IThis section includes community histories, anthropological studies, fur traders’ journals and diaries, travellers’ accounts, transcribed church registers, etc.

See also articles in Canadian-American Journal of History and Genealogy for Canadian, French and Métis Study. Published by Northwest Territory Canadian & French Heritage Center. Published 1995 to 2001.

North America

Allaire, Gratien. “Les Engagés de la Fourrure, 1701–1745: Une Étude de Leur Motivation.” PhD diss., Concordia University, Montreal, 1981.
Allaire, Gratien. “Fur trade Engagés, 1701–1745.” In Rendezvous: Selected Papers of the Fourth North American Fur Trade Conference, edited by Thomas C. Buckley. St. Paul, Minnesota: The conference, 1984.

Ballantyne, Robert M. Hudson Bay; or, Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America during six Years’ Residence in the Territories of the Honourable

Hudson’s Bay Company. London, England: William Blackwood & Sons, 1848. Reprint, Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig, 1972.
Beauregard, Marth F. La population des forts français d’Amérique: Repertoire Repertoire des baptemes, mariages, et sepultures celebres dans les forts et les etablissements francais en Amerique du Nord au XVIII3 siecle. Montreal, Places:Quebec: Editions Bergeron, 1982. Includes every name censuses of several French forts throughout North America.
Bunnell, Paul J. French and Native North American Marriages, 1600–1800. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007. Information is taken from a wide variety secondary sources, so extra caution is necessary. Ninety-nine per cent are from Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Maine.
Charbonneau, Hubert, Bertrand Desjardins, and Pierre Beauchamp. “Le comportement démographique des voyageurs sous le régime français.” Histoire Sociale/Social History 11 (21) (1978).
Curot, Michel. “A Wisconsin Fur Trader’s Journal, 1803–4” In Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 20 (1911).
Duckworth, Harry W. ed. The English River Book: A northwest company journal and account book of 1796. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990. Includes biographies of over 100 individuals and at least 20 Aboriginal names.
Dugas, Georges. Un Voyageur des pays d’En-Haut. St. Boniface, Manitoba: Editions des Plaines, 1981 (first published in 1890).
Ermatinger, C.E. ed. Edward Ermatinger’s York Factory Express Journal: Being a Record of Journeys Made between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the years 1827–1828. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3rd Series, section 2. Ottawa, Places:Ontario: Royal Society of Canada, 1912.
Eschmann, C.J. comp. and trans, “Kaskaskia Church Records” Transactions of the Illinois Historical Society, 2 (1904): 394–413
Frisch, Jack A. Cognitive kinship organization among the northeast Algonkians. Occasional papers in Anthropology #2. Halifax, Places:Nova Scotia: St. Mary’s University, Department of Anthropology, 1977.
Gates, Charles M. ed. Five Fur Traders of the Northwest. St Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1965. Includes original diaries/journals of Thomas Connor, Hugh Faries, John Macdonell, Archibald N. McLeod, and Peter Pond.
Gorham, Harriet Ruth. “Ethnic identity among the mixed-bloods of the Great lakes regions, 1760–1830” M.A. Thesis, Carleton University, 1985.
Harmon, Daniel W. Sixteen years in Indian Country: The Journal of Daniel Williams Harmon, 1800–1816. Edited by W. Kaye Lamb. Toronto, Places:Ontario: Macmillan, 1957.

Masson, L.R. ed. Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, 1889. 2 Volumes. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960 (reprint). Originally edited in 1889–1890. Volume 1 has a list of names of “bourgeois” and where they worked.
McLean, John. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years’ Service in the Hudson’s Bay Territory. 2 volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Toronto, Places:Ontario: Champlain Society, 1932.
Molohon, Kathryn T. “Residence patterns and related aspects of kinship organization in a Swampy Cree community.” In Papers of the Sixteenth Algonquian Conference: (1985): 119–130.
Morin, Gail. Manitoba Scrip. Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Quintin Publications, 1996.
Morin, Gail. Chippewa half breeds of Lake Superior. Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Quintin Publications, c1998.
Nelson, George. My First Years in the Fur Trade: The Journals of 1802–1804. Edited by Laura Peers and Theresa Schench. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002.
Palm, Mary Borgias. The Jesuit Missions of the Illinois County, 1673–1763. Cleveland, Ohio: 1933.
Par, Rev. George and Quaife, Milo M., eds. “St. Joseph Baptismal Register” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 13 (June 1926–March 1927).
Pendergast, Russell Anthony. “The XY Company 1798–1804.” PhD diss., University of Ottawa, 1957.
Peterson, Jacqueline Louise. “The People In Between: Indian-White Marriages and the Genesis of a Metis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680–1830.” PhD. diss., Chicago: University of Illinois, 1980.
Prevost, Toni Jollay. Indians from New York in Ontario and Quebec, Canada: A Genealogy Reference 2 volumes. Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995. This publication includes extracted information from census… and compiled information on many individual Aboriginal people (mostly Six Nations).
 “The Mackinac Register” Collections of the State Historical Socity of Wisconsin 19:4.
Thwaites, Reuben gold, ed. The Jesuit Relations and Allied documents, Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missions in New France, 1610–1791. Cleveland, Ohio: Burrows Brothers, 1896–1901. Reprint, New York: Pageant Books, 1959. Originally published 1610–1791. Includes information on Great Lakes Huron, Mi’Kmaq, Innu and Algonquin.

Tyrell, J.B., ed. Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor. Toronto, Places:Ontario: Champlain Society, 1934.

Wallace, W.S. ed. Documents Relating to the North West Company Champlain Society. Toronto, Places:Ontario: Champlain Society, 1934. Appendix has 250 individual biographies of men associated with the North West Company.

New Brunswick

Micmac-Maliseet Institute. Maliseet & Micmac Vital Statistics from New Brunswick church records. Fredericton, Places:New Brunswick: Micmac-Maliseet Institute, 1998.
White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, Places:New Brunswick: Centre d’Etude Acadiennes, University de Moncton, 1999.

Newfoundland & Labrador

Blake, Max. Central Labrador’s Métis. Rigolet, Places:Labrador: M. Blake, 1999.

Nova Scotia

Dawson, Joan. “Colonists or Birds of Passage? A Glimpse of the Inhabitants of La Have, 1632–1636." Nova Scotia Historical Review 9 (1) (1989): 42–61.
Dawson, Joan. “Fort Sainte-Marie-de-Grace, La Have, Places:Nova Scotia: 350 Years of History.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 2 (2) (1982): 52–64.
Dawson, Joan. “La Have in the Late Seventeenth Century: A Comparison of the 1686 and 1693 Census Returns” Nova Scotia Historical Review 2 (2) (1982): 83–95.
De Ville, Winston. The East Coast of Acadia in 1708. Ville Platte, Louisiana: Provincial Press, 1999.
Wicken, Bill. “26 August 1726: A Case Study of Mi’kmaq—New England Relations in the Early 18th Century.” Acadiensis 23 (1) (Autumn 1993): 5–22.
White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Acadiennes. Moncton, Places:New Brunswick: Centre d’Etude Acadiennes, University de Moncton, 1999.

Ontario

For more publications concerning Aboriginal peoples in northern Ontario, see The Bibliography of Northern Ontario, 1966–1991 by Ashley Thomson, Gwenda Hallsworth and Lionel Bonin, Institute of Northern Ontario Research and Development, Laurentian University, 1994.

Beaver, George. Tuscarora Township: native land along the Grand River. Brantford, Brant Historical Society, c1994.

Bishop, Charles A. The Northern Ojibwa: an ethnohistorical study. PhD. Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1969.
Chadwick, Edward Marion. A genealogy of the Brant family from Ontarian families [microform]. Toronto, Rolf, Smith, 1894.
Clifton, J.A. A Place of Refuge for All Time: Migration of the American Potawatomi into Upper Canada 1380–1850. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper, 26. Ottawa, National Museums of Canada, 1975.
Files, Angela, ed. Indian Burial Sites in Tuscarora, Onondaga, and Oneida Townships. Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1983.
Files, Angela, ed. Mohawk Chapel Indian Baptisms 1827–1840’s. Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1991.
Files, Angela, ed. Mohawk Chapel Marriage Records 1827–1877. Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1991.
Files, Angela, ed. Mohawk Chapel Burial Records 1829–1947. Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1991.
Files, Angela, ed. Mohawk Chapel Baptismal Records 1878–1943. Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1991.
Gidley, Bryan, and Gwen Patterson. The Penetanguishene List of the Drummond Islanders 1815–28. Penetanguishene,  Voyageurs into Penetanguishene, 1991.
Gray, E.E., and L.R. Wilderness Christians: The Moravian Mission to the Delaware Indians. Toronto,  Macmillan Company of Canada, 1956.
McGregor, Valerie. “Ezhebemadiseyant (the way we live): Kinship structure on a northern Ojibwa reserve.” Laurentian University Review 15 (1) (1982): 5–19. Re: Whitefish Indian Reserve.
McLeod, Ann, Aitken, Mona J., and McLeod, Byron. Indian cemeteries of the Chippewa Indian Band: on Muncey Reserve, Caradoc Township. London, Ontario: London Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 1985.
Ontario Genealogical Society, Brant County Branch, Mohawk Chapel: The baptismal records of the Mohawk Chapel (1878–1943). Brantford, Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society [2000?].
Ontario Genealogical Society, Nipissing District Branch. An index of First Nations people from the Nipissing & Parry Sound census of 1901: an extraction of persons labelled “R” in the Colour column. North Bay, Nipissing District Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 2002.

Osborne, A.C. “The Migration of Voyageurs from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene in 1828.” Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records 3 (1901):123–149. Includes oral historical accounts by individuals who could still recall the migration from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene in the late 1820s and early 1830s. It contains a list of names of voyageurs and notes on where individuals and families later moved and settled. It is not a complete list of Drummond Islanders.
Plain, Aylmer N. A history of the Sarnia Indian Reserve based on the personal reminiscenes [i.e. reminiscences] of the author. Bright's Grove,  G. Smith, 1975.
Reamon, G. Elmore. The Trail of the Iroquois Indians. Toronto, Peter Martin Assoc., 1967. Includes biographies of prominent Six Nations families including: Anderson, General, Echo, Hill, Jacobs, Logan, Thomas, Davis, Green, Hill, Jamieson, Johnson, Martin, Monture, Moses, Smith and Van Every families.
Robbins, Douglas A. An alphabetical listing of interments on the Six Nations Reserve. St. Catharines,  D. A. Robbins, 1997.
Rogers, Edward S. and Mary Black Rogers. “Method for reconstructing patterns of change: surname adoption by the weagamow Ojibwa, 1870–1950.” Ethnohistory 25(4) (1978): 319–345.
Rogers, Edward S. and Mary Black Rogers. “The puzzle of the Crane Indians: a name-game throughout two centuries in Northern Ontario.” Rotunda 12(4)(1979/1980): 11–19. Genealogies and group identity of a group of northern Ontario native people.
Rogers, Mary Black, and Edward S. Rogers. “The Cranes and their neighbours, 1770–1970: trouble case data for tracing we-they boundaries of the northern Ojibwa.” Dans Actes du quatorzième congrès des algonquinistes (1983) 91–124.
Rogers, Edward S. and Donald B. Smith, Aboriginal  Historical Perspectives on the First Nations. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1994.
Sabathy-Judd, Linda, ed. Moravians in Upper Canada: The Diary of the Indian Mission of Fairfield on the Thames 1792–1813. Translated from the Original German Script. Toronto, Champlain Society, 1999.
Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch. New Credit Indian Mission and Cooksville United (formerly Methodist) Church, Peel County, Ontario. Toronto, Ontario Genealogical Society, 2008. Includes baptisms 1802 to 1881, marriages 1836 to 1885 and burials 1868 to 1882 for the New Credit Indian Mission, as well as a mission register kept by Peter Jones 1784 to 1881 that identifies Mohawks with their English names and clan affiliation.Walker, Dan and Fawne Stratford-Devai, eds. Mohawk Chapel Baptisms, Marriages & Burials, 1827–1836. Brantford,  Brant County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, 2003.

Warner, Robert M., and Lois J. Groesbeck “Historical report on the Sault Ste. Marie area.” Chippewa Indians V  (1974): 319–377.
Wilson McArthur, Patsy Lou, ed. Historic Saugeen & its Metis people. Port Elgin,  Saguingue Metis Council, c2005.

Prince Edward Island

Quebec

Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire de naissances L’Annonciation d’Oka, de 1721 à 1942. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire de naissances de Kahnawake (Mission Saint-François-Xavier du Sault Saint Louis de 1735 à 1899. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1998.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoires des naissances des Métis et Amérindiens(nes): Extrait du P.R.D.H. du début de la colonie à 1765. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoires mariages et décès des Métis et Amérindiens(nes): Extrait du P.R.D.H. du début de la colonie à 1765. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoires autochtones Ste-Brigitte-de-Maria, Comté de Bonaventure, Diocèse de Gaspé. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, [1994?].
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire United Church (méthodiste) d’Oka: naissances, de 1870 à 1956, mariages, de 1870 à 1992, décès, de 1870 à 1956. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire de mariages de la paroisse L’Annonciation de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie d’Oka,, de 1721 à 1988. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoires des Métis et Amérindiens, Ste-Brigitte-de-Maria, Comté de Bonaventure, Diocèse de Gaspé. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1996.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire de naissances de la paroisse L’Annonciation de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie d’Oka, de 1721 a 1787 et de 1901 à 1942. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1993.
Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire de mariages de la paroisse L’Annonciation de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie d’Oka, de 1721 à 1988. Kanesatake, Québec: P. Bernard, 1993.

Bernard, Pierre. Répertoire d'Akwesasne (St-Régis): baptêmes, mariages, sépultures de 1755 à 1899. Oka, Québec: P. Bernard, 2003.

Bernard, Pierre, Jeanne Claire Robert eds. Répertoire des cimetières d'Oka et plan : début jusq'à 2004. Saint-Eustache, Québec: Société de généalogie de Saint-Eustache, 2004.
Faribault-Beauregard, Marthe.

 Mariages de Saint-François-Xavier du Sault-Saint-Louis, Caughnawaga — Kahnawake, 1735–1972. Montréal: Québec: Société généalogique canadienne-française, 1993.
Hébert, Léo-Paul. Le Troisième régistre de Tadoussac: miscellaneorum liber. Montréal, Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1976.
Hébert, Léo-Paul. Le Quatrième régistre de Tadoussac: magnus liber. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1982.
Hébert, Léo-Paul. Le régistre de Sillery (1638–1690). Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1994.
Lafortune, Hélène. Histoire d’Oka: des origines à l'an 2000. Montréal, Québec: Société de recherche historique Archivo-Histo, [2000?].
Larouche, Léonidas. Le Second registre de Tadoussac, 1668–1700. Montréal, Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1972.
Mitchell, Elaine Allan. Fort Timiskaming and the Fur Trade. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1977.
Mongeau, Antonio & Laliberté, J.-M. Mariages de Pierreville: St-Thomas (1854–1964), Notre-Dame (1893–1964), Odanak (1839–1963). Sillery, Québec: B. Pontbriand, 1967.
Morantz, Toby. An Ethnohistoric study of eastern James Bay Cree social orgnisation, 1750–1850. Ottawa, Places:Ontario: National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man, 1983.
Paquette, Michel; Jean-Yves Collette, and Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Salaberry. Mariages de la Mission Iroquoise de Saint-Régis, Akwesasne, 1900–1992. Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec: Le Société, 2000.
Provencher, Gerard E. Repertoire des mariages de l’Ancienne-Lorette (Paroisse de l’Annonciation) (1695–1966). Montréal: Québec: Société canadienne de généalogie, 1968.
Provencher, Gérard-E. Mariages de l’Ancienne-Lorette,  1695–1987. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Société de généalogie de Québec, 1988.

rovencher, Gérard-E. Mariages de Loretteville (St-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette), 1761–1969, Village des Hurons (Notre-Dame-de-Lorette) 1904–1969. Sillery, Québec: B. Pontbriand, 1970.