52 Ancestors: Week 17 – Parish Registers on Canadiana

Digital images of church records can be hard to find in Canada, especially if your ancestor wasn\’t Catholic. It\’s even harder to find free records. Thankfully, thanks to Canadiana, you can look at literally hundreds of reels of microfilm for FREE.

When I typed \”parish registers\”, \”church\” and \”religion\” into the search engines for Heritage, Early Canadiana Online, and Canadiana, I got literally thousands of hits. I\’ve compiled a short list of links below for ones with multiple reels or issues. In the interest of space, I haven\’t included descriptions of the record sets.

• Parish registers: Newfoundland and Labrador Registres paroissiaux : Terre-Neuve et Labrador St. Martin\’s-in-the-Woods Anglican Church (Shediac Cape, N.B.

• Parish registers: New Brunswick – 7 Reels

• Parish registers: Nova Scotia Registres paroissiaux : Nouvelle-Écosse Fonds de la paroisse catholique Caraquet, N.-B. Registres de l\’Acadie, et se rapportamt à divers endroits du Nouveau-Brunswick, de la Nouvelle Écosse, et du Québec Fonds de la paroisse catholique Saint-Charles-des-Mines (Grand-Pré, N.-É.) – 14 Reels

• France. Fonds des Archives nationales: Série F15. Hospices et secours

• Parish registers : Quebec – 56 Reels

• Fonds de la Seigneurie de Sorel – 5 Reels

• Parish registers: Ontario – 7 Reels

• Dominion Lands branch : Manitoba parish registers used to award Métis land grants, 1875-80 – C11885

• Parish registers: Manitoba – 3 reels

• Dominion Lands Branch : Manitoba Original White Settlers parish returns, 1875-1879