The Archives contains an extensive microfilm collection that encompasses a wide range of local and regional topics.

Check out other finding aids available in the Archives as well as links to external sources of information.

 

Loyalist Sources

  • Haldimand Papers – Loyalist Volumes – INDEX – Vol. 105, 166, 167, 168 MS 21: [1776-1789] (LAC# C-1475)
  • Loyalist Registers: [1803-1840] (AO MS # 4029)
  • Audit Office, London, England – Loyalist Claims Index: [1776-1831] (LAC # C-9821)

 

Early  Settlers

  • Upper Canada Land Boards (1783-1794)

 

Rebellion of 1837

  • Orderly Books of Fort Henry, Kingston (Militia): [1838-1839]
  • Military Muster Rolls: [1838-1839]
  • Military Personnel and Officers: [1847-1902]

 

People of Upper Canada and after 1867, Ontario

  • Crown Land Grants: [1783-1870]
  • Court of Quarter Sessions: 1800-1849 (Archives of Ontario)
  • Surrogate Court Records – Wills: 1803-1858 (Archives of Ontario)
  • Surrogate Court Index: 1865-1970

 

Local Newspapers

  • Kingston Gazette: 1810-1818
  • Kingston Chronicle: 1819-1831
  • Kingston Gazette and Chronicle: 1833-1845
  • Non-Ontario Newspapers 1773-1930 (not complete)
  • British Whig and Weekly British Whig: 1835-1894; 1894-1922
  • Weekly Globe and Canada Farmer: 1883-1913
  • The Albion: 1854-1855
  • The Temperance Union: 1877
  • Zion Herald and Christian Advocate and Journal: 1826-1828
  • The Bantling: 1858-1859
  • Napanee Bee: 1850-1852
  • Addington Beaver: April 8, 1870
  • The Index: 1855-1858
  • The North American: 1862-1864
  • The Addington Reporter: Nov. 22, 1876
  • The Newburgh Reporter: Oct. 21, 1880
  • The Canada Casket: 1870-1881
  • Napanee Star: 1896-1902
  • Napanee Standard: 1855-1886
  • Napanee Express: 1862-1951
  • Napanee Post Express: 1951-1965
  • Deseronto Tribune: 1884-1905 (not complete)
  • Deseronto Post: 1948
  • Toronto Saturday Night: 1898-1899
  • Napanee Beaver: 1870-1896; 1897; 1902-2009
  • Mid—County Bantam: 1985-1987 (Missing); 1988-1992
  • Tweed News: 1888-2003 (Not complete)
  • Hallowell Free Press: 1830-1834
  • The Picton Gazette: 1860-1873
  • Belleville Intelligencer: 1862-1873
  • Tamworth News: 1886-1887
  • Napanee Guide: 1989-2001

 

Church Records

  • Marriage and Baptism Registers at the Archives of Ontario: 1858-1869; 1853-1916
  • County Marriage Registers: 1862-1869
  • Ebenezer Lutheran Church: 1791-1850
  • St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, Centreville: 1846-1902
  • Trinity United Church, Napanee: 1897-1966
  • Religious Society of Friends (Quaker Archives): MS 303
  • Methodist Church Records, assorted: [1875-1967]
  • Presbyterian Church Records, assorted: [1903-1929]

 

Women’s  Institutes

  • Camden East, Denbigh, Moscow, Reidville, Tamworth, Adolphustown, Amherst Island, Bath, Bay View, Centennial, Conway, Ernestown, Grandview, Hawley, Hay Bay, Maple Leaf, Maple Ridge, Mill Creek (Odessa), Millhaven, Mount Pleasant Pioneers, Napanee, Roblin, Victoria II, Violet (Swizterville), Wilton, East Hastings

 

Other Sources

  • William Canniff Papers – Reel 2 and 3: Series G1-G6, M (AO MS # 768)
  • Napanee Industries

 

Government  Records

  • Midland District Council: 1842-1849
  • United Counties of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington: 1850-1864
  • Provisional Council, Lennox and Addington: 1863-1865
  • Minutes and By-laws of the Town of Napanee: 1865-1871
  • Galley Sheets, History of Flinton: 1938
  • Township of Adolphustown: 1850-1960
  • Township of Camden: 1895-1965 (Archives of Ontario)
  • Township of Ernestown: 1850-1969 (Archives of Ontario)
  • Township of North Fredericksburgh: 1924-1966 (Archives of Ontario)
  • Town of Amherst Island
  • Township of Denbigh, Abinger, Ashby
  • Township of North Fredericksburgh
  • Municipal Papers and Records
  • County of Lennox and Addington Board of Education
  • County of Lennox and Addington
  • Township of Camden
  • Township of Kaladar, Anglesea, Effingham
  • Town of Napanee
  • Township of Richmond
  • Township of Sheffield
  • Township of South Fredericksburgh

 

Indices of birth, marriage and deaths (a.O. Records)

  • Index to Births and Stillbirths (MS 931)
  • Index to Marriages (MS 934)
  • Index to Deaths (MS 937)
  • Index to Birth, Marriages and Deaths (MS 938)
  • Index to Births and Stillbirths (MS 939)
  • Index to Marriages (MS 941)
  • Index to Deaths (MS 942)
  • Index to Ontario Overseas Deaths (MS 944)
  • Index to Marriage License book (MS 945)
  • Index to Delayed Registration of Births (MS 946)

 

L&A Historical Society - Early Collections

  • William Bell fonds
  • Benson Family fonds
  • Thomas Willet Casey fonds
  • Roblin Family fonds
  • John Stevenson fonds
  • Napanee Municipal Council
  • Lennox and Addington Historical Society
  • Small Collections and Individual Items
  • Ledgers, Accounts of General Merchandising
  • Collection of Miscellany
  • Collection of Secondary Sources
  • Collection of Church records
  • Miscellaneous Small Record Groups (U1-10)
  • Celia File fonds
  • Harry Babcock fonds
  • Walters-Wagar fonds

 

Census Reels

  • Ontario as Upper Canada – Aggregate Stats: 1800-1839 (LAC # H1175) and 1840-1866 (LAC # H1176)
  • 1842 Census (Frontenac Co.; Kingston)
  • 1851 Census (Hastings Co.; Frontenac Co.; Addington Co.; Lennox Co.; Prince Edward Co.; Brant Co.)
  • 1861 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; Prince Edward Co.; Frontenac Co.; Hastings Co.; City of Kingston)
  • 1871 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; Prince Edward Co.)
  • 1881 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; Prince Edward Co.; Frontenac Co.; Hastings Co.; City of Kingston; Renfrew Co.)
  • 1891 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; Prince Edward Co.; Frontenac Co.; Hastings Co.; City of Kingston; Leeds Co.; Institutions in Kingston)
  • 1901 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; Frontenac Co.; Hastings Co.; City of Kingston; Essex Co.; Glengarry Co.)
  • 1911 Census (Lennox and Addington Co.; City of Kingston; Leeds Co.; Hastings Co; Lambton Co; Prescott; Prince Edward Co.; Renfrew Co.)

 

Land Abstract Books

  • County of Lennox and Addington Land Abstract Books [1780’s – 1970’s]