More great websites
British Home Children ( britishhomechildren. com) is dedicated to documenting the stories of the 118,000 children who were emigrated to Canada from the late 1860s up to 1948, sent by over 50 organisations including the likes of Barnardo’s and the Salvation Army. This leads you to the research site ( canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com), which details the history of British home children including records, the ships they sailed on, receiving homes and organisations and the British Home Children Registry ( britishhomechildrenregistry.com). There’s also the Library and Archives Canada database at bac- lac. gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration- records/ home- children-1869-1930/ Pages/home- children.aspx.
Ancestry has 95 million individuals recorded in voter lists (1935- 80), plus census material, maritime collections including passenger lists. There’s also the vast Drouin collection ( ancestry. co.uk/cs/drouin) – over 25 million French- Canadian and English historical records from 1621-1967.
TheShipsList.com has transcribed many records relating to Canadian ships, including steamboat passages up the St Lawrence River. Olive Tree Genealogy ( olivetreegenealogy.com), started by this month’s expert in 1996, has all sorts of free content, including passenger lists and impoverished emigrants sent from England to Canada ( olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/ PLU-ShipsIndex.shtml). She also recently posted a corrected finding aid to the Heir & Devisee Commission (1797-1854) records on Canadiana.org ( olivetreegenealogy.com/can /ont/heir-devisee- commission.shtml). Sister sites include naturalizationrecords.com, allcensusrecords.com and www.pastvoices.com.
Some other sites to mention include the daily blog genealogycanada.blogspot.co.uk, Ontario Genealogical Society’s The Ontario Name Index ( TONI), which contains more than three million names ( ogs.on.ca/toni.php), Our Ontario ( ourontario.ca), the Canadian Virtual War Memorial ( veterans. gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-warmemorial), the Nanaimo Family History Society’s Passenger Lists Indexing Project ( nanaimo familyhistory.ca/ passenger- list- project), the Canadian crossarchive search engine ( archivescanada.ca), Canadian Headstones ( canadianheadstones. com), the Quebec- centred BMS2000 ( www. bms2000.org), Our Roots ( ourroots.ca) and canadiangreat warproject.com.