{"id":2827,"date":"2022-11-21T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/?page_id=2827"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:28:57","slug":"interesting-websites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/interesting-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2827\" class=\"elementor elementor-2827\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b5a141a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b5a141a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-761a1c10\" data-id=\"761a1c10\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48364b02 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48364b02\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.11.1 - 15-02-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"673\" class=\"wp-image-2828\" src=\"http:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/word-image-2827-1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/word-image-2827-1.png 900w, https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/word-image-2827-1-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/word-image-2827-1-768x574.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/strong><\/p><h3><em>Some helpful websites you may want to check out<\/em><\/h3><p>Census -Land petitions websites<\/p><p><strong>When you want to prove your ancestry back to an United Empire Loyalists, there are many different websites that can assist you with this to achieve your Loyalist certificate. Government records originally written on paper were transferred to microfiche, and have now been digitized.\u00a0 They are available for all to examine. <\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Listed below are some websites that may be of interest. They concentrate in Ontario -Upper Canada<\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><strong>Census Websites<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>1842 Censuses for Canada East and Canada West<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1842-Canada-East\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1842-Canada-East\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1842-canada-west\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1842-canada-west\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1851 Census for the Province of Canada, including Canada East and West, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1851\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1851\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1871 Census of Canada and Ontario<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1871\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1871\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1881 Census of Canada<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1881\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1881\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1891 Census of Canada<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1891\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1891\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1901 Census of Canada<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1901\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1901\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1911 Census of Canada<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1911\/Pages\/about-census.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1911\/Pages\/about-census.aspx<\/a><\/p><p><strong>1921 Census of Canada<\/strong><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/census\/1926\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926 \u2013 Library and Archives Canada (bac-lac.gc.ca)<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Land Petitions<\/strong><\/p><p>For Upper and Lower Canada and Western Canada &#8211; available at the Library and Archives Canada website.<\/p><p>The database can be searched for the name or district to obtain a microfilm number.\u00a0 Digitized microfilms are available for some of the databases.<\/p><ul><li>Land Grants of Western Canada, (1870-1930)<\/li><\/ul><p>http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930\/Pages\/land-grants-western-canada.aspx<\/p><ul><li>Land Petitions of Lower Canada, (1764-1841)<\/li><\/ul><p>http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-petitions-lower-canada-1764-1841\/Pages\/land-petitions-lower-canada.aspx<\/p><ul><li>Land Petitions of Upper Canada, (1763-1865)<\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-petitions-upper-canada-1763-1865\/Pages\/land-petitions-upper-canada.aspx\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-petitions-upper-canada-1763-1865\/Pages\/land-petitions-upper-canada.aspx<\/a><\/p><ul><li>Gasp\u00e9 Land Commission. List of names of claimants, (1819-1825)<\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-commission-gaspe\/Pages\/list-names-claimants.aspx\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-commission-gaspe\/Pages\/list-names-claimants.aspx<\/a><\/p><ul><li>Land Boards of Upper Canada, (1765-1804)<\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-boards-upper-canada\/Pages\/land-boards-upper-canada.aspx\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-boards-upper-canada\/Pages\/land-boards-upper-canada.aspx<\/a><\/p><ul><li>Heir and Devisee Commission<\/li><\/ul><p>http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_205142<\/p><ul><li>Upper Canada Sundries<\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539\">http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539<\/a><\/p><ul><li>Upper Canada Land Books<\/li><\/ul><p><a href=\"https:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_205068\">https:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_205068<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some helpful websites you may want to check out Census -Land petitions websites When you want to prove your ancestry back to an United Empire Loyalists, there are many different websites that can assist you with this to achieve your Loyalist certificate. Government records originally written on paper were transferred to microfiche, and have now &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/interesting-websites\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting Websites<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2827\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/London-Branch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}