Héritage is a digitization partnership between Canadiana, Library and Archives Canada, and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
With over 900 collections and more being added, Héritage caters to students, scholars, and researchers working on various topics in Canadian history. From the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, researchers can engage with over 40 million pages of digitized content.
Geneaologists will be interested in a variety of collections in Héritage. The Trinity and Wycliffe research communities may find special value in the resource’s many parish registers from all over the country, and even parts of the United States. In many cases, government did not start collecting vital statistics until well into the nineteenth century. Before this, parish records and registers were the most reliable sources for this type of information.
Collections are browsable and can also be searched by keyword. To access the parish registers, one can browse the collections in Geneaology, or enter “parish registers” in the search box and begin their search with the list of provincial and personal registers.
Héritage can be accessed online here.