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BAnQ numérique — Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Quebec's civil-registration registers — the parish registers that WERE the civil registration, kept in duplicate from 1621 and among the most complete continuous records anywhere in the Americas. Free.
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/ ↗
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1621–1763 New France
- 1763–1867 British North America — the Province of Quebec, then Lower Canada
- 1867–1994 Canada — the Province of Quebec
- 1994–2026 Canada — civil registration by the state
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