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EARLY MAPS

Upper Canada Districts, 1825

Canada West Districts, 1845

Canada Census Index:  1921 census for Canada is online for free at Ancestry.ca.   Choose province, then district one by one within that region. Slow and tedious, but at least it gives some help.

New 1921 at Library & Archives of Canada

1911  index         1901 index            1891  

1881                 1871

1861 for Canada West (Ontario), Canada East (Quebec), Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick.

1851 census

1841 census for Canada West (Ontario)

There are even earlier census in some locations, but not linked to one web site. Usually found by individual counties. The earliest census 1799 for Canada had only one Gillespie on it re William Gillespie in Frontenac County. Gillespies were in Newfoundland in 1600s.

PROVINCIAL RECORDS

WESTERN CANADA – click on name of province to find records. The West was opened up for settlement with the offer of free land of 160 acres around 1870, and many people responded.  See Dominion Land Grants on individual Prairie Provinces.

     British Columbia 

     Alberta

           Saskatchewan

     Manitoba

CENTRAL CANADA

    Ontario  

     Quebec

THE MARITIMES:

     New Brunswick

     Nova Scotia

     Prince Edward Island

     Newfoundland & Labrador

NORTHERN CANADA:

     Yukon

      Northern Territories

     Nunavit

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