18 May 2021
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From the Alberta Genealogical Society.
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1885‒1897, Applications for Alberta Land Patents (Project)
From the Alberta Genealogical Society.
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Archives of Ontario - Fur Trade Collection
Collection consists of surviving and photocopied materials from both the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. The material is predominantly from the Temiskaming and Michipicoten districts of northeastern Ontario, but also includes copies of original Northwest Company documents originating in western Canada. Also included are a variety of materials relating to Aboriginal history in Ontario.
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Black Hawk, a Sauk leader, and his band returned to Illinois at the invitation of the Potawatomi with the hope of regaining their land, but the governor of Illinois called up a militia to force them out.
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The official newspaper of the Government of Canada since 1841.
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Church of Ireland Gazette Digital Archive Complete (1856-2010)
Freely searchable
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Constitutional Act 1791 (Wikipedia)
The colony of Quebec was divided to create Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) and Lower Canada (present-day Québec).
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Explore the headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to the 1980s.
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FamilySearch Wiki - Cumberland Road
Or the National Road, Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois
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FamilySearch Wiki - Lake Shore Path
From Buffalo, New York along the south shore of Lake Erie.
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FamilySearch Wiki - Michigan Road
One of the earliest roads in Indiana.
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FamilySearch Wiki - Mihoaukee Trail
1820-1835 between Illinois and Wisconsin.
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From 1712-1733 between the French and the Meskwaki (Fox) Indians in what is today Michigan and Wisconsin.
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French and Indian War (Wikipedia)
From 1754-63, also called the Seven Years' War, between British America and New France, and their Native allies in North America.
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Hemeroteca Digital 'Fray Francisco de Paula Castañeda'
The "Fray Francisco de Paula Castañeda" Digital Newspaper Library project was born in 2005, with the implementation of the project for the conservation of the newspapers "El Orden" and "Diario Santa Fe" held by the archive of the Province of Santa Fe. Said newspapers that cover the dates 1927 to 1955 for the newspaper "El Orden" and 1911 to 1933 for the newspaper "Santa Fe". At the end of 2007, work began on the conservation project of the newspaper "El Litoral" from 1930 to 1979.
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In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company.
From McGill University Libraries. In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company provides access to the full text of thirty-eight manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers. The Masson Papers comprise letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally. The papers represent a settler perspective of North American places and peoples.
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Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930
From Library and Archives Canada.
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Lögberg-Heimskringla is full of original stories on people in the Icelandic and Icelandic North American scene, both past and present.
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Lord Dorchester’s Proclamation
“N.B. Those Loyalists who have adhered to the unity of the Empire, and joined the Royal Standard before the Treaty of Separation in the year 1783, and all their children and their descendants by either sex, are to be distinguished by the following capitals, affixed to their names: U.E. alluding to their great principle the unity of the Empire.”
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Military History of the Upper Great Lakes
Student projects from Michigan Tech's SS3505 Military History of the United States, on the people, places, and objects involving our military history in the upper Great Lakes region
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Text for the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Ordinance of 1784, Western Land Ordinance 1785.
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Ontario Heritage Trust - Slavery to Freedom
During the 19th century, thousands of enslaved and many free African-Americans fled the United States and made their way to freedom in Canada. The province of Ontario was one of their primary destinations.
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1763-66, also known as Pontiac's Rebellion, between Native Americans and the British in the Great Lakes Region.
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The Fur Trade of the Western Great Lakes Region
By Frank E. Ross for Minnesota History Magazine. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1938.
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Trapped: Steel, Whiskey, Extinction, and the Upper Peninsula Fur Trade
By Robert Archibald for Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region, Vol. 5, Article 5. Northern Michigan University's Center for Upper Peninsula Studies, 2017.
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Treaty of Paris (1763) (Wikipedia)
Between Great Britain, France, and Spain. This ended the Seven Year’s War and the French and Indian War in North America. The area that is present-day Ontario became a colony of Britain
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Treaty of Paris (1783) (Wikipedia)
Signaled the end of the American Revolution. It established the borders of the US and British Canada from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
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Understanding Midwest Migration Patterns to Further Family History Research
By Rhonda R. McClure for BYU Family Historian, Volume 2, Article 2, 2003.
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University of North Texas - Digital Library - Newspaper Resources
The Newspaper Resources Collection contains materials useful for the study of historical newspapers. Included are N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual for the years 1880-1922 and Geo. P. Rowell & Co's American Newspaper Directory for the years 1869-1877, along with union lists from the Library of Congress detailing foreign and domestic newspapers published between 1948 and 1983 that are available in microform.
