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Family history
Find birth, marriage and death registrations, wills and estate files, adoptions and other family history records.
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Courts and justice
We have Ontario divorce files up to 1986 and civil and criminal justice records created between 1794 and 2001.
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Lands and maps
Find land records, maps and photos documenting the colonization, settlement and mapping of Ontario from 1764 to 1999.
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People of Ontario
Find records created by and about various ethnic, racial and social groups in Ontario from the 1700s to 2000s.
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Online records
Access retired Government of Ontario webpages and digitized copies of analogue records from our archival collection.
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Business and finance
Find Ontario bankruptcy files and business registrations from 1868 to the 1970s.
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Education records
We have a library collection of textbooks used in Ontario schools and some provincial education records.
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Publications of the provincial legislature
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