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BOOK - Province of Ontario Immigration Records, An Overview.
By Fawne Stratford-Devai
Published by Global Heritage Press
Researchers in search of immigration records are often not aware of the diverse records created at the provincial level. This booklet is designed to provide an overview of immigration records created by and for the Province of Ontario in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Table of Contents:
- Evolution of Responsibility for Emigrants in Ontario
- British Records: Military & Colonial Office
- Military Settling Department
- Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- Civil Secretary
- Crown Land Records
- Emigrant Agents
- The Emigrant Office
- Bureau of Agriculture [Dept. of Agriculture] (Canada West): 1852-1867
- Department of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works: 1867-1877
- Immigration Branch 1869-1874
- Records of the Toronto Emigration Office
- Correspondence ~ Letterbooks
- Toronto Office Assisted Immigration Registers
- Toronto Office Arrival and Destination Registers
- Toronto Emigrant Office Financial Records (1831-1879)
- Toronto Convalescent and Fever Hospital (1847-1848)
- Report of the Inspection of Children (1875, 1886)
- Toronto Emigrant Office Records Microfilm Listing
- Ontario Department of Immigration Records
- The Evolution of Ontario's Immigration Department
- Records of the Department of Immigration
- Passage Bonus Receipts (1873-1875)
- Refund Bonus Certificates (1873-1874)
- Applications for Refund Bonus (1869-73, 1874-76)
- Six Dollar Bonus Warrants (1875)
- Arrival & Destination Records (1862-1881)
- Free Railway Pass Records (1869,1872-73,1879)
- Accounting Records (1869-1901)
- Miscellaneous Records (1869-1896)
- Additional Sources for Ontario Immigrants
- Homechildren
- British Emigration Files
- Scottish Emigration Files
- Irish Emigration
- German Immigration
- Records of Refugees
- Jewish Immigration Records
- Internet Resources
50 pp/ 8.5" X 11" / staple bound (spine)/ ISBN 1-894378-73-3
About Fawne Stratford-Devai
Fawne Stratford-Devai's work on Land Records and early Ontario records is well known in the genealogy community. A published author of several Canadian and UK research books, she has also contributed articles to the Ontario Genealogical Society's newsletter "Families" as well as writing for the online family history newsletter the "Global Gazette". Biography
Books by, or co-authored by Fawne Stratford-Devai include:
- Leaving Ontario, Resources for Tracking Ontario Migrants
- Researching Your English & Welsh Roots From Afar, A Guide
- Canadian Records of Birth, Marriage and Death: A Guide
- Getting From Here To There, Identifying the Origins of Immigrants to Canada
- Canadian Family History in the 21st Century, Lessons, Links & Resources
- Using Maps in Family History Research
- Province of Ontario Immigration Records, An Overview
- Ontario Land Registry Office Records: A Research Guide
- Vital Records In Ontario Before 1869, A Guide to Early Ontario Vital Records
- District Marriage Registers of Upper Canada (27 vols)
- District Vital Records of Upper Canada / Canada West (8 vols)
- Fegan's Homes Newsletters (Home Children) (10 vols)
- Men of Upper Canada- Militia Nominal Rolls 1828 - 1829. (census substitute)
- Middlesex County (Ontario, Canada) Marriages and Baptisms 1848 - 1858.
- Haldimand County Marriage & Burial Register, 1851 - 1865
- Middlesex County (Ontario, Canada) Marriages and Baptisms 1848 - 1858.
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