Ontario Biography

Collections of Biographical Sketches

 * The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men, Ontario Volume. Toronto, Ontario: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1880 (Family History Library .)


 * Fraser, Alexander. A History of Ontario: Its Resources and Development. Two Volumes. Toronto, Ontario: Canada History Company, 1907 (Family History Library .) Biographical sketches are in the end of Volume 1 and all of Volume 2.


 * Middleton, Jesse Edgar. The Province of Ontario: A History, 1615-1927. Five Volumes. Toronto, Ontario: Dominion Publishing Company, 1927-1928. (Family History Library .) Volumes 3-5 are biographical.

See Canada Biography for national biographical dictionaries listing Ontarians.

Local Histories
Town, county, and local histories often partially consist of biographies of residents.

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 Ontario Genealogy. Book and manuscript collections of biographies are located at the institutions listed in Ontario Archives and Libraries.

Online Resources

 * http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowContributor.asp?VolId=10