York Research Resources is a compilation of online references, books, articles, and useful addresses to assist with research in York Region. Books can be located using your favourite online library catalogue search, borrowed through interlibrary loan, or purchased directly from the publishers.

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• William Quarrier Home Children Association 
  Quarriers Canadian Family is an association of Scottish "home children" and their families. From 1870 to 1936 the Orphan Homes of Scotland founded by William Quarrier participated in the British child relocation program sending more than 7,000 young people to Canada where they were employed, in the main, as farm labourers. 
• Moving Here, Staying Here, The Canadian Immigrant Experience  
  Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) new online exhibition facilitates improved access for genealogists and other researchers to some of LAC's frequently used immigration documents, such as passenger lists and land grants and provides Canadians with a unique history of Canadian immigration for the years 1800-1939. 
• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse  
  Streamlined searches of Immigration Databases and much much more.
• Passenger List Indexing Project   
  The Nanaimo Family History Society is creating an online index to the arrivals at Halifax and Quebec from 1900 to about 1921.
• Name Index to OGS Publications  
  The Ontario Genealogical Society has developed an online index to names contained in genealogy books published by the society including: "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation, Vol. 1", "Index of Some Passengers who Emigrated to Canada Between 1817 & 1849", and "Index to the Upper Canada Land Books Vol. 2 - Vol. 9".
• 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization
  The Canadian Genealogy Centre web site is hosting the Canadian Naturalization databases containing references to about 200,000 people who applied for and received status as naturalized Canadians from 1915 to 1932.
• The Settlement of York County
  by John Mitchell (York, Ontario: The Municipal Corporation of the County of York).
• The Old United Empire Loyalist List
  by Milton Rubincam, FASC, FNGS, FGSP. Originally published as Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists 1784-1884  (Toronto: Rose Publishing Co., 1885). The official register of persons entitled to the appellation of United Empire Loyalists.
• Index of Passengers who Emigrated to Canada between 1817 and 1849
  by John A. Acton, (Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1999).
• Upper Canada Naturalization Records 1828-1850
  by Donald A. McKenzie. An explanation of the legislation involved, and a nominal index to records at the National Archives.
• Home Children
  Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Members of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa are locating and indexing the names of these Home Children found in passenger lists in the custody of the National Archives of Canada.
• Canada's Invisible Immigrants, 100,000 British Home Children
  A site devoted to providing research resources for the estimated 4 million Canadian/American descendants who are searching for their potential 20 million British relatives.
• The Little Immigrants: the Orphans who Came to Canada
  by Kenneth Bagnell. An extensively-researched history of the schemes which brought more than 80,000 Home Children to Canada from the British Isles between 1870 and the Depression. Well documented.
• Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
  by Joy Parr. A social history of the movements that brought 80,000 children to Canada as indentured agricultural labourers or domestic servants. Much information has been gleaned from the files of the Barnardo and Quarrier Homes. Extensively documented.
• Pier 21, Halifax, Canada
  Between 1928-1971, at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront, 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil. During World War II, 3,000 British evacuee children, 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children, over 100,000 refugees and 368,000 Canadian troops bound for Europe passed through Pier 21. Also available in french.
• Miscellaneous Immigration Index, National Archives of Canada
  Searchable database containing approximately 15,000 names from a few lists of immigrant settlers and passenger lists scattered within various collections at the National Archives of Canada (NAC).
• Immigration Records at the National Archives of Canada
  Information about passenger lists, border entry records, home children, and arrivals at American Ports.
• Records of the Department of Immigration (RG11)
  Description of the records at the Public Archives of Ontario, and their availability via inter-library loan.