In Search of Your Canadian Roots: Tracing Your Family Tree in Canada

by Baxter, Angus

• ISBN13: 9780771010996
• ISBN10: 0771010990
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd

Author Biography

<b>Angus Baxter</b> is one of North America’s leading genealogists. He has written five best-selling books in addition to <i>In Search of Your British and Irish Roots</i> – <i>In Search of Your Roots</i>, <i>In Search of Your Canadian Roots</i>, <i>In Search of Your European Roots</i>, <i>In Search of Your German Roots</i>, and <i>Dos and Don’ts</i> – and has published in Canada, the United States, and Australia. His <i>In Search of Your European Roots</i> (1986) was chosen by the American Library Association as one of the two best reference books published that year. He lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
Abbreviations	xviii
Starting Off on the Right Foot	1	(13)
How to Start the Family Tree	14	(13)
The Great Migrations	27	(21)
The Scots and the Irish	28	(2)
German-Speaking Settlers	30	(1)
The Huguenots	31	(3)
United Empire Loyalists	34	(4)
The Ukrainians	38	(5)
The Jews in Canada	43	(3)
Note on Passenger Lists	46	(2)
LDS Church (Mormon) Records	48	(6)
The National Archives	54	(11)
Censuses	65	(4)
Church Records and Registers	69	(21)
Coats of Arms	90	(5)
Alberta	95	(19)
British Columbia	114	(16)
Manitoba	130	(15)
New Brunswick	145	(27)
Newfoundland and Labrador	172	(9)
Acadians	181	(10)
Nova Scotia	191	(22)
Ontario	213	(83)
Prince Edward Island	296	(12)
Quebec	308	(27)
Saskatchewan	335	(15)
The Yukon and Northwest Territories	350	(6)
Writing a Family History	356	(9)
Bibliography	365	(7)
Index	372