each soldier’s former regiment, age at enlistment or discharge, place of settlement in Canada, wife’s name, and date and place of marriage.

:Wilhelmy, Jean-Pierre. ''German Mercenaries in Canada''. Translated by Honey Thomas. Beloeil, Qué.: La Maison des Mots, 1985. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|488157|title-id|disp=971 M2w}}.) This book contains a history of the German regiments who fought in the American Revolutionary War. An appendix lists the names of more than 200 officers and their regiments.

:Clark, Murtie June, comp. ''Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War. 3 vols''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|358874|title-id|disp=975 F2cm}}) Each volume has more than 9,000 names. Volume 1 lists Loyalists from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. Volume 2 gives members of units from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia who served in the South. Volume 3 includes muster rolls of Loyalist regiments from mainly New York and New Jersey, some of whom served in the North during the early part of the war and were then transported to Georgia or the Carolinas to serve there. Many Loyalist soldiers who served in southern campaigns were later evacuated with their families to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Many of them eventually found their way to Quebec and Ontario.

:''Index to Rolls of the Provincial (Loyalist) Corps, Canadian Command''. . . N.p.: Halton-Peel Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, n.d. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|58671|title-id|disp=971 M2f}} Index.)<br>

:Fitzgerald, E. Keith. ''Loyalist Lists: Over 2,000 Loyalist Names and Families from the Haldimand Papers''. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1984. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|228467|title-id|disp=971 M2fe; two microfiche 6010886}}) The names in this book are from:

The FamilySearch Library has records of Applications for Pensions for Widows and Children of Loyalist Officers, 1755–1908 (W.O. 42), arranged alphabetically on eight rolls of microfilm (FS Library Microfilm nos.{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|184092|title-id|disp=857997, 858000, and 866501–866504}}). These records are listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under GREAT BRITAIN - MILITARY RECORDS. These form part of the Great Britain War Office Certificates of Birth, Baptism, Marriage, and Death. The records apply to a small fraction of Loyalist families, but they contain much family information, including a few delayed birth certificates from American states. The records are of families residing in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and other eastern Canadian provinces.  

Muster rolls of American Loyalist regiments that list the names of soldiers and the units they served in. They are on twelve rolls of microfilm (FS Library Microfilms {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|397529|title-id|disp=928940–928947 and 1689400–1689403}}). A name index to the military series (of which the Loyalist muster rolls are a part) is Military Index to Record Group 8, Series 1 (formerly the "C Series"). It is available from the National Archives of Canada and at the FamilySearch Library on 89 rolls of film (several mixed ranges of numbers). Film numbers for the index are listed in the catalog’s Place Search under CANADA - MILITARY RECORDS.  

:Cruikshank, Ernest A., ''The King’s Royal Regiment of New York. 1931''. Reprint. Edited and indexed with the addition of a master muster roll by Gavin K. Watt, Toronto: The Ontario Historical Society, 1984. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|33580|title-id|disp=971 M2ce 1984}}) This work contains information about American Loyalists who were mostly recruited in the Mohawk Valley of upper New York. It contains more than 1,700 names.

:Palmer, Gregory, ed. ''A Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain''. Westport, Conn.: Meckler Publishing, 1982. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|55585|title-id|disp=973 F23bL}}.)

:Allen, Robert S. ''Loyalist Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide to the Writings on the Loyalists of the American Revolution''. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1982. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|344393|title-id|disp=971 H23L}}.) This publication lists major theses and a number of secondary sources.

:Hayward,George Hatfield. Loyalist Officers, 1782-83 {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|758794|item|desp=FS Library book 971 M29h film 1598433 item 13}}

:Winks, Robin W. ''Canada and the United States: The Civil War Years''. 1960. Reprint. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|578812|title-id|disp=973 H2wrw}}.)

:Johnson, Daniel F. T''he American Civil War: The Service Records of Atlantic Canadians with the State of Maine Volunteers''. 2 vols. Saint John, N. B.: Daniel F. Johnson, 1995. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|752041|title-id|disp=971.5 M2jd}}.) It includes the following information about 2,400 soldiers: name, age, physical description, occupation, Canadian residence, Maine regiment, and service dates.

Index to Canadian Service Records of the South African War (1899-1902) held at the National Archives of Canada.{{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>| 982306|item|desp=FS Library book 971 M22i  film 1440457 item e}}  [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/157857-index-to-canadian-service-records-of-the-south-african-war-1899-1902-held-at-the-national-archives-of-canada?offset=1 Digital version]<br>  

Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditonary Force. Infantry Battalion, Fourth and W. L. Givson. ''Records of the Fourth Canadian Infantry Battalion in the Great War, 1914-1918''. [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/172916 FS Library book 971 M2ca]. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|172916|item|desp= film 987406 item 3}}. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-of-the-fourth-canadian-infantry-battalion-in-the-great-war-1914-1918/oclc/27987959 WorldCat]

:Poulin, Joanne, and Peter Gillis, eds. ''Records of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police''. Ottawa Public Archives of Canada, 1975. (FamilySearch Library Call No. {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|59707|title-id|disp=971 A3pg}} No. 2.)

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