The Notaries in Quebec City who were first appointed by the British authorities and later-on during the Lower Canada time period The 1851 and 1861 censuses The 1851 and 1861 censuses were the only two decennial censuses conducted in Lower Canada. In 1851, the population of Québec City was 42,052, almost twice the size it had been in 1825. The city continued to grow, reaching 51,109 persons in 1861. This large increase in population during the 19th century was the combined result of a relative decline in mortality and an increase in the birth rate. Despite continuing immigration, the effect of this growth was to increase the share of the population born in Canada from less than 70% in 1825 to almost 80% in 1861. Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2008001/article/10574-eng.htm The 1861 census indicated that the population of Quebec was nearly 1.2 million, of which 86% were Catholic. Of the total population, 78% was French, 10% was Irish, 6% was English, and 5% was Scottish. At the time of Confederation, the total population of the British North American colonies was about 3.5 million, of which 75% lived in United Canada (Quebec and Ontario). About 80% of the population of United Canada lived in rural areas. From 1840 to 1867, despite an exodus of close to 200,000 people to factories in New England, Quebec's population nearly doubled. Montréal and Québec City were the main urban centres affected by the skyrocketing population. In 1851, the population of Montréal was 57,000; by 1861, it was 90,000. Québec City had a population of 50,000 in 1861. Québec in 1854 The year 1854 marked an important event in the history of Quebec: the abolition of the seigneurial system, a legacy of the French colonial era which governed land grants and land development in Lower Canada (later Canada East). In the 19th century, the landed bourgeoisie demanded that this system be changed. The government voted to abolish it in 1854 and to indemnify seigneurial landowners. 1 Though they were not living under this system, the inhabitants of Canada West and the Eastern Townships protested that they would not be paid and succeeded in winning some compensation. Library and Archives Canada http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/politics-government/canadian- confederation/Pages/quebec-1867.aspx?wbdisable=true The British Governors James Murray – Governor of Québec – 1760-1768 Thomas Gage – Lieutenant Governor of Montréal – 1760-1763 Ralph Burton – Lieutenant Governor of Trois-Rivières – 1760-1766 & Montréal 1763-1766 Guy Carleton – Governor of Québec – 1768-1770 & 1774-1778 & 1786-1796 Hector de Cramahé – Lieutenant Governor of Québec 1770-1774 Frédérick Haldimand – Governor of Québec 1778-1784 The above military and civil leaders were the ones who appointed royal notaries in Québec under British military rule from 1759 to about 1791 Online Repositories BAnQ Online Judicial District of Québec http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/index.html?a=v_z http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/fichiers/portail/html/liste.html FamilySearch.org Quebec Notarial Records 1,302 results https://familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=7L4Z- 1GC%3A45162001%3Fcc%3D1471015 Ancestry.com Quebec Notarial Records 1647-1942 – 599 notaries of Québec (Drouin Collection of notarial acts) http://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=1112 Ancestry.com BAnQ with Ancestry.com is increasing web access to more than 7.3 million pages of notarized Québec records from the 17th century to the 20th century http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/communiques_de_ presse/communique.html?language_id=1&c_id=143526cc-6c74-4bcc-b905- 2 515fb692204a&an=2017 Genealogy Quebec 599 Notaries who served in Québec from 1647 to 1942 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/en/destination- 2?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI39n3upDl0wIVE5V- Ch3ivA_PEAAYASAAEgKhHfD_BwE http://institutdrouin.com/microfilms/MF-Notaires-A-G.pdf http://institutdrouin.com/microfilms/MF-Notaires-H-W.pdf In-house notarial databases BAnQ – Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Parchemin – Archi-Histo) Available at most of the 10 Archives nationales du Québec across the province https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf The 10 repositories of the Archives nationales du Québec http://www.banq.qc.ca/archives/entrez_archives/centres_archives/ http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/fichiers/portail/html/liste.html Société de généalogie de Québec Notarial acts (Actes notariés) https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires The Notaries François Lemaître-Lamorille – BAnQ Québec – #CN301-S148 - 1761-1766 – Served in Québec (city) https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/francois-lemaitre-lamorille https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- 3 membres/notaires Jacques Gouget – BAnQ Québec - #CN301-S122 – 1761-1777 – Served in Pointe-aux-Trembles of Saint-François-de-Sales of Neuville in Portneuf county https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/jacques-gouget https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires Louis Robin – BAnQ Québec – #CN301-S241 - 1766-1782 – Served in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Portneuf county https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/louis-robin https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires François-Dominique Rousseau – BAnQ Québec – #CN301-S245 - 1768-1788 – Served in Québec (city) https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/francois-dominique-rousseau http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/affichage.html?serie=03Q_CN301S 245&a=p_r http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/Prc_acces_unite_chercheur?p_ codedepo=03Q&P_codeclas=CN&P_numfonds=301&P_numserie=245&P_n umsseri=0&P_numssser=0&P_numdossi=0&P_numpiece=0 https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires 4 Louis Miray – BAnQ Québec – #CN301-S200 - 1772-1807 – Served in Québec (city) https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/louis-miray http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/affichage.html?serie=03Q_CN301S 200&a=m_o http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/Prc_acces_unite_chercheur?p_ codedepo=03Q&P_codeclas=CN&P_numfonds=301&P_numserie=200&P_n umsseri=0&P_numssser=0&P_numdossi=0&P_numpiece=0 https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires Jean-Antoine Panet – BAnQ Québec #CN301-S205 - 1772-1786 – Served in Québec (city) https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/jean-antoine-panet http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/notaires/affichage.html?serie=03Q_CN301S 205&a=p_r http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/Prc_acces_unite_chercheur?p_ codedepo=03Q&P_codeclas=CN&P_numfonds=301&P_numserie=205&P_n umsseri=0&P_numssser=0&P_numdossi=0&P_numpiece=0 https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires Bernard Planté – BAnQ Québec – #CN301-S227 - 1772-1782 – Served in Pointe-aiux-Trembles, Portneuf county https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/bernard-plante https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste-Lieu- Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Chrono-Tablo.pdf https://www.archiv-histo.com/assets/publications/2015-Notaires-liste- Alpha-Tablo.pdf https://www.sgq.qc.ca/141- 5 basesdedonneesdelasgq/basesdedonneesdelasgq/bases-de-donnees- membres/notaires Michel-Amable Berthelot-d’Aartigny – BAnQ Québec - #CN301-S25 - 1775- 1786 - Served in Québec (city) https://archivescanada.accesstomemory.ca/michel-amable-berthelot- dartigny https://books.google.ca/books?id=GY0mAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA420&lpg=PA42 0&dq=Antoine+Crespin+fils+Notaire+Qu%C3%A9bec&source=bl&ots=qbO k3bLSNR&sig=r0e1jPtV8fLyu6PuhZAuP6kU4CQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUK