The book Picturesque Canada is a unique snapsot of country as it was in 1882. I especially love the section on lumbering in the Ottawa Valley. I have incerted many of the drawings to go along with my narations in my family tree. I cannot get the link to work for Google Books, so I just cut and pasted the link below. Unlike the other links for the book I put on here the Google Books digitization shows the pictures in various shades of blacks, whites and greys, giving the drawings more detail and depth.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=FSocAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA26&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false

Picturesque Canada : the country as it was and is (1882) ; "Volume 1."
Author: Grant, George Monro, 1835-1902
Publisher: Toronto : Belden
Language: English

* I recommend using the 2 websites below for transcribing the text in the book only; the pictures did not turn out in their pdf version.

Picturesque Canada as it was and is
Picturesque Canada as it is and was

http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_07692
http://www.archive.org/details/cihm_07693

The book Artistic Quebec is a unique snapsot of the province as it was in 1882.
It seems to be an excerpt on the above book. Beautiful diagrams.

Artistic Quebec described by pen & pencel by George Munro Grant

Artistic Quebec Described by Pen & Pencil

http://www.ourroots.ca/quickLink.aspx?field=AUTHOR&key=Grant%20George%20Monro&qryID=e792e7d4-07e3-4e2c-b1a1-ac0c0387d433

Once again the website «Our Roots» comes through and lets us access a set of periodicals called - Nos Racines – l`histoires vivante des Québecois. The booklets are written in french and filled with beautiful photos, drawings paings and maps making our mental journey through history that much more interesting. There are over 100 of these booklets. The stories are written in chronological order. The link below is for chapter 1 - 15.

Nos Racines - L`histoires vivantes des Quebecois, Chapters 1 - 15

http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4137083&qryID=893c96d2-1302-4b56-8f82-ee668cd1f192

«Cadastres abrégés» was a list of land holdings, tenants & rents charged to find a way to compensate the Seigneurs, (land owners) before the abolition of the Seigneurial System in Quebec in the mid 1800s.

Cadastres abrégés des seigneuries du district de Montréal [microform] : déposés au greffe de Montréal, chez le receveur général et au bureau des terres de la couronne, suivant les dispositions des statuts refondus pour le Bas Canada, chap. 41, sects. 25, 26 et 27, et publiés sous l'autorité des Commissaires (1863)

Vol I
Cadastre Abregés des Seigneuries du District de Montreal - Vol I
Vol II
Cadastre Abregés des Seigneuries du District de Montreal Vol II
Vol III
Cadastre Abregés des Seigneuries du District des Montreal Vol III

Cadastres abrégés des seigneuries du district des Trois-Rivières [microforme] : déposés au greffe des Trois-Rivières, chez le receveur général et au Bureau des terres de la couronne, suivant les dispositions des statuts refondus pour le Bas Canada, chap. 41, sects. 25, 26, et 27, et publiés sous l'autorité des commissaires (1863)

Cadastre Abregé des Seigneuries du District des Trois-Rivieres

Chronological list or index of grants en fief and royal ratifications of grants en fief, made in New France, to the time of its cession to the British Crown in 1760 [microform] (1760)

Chronological List of Grants Made in New France

Rapport de l'Archiviste de la province de Québec from 1920 to 1975 is now online. Anyone who does French Canadian Genealogy often sees references to these periodicals when they are researching their ancestors. It is written in French only, but there is a gold mine of information in them even if you do not speak the language. They are a collection of articles & if you know where to look you can find your ancestor in a census list or a voyageur list. I haven't fully explored this little gem yet but I am chomping at the bit to get at it. They are found in pdf format on the Biblioteque et Archives National du Quebec website.

Rapport de l'Archiviste de la province de Québec from 1920 to 1975
http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2276288

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