French-Canadian Genealogy Research Libraries (National Institute)

La Maison de la Généalogie
This is the research library of the Société Généalogique Canadienne Française―the oldest Canadian genealogical society, founded in 1943. It has free access for members and charges a small fee for non-members. See the society website for current membership fees. It has all the standard dictionaries and books. It has over 2,700 répertoires (Québec, but also other Canadian Provinces and United States where French-Canadians settled). It has the most important collection of history and genealogy periodicals in Canada. It has the FamilySearch microfilms as well as the complete Drouin Institute collection of books and microforms, many databases on CD-ROMs, PRDH, Archivia, Chronica, Parchemin, Cap-aux-Diamants, Amérique Française, Fichier Benoit (unique to the SGCF), BMS 2000, Fichier Origine, Parchemin, Thémis. Other tools unique to La Maison de la Généalogie include le Fichier Parentèle (around 2.5 million index cards (mostly marriages, also baptisms and sepultures), and databases for obits published in Le Journal de Montréal et le Soleil de Québec. They have the original of the Fichier Loiselle on index cards. They also have private archives―Fonds Archange-Godbout, Denis-E. Amyot, Fonds Gingras, Fichier Origine (including copies of the original documents gathered), Archives de la SGCF, copies of 6,000 notarial documents gathered and paleographed by members, Iconographic collections of Robert Prévost (8,000 slides of France and Québec accompanied with text) and Marcel Fournier (2,000 slides of cities and villages of France). Digital copies can be made.


 * Société généalogique canadienne-française Société généalogique canadienne-française 3440, rue Davidson Montréal, QC, H1W 2Z5 Telehone: 514-527-1010 Email: [mailto:info@sgcf.com info@sgcf.com]

Québec Family History Society Library
Québec Family History Society Library - Has free access for members and non-members pay a small fee per visit. See their website for current membership fees. This group specializes in genealogy research for the English speaking people of Québec. They specialize in Non-Catholic English speaking genealogy. Their president, Gary Schroeder, speaking on “Irish settlers in the Province of Québec”, and “The Irish in Montréal” has said at their meeting Roots 2002 at McGill University, “The problem for the genealogist in Québec is not that there are too few records but rather that there are so many types of records that one would need two lifetimes to examine them all.”

Here are some of the resources available at their library. While the material can be found at other research facilities in Montréal, here the spoken language is English.


 * Land Grants by the Crown from 1763 to 31 December 1890 in Lower Canada


 * Montréal Judicial District Indexes
 * Protestant births (1760-1899)
 * Protestant marriages (1760-1899)
 * Protestant burials (1768-1899)
 * Protestant Marriage Index and Death Index (1900-1925)
 * Québec City Protestant Records (1790-1875)
 * St. Francis District Index of Protestant birth, marriage and death (1815-1879) This is in the Eastern Townships.
 * Beauharnois Judicial District Index Protestant births, marriages, deaths 1832-1899
 * Selected Protestant church répertoires
 * Directory of monumental inscription list, a list of about 1100 cemeteries in or around the Province of Québec

Heritage Centre and Library 173 Cartier Avenue Pointe-Claire, Québec Telephone: 514-695-1502 Email: [mailto:qfhs@bellnet.ca qfhs@bellnet.ca]

Québec Family History Society  Mailing address: P.O. Box 715, Pointe Claire-Dorval Postal Station 15 Donegani Ave. Pointe-Claire, Québec H9R 4S8

All of these places have photocopies facilities, prices vary but are around twenty cents a copy. When there are restrictions on what you can bring in, you will find storage facilities for the material you cannot bring in.

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