Canadian Genealogy Online

This site contains a registry of information about the graves and memorials of more than 118,000 Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served valiantly and gave their lives for their country. Included on this site are the memorials of more than 1,700 soldiers who died in service to Canada since the Korean War, including peacekeeping and other operations. The site also contains digital images of photographs and personal memorabilia about individual Canadians. The purpose of the Canadian Virtual War Memorial is to recognize and keep alive the memory of the achievements and sacrifices made by those who served Canada in the defence of freedom and so have contributed to the development of Canada as a nation.

We are a group of enthusiasts with an interest in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and their role in the First World War. The interests here are broad: Family History/Genealogy, Military History, Weapons/Equipment, Tactics, Militaria Collecting, etc. If you have already started your research, or want to learn more about what tools are available to do your research, or what other researchers are doing, you may also wish to check out our CEF Study Group Forum:

Regional and Regimental Affiliations of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Library and Archives Canada holds an extensive collection of records of the Canadian men and women who have served their country in the military and in the early years of the North West Mounted Police. There are records relating to Loyalists, the War of 1812, the Rebellions, the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War, many of which are featured in databases, research guides and virtual exhibitions. The records include muster rolls, military service files, unit war diaries, medal registers, photographic collections, documentary art and posters, as well as published sources.

The Early Alberta Newspaper collection will contain all Alberta newspapers. Both dailies and non-dailies (weeklies, etc.) are in our collection. The majority of the newspapers have been scanned from microfilm and microfiche. Currently, the collection is organized by place and by the date of the microfilm roll.

The Official Website of the Government of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Public archives and Records office. Databases available : Prince Edward Island Petition Index, Prince Edward Island Baptismal Index, P.E.I. Census Documents Data Search

The BC Archives is the archives of the Government of British Columbia, and provides research access to records of enduring value to the province for both the provincial government and public researchers.

Peel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies. Also directories, family history books, newspapers, maps and digital images.

Start a Quick Search above to begin using our fully searchable database containing one million names. Every name is linked to the original record in digitized form and you can search and view every item free-of-charge. If you want copies of the records for historical and genealogical research purposes, you can purchase them - either e-files at $10.84 each, or paper copies at $21.74 each - right here online and securely, as part of our Website service.

"Links to historical Canadian newspapers that are freely available on the Internet."

What You'll Find Here Included in this web site are an extensive range of Collections, the majority in a language other than English. The geographic coverage is wide, from Franco-Ontarien newspapers to the organizational records of Victoria's Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. Material types include audio files, published text such as books and newspapers, unpublished text such as manuscript documents, photographs, and ephemeral items such as identity cards. While most collections focus on a single ethnic group, the BC Multicultural Photographs collection includes images of most cultural groups found in BC.

"Learn about the experiences of immigrants and early pioneers to Canada! Connecting Canadians provides an opportunity for individuals to connect with their heritage by exploring early newspapers and engaging in learning activities. The collection includes Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian newspapers. Communication between immigrants and their loved ones in their home country in the pre-internet, television and radio age relied heavily on newspapers. As a result, immigrant newspapers document the earliest years of immigrant experience in Canada. Often the newspapers were published in the heritage language of the community, making them an invaluable and unique resource for descendants of immigrants, students and teachers of the immigrant experience, scholars and researchers, as well as genealogists."

More newspaper back issues are being placed on the Internet every year. They can help a genealogist in many ways - by providing information on births, deaths and marriages, but noting store openings or major economic changes, or by reminding us whose pumpkins were the biggest back at the fall fair.

The guide is an indispensable starting point for researching the records that document Canada's participation in the First World War. Researchers can begin their search with the military personnel service files, but this is just the beginning. The guide can point to many other primary sources such as the daily orders, private papers and diaries.The guide is an indispensable starting point for researching the records that document Canada's participation in the First World War. Researchers can begin their search with the military personnel service files, but this is just the beginning. The guide can point to many other primary sources such as the daily orders, private papers and diaries.

This page lists the projects included in Canada's Digital Collections (CDC). CDC was operated by Industry Canada between 1996 and 2004 to provide young Canadians with skills and experience in preparing digital Canadian content of local, regional and international interest. The various collections that were produced during this time period have now been archived by Library and Archives Canada.

Library and Archives Canada holds the records for the Employees Provident Fund of the Intercolonial and Prince Edward Island Railway established in 1907. The collection consists of 21,710 cards that are filed numerically by the employees' provident fund identification number. The cards have been digitized and are available online. The use of this digitized database is facilitated by a name index.