GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL IN THE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR COLLECTION ST. JOHN’S PUBLIC LIBRARIES Compiled by Jewel Cousens & Brenda Parmenter 2016 (9th Edition) Newfoundland and Labrador Collection St. John’s Public Libraries Provincial Resource Library Arts & Culture Centre (Third Floor) 95 Allandale Road St. John’s, NL Canada A1B 3A3 http://www.nlpl.ca Guide to the Genealogical Material in the Newfoundland and Labrador Collection St. John’s Public Libraries Ninth (9th) Edition – 2016 Pages Aboriginal Peoples 1 Births, Deaths and Marriages in Newspapers 2-3 Cemetery Records 4-5 Census Records in Nominal Form 6-7 Church Histories 8-23 Church Records and Registers 24-25 Community Histories, Memoirs and Reunions 26-110 Court Records 111 Directories of Residents 112-113 Documents of the Post Office Department 114 eBooks 115-116 Family Trees and Histories 117-134 French 135 Handbooks, Guides and Indices 136-142 Immigration, Settlement & Culture 143-146 Journals, Magazines and Newsletters 147-149 Military History 150-154 Place Names & Street Names 155-156 Railway History 157 School Yearbooks 158-167 Stories of the Sea 168-173 Telephone Directories 174-176 Voter’s List 177-178 Who’s Who Directories 179-182 Yearbooks, Gazetteers and Miscellaneous Materials 183-184 We take great pleasure in presenting the new edition, 9th, of the guide which lists the wealth of materials that can be accessed in the A.C. Hunter Library in the Arts & Culture Centre on Allandale Road in St. John’s, NL. This guide is available as a pdf document on our homepage: www.nlpl.ca This guide to the genealogical materials in the Newfoundland and Labrador Collection is in its ninth edition. This guide was first compiled by David Leamon and Brenda Parmenter. Over the years it has been expanded and revised by all of the Reference Library and the Newfoundland and Labrador Collections staff. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this new edition. Jewel S. Cousens, Jewel S. Cousens, B.A. M.L.S. Newfoundland and Labrador Collections Librarian Cover Illustration: TITLE: "Landing the Atlantic Cable in Heart's Content Bay, Newfoundland" PUBLICATION: Illustrated London News, September 8, 1866, Vol. 49(1388),p 229. Cover design by John Griffin. In this guide, you will find that certain materials are designated available through interlibrary loan and others are not for loan. Requests for materials that are available through interlibrary loan must be made at your local public library. Materials that are not for loan may not be borrowed, but you may request information from these or any other materials in the Newfoundland and Labrador Collection. For further information: Telephone: 709-737-3955 Fax: 709-753-3958 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nlpl.ca Location Legend: CR – Conservation Room NR – Newfoundland Room PC – Provincial Collection PR – Periodical Room VT- Vault GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL – 9TH EDITION 2016 Aboriginal Peoples Arranged Alphabetically by Title (Revised January 2016) This includes materials about the following groups: Beothuk, Innu, Inuit, Metis, Mi’kmaw, Nigamaw. Labrador Settlers, Metis and Kablunangajuit. / by T. Borlase. 971.9 B64 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Micmac Shore: Micmac Family History On The West Coast Of Newfoundland. / by D. Stewart. 970.1 ST4 NR Folder (Not for Loan) Micmacs in Newfoundland / by R. T. Pastore. 971.8 P26 NR Folder (Not for Loan) Micmac Migration to Western Newfoundland. / by D. Bartels. 971.8 B28 NR Folder (Not for Loan) Newfoundland Micmacs: a History of Their Traditional Life / by R. T. Pastore. 971.8 P26 NR Folder (Not for Loan) Nigamaw: Our Relations – Volumes 1 & 2 / by Y. MacDonald. 929.4 N56 Only in WSG, St. Georges, St. Georges Indian Band People of Sheshatshit : In the Land of the Innu / by J. Mailhot. 971.9 M28 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation Bands & Mushuau (Davis Inlet) Innu First Nation Bands: Registration Indians Act (2002) 971.004 SH5 NR (Not for Loan) Voters’ List for Ratification of Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement (2004) 324.64 OF2 NR (Not for Loan) 1 | P a g e GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL – 9TH EDITION 2016 Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspaper Arranged Chronologically (Revised February 2016). The Newfoundland and Labrador Collection, Provincial Resource Library has the Province’s largest collection of Newfoundland and Labrador newspapers both in original format and on microfilm. It is the principal repository of original copies of over 175 newspapers, the earliest of which is the Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser from 1810. The newspaper indexes compiled by Gertrude Crosbie and Mildred Howard provide a means of acquiring genealogical information from this collection. The Historical Directory of Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers (1807-1996) lists all of the Collection’s newspapers. 1810-1888: Vital Statistics and Items from Newspapers of Newfoundland (1810-1888) (12 vol.) / compiled by Mildred Howard. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 1810-1845. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 1846-1862. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 1863-1873. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Vital statistics and items from newspapers of Newfoundland from 1834 - 1854. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Vital statistics and items from newspapers of Newfoundland, 1831-1872. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Vital statistics and items from the Newfoundlander of St. John's from 1854-1870. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Vital statistics and items from the Newfoundlander of St. John’s, 1873-1878. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Vital statistics and items from the Newfoundlander, 1879-1884. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 1873-1879. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 1880-1881-1882. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 1883-1884-1885. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 1886-1887. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser, 1888. 929.3 H83 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) 2 | P a g e GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL – 9TH EDITION 2016 Births, Marriages and Deaths in Newfoundland Newspaper - Continued 1825 – 1889: Births, Deaths, Marriages in Newfoundland Newspapers (1825-1890) (13 vol.) / compiled by Gertrude Crosbie. v. 1, 1825-1850 v. 8, 1881-1882 v. 2, 1851-1859 v. 9, 1883-1884 v. 3, 1860-1865 v. 10, 1885-1886 v. 4, 1866-1870 v. 11, 1887-1888 v. 5, 1871-1874 v. 12, 1889 v. 6, 1875-1877 v. 13, 1890 v. 7, 1878-1880 317.18 C88 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) 1880-1894: Gleanings from the Sun: Genealogical Abstracts from the “Twillingate Sun” (1880-1894) / compiled by Michael A. Bromley. 929.3 B78 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) 1892: Births, Deaths and Marriages: from the St. John’s Herald, 1892/complied by Mildred Howard. 929.3 H83 (PC) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) 1902-1912, 1913-1975: Daily News: 1907-1912. Some genealogical information can be found in the ‘Events of the Year’ section in either the beginning January or last December issue. Daily News: December 31, 1913-1975. The year-end issues of this newspaper contain Annual Lists of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Fatalities according to the following format: Deaths (Necrology) & Fatalities - from 1913 Marriages (Weddings) - from 1914 Births - from 1958 Available on Microfilm only, one reel per year every year. Microfilm Cabinets in Staff Area. (Available for loan through Library and Archives Canada) 3 | P a g e GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL – 9TH EDITION 2016 Cemetery Records Arranged alphabetically by Community or Region. (Revised January 2016). Avalon Peninsula: Place of Burial: Spatial Focus of Contact of the Living with the Dead in Eastern Areas of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland./ by G. Pocius, 393.1 P75 VT (Not for Loan) Bay of Islands: Guide for Bay of Islands Genealogical Research Including Marker Inscriptions of Bay of Islands Cemeteries / Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society. 929.1 G94 VT (Not for Loan) Cupids: CUPIDS United Church, Cupids, Conception Bay: Gravestone Inscriptions. / by E. Hochwald. 731.76 H65 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Fortune: Inscriptions from the Anglican Church Cemetery, Salvation Army Cemetery and the United Church Cemetery: the Town of FORTUNE: Gravestone Inscriptions. 731.76 IN7 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Harbour Grace: Cemetery Records for HARBOUR GRACE United Church Cemetery/ by M. Howard. 929.5 H83 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Hickman’s Harbour: Laid To Rest: the First Cemetery (United Church) in HICKMAN’S HARBOUR, Newfoundland: circa 1850 to 1940 / by W.B.W. Martin. 929.5 M36 NR (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Labrador: Cemetery Inscriptions from the LABRADOR (NLGS & Them Days): Gravestone Inscriptions. 731.76 C33 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Northern Peninsula: NORTHERN PENINSULA Cemetery Records: Gravestone Inscriptions/ by M. Howard 731.76 H83 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) 4 | P a g e GUIDE TO GENEALOGICAL MATERIAL – 9TH EDITION 2016 Cemetery Records continued Placentia: Old Basque Tombstones of PLACENTIA / by Bishop Michael Howley. 926 Pamp N CR (Not for Loan) St. John’s: Interments in the General Protestant Cemetery, ST. JOHN’S, 1889-1912 (2 vols.) 929.3 IN8 NR (Not for Loan) Mount Pleasant Cemetery, ST. JOHN’S, 1941-1972. 731.76 M86 VT (Not for Loan) Topsail: Gravestone Inscriptions from the TOPSAIL Anglican Cemetery. / by E. Chafe. 731.76 C34 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) General Information and Websites: Conservation of Cemeteries. / D. McQuade. 731.76 M24 NR (Folder) (Available through Interlibrary Loan) Newfoundland Gravestones: Lecture to the Newfoundland Historical Society by G.L.