Before you can start looking you have to know where to look and for that you need to find this person in the census of 1861 1871 or 1881 for Canada and Ontario. In the census record is his address as a street address or as a rural township allocation of range and lot. The census will also tell you what municipality is located in and then if you are near by you can visit the municipal offices for the township and view their records for that property from transfer from Government to Private ownership either by land grant or purchase. I have not had much luck trying to find this information on line. There are researchers who will do this sort of lookup in many localities and generally the Canadian GenWeb series of web sites is pretty good at saying what is a available and where. http://ontariogenealogy.com/ is a good starting place. regards Garth At 03:34 PM 10/16/2008, you wrote: >My great grandfather with his family, migrated from England to Ontario in >1861. He was a farmer and needed more land than he had in >England. Where would >find records of this? His son. my grandfather, immigrated to the USA >between 1881 and 1884 when he married my grandmother. >**************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. >Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out >(http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002) > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this > List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering > to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to > !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > >To search the archives: >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION >The information page is: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message