The MESSAGES databank is a collection of personal messages posted between 1820 and 1837 in different Quebec newspapers and transcribed by HISTOQUEST. It mostly contains information on Irish immigrants seeking the whereabouts of members of their family.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following information pertaining to William McNamara :

"Information wanted . Wm McNamara, a native of the town of Lisburn, Ireland left his native country about the year 1817, and is supposed to have settled in New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore. Any intelligence respecting him addressed to James Phelan, 63 St.Paul Street, Montreal, L. C. will be thankfully received. Editors of papers in the above mentionned cities would confer a favor by inserting this advertisement. 1829."

The NEWSPAPERS databank contains names of individuals extracted from English language newspapers published in Montreal and Quebec City between 1820 and 1837. They are mostly marriage and death notices but there are also arrest warrants, legal announcements, accidents reports, etc.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following information pertaining to John Connalan, Catherine McDonnell and Thomas Robinson :

"Married. In this city [Montreal], on the 8th Instant, by the Revd. Mr. Poussin, Mr. John Connalan, nephew of Thomas Robinson, Esquire, of the County Monahan, Ireland, to the amiable Miss Catherine McDonnell, of the County Glengarry, Upper Canada" [Ontario].

The POLLBOOK databank lists names of voters, occupation, residence and often details on land property, extracted from the pollbooks of the 19th century.

HISTOQUEST has transcribed the following poll books —

Other counties :

Beauce 1824, 1834, 1835, Beauharnois 1834, Bedford 1827, Bellechasse 1834, Berthier 1830, 1834, 1841, Deux-Montagnes 1830, 1831, 1834, 1841, Devon 1827, Dorchester 1827, 1830, 1832, 1834, 1841, Hampshire 1826,1827, Huntingdon 1824, 1827, L'Acadie 1834, Leinster 1827, 1834, Lotbiniere 1830, 1841, Megantic 1832, 1834, Montmorency 1830, 1836, Montreal (East Ward) 1820, 1824, 1827, 1832, 1834, Montreal (St.Lawrence Ward) 1827, 1830, Montreal (West Ward) 1832, Montreal 1844, Northumberland 1827, Orleans 1824, 1834, Ottawa 1834, 1841, 1842, Quebec 1827, 1833, 1834, Quebec City 1792, 1832, Quebec City (Haute-Ville) 1824, 1827, 1829, 1834, 1836, Richelieu 1824, 1832, 1841, Rimouski 1832, 1834, Rouville 1832, 1833, 1842, Saguenay 1832, 1833, 1834, 1836, Saint-Hyacinthe 1830, Terrebonne 1830, Vaudreuil 1831, Warwick 1824, 1827, William Henry 1824, 1827, 1834, York 1824.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following details on this election in Missisquoi Co., the names of the candidates and the information pertaining to James Man :

N.B. Some entries do not have any description of property.

The REBELLION databank contains the names of individuals active in the alliance or opposition movements to the Patriotes in the counties of Missisquoi, Shefford and Stanstead between 1834 and 1837. The Patriotes or Reformists participated in a popular movement calling for changes to the political, social and economic situation in the British colonies. Their opponents, the Loyals or Bureaucrats preferred the status quo.

This data is extracted from the research done by Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne for her MA thesis at Université du Québec à Montréal.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following information pertaining to John Ayer :

"John Ayer, member of the executive committee of 52 members, named at the meeting held by the loyal movement at Frelighsburg, County of Missisquoi, on January 30 1836."

The CENSUS databank contains a list of individuals residing in a Quebec Township in 1824. This census was transcribed by HISTOQUEST from the Lower Canada Land Papers.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following information pertaining to David Moore in the township of Eardley in 1824 :

The TERRES databank has the names of different individuals listed on lots of the Protestant Clergy Reserve and on Crown Reserve in different townships of Quebec for the years 1806-1807 and 1832. This information was transcribed by HISTOQUEST from the Lower Canada Land Papers.

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HISTOQUEST will send you the following information pertaining to Hannah Vankamp :

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