Links (Updated March 16, 2024)
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| Billings
Estate National Historic Site |
| British Isles
Family History Society of Greater Ottawa |
| Canadian Gravemarker
Gallery |
| Canadian Headstone Photo Index |
| Capital Heritage Connexion |
| Cumberland
Heritage Village Museum |
| Cumberland
Township Historical Society |
|
Goulbourn Museum |
|
Goulbourn Township Historical Society |
| Heritage
Ottawa |
| The Historical Society of Ottawa |
| A guide to researching the history of a house (American based) |
| Manotick district
1954 Air Photo |
| On-Line Maps including Ottawa topographical maps |
| On-Line Maps including historic Ottawa topographical maps dating back to 1906 (Search "Ottawa") |
| Nepean
Museum |
| Ontario
Cemetery Finding Aid |
| Osgoode
Township Historical Society and Museum |
| Ottawa
Air Photographs from 1930 to 1945 |
| Ottawa
Air Photo of 1954 including north half of Gloucester |
| Ottawa
Air Photo of 1954 including south half of Gloucester |
| Ottawa
Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society |
| Ottawa
City Archives |
| Ottawa Commemorative Names Database for those names already in use |
| Ottawa Commemorative Names Database for those names approved but not presently being used |
| Ottawa Fire Insurance Maps |
| Ottawa
Map 1940 |
| Ottawa
Maps including historic air photographs (to view air photos, click on the camera symbol "Air Photos slider" near the upper right corner) |
The
Perth & District Historical Society |
| Pinhey's
Point Historic Site |
| Rideau
Township Historical Society |
| Rockcliffe Park Heritage Conservation District Plan |
| Société franco-ontarienne du patrimoine et de l'histoire de Orléans SFOPHO |
| Street Name Changes in Eastview (Vanier) in 1948 |
| Street Name Changes in 1950 |
| Street Name changes affecting Gloucester in 1951 |
| Street Name changes affecting Orléans in 1957 |
| Street Name Change Report from 2001 amalgamation |
| Street Name Changes in Ottawa since 2015 including rationale |
| Streets Named for entertainers |
| Street Names (histories and name changes) from news clippings |
| Vanier
Map |
| Vanier
Museopark |
Local
History |
| Bayview
Public School History |
| Belden
Atlases of Ontario Land Ownership Search (1879-1880) |
| Billings Family History |
| Britannia
Yacht Club History |
| Bytown
or Bust (Many stories about early Bytown and Ottawa area history)
also Facebook
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| Capital Chronicles |
| Carleton
County History |
| Carlsbad
Springs History |
| Charles Lindbergh's visit to Ottawa, July 2, 1927 |
| History
of Earnscliffe |
| History
of the Glebe |
| Gloucester Firefighters Facebook Page |
| The story of the abandoned Greenboro Busway |
| Hunt Club Community History (Rhoda Bellamy) |
| Hunt Club Community History (John Sankey) |
| Kanata
History |
| Kitchissippi Museum
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| Lindenlea
History |
| Manotick
History |
| The Margins of History
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| Mid-Century Modern Ottawa (Housing and Neighbourhood Plans)
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| The Story of Nordic Circle and Rideau River Floods
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| Ontario Land Registry Records |
| Orléans
History |
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List of searchable
newspapers includes other choices from the Ottawa area (Bytown
Gazette, The Ottawa Free Press, The Ottawa Daily Citizen, Ottawa
Times, Daily Citizen) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (1863 to 1899) (Library and Archives Canada) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (various years from
1866 to 1927) (Internet Archive) |
| Ottawa
City Directories (various years from
1863 to 1927) (Ottawa City Library) |
| Ottawa
Horticultural Society History |
| Ottawa
Hunt & Golf Club History |
| Ottawa
New Edinburgh Club History (originally Ottawa Canoe Club) |
| Ottawa
Railway History |
| Ottawa
Rewind - Andrew King's Stories of Ottawa area history |
| Ottawa
South History |
| Ottawa
Sportsmen's Club History |
| Ottawa
Streetcar/LRT History |
| Ottawa
Telephone Directory History |
| Ottawa
Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club History |
| Ottawa
Transit History |
| Ottawa
Transit Route Map History |
| Queensway at Hurdman's Bridge Historical Overview |
| Rideau
Canoe Club History |
| Rideau
Sports Centre Vision and History (formerly Rideau Lawn Tennis Club) |
| History
of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal |
| History
of Rockcliffe Airport |
| Rockcliffe Flying Club History |
| History
of St. Patrick's College |
| Southway Inn - Bank and Hunt Club - A Video Interview with the Zlepnig family |
| Urbsite
(interesting stories about Ottawa History) |
| Vanier; French-Speaking Bastion of Ontario |
| Vanier Parkway History |
| Walling Map of 1863
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| Westboro
History |
Local
Photos |
| Lost
Ottawa Historic Ottawa Photos and Comments on Facebook |
| Ottawa
hh Historic Ottawa Photos superimposed with current photos |
| Ottawa Past and Present Current and Past Ottawa Photos Overlayed |
| Vintage Ottawa Old Ottawa Photos and comments |
| Vintage Ottawa by Ross Dun (Old Ottawa Photos) |
Genealogy
|
| Family
Search Millions of indexed records including Canadian
Census records back to 1851, Ontario birth, marriage and death
records. This is a free site. |
| Genealogy Resourses (British but you may find this very helpful) |
| 1825
Lower Canada Census Index (Quebec) |
| 1831
Lower Canada Census Index (Quebec) |
| 1842
Canada East Census Index (Quebec) Not all records are preserved |
| 1842
Canada West Census Index (Ontario) Not all records are preserved. Gloucester Township records do not exist. |
| 1851 Canadian Census Index Library and Archives Canada webpage (Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) |
| 1851
Canadian Census Index Province of Canada - Ontario and
Quebec (Automated Genealogy webpage) |
| 1851
New Brunswick Census Index (Automated Genealogy webpage) |
| 1861
Canadian Census Index |
| 1870
Manitoba Census Index |
| 1871
Canadian Census Index Ontario head of households |
| 1871
Canadian Census Index |
| 1881
Canadian Census Index |
| 1891
Canadian Census Index |
| 1901
Canadian Census Index Library and Archives Canada webpage |
| 1901
Canadian Census Index Automated Genealogy webpage |
| 1906
Canadian Census Index Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta |
| 1911
Canadian Census Index Library and Archives Canada webpage |
| 1911
Canadian Census Index Automated Genealogy webpage |
| 1916
Canadian Census Index Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta |
| 1921
Canadian Census Index Library and Archives Canada webpage |
| 1926
Canadian Census Index Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta |
| New Canadian Census Index from 1825 until 1931 Library and Archives Canada webpage |
| 1899-1902
Boer War Canadian Soldier Index You
may service records |
| 1914-1918
First World War Canadian Soldier Service Records |
| 1939-1947
Second World War War Dead Service Records |
| World War I Circumstances of Death Registers (for soldiers who died during the war) |
| World War I Death Card Index (for soldiers who died after the war up to the early 1960s) |
| Canadian
Military Memorials Database |
| Canadian
War Grave Index |
| Northwest
Mounted Police Index 1873-1904 You may
view Personnel records |
| Quebec
City Passenger List Index 1865-1900 |
| Other
Canadian Indexes held by the National Archives of Canada |
Other
History |
| Dominion
of Canada Rifle Association History |
| History
of Ontario King's Highways |
