[Research Guidance: Ontario - Research Outline] Research Guidance Version Of Data : 6/9/2001

Table of Contents
     Records At The Family History Library
     The Family History Library Catalog
     Archives And Libraries
     Biography
     Business Records And Commerce
     Cemeteries
     Census
     Church Records
     Court Records
     Directories
     Emigration And Immigration
     Gazetteers
     Genealogy
     Historical Geography
     History
     Land And Property
     Maps
     Military Records
     Naturalization And Citizenship
     Newspapers
     Periodicals
     Probate Records
     Public Records
     Societies
     Taxation
     Vital Records
     For Further Reading
     Comments And Suggestions

BIOGRAPHY

Biographies Look this term up in the glossary. of many prominent Ontarians are included in Jesse Edgar Middleton's The Province of Ontario: A History (vols. 3-5), referred to in the “History” section of this outline.

Two other significant collections of biographical sketches Look this term up in the glossary. for Ontario are found in:

The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men, Ontario Volume. Toronto: American Biographical Pub. Co., 1880 (FHL book 971.3 D3c; film 934,809 item 3.)

Fraser, Alexander. A History of Ontario: Its Resources and Development. 2 vols. Toronto: Canada History Co., 1907 (FHL book 971.3 H2f; fiche 6046760.) Biographical sketches are in the end of volume 1 and all of volume 2.

See the Canada Research Outline (34545) for national biographical dictionaries listing Ontarians.

Canadian encyclopedias Look this term up in the glossary. include biographical sketches.

Town, county, and local histories often partially consist of biographies of residents. For example:

Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte: Including Geneaologies [sic] of Old Families and Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens. Toronto: Rolph and Clark, [1904]. (FHL film 982,201.) Contains many biographies.

There is no major province-wide index limited to biographies. Three master indexes—Biographical and Genealogical Card Index for Ontario, People of Ontario,and Central Canadians—include citations to scattered biographies and many other sources. They are described in the “Genealogy” section of this outline. Book and manuscript collections of biographies are located at the institutions listed in the “Archives and Libraries” section of this outline.

BUSINESS RECORDS AND COMMERCE

For a description of Hudson's Bay Company Look this term up in the glossary. records, see the Canada Research Outline (34545).

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