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Québec Research Outline |
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Table of Contents
Québec Search Strategies
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
Language And Languages
Military Records
Names, Personal
Native Races
Naturalization And Citizenship
Newspapers
Notarial Records
Periodicals
Probate Records
Societies
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions
Loiselle Marriage Index
Appendix A
The Rivest Marriage Index
Organization Of The Index
How To Use The Index
Names And Film Numbers
Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary
Information In The Dictionary
Organization Of The Dictionary
Common Terms And Abbreviations
Names And Film Numbers
How To Read An Entry
Finding An Immigrant Ancestor
Miscellaneous Situations
Other Information In The Dictionary
BIOGRAPHY There are many collections of biographies of the earliest French Canadians. Stories of the immigrant women called the “king's daughters” are in:
Dumas, Silvio. Les filles du roi en Nouvelle-France: Étude historique avec répertoire biographique (The King's Daughters in New France: Historical Study and Biographical Sketches). Cahiers d'histoire, no. 24. Québec: Société historique du Québec, 1972. (FHL book 971.4 D3ds; film 1421670 item 5; computer number 208024.) Text in French.
Biographies of the earliest pioneer men are in the continuing series:
Lebel, Gérard. Nos ancêtres: biographies d'ancêtres (Our Ancestors: Biographies). Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Qué.: La Revue, 1983–. (FHL book 971.4 D3L; computer number 219721.) Text in French.
An English version of Lebel's series is:
Laforest, Thomas J. Our French-Canadian Ancestors. Palm Harbour, Fla.: LISI Press, 1983–. (FHL book 971.4 D3Lt; several volumes on 79 fiche; computer number 258829.)
Some books relating to trades, professions, or government officials include biographical sections. They are described in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under QUEBEC - OCCUPATIONS and QUEBEC - OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES. An example is:
Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec, 1792–1992 (Biographical Dictionary of the Parliament of Québec, 1792–1992). Sainte-Foy, Qué.: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1993. (FHL book 971.4 D3d; computer number 717851.) Text in French. This includes brief biographies of members of the Assemblée nationale du Québec and its predecessor, the provincial parliaments.
See the Canada Research Outline (34545) for national biographical dictionaries that include prominent Québec residents. Canadian encyclopedias also include biographical sketches.
Local histories often include biographies of residents. An example is:
Hubbard, Benjamin F. The History of Stanstead County, with Sketches of More Than Five Hundred Families. rev ed. Montréal, Qué.: Lawrence, 1874. (FHL book 971.467 H2h; film 873948 item 1; computer number 211305.)
The names of several thousand Québec men disappear from local church registers because they went west to work in the fur trade. Some of the contracts they signed are in notarial records. (See the “Notarial Records” section of this outline.) Some of those records have been inventoried in:
Massicotte, E. Z. “Répertoire des engagements pour l'Ouest conservés dans les archives judiciaires de Montréal 1670–17[45]” (Repertory of Contracts for the West Preserved in the Montréal Judicial Archives 1670–17[45]). Rapport de l'archiviste de la province de Québec pour 1929–1930 (Report of the Archivist of the Province of Québec [RAPQ], 1929–1930): 191–466. (FHL book 971.4 A5r 1929–1930; computer number 207617.) Text in French. Gives the name of the man who signed the contract and sometimes his home parish, the name of his employer, the name of the notary, and the date of the original contract. An index of names is at the end of the volume.
The inventories continue up to the contracts of 1821. They are in the following annual volumes of the RAPQ series:
Names of about 20,000 men are included in the above series. For detailed information, consult the original notarial records In 1821, the Hudson's Bay Company A bibliography of additional sources about people in the fur trade is:
Hansen, James L. “Voyageurs and Habitants: Tracing the Early French in the Great Lakes Region,” National Genealogical Society Conference in the States (1995: San Diego, California). San Diego, A Place to Explore: Syllabus. 2 vols. [Arlington, Va.?]: National Genealogical Society, 1995, 2:688–91. (FHL book 973 D25ngsc 1995; computer number 752776.)
Some of the sources in the “Genealogy” section of this outline give more information about Québec men in the fur trade.
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BUSINESS RECORDS AND COMMERCE
Annual Volume
Contracts
1930–31, 1931–32, 1932–33
up to 1778
1946–47
1778–1788
1942–43, 1943–44, 1945–46
1788–1821
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merged with the North West Company to monopolize the fur trade in western North America. Names of many French Canadians are included in the Hudson's Bay Company records. Those records are described in the “Business Records and Commerce” section of the Canada Research Outline (34545).
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