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

More than half of the 410,000 Canadians claiming descent from native races at the 1981 census were "status Indians" affiliated with bands living on reservations or otherwise registered with the federal government.
 * Iroquois, Algonquian or Algonkian, Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca

Strategies
If you have First Nations ancestry certain additional records can help better identify those ancestors. Before you can effectively search First Nations records:


 * 1) Identify a First Nations ancestor and learn where he lived. Use records described on the Canada Wiki page, particularly census and church records.
 * 2) Identify the tribe or band. When you know the general area where an ancestor lived, you can usually identify his or her tribe. Use various handbooks that describe the tribes that lived in an area, such as: Handbook of Indians of Canada (Ottawa: Geographic Board of Canada, 1912). WorldCat.
 * 3) Study the history of the tribe. You will need some background information about the tribe, such as (a) migration patterns, (b) marriage and naming customs, and (c) affiliations with government agencies or churches. If the tribe moved several times, records may be in many locations.

Published Records

 * Diary of David Zeisberger: a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio Other copies: WorldCat
 * 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 Other copies: WorldCat
 * Understanding Ontario First Nations genealogical records : sources and case studies Other copies: WorldCat

Records

 * Records Relating to Aboriginal Peoples Archives of Ontario.
 * 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.
 * 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

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.