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Biographies and Family Histories
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Audio/Video/Microforms
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Audio/Video/Microforms

Location
Library Item
The Township Papers - MS658
  • Reel 4, 5 Admaston
  • Reel 9 Alice, Algona
  • Reel 10 Alice
  • Reel 25 Bagot
  • Reel 40 Blythfield
  • Reel 47 Bromley
  • Reel 49, 50 Brougham
  • Reel 51 Brougham
  • Reel 52 Buchanan
  • Reel 81 Clara
  • Reel 151 Fraser
  • Reel 166 Grattan
  • Reel 174,5 Hagarty
  • Reel 189 Head
  • Reel 199,120 Horton
  • Reel 261 Lyndock
  • Reel 218 Jones
  • Reel 228 Maria
  • Reel 262 McKay
  • Reel 264,5,6 McNab
  • Reel 389 Pembroke
  • Reel 391,2 Petawawa
  • Reel 409 Radcliffe, Raglan
  • Reel 419 Rolph
  • Reel 420,1 Ross
  • Reel 441 Sherwood
  • Reel 454 Stafford
  • Reel 511,2 Westmeath
  • Reel 518,9 Wilberforce
  • Reel 528,9 Wylie
Free Grants & Homesteads
  • Locations Under Free Grants & Homesteads, Act of 1868, Renfrew County
Estate Files – GS2
  • Reel 174 Renfrew County, 1867-1877, Vol. A
  • Reel 175 Renfrew County, 1878-1894, Vol. B
  • Reel 176 Renfrew County, 1895-1903, Vol. C
Applications to Probate
Surrogate Court Indexes - MS830
  • Reel 1 (All of Ontario) 1793-1858
Surrogate Court Index - MS404
  • Reel 1 Vol. 1 & 2, 1892 (all of Ontario)
  • Reel 2 Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1892-1912 (all of Ontario)
Ontario Death Index - MS937
  • 1869-1939, Reels 1-28, Reel 28 NEW 07/11
Ontario Marriage Index - MS934
  • 1873-1929, Reels 1-27, Reel 27 NEW 07/11
Ontario Birth Index - MS931
  • 1869, Reels 1-28 (no Reel 26), Reel 28 NEW 07/11

Crown Land Survey - MS 924 Reel 23
  • Reel 23 - Diaries, Field Notes & Reports –includes information on areas in Renfrew County- see Guide in Drawer

FINDING AID FOR ONTARIO REGISTRATION INDEX FILMS FOUND IN FILM DRAWER

Church Records
  • St. Alphonsus R.C., Chapeau, Quebec, 1846-1858
  • St. Alphonsus, Chapeau, Quebec, 1876-1899
  • St. Columbkille’s R.C., Pembroke, 1856-1878
  • Mount St. Patrick R.C. Church Records, 1846-1908
Newspapers
  • Cobden Sun, Roll 1, January 1919, to Roll 17, December 1984
  • Eganville Leader, Roll 1, June 1902, to Roll 26, July 30, 1975
  • Pembroke Observer & Upper Ottawa Advertiser:
    • Reel 1-Feb. 1, 1867-Feb. 26, 1875
    • Reel 2-Mar. 5, 1875-Aug. 15, 1879
    • Reel 3-Aug. 22, 1879-June 11, 1886
    • Reel 4-June 16, 1886- May 25, 1888
    • Reel 5-June 1, 1888- Dec. 28, 1888
    • Reel 6-Jan.4, 1889-Dec. 21, 1894
    • Reel 7-Jan. 4, 1895- Dec. 23, 1898
    • Reel -Jan. 1900- Aug. 1902
    • Reel -Jan. 1906 – Dec. 1906
    • Reel - Jan. 1907- Dec. 1907 (1908 missing)
    • Reel -Jan. 1909 – Dec. 1911 ( Jan.-Aug. 1911 missing)
  • Pembroke Standard –Jan. 1909 to Dec. 1926 (Pembroke Standard & Country Chronicle- from Jan.1916)
    *Note: Pembroke Standard, 1909-see Pembroke Observer, 1906
  • Pembroke Observer & Ottawa Valley Advocate-Jan.1912 to Dec. 1926
  • Pembroke Standard Observer- Jan. 1927 to Dec. 1953, Jan. 1944-Dec. 1953 NEW 02/11
  • Pembroke Standard Observer- Jan. 1927 to Dec. 1935
  • Pembroke Times – July 1930- Sept. 24, 1931
  • Pembroke Bulletin- Sept. 1934- Dec. 1953; Jan. 1944-Dec.1953 NEW 02/11
  • Pembroke Observer, 1976 to 1999
  • Advertiser-News, Jan. 1994 – December 1995 (9 films)
  • embroke Standard Newspapers-January 1936- December 1943
  • Pembroke Bulletin Newspapers-January 1936- December 1943
RCAF
  • 1964 Publicity Film, RCAF Station North Bay
  • RCAF Secret Daily Diary of No. 9 Air Observer School, St. John, N.B., 1941-45
Census Films
  • M-55 1842 Renfrew County
  • C-11751 1851 Renfrew County
  • C-1070 1861 Renfrew County
  • C-1071 1861 Renfrew County
  • C-10021 1871 South & North Renfrew County
  • C-10020 1871 Renfrew County
  • C-10022 1871 Renfrew County
  • C-13234 1881 Renfrew County
  • C-13235 1881 Renfrew County
  • T-6427 1891 Renfrew Co. North Institutions
  • T-6365 1891 Renfrew County
  • T-6366 1891 South Renfrew County
  • T-6493 1901 Renfrew County North
  • T-6494 1901 Renfrew County North & South
  • C-1131 1851 Pontiac, Nicolet & Ottawa Counties
  • C-1305 1861 Pontiac County
  • C-1306 1861 Pontiac County
  • C-10024 1871 Pontiac County
  • C-10025 1871 Pontiac County
  • C-13225 1881 Pontiac County
  • C-13226 1881 Pontiac County
  • T-6413 1891 Pontiac County
  • T-6538 1901 Pontiac County
  • T-6539 1901 Pontiac County
  • T-6554 Indian Agencies
  • C-1023 Glengarry, Charlottenberg & Frontenac Counties
  • C-1024 Glengarry County
  • C-1025 1861 Grenville County 1861
  • Census for Grenville County - Microfilm # C1025
Microfiche
  • Loyalist Settlements - Ontario Archives
  • Original Ontario Land Grants - Ontario Archives
  • Index to Unionized Canadian Newspapers - National Archives
  • Miscellaneous from LDS
  • Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register Master Index
Video
  • Your Heritage to Discover, To Share
  • Scots Pioneers of Lambton and West Middlesex, 2nd Edition
  • Ancestor Genealogy
  • Genealogy
CDs
  • Pembroke Ontario Centenary, 1928
  • Russell Album-CD- found in 921, “R” Box
  • OCFA
  • Tanguay Collection- in A/V box in Quebec section
  • Pembroke & Area Deaths compiled from Pembroke Newspapers 1994-2005-on 2 CD's found on 912.1 shelf
  • Calvin United & First Presbyterian Cemetary Burials, Pembroke on CD-found in 929.1
  • Pembroke Box
  • Ontario Birth Marriage & Death Records 1869-present, A Seminar 2007 Workshop by Fawn Stratford-Devai, also has Archival guides - found in 016 Box 11
  • From Wendish to German to English-a CD - found in 971.1 Box 9
  • The Hub & the Spokes or the Capital & its Environs by A.A. Gard –found in 971.1 Box 13B NEW 07/10
  • Pioneer Papers No. 1 through 6, Simcoe County Early History NEW 07/10
  • Pioneer Sketches in the District of Bathurst by A. Haydon-found in 971.1 Box 3B NEW 07/10
  • Victorian Fashions in the Upper Ottawa Valley 1840-1940- found in 971.1 Box 3B NEW 07/10
  • 1913 Telephone Book of Eastern Ontario including Arnprior, Eganville, Forresters Falls, Cobden, Pembroke, Renfrew- found in 911.1 Box 5A NEW 07/10
  • BMD’s, Transcriptions from Pembroke Observer& Upper Ottawa Advertiser for 1892 and some from 1903-1905 & 1908, Unavailable on Microfilm (2 copies) found in 912.1 Box 7 NEW 07/10
DVDs
  • Women in the Shadows- NFB film about "country" wives of Hudson Bay Company men, specifically about Margaret Taylor and one of her descendent's search for her heritage
Diskettes
  • Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, Version 6
  • School House Museum Census Records, Buchanan, Rolph & Wylie 1861-1901
Floppies
  • 3 Discs- Pontiac County Data on Family Tree Maker - placed on UOVGG computer; donated by Len Burnham
  • 1871 North Renfrew Census; donated by Jackie Patterson
Cassette Recordings
  • Garnet Kranz - "Communities Along the Opeongo Line", 1999
  • Dan Faber, 1995
  • Joan Marshall, 1995
  • Louise Hope - "Ontario Vital Statistics", 1995
  • Jack Schecter
  • Steven Gray -"Organizing Materials & Files", 1995
  • Robert Starrett - "Ulster-Scots", 1997
  • Peter Hessel - "German Immigration, pre 1867", 1998

Updated July 2010