Ontario GenWeb Rainy River District Home Page

Business & Industry

The Fort Frances Times and Rainy Lake Herald have an excellent site titled 100 years, 100 stories - The History of the Rainy River District. Great archived newspaper articles!

Cemeteries & Records

• Cemetery Headstone Images - Here & Elsewhere
• Cemetery Look-ups - Newly rediscovered research tool
• Cemetery Headstone Images

Census Links for Rainy River

Education

History of the District

• Rob McLean's Family History Home Page - Foster & Labelle
• Familles FOUILLARD & LAROCQUE families - You will find the genealogy of several families of St. Lazare, Manitoba & of Pinewood, Ontario and of French-Canadians in Manitoba.
• The Dagg Families of Canada - A Repository of Genealogical Research: Hosted By Jann Callaghan Cullen
• Linda Harper's Home Page - My Proctors above on my Dad's side were from Pinewood and my Mom's Hamilton's and McKinnon's were from Emo. Many Hamiltons' and Mckinnon's are still living there today
• Victoria Boutilier's Genealogy Research Pages

Ontario Research Guidance

• Ontario Research Outline
• Ontario, Canada, Boundary Changes and Maps
• Ontario, Canada, Historical Background
• Ontario, Canada, Marriage Records, 1801 to 1869
• Ontario, Canada, National Censuses, 1871 to 1901
• Ontario, Canada, Vital Records, 1869 to the Present

Land Records

Lookups

Map of Rainy River District

Museums, Libraries, & Research Resources

• Native Research
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

News Media

Obituaries

• Atikokan Progress
• Fort Frances Times
• Rainy River Record

• Cyndislist.com - Canada
• Cyndislist.com - Ontario
• FamilySearch.org - The Mormon Church Family History Web Site

Pictures of Interest

Pioneer Families - Anything to share?

• CanadaGenWeb's Cemetery Project
• Ontario Archives
  • Vital Statistics
  • Court Records & Wills
  • Land records
  • Ontario, Canada Events and Time Periods
• Ontario Locator
• Questions Frequently Asked by Ontario GenWeb Visitors
• Bill Martin's OUTSTANDING Ontario Research Site
• Jude's Family & Local History Web Site

Queries

• Addresses of Registered Ontario Cemeteries of North Western Ontario
• Kenora District OntarioGenWeb
• Koochiching County MNGenWeb

Religion

Surnames

Townships

Wars