Canada Biography

Introduction
A biography is a records of someone’s life. In it you may discover someone’s start, marriage, and dying statistics and the names of parents, youngsters, or different own family members. Use the records cautiously because some may be erroneous.

Collective Biographies
Collective biographies, sometimes called biographical encyclopedias or dictionaries, have thousands of short biographies, usually of outstanding or famous residents. Others characteristic specific corporations, which includes artists or priests. Some considerable ones for Canada, located in lots of huge libraries within the United States and Canada, are:

Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC), online model with eight,four hundred biographies, together with the contents of volumes I to XV. The Dictionary is a research and publishing challenge of the University of Toronto and the Université Laval, firstly released in 1959.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966–. (Family History Library book 971 D3d

Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Index, volumes I to XII (FHL ebook 971 D3d Index.)

Biography and Genealogy Master Index, second ed., a couple of vols., annual with 5-12 months cumulations. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980–. (Family History Library e-book 016.Ninety two G131; compact disc no. 11, pts. A and B.) This work indexes over seven million biographies of  million human beings, which include international figures and United States and Canadian residents.

Wallace, W. Stewart, ed. The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 4th ed. Rev. W. A. McKay. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978, reprint 1985. (Family History Library e book 971 D3ww.) This is a beneficial one-quantity biographical dictionary of outstanding Canadians who died before 1976.

Who’s Who in Canada. London, Eng., or Toronto: numerous publishers, 1910–. (FHL book 971 D3w.) This paintings lists many prominent 20th-century Canadian citizens. The Family History Library has some recent troubles; large libraries in Canada may additionally have the complete collection.

McMann, Evelyn de R. Canadian Who’s Who Index 1898–1984, Incorporating Canadian Men and Women of the Time. 1986. Reprint. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. (Family History Library ebook 971 D32m.) Canadian Who’s Who . . . Is different from Who’s Who in Canada. Most volumes of Canadian Who’s Who Index . . . Were reproduced on 309 microfiche in:

Canadian Who’s Who in Microfiche, 1898–1988. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985–89. (Family History Library fiche 6334357. Not available at Family History Centers.)

Canadian Men and Women of the Time. 2 vols. Toronto: William Briggs, 1898, 1912. (Family History Library e book 971 D3cm; 1912 quantity most effective on Family History Library microfilm 934811 object 1.) These  volumes are blanketed in Canadian Who’s Who in Microfiche and in its index.

Kent, Timothy J. "Phantoms of the French Fur Trade, Twenty Men Who Worked in the Trade Between 1618 and 1758, Volumes I, II, and III." ISBN: 978-zero-9657230-7-7. See Mr. Kent's net site for extra statistics, which includes the Table of Contents for a listing of biographies included and the excerpts for some short biographies.

For additional collective biographies see the Locality Search of the FamilySearch Catalog beneath:

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