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Lower Canada Land Petitions from Library and Archives Canada |
Various Petitions by settlers for Land from Library and Archives Canada |
Perth Military Settlement lists from Library and Archives Canada |
Early land grants where fees were not paid this is the jpg files, so you will have to change the url to advance Early land grants where fees were not paid this is the Library and Archives page where you can view jpg or pdf |
Upper Canada Land Patents - issued between April 20, 1836 and July 2, 1836 Return of Patents Granted in Lower Canada -1795 - 1848 over 500 acres Lower Canada Gratuitous Grants of Land - to Military and Naval Officers since January 1, 1831, Page 40 Return of Patents for Grants of Land between April 1, 1836 and August 1, 1836 - may be the same list, but comes from a different source Return of Descriptions for Grants of Land between April 1, 1836 and August 1, 1836 - lists district, township, grantee, claim, acres, date Certificates issued for Crown Land between April 1, 1836 and August 1, 1836 - lists date of sale, certificate number, Lot, Concession, Acres, Township, County, Name Lands granted in Free and Common Soccage in Lower Canada 1795 - 1814 - lists township, who granted, leader of township date, and acreages List of people who applied for a change of tenure due to a change in the Canada Tenures Act that were referred to Executive Council - between 1825 and 1832 List of Letters Patent of change of Tenure List of all Lots granted under Tenures in Lower Canada outside of townships - 1762 - 1832 List of old Subjects, Seigneuries, Proprietors of Fiefs and Seigneuries in Quebec - 1791, some duplication of above list but with different notes including military rank and occupation Claims filed by settlers in the Interior District of Gaspe 1823 - you will have to wade through pages of legal land descriptions but there are lots of settlers named in the 542 claims List of lands for William Bowman Felton and children of Orford, 1826 Account of market Lots in York and to whom leased 1831 Ordnance land sold in Toronto Reserve 1857 - lists street and name of purchaser List of lots sold in the Village of Rawdon, County of Leinster 1849 Report, Province of Quebec 1886-87 Page 265, Annex 11, List, county by county of sales and free grants of Crown Lands, 1867 to 1887 in Province of Quebec Patent holders in Thorold starting 1796, go to page 18 Abstracts of the Actes de Foy et Hommage (Fealty Rolls) 1667 to 1674, starts on page 31. Google Books Return of Sale of Seigniories on which droit de quint was payable (one fifth of the sale value), 1856. Read more on Seigneuries here http://www.champlain2004.org/html/settlement.pdf Chronological list or index of grants en fief and royal ratifications of grants en fief made in New France to the time of its cession to the British Crown in 1760 (free ebook) Forfeited estates 1825 for public sale, Town of York British documents containing "Act of Foi et Hommage" - in relation to boundary disputes near Riviere du Loup and Madawaska, between Great Britain and the US 1827. Google ebook Dominion Land Sales Reel C3988 Image 405 to 668 Dominion Lands Military Bounty Grant Oct 1873 to Feb 1874, Reel C3988 Image 669 |