{"id":67,"date":"2016-05-22T11:36:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T17:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:57:38","slug":"land-petitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/references-2\/land-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Land Records<\/h3>\n<p>Land Petitions are available at the Library and Archives Canada website.<\/p>\n<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>\n<p>website:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/Pages\/land-records.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/Pages\/land-records.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"a\" class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Databases<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-grants-western-canada-1870-1930\/Pages\/land-grants-western-canada.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Grants of Western Canada, (1870-1930)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-petitions-lower-canada-1764-1841\/Pages\/land-petitions-lower-canada.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Petitions of Lower Canada, (1764-1841)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-petitions-upper-canada-1763-1865\/Pages\/land-petitions-upper-canada.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Petitions of Upper Canada, (1763-1865)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-commission-gaspe\/Pages\/list-names-claimants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gasp\u00e9 Land Commission. List of names of claimants, (1819-1825<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/land-boards-upper-canada\/Pages\/land-boards-upper-canada.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Boards of Upper Canada, (1765-1804)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"External link to Heir and Devisee - H\u00e9ritage\" href=\"http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_205142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heir and Devisee Commission<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The records are on microfilm, arranged by district, then by type of document<\/li>\n<li>There is no index by name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"External link to Upper Canada Sundries - H\u00e9ritage\" href=\"http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_125539\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upper Canada Sundries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"External link to Upper Canada Land Books - H\u00e9ritage\" href=\"http:\/\/heritage.canadiana.ca\/view\/oocihm.lac_mikan_205068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upper Canada Land Books<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a list of contents of the microfilms at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crkn-rcdr.ca\/en\/reference-guide-upper-canada-land-books-1787-1841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Research Knowledge Network<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land Records Land Petitions are available at the Library and Archives Canada website. 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. website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/discover\/land\/Pages\/land-records.aspx Databases Land Grants of Western Canada, (1870-1930) Land Petitions of Lower Canada, (1764-1841) Land Petitions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/596"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}