Ontario First Nations

Online Records

 * Indian registers of marriages, baptisms, burials from Catholic missions in Ontario, 1843-1915?
 * Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923 Saint Mary's Indian Boarding School (Kenora, Ontario). Mary Queen Indian Missions (Kenora, Ontario). Saint Mary's Indian Boarding School (Kenora, Ontario). Browsable images.

Tribes and Bands of Ontario Contact Information
A list of tribes and contact information is found at Native Tribes of Canada

Wikipedia Articles (Background)
Iroquois, Algonquian or Algonkian, Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca

Published Records

 * Diary of David Zeisberger : a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio
 * Contains church history with some church records including baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Often these are written right with the church history. These are for localities in Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario. Includes historical infomation for several American Indian tribes, including the Mohican (Mohegan), Chippewa (Ojibway), Wyandot (Huron), Twightwee (Miami), Onondaga, Potawatomie, Mohawk and Delaware tribes.


 * Guide to the records of the Moravian Mission among the Indians of North America : from the archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Records
Records can be searched at the Archives of Ontario, requested in interlibrary loan for use in your local library, or you can hire a researcher from the provided list of individuals who are certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists or who are members of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
 * Records Relating to Aboriginal Peoples Archives of Ontario.
 * Prepare for Your Visit to the Archives of Ontario.
 * For information and request forms for interlibrary loans, see What is the Microfilm Interloan Service?
 * Genealogical Researchers in Ontario

Church Records
Roman Catholic first missionaries to visit Ontario were the Franciscan.

Church of England arrived in 1702.

Methodist missionary effort by the Wesleyan Methodist began in 1824.

Moravian


 * Records of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians of North America. FHL film first film 1017681 (New Fairfield, Ontario films 1017692-1017699)
 * Fliegel, Carl John. Index to the Records of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians of North America. FHL book Q 970.1 F642i
 * Guide to the Records of the Moravian Mission Among the Indians of North America: from the archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. FHL book Q 970.1 F642i supp

Land and Property

 * Hickerson, Harold, Land Tenure of the Rainy Lake Chippewa at the Beginning 19th Century. Glen Rock, NJ. FHL film 965791 item 5

Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Glenbow Archive, Library, and Museum 

Glenbow Archives 130 - 9 Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3 Reference Desk telephone: 403-268-4204 Email: archives@glenbow.org


 * The Glenbow Archives and Library, has an excellent collection of resources for the study of Métis genealogy. Their sources cover predominantly Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and some parts of the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and British Columbia.


 * Most of our sources pertain to people who were living in the Prairie Provinces in 1900 or earlier.


 * One unique collection is the Gail Morin who donated her 40,000 name data base to the archive in 2011. The data base is ancestral quest format and all in families with sources.