Links to Books about People of Canada

Links to early Canadian documents at canadiana.org

Related to the Books about People in Canada

Please note these links go to a whole book. They genearally have an index page or you can browse through page by page.

A membership is required to view any books at canadiana.org, or your local library may have a membership

Books that may have been free at Google Books at one time, may now be unavailable. I do review the links periodically, but the easiest way to find them is to search by the title of the book and see if a free copy is available online

Alphabetical Listings of Famous People

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian biography: being chiefly men of the time: a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life - published 1886, covering years 1829 - 1898

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian biography - published 1919

The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men: Quebec and the Maritime Provinces Volume

The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men: Ontario Volume

The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume I

The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume II

The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume III

The Canadian Portrait Gallery Volume IV

The Canadian - Men and Women of the Time - A Hand-book of Canadian Biography

Sketches of Celebrated Canadians and Persons Connected with Canada

Canadian Notabilities

The Medical Profession in Upper Canada 1783 - 1850 - includes some biographies

Case and His Contemporaries - methodist ministers in Canada, 1869. This is broken down by area with a listing of each circuit. Here is the Rideau Circuit Societies

PDF copy of Portraits of prominent Canadians - published in 1896, slow to download

Newspaper Reference Book - published in 1903, biographies of Canadians