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Genealogy Weblinks

Starting Out
FamilySearch's "How to Start Your Family History"
Libraries and Archives Canada : (formerly the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada). A selection of Library and Archives Canada resources on the topic of genealogy and family history


Births, Deaths, Marriages
B.C. Cemetery Finding Aid: a genealogical search engine
B.C. Archives - Vital Events Index
Death Notices in BC Newspapers (1861-1875)
British Columbia Voters List 1875
British Columbia Voters List 1898

Census
British Columbia: Census: searchable index by Alberta Family Histories Society
Census 1881: from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Census of Canada 1901: guide to boundaries, names and regional governments
Census of Canada 1911

Immigration
Chinese-Canadian Genealogy: Information about Chinese-Canadian Genealogy research from the Vancouver Public Library.
Chinese-Canadians: Profiles from a Community: a wiki-based project developed by the Vancouver Public Library in partnership with Library and Archives Canada.
Chinese Immigration: search Chinese immigration information online. From Library and Archives Canada
Nanaimo Family History Passenger List Indexing Project: Currently transcribing and indexing passenger arrivals at Halifax, and Quebec (including Montreal) from 1900 to 1921

Directories and Newspapers
British Columbia Directories: 1860-1901: digitized directories, from Vancouver Public Library's Collection
British Colonist: an online index of every issue of the British Colonist newspaper from 1858 to June 1910.
viHistory.ca: searchable database for Vancouver Island - census, directories

Military
Books of Remembrance : names of Canadians who died in World War I and II, and a few other conflicts

Commonwealth War Graves Commission: searchable register, includes Canada and other Commonwealth countries

Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918
Royal Canadian Air Force Honours and Awards: a searchable database of awards to roughly 8300 RCAF personnel between 1940 and 1949. Still under construction.
Soldiers of the First World War: a database of the Canadian Expeditionary Force

 
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