Website: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Quebec_Church_Records
Unlike other provinces of Canada, the government of Quebec did not maintain any civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths. This task was left to the churches. Thus much of your genealogical research on the Hebridean Scots of Quebec will focus on the registers kept by the churches your ancestors attended. In most cases these will be Presb. churches, but it would be foolhearty not to check registers for other churches in the area until you find all of the people you are tracing. The following church registers are only the most likely ones to consult.
The items mentioned below are microfilm copies of the actual church registers themselves, but very few of them have indexes of their own. Fortunately, there are is a set of index books mentioned elsewhere on this website, but you will be greatly rewarded if you examine the original register yourself because there are many other names and events mentioned in them than are found in the indexes.
If you know where your ancestors lived and what their religion was, then consult the church register for that church. Otherwise, you could start with the index and that might tell you which church register to look at. Unfortunately, the index books do not index all of the church registers mentioned below so you should still examine the microfilm copy of the register itself even if you don't find the name(s) in the index books.
| Local Non-Catholic Church Registers | |||||||||
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| Locality | Church | Rec.
Type |
Years
avail. |
ANQ | BMG | BNQ | SGCF | FHL | ETRC |
| Gould/Lingwick | Protestant | N-B | 1838-1879 | 3455-C,D | |||||
| Gould/Lingwick | Protestant | D | 1838-1879 | 617 | 3455-E,F | F3500 | |||
| Gould/Lingwick | Protestant | M | ..-1879 | 430 | 1165 | 3455-A,B | F3500.1 | ||
| Gould/Lingwick | Presb., 1884-1925 |
BMD | 1884-1891 | US/CAN Film 2027146 Item 4 |
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| Gould/Lingwick | Free Church | BMD | 1849-1853 | M.F. | M.F. | US/CAN Film 1430777 Item 5 |
M 125/12 | ||
| Gould/Lingwick | United Church
1925- |
BMD | 1928-1946 | M.F. | M.F. | M 125/12 | |||
| Gould/Lingwick | Anglican, 1838-1909 | BMD | 1838-1850, 1852-1874, 1876 | M.F. | M.F. | US/CAN Film 1430767 Item 8 |
M 125/1 | ||
| Sawyerville | Presb., 1888-1917 | 1888-1899 | US/CAN Film 2027146 Item 5 |
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| Sawyerville | United Church, 1939-1977 | ||||||||
| Scotstown | Adventist, 1892-1923 | BMB | 1892-99 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 1 |
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| Scotstown | Anglican, St. Alban | BMB | 1888-89 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 3 |
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| Scotstown | St. Paul Presb. | BMD | 1881-1882, 1889, 1899 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 7 |
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| Scotstown | St. Paul Presb. |
BMD | 1925-1983 | M.F. | M.F. | M 125/12 | |||
| Scotstown | St. Paul Presb. |
M | 1888-1950 | 406 | 0031 | F2500 | |||
| Scotstown | St. Paul Presb. |
M | 1951-1970 | 0637 | 3451-A | F2500 | |||
| Scotstown | St. Paul Presb. |
M | 1971-1988 | 1399 | 3451-B | F2500M | |||
| Scotstown | United Church, 1929- | ||||||||
| Lac-Mégantic (Agnès) | Ch. of Eng. | BMB | 1898-1899 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 2 |
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| Lac-Mégantic | Mégantic | M | ..-1946 | CS89.18 | 0391 | 1577 | L2300.1 | ||
| Lac-Mégantic | Methodist (Agnès), 1894-1909 | BMB | 1894-1898 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 4 |
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| Lac-Mégantic | Presb., Knox, 1900-1925 | ||||||||
| Lac-Mégantic | Presb., St. Andrew, 1927- | BMD | 1927-1979 | M.F. | M 125/12 | ||||
| Lac-Mégantic | United Church, 1925-1963 | ||||||||
| Marsboro | Presb., 1891-1922 | 1891-1894 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 5 |
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| Marsboro | Presb., Knox, 1882- | BMD | 1882-1949 | M.F. | M 125/12 | ||||
| Milan | Presb., Bethany, 1881- | BMD | 1899-1980 | M.F. | M.F. | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 6 |
M 125/12 | ||
| Sherbrooke | Presb., St. Andrew's | 1865-79 | US/CAN Film 1430778 Item 3 |
M 125/12 | |||||
| Sherbrooke | Presb., St. Andrew's | 1880-1897 | US/CAN Film 2027142 Item 3 |
M 125/12 | |||||
| Sherbrooke | Presb., St. Andrew's | 1898-1899 | US/CAN Film 2027143 Item 1 |
M 125/12 | |||||
| Springhill | Anglican, St. Saviour | ||||||||
| Winslow (Stornoway) |
Presb., St. John, 1864- | BMD | 1864-1920 | M.F. | M.F. | M 125/12 | |||
| Winslow (Stornoway) |
Presb., St. John, 1864- | BMB | 1883-1899 | US/CAN Film 2027434 Item 8 |
M 125/12 | ||||
| St. Francis (6 counties) |
Anglican | 1853, 1856-62 1866-67 |
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ANQ = Archives nationales du Québec
BMG =
BNQ = Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
SQCF = Société de généalogie des Cantons de l'Est
FHL = Family History Library (LDS)
ETRC = Eastern Townships Research Center (Bishop's University)
Most information gathered from Guide to Quebec's Parish Registers = Guide des registres
d'état civil du Québec, 1621-1993 : catholiques protestants et autres
dénominations : index, toponymes usuels et localités actuelles, annotations des
r‚pertoires disponibles aux 4 lieux de généalogie …
(Montréal, 1992), CS88 Q4 F672 1992
|
Index of Montreal non-Catholic Church Registers |
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| Locality | Church | Rec. Type | Years avail. | FFSQ | FHL |
| Montreal | non-Cath. | B | 1766-1899 | M155/200 | 1684034 |
| Montreal | non-Cath. | M | 1760-1874 | M155/200 | 1684034 |
| Montreal | non-Cath. | M | 1985-1999 | M155/201 | 1684035 |
| Montreal | non-Cath. | D | 1768-1899 | M155/201 | 1684035 |
B = births M = marriages D = deaths
For an excellent treatment of these Montreal indexes see the MontrealGenWeb
by Patty Brown.