Canadia histotical directories

Canadian City and Area Directories, 1819-1899 - Ancestry.ca: "This database contains Canadian city and area directories for various years from 1819-1899. City directories generally contain an alphabetical listing of its citizens, giving the names of the heads of households, their addresses, and occupations. In addition to the alphabetical portion, a city directory may also contain a business directory, street directory, governmental directory, and listings of town officers, schools, societies, churches, post offices, and other miscellaneous matters of general and local interest.

(Toronto, ON – October 28^th, 2008) In a world-first, Ancestry.ca today launched online the fully indexed Canada City and Area Directories, 1819-1899, which feature the names and addresses of more than 5.2 million people who lived in Canada during the greater part of the 19^th Century.

In total, 19,764 pages of directory pages were scanned and are now available to search online.

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