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Search for Besancon at Ancestry Search through Ancestry's Canadian databases for your surname. These databases consist of census, vital and church records, histories and biographies, immigration and naturalization records, periodicals and newspapers, court, land and probate records, and directories.
Immigration Records (1925-1935) The National Archives of Canada holds immigration records from 1865 to 1935. The names of immigrants arriving from overseas are recorded in passenger lists. Those arriving from or via the United States are recorded in border entry lists. A series of old nominal indexes exist for the 1925 to 1935 records. In cooperation with the National Archives of Canada, the Pier 21 Society in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has input the information from the passenger list indexes into this database.
Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force Over 600,000 Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War (1914-1918). The CEF database is an index to those personnel files, which are held by the National Archives. To date, over 250,000 images of Attestation papers have been scanned and are being made available on-line.
Dominion Land Grants This speciality database relates exclusively to Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior. The records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia, c. 1870-1930.
Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario This database contains the names of the heads of households in the Province of Ontario as they were recorded in April 1871 in the official enumeration of the population of Canada. The census returns record personal information such as name, age, country or province of birth, occupation, ethnic origin and religious denomination. The database has been created by the Ontario Genealogical Society, in cooperation with the National Archives of Canada.
Home Children Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the National Archives of Canada.
B.C. Archives Search Gateway The textual records catalogue provides a comprehensive overview of government and non-government records and describes records at the accession level. It includes the call number of an accession (eg. GR-1234 for government records holdings; MS-1234 for non-government records holdings), records series or collection title, start and end dates of the records, their physical extent, the informational content of the records, the source and date of transfer/donation to the archives, subject headings and secondary titles.
Poll tax returns - 1791-1793 - Nova Scotia Poll tax rolls, 1791-1793 (forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection: Census and poll tax series; search for names of individuals taxed 1791-1793)
Marriage Bonds - 1763-1840 - Nova Scotia Marriage bonds (forms part of the Nova Scotia Deputy Registrar-General fonds; search for marriage bonds submitted in application for licenses between 1763-1864, 1870-1871) In progress; 1763-1840 available at present
Appeal casebooks. - 1890-1947 - Nova Scotia Appeal casebooks (forms part of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal fonds; search for the appellant and/or respondent in appeal cases heard between 1890 and 1947)
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