This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/558.1 Message Board Post: Ruth, The 1901 Canada Census is on line. It is searchable by geographic location, and are scanned images of the actual census pages, from the National Archives site http://www.archives.ca You stated that your ancestors may be in Ontario. Therefore, try these sites: http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa - The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid. Surnmae searchable. http://www.internment.net - Cemeteries across teh country. http://www.geneofun.on.ca/ontariolocator - Palce names in Ontario http://www.archives.gov.on.ca - The Provincial Archives of Ontario. There should be a link for a printout of how to apply for a Birth marraige or Death certificate. REMEMBER that the government didn't beging a registry until 1869. http://www.ogs.on.ca - The Ontario Genealogical Society http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi - The OGS Provincial Index of people. Surname searchable and also includes census, marriage, deaths, births, military. http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html 19th Century Ships to Canada http://www.vicu.utoronto.ca/archives/archives.html - United Church of Canada Archives http://www.cdncouncilarchives.ca/cca_dir/rel-org.html Religious archives across Canada Suggestion of books - Donald Whyte has 3 volumes of Scottish Immigrants to Canada before confederation. It is an index of names, but gives names of persons, where they emigrated from, and where they moved to. Andrew