Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1921-1967
Narrative
L'Institut Généalogique Drouin (publisher of Dictionnaire national des Canadiens français)—started by Joseph Drouin in 1899, and continued on by his son and grandson—started to collect and microfilm Quebec vital records. His son made almost 2,400 reels of microfilm from 20 million baptism, marriage, and burial records of the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
The 2,366 microfilms of the Drouin Collection includes Vital Records (all religious denominations) from Quebec, from the origins until 1940/1942, for the whole set and to August 1968 for Hull and Gatineau, from a part of Ontario (until June 1968 for Ottawa), from Acadia and from the USA; the set also comprises microfilms from notaries and other documents.