Irish Canadian Ancestors: Using Canadian Strategies and Records to Identify Irish Origins; Author: Dwight A. Radford; Foreword by Claire Smith-Burns; 322 numbered pages; 2025; 8.5x11; ISBN: 978-1-62859-299-3; Item # FR0154; $39.95.
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This volume was written to help Canadians locate information, as well as origins of their Irish ancestors. Dwight has covered in detail just about every record category to be found in Canada. The book is also extremely valuable to anyone with or without Irish ancestors who has Canadian research.
Initial Reviews:
Don't be fooled by the title. While this book has a focus on people of Irish Decent, it includes much more than that, dealing with a wide variety of ethnic groups as well as just about every record type of help to Canadian family history research. Dwight Radford has provided a comprehensive summary of ways to research in Canada.
Dave Obee
Canadian genealogical author
Dwight Radford has produced another book jam-packed with information, bibliographic sources, and research suggestions. Radford's books often provide outside the box thinking that gives readers research ideas and this book doesn't disappoint.
Craig Foster - MA, MLIS
American Accredited Genealogist in Ireland
The following is from the Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Cemeteries and Tombstones
Chapter Two: Census Records
Chapter Three: Church Records Part 1, Introduction, Anglican, Baptist, Christian Brethren, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Congregational Church, Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Christian Disciples
Chapter Four: Church Records Part 2, Methodist, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Salvation Army, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Unitarians and Universalists, United Church of Canada
Chapter Five: Civil Registration and Vital Records
Chapter Six: Directories and Government Gazettes
Chapter Seven: Immigration and Internal Migration Records
Chapter Eight: Land Records
Chapter Nine: Loyalists
Chapter Ten: Military, Militia, and Mounted Police
Chapter Eleven: Naturalization and Citizenship
Chapter Twelve: New England Planters and Early Settlers (1759-1774)
Chapter Thirteen: Newspapers and Obituaries
Chapter Fourteen: Orange Lodges of Canada and the United States
Chapter Fifteen: Published Books and Biographical Sketches
Special Strategies
Chapter Sixteen: Black Loyalists, War of 1812 Refugees, and the Underground Railroad
Chapter Seventeen: British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska, and the Gold Rush
Chapter Eighteen: First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and the Irish Connection
Index
Maps, Images, Charts, Photographs, Reference Aids Found in This Volume
Maps
Anglican Diocese Jurisdictions
Early LDS Settlements in Eastern Canada
LDS Settlement and Migration
Roman Catholic Dioceses for Western Canada
Roman Catholic Dioceses for Eastern Canada
Origins for Most Early Irish Settlers of Newfoundland
Rideau Canal, Ontario
Fitzwilliam Estate in County Wicklow, Ireland
Boundaries of Hudson’s Bay Company
Modern Land Districts for British Columbia
Provinces and Territories Maps for 1868-1999
1766 Survey Lots Prince Edward Island
Western Canada Jurisdictions for Land Grants and Homesteads
Primary Gold Rush Routes
Loyalist Settlement Regions
1765 East Florida/West Florida
Red River Rebellion and Fenian Raids
North West Rebellion of 1885
New England Planters
Underground Railroad Routes
Primary Underground Railroad Settlements
Route from San Francisco to Salt Spring Island
General Gold Rush Routes from British Isles
British Columbia Gold Fields—Fraser Basin
Yukon as a Crossroad for the Gold Rush
General Region of the Klondike
1725-1930 Simplified Map of Indigenous Treaties
French and Indian War Theater of Operations
Pre-colonial Home of Métis
Home of the Inuit
Moravian Missions on Labrador
Images from Records, Directories, Newspapers, and Books
1851 Quebec Census
1871 Quebec Census
1842 Quebec Census
1825 Burial Record, Quebec, Quebec
Membership Roll for Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Westlake, Ontario
1924 Delayed Birth Record, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1922 Death Record, Shediac. New Brunswick
1875 Marriage Register, Brant Ontario
1865 Directory Page from Kingston, Ontario
1878 Illustrated Historical Atlas… from Ontario
1915 Cattle Brands Directory, Edmonton, Alberta
1887 Passenger List in Halifax, Nova Scotia
1829 Passenger list for Waterloo
1912 Border Crossing Record of North Portal, Saskatchewan
1861 Lots and Concessions Map, Elizabethtown, Ontario
1840 Land Grant Petition, Cornwall, Ontario
1784 Muster Roll Including Loyalists
1839 Militia and Volunteer Muster Book
1866 Fenian Raid Application for Bounty Land
1908 Bounty Application for South African Service
World War I Disability File
Sample Naturalization Index
1836 Naturalization Record
Newspaper Clipping from The Saskatoon Phoenix
Newspaper Clipping from Dawson Daily News
Biographical Sketch Example from Manitoba
Who’s Who for Canada
Biographical Sketch from Publication Focused on Women
1783 Certificate of Freedom
Survey of Select Lands for Black Refugees
1816 Health Officer’s Report for Passengers
Underground Railroad Newspaper Article
Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
Pioneer Home Collection Example
Northwest Halfbreed Claim
1945 Census Newfoundland
Photographs/Illustrations
Headstone at Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba
Headstone at Union Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta
Headstone at Derby Cemetery, Derby, New Brunswick
Basilique Sainte Anne de Beaupré in Quebec , Quebec
LDS Temple, Cardston, Alberta
Early Founders of the Restoration Movement
Unitarian Church in Montreal
Metropolitan Methodist Church, Toronto, Ontario
Port of Quebec
Tory Refugees
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
New England Planters Memorial
Orange Lodge Banners
Orange Lodge Artwork
British Columbia Black Pioneers Monument
Ecclesiastical/Religious Orders
1891 Religious Representation in Canada
Anglican Diocese Jurisdictions
Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) Evolution Chart
LDS Temple, Cardston, Alberta
Early LDS Settlements in Eastern Canada
Early LDS Communities in Canada
LDS Settlement and Migration
Congregational Evolution Chart
Evangelical Christian Evolution Chart
Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement Chart
1921 Religious Representation
Key Wesleyan-Methodist Organizations
Irish Palatine Surnames in Ontario
Methodist Evolution Chart
Presbyterian Evolution Chart
Roman Catholic Dioceses for Western Canada
Roman Catholic Dioceses for Eastern Canada
Entire Sanctification: The Salvation Army in Context
Membership Roll for Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Westlake, Ontario
Unitarian Church in Montreal
Metropolitan Methodist Church, Toronto, Ontario
Access/Reference Aids
Available Nominal Census Reports
Heads of Household Enumerations
Irish Palatine Surnames in Ontario
Online Civil Registration Records Availability
Peter Robinson Settlers
Ports Included in Canadian Passenger List
Hudson’s Bay Name Indexes
British Columbia Land Districts
Provisional Districts for Northwest Territories
Western Canada Homestead Process
Various Loyalist Categories
Loyalists Leaving East Florida
Books of Remembrances/Canadian War Memorial
Naturalization Residence Requirements
Irish Surnames During the Planter Period
Other New England Planter Surnames
Black Loyalist Settlements in Nova Scotia
Code Words and Signals of Underground Railroad
Notable Ports in Reference for San Francisco
Quebec Research with New England Captives
Manitoba Census Statistics for Early Irish.
