{"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":"2026-08-31T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T01:33:19","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. The LAC website has been revised lately and is not as user friendly.<\/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=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/library-archives\/collection\/research-help\/genealogy-family-history\/land-records\/petitions-boards-upper-lower-canada.html\">Land records for Upper and Lower Canada, 1763 to 1865 &#8211; Canada.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"a\" class=\"ms-rteElement-H2\">Databases<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/home\/searchadvanced?DataSource=Genealogy%7CLand%7CLanPetLowCan&amp;DataSourceSel=Genealogy\">Collection search<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\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=\"https:\/\/recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/home\/record?idnumber=204972&amp;app=fonandcol&amp;resource=folderlist&amp;ecopy=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gasp\u00e9 Land Commission [textual record] Archives \/ Collections and Fonds<\/a>\u00a0 actual records appear not to be searchable now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca\/eng\/home\/searchadvanced?DataSource=Genealogy%7CLand%7CLanBoaUppCan&amp;DataSourceSel=Genealogy\">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 LAC website has been revised lately and is not as user friendly. 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 Land records for Upper [&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":4,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/uelac.org\/calgary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/673"}],"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}]}}