Collection search - Entrybooks of the Provincial Registrar for Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East [textual record (microform)]

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Entrybooks of the Provincial Registrar for Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1788-1867.

Reference:

R14547-0-0-E, MG8-A26

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107245

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Entrybooks of the Provincial Registrar for Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1788-1867.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

22 microfilm reels of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Entrybooks compiled by the Provincial Registrar to record the texts of letters patent authorizing the alienation from the Crown of title to lands by grant or sale in Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East, 1788-1867, were arranged first and foremost by date. As the volume of activity increased, segregation by type of transaction was implemented: from 1831 onward, there were separate entrybooks for Special Grants and Sales. The entrybooks recording land grants were identified by letter designations, in two sequences: A-Z for 1788-1851 (omitting I-J, V) and AA-MM (except II) for 1851-1867. The volumes titled Special Grants, beach and water lots are lettered I and K-M, for 1831-1861, after which the three categories were divided in books lettered N-P. The entrybooks recording sales are also designated by letter in two sequences: A-Z for 1831-1863 (omitting J) and AA-AP (except AJ) for 1862-1867.

This material is located on microfilm reels M-8162 to M-8183.

Provenance:

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Quebec, Lower Canada, Canada East. Provincial Registrar. Entrybooks

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Quebec, Lower Canada, Canada East. Provincial Registrar. Entrybooks : While the offices of Secretary and Registrar of the Province were held jointly by one man, the functions of each were distinguished by the keeping of separate record systems. The first duty of the Provincial Secretary was to prepare documents for issuance over the Great Seal Deputed for the province, by engrossing letters patent on parchment, or by entering specific details on printed forms for licences, certificates, etc. The principal duties of the Provincial Registrar were to keep for the future reference a record of all such "public instruments" issued, and those received from imperial authorities (such as the Governor's commissions), and to supply certified copies on request.

The full texts of all important documents were recorded in volumes he called "registers", but which should properly be called entrybooks. Only key details of less important documents, such as licences, were recorded, in volumes called "docketbooks".

At Confederation, records were divided between the new federal and provincial governments, based on the responsibilities they were assuming. Crown lands being a provincial responsibility, the principal series of entrybooks recording leases, grants and sales of lands under English tenure were transferred to the new province of Quebec. Certain registry volumes were retained in federal custody (and can be found in RG 68).

Records relating to seigneurial tenure were similarly divided between federal and provincial custody and can be found described elsewhere in MG 8 (for copies from the Archives nationales du Québec) and RG 19 (for records of the Commissioners who oversaw the commutation of seigneurial tenure), and RG 68 (for the "Registres françaises de l'enregistrement" by which French titles were verified after 1764).

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Textual records (Paper) Finding Aid 876 consists of a photocopy of a report published for the Quebec Legislature in 1891, entitled "List of Lands granted by the Crown in the Province of Quebec from 1763 to 31st December 1890 / Liste des terrains concédés par la Couronne dans la province de Québec de 1763 à 31 décembre 1890", which provides access by geographical/place names as well as by personal names to the registry records inherited in 1867 and created from that date until 1890 in the province of Quebec. The introduction correlates volumes and microfilm reel codes, and provides advice on using the two indexes. For links to a digitized copy of the List and its indexes, as well as instructions on using it and identifying the relevant microfilm numbers, see our Quebec genealogy resources page under Land Records. See the sections called Townships and land grants, and Land records at Library and Archives Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/places/Pages/quebec.aspx#e MSS0876 (90: Open)

Textual records (microfilm) (Electronic) A summary microfilm shelf list is available. (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003562.pdf

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General note:

Microfilm received in 1988 from the Archives nationales du Québec, where these volumes were formerly designated QBC 11-2 to QBC 11-83 and now form part of the series E 18, Registraire provincial.
These reels are available for loan through the Archives nationales du Québec, under the ANQ references identified in the Introduction to Finding Aid 876 and in Finding Aid 2001.
Subject heading:

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Free and common soccage - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Freehold land tenure - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Land tenure systems - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Clergy Reserves - leasing of - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Crown Reserves - leasing of - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Mortmain - Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

Octroi de terres - Québec, Bas-Canada et Canada-est

Vente de terres - Québec, Bas-Canada et Canada-est

Lots de grève - Québec, Bas-Canada et Canada-est

Lots en eau profonde - Québec, Bas-Canada et Canada-est
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1987/0509
1987/0509 MSS
1987/0510
1987/0510 MSS
1987/0511
1987/0511 MSS
1987/0512
1987/0512 MSS
MG8-A26

Former archival reference no.:

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MG8-A26
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Textual records: microform

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2001] 527--530

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel M-8162--M-8183

[Consultation 90 Open]

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