01 April 2006

NEW DATABASES AT THE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA WEB SITE


LAC has placed three new databases on the Canadian Genealogy Centre web site.

  1. The Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book, comprising 1,945 references to people who received aid from the Montreal Emigrant Society between May 12 and November 5, 1832.
  2. Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records (1828-1850), 3,344 references organized by years and county; and
  3. Port of New Westminster Register of Chinese Immigration (1887-1908) with 470 references.
Access the above is through a new on line exhibition "Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience" at < www.collectionscanada.ca/immigrants/index-e.html >.

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