CEMETERIES

The Family History Library has copies of many cemetery records from Ontario. See:

Cemetery Records of Ontario, Canada. 17 vols. [N.p.: n.p.], 1947-1967. (FHL book 971.3 V3ce; film 823,644-48, 874,379 item 7, film 1,035,565 item 10; fiche 6046793.) For an index, see:

Index to Cemetery Records of Ontario. Typescript, [1971?]. (FHL book 971.3 V3ce; film 824,329 item 8.) This is an alphabetical list of names and locations of cemeteries in vols. 1-14 above.

Known cemeteries in Ontario are listed in:

Ronnow, Verna, ed. Inventory of Cemeteries in Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1987. (FHL book 971.3 V34i; not on microfilm.)

For tombstone inscriptions from more than half of the 4,000 cemeteries in Ontario, see booklets published by branches of the Ontario Genealogical Society and other organizations. See also the magazines in the “Periodicals” section of this outline.

CENSUS

Federal

Many federal census records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives of Canada, and at other provincial and local archives. The Canada Research Outline (34545) provides more detailed information about the federal records.

The Family History Library has Canadian federal censuses of Ontario for 1871, 1881, 1891, and 1901.

Index, 1871 Census of Ontario. Most Canadian national censuses are not indexed by province. The Canadian government did not make indexes. The Ontario Genealogical Society prepared an index for the 1871 census of the province:

Elliott, Bruce S., ed. Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario. 30 vols. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986-1992. (FHL book 971.3 X22i 1871; not on microfilm.) A computer version of the original databases for this index is available at the National Archives of Canada and the Automated Resource Center of the Family History Library. This is listed in the Family History Library Catalog under the heading ONTARIO - CENSUS - 1871 - INDEXES.

Provincial

Pre-1842. The pre-1842 censuses of Ontario were taken each year by local tax assessors and filed with the District Clerk of the Peace. Most have been lost. Those for Augusta Township, Grenville County, are on FHL film 393,998. They cover the years 1796, 1806, 1813, 1823, and 1824. Other head-of-household lists made by tax assessors date from the late 1820s and 1830s for some townships. See the “Taxation” section of this outline.

1842-1850. The first census for all of Upper Canada (present southern Ontario) was a head-of-household census taken in 1842. Much of it does not survive. The 1848 and 1850 head-of-household censuses exist for only three of twenty districts then in the province: Huron, Johnstown, and Newcastle. The available 1848 and 1850 censuses are indexed in:

Dilts, Bryan Lee. 1848 and 1850 Canada West (Ontario) Census Index. Salt Lake City: Index Publishing, 1984. (FHL book 971.3 X22d; not on microfilm.)

1851-61. Important every-name censuses were taken in southern Ontario for 1851 (actually taken in 1852) and 1861. Some sections of these censuses are lost. A list of townships for which these and other censuses are available is in the Ontario section of:

Hillman, Thomas A. Catalogue of Census Returns on Microfilm, 1666-1891. [Ottawa]: National Archives of Canada, 1987. (FHL book 971 X23ht; not on microfilm.)

Census Indexes. A bibliography of available census indexes by township is:

Crowder, Norman K. Indexes to Ontario Census Records: Interim Update. Nepean, Ont.: Crowder, 1992. (FHL book 971.3 X23c 1992; fiche 6075927.)

All census records for Ontario are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under the headings:

ONTARIO - CENSUS - [YEAR]ONTARIO, [DISTRICT] - CENSUS - [YEAR]ONTARIO, [COUNTY] - CENSUS - [YEAR]ONTARIO, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CENSUS - [YEAR]