Canada, Published Census Records (QC, NB, NS, PE, NL, NT, YT) - International Institute

Introduction
The researcher is advised to contact the provincial archives and local genealogical society for any holdings of census records for their particular area. As previously noted, many of the early records were made in order to levy taxes, and those that have survived may have been preserved with municipal records.

Some records have been published, either in whole or in part, and may be more easily consulted in the printed format. Some may have been indexed by local genealogical societies, and some may be in the form of a searchable database on the Internet. Every effort should be made to ensure that you have located all possible census records for your area of interest.

As the original microfilmed census records held by Library and Archives Canada are the best original source, no effort has been made to list all published transcriptions from these original records. By consulting the local genealogical society or library, and/or the FamilySearch Library Locality Index the researcher will be able to determine what published records might be of interest.

A bibliography of specialized publications covering very early records, or compilations of records for a specific purpose that may be of special interest, have been included by province.

Québec

 * Census of Seigneuries of Contrecoeur, St. Ours, Verchères, LaValtrie, Chambly, and Fort St. Louis; 1681, 1885-86, 1890, 1895, 1898. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Originals in possession of Le Presbytère de Ste. Trinité de Contrecoeur, Contrecoeur, Québec.


 * Charbonneau, Hubert and Jacques Legaré. Répertoire des Actes de Baptême, Mariage, Sépulture et Des Recensements du Québec Ancien. 47 volumes. Montréal: Les Presses de L’Université de Montréal, 1980-1988. Census records 1666, 1667, 1681 and Census of Mont-Louis 1699 in volume 6.


 * Eker, Glen. Index to Jewish Residents in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses of Upper Canada and the 1861 Census of Lower Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1996. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of Greater Ontario and Quebec Province Excluding Greater Toronto, Montreal and Quebec city in the 1871-1901 Censuses of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1994. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of Montreal and Quebec City in the 1871-1901 Censuses of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1993. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Hamel, Brigitte. Recensement de la paroisse de ... [Various parish census records for the 19th Century churches of the Diocèse of Trois-Rivières.] Trois-Rivières, Québec: Archives de l’Évêché, c1990. There are over 50 titles in this collection. Search the FamilySearch Catalogue for the author to view the complete listings.


 * Lafontaine, André.Recensement annoté de la Nouvelle-France, 1681. [1681 annotated census for New France, with Index.] Sherbrooke, Québec: A. Lafontaine, 1981.


 * Lafontaine, André. Recensements annotés de la Nouvelle-France 1666 &amp; 1667. [1666 and 1667 annotated census for New France, with Index.] Sherbrooke, Québec: A. Lafontaine, 1985.


 * Lafontaine, André. Recensements annotés de la ville de Québec, 1716 &amp; 1744. [Annotated census Québec City, 1716 and 1744.] Sherbrooke, Québec: A. Lafontaine, 1983.


 * Nouvelle-France. Recensements: 1666-1681. Ottawa, Ontario: Service Central du Microfilm, Archives Publiques du Canada, 1966. Available on microfilm at Library and Archives Canada and the FamilySearch Library.


 * Nouvelle France, Gouverneur-Général. Recensements, 1762-1779. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmés par la Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. Census and Lists of Refugees for Québec, St. Pierre et Miquelon, Ile Royale (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) and Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island). Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Originals in possession of Archives nationales, Section Outre-Mer, Paris.


 * Perrault, Claude.Montréal en 1825. Montréal, Québec: Groupe d’ Études Gen-Histo Inc., 1977. 1825 census Island of Montréal, with maps and index. From the original manuscript dated 1825; Jacques Viger and Louis Guy, Denombrement du Comté de Montréal.


 * Presbyterian Church, Montréal, Québec. Register of the parish of Montreal, 1766-1787. Ottawa, Ontario: Public Archives of Canada, 1967. List of Protestants in the District of Montréal, from the Census of 1765. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Recensements du Québec. 198?. FamilySearch Center Microfiche Project. Available on microfiche at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Roy, Antoine and Archives du Québec. Aveu et denombrement de Montréal. Québec: Les Archives, 1943. Census of Montréal Island including HF and streets.


 * Roy, Pierre-Georges.Papier Terrier de la Compagnie des Indes Occidentales, 1667-1668. Beauceville, Québec: L’Éclaireur, 1931. Transcription of land records which include names of seigneurs and the inhabitants of seigneuries.


 * Signaÿ, Joseph. Recensement de la ville de Québec en 1818. [1818 census, city of Québec.] Québec, Québec: Société Historique de Québec. 1976. Cahiers d’histoire #29.

New Brunswick

 * Eker, Glen.Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces 1871-1901 Census of Canada. Teaneck, NJ: Distributed by Avotaynu Inc., 1995.


 * Eker, Glen and Deborah Pekilis.Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces 1871-1901 Census of Canada. Teaneck, NJ: Distributed by Avotaynu Inc., 1995.


 * Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of Maritimes in the 1891 Census of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1994.


 * Eker, Glen and Deborah Pekilis.Jewish Residents of Maritimes in 1901 Census of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1993.


 * Toner, P.M. An Index to Irish Immigrants in the New Brunswick Census of 1851. Fredericton, NB: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, c1991.


 * Trahan, Charles C. Acadien Census 1671-1752. [Translated.] Rayne, LA: Hebert Publishing, c1994.

Nova Scotia

 * Census Records and Poll Tax Rolls for Nova Scotia, 1770-1838. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1983. Available on microfilm at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia and the FamilySearch Library. Eker, Glen and Deborah Pekilis. Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces 1871-1901 Census of Canada. Teaneck, NJ: Distributed by Avotaynu Inc., 1995.


 * Eker, Glen.Jewish Residents of Maritimes in the 1891 Census of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1994.


 * Jackson, Ronald Vern.1770-1787, Nova Scotia. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, Inc., c1986.


 * Jackson, Ronald Vern.1851 Nova Scotia. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, Inc., c1986.


 * Toner, P.M. An Index to Irish Immigrants in the New Brunswick Census of 1851. Fredericton, NB: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, c1991.

Prince Edward Island

 * Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.Abstract of Census of Population and Other Statistical Returns of Prince Edward Island, taken in the year 1848. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service, 1990. Original published Charlottetown: J.D. Haszard, 1849. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Blanchard, Joseph-Henri. Histoire des Acadiens de l’Île du Prince-Edouard. Society Saint-Thomas d’Acquin, 1976. History of Acadiens of Prince Edward Island, includes census 1728 and 1798.


 * Campbell, Duncan. History of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown, PEI: Bremner Bros. 1875. Includes census of inhabitants of Island of Saint John, now PEI, taken April, 1798.


 * Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of Maritimes in the 1891 Census of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: G. Eker, 1994.


 * Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces 1871-1901 Census of Canada. Teaneck, NJ: Distributed by Avotaynu Inc., 1995.


 * Eker, Glen and Deborah Pekilis. Jewish Residents of Maritimes in 1901 Census of Canada. Guelph, Ontario: Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., 1993.


 * Eker, Glen and Deborah Pekilis.Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces 1871-1901 Census of Canada. Teaneck, NJ: Distributed by Avotaynu Inc., 1995.


 * France, Archives d’Outre-Mer. Inventaires des Recensements des Colonies Françaises, 1664-1818. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972. Collection of census, land grants and other documents: d’Acadie 1671-1755; Ile St. Jean 1728-1758; Ile Royal 1713-1790; Emigrés d’Acadie 1760-1804. Recensements des colonies françaises. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Nouvelle France, Gouverneur-Général. Recensements, 1762-1779. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmés par la Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. Census and Lists of Refugees for Québec, St. Pierre et Miquelon, Ile Royale (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) and Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island). Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Originals in possession of Archives nationales, Section Outre-Mer, Paris.


 * Trahan, Charles C.Acadien Census 1671-1752. [Translated.] Rayne, LA: Hebert Publishing, c1994.

Newfoundland

 * Early census records of St. John’s Harbour, Newfoundland. 1677, 1794-1795, 1796-1797, 1801-1802. 1970. Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.


 * Nouvelle France, Gouverneur-Général. Recensements, 1762-1779. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmés par la Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974. Census and Lists of Refugees for Québec, St. Pierre et Miquelon, Ile Royale (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) and Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island). Available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library. Originals in possession of Archives nationales, Section Outre-Mer, Paris.


 * Power, Catherine P. Registry of Fishing Rooms in Bonavista Bay, 1805-06. Gloverton, Newfoundland: Gloverton Literary Creations, 1991.

Northwest Territories and Yukon

 * Eker, Glen. Jewish Residents of Western Canada in the 1870-1901 Censuses of Canada. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu Inc., 1994.

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