Holdings

The Pontiac Archives has an extensive collection of material and documentary information on Pontiac County and the surrounding region.

The highlights of this collection include:

  • The Quebec Crown Land Grant Book, 1763-1890;
  • Pontiac County census records, 1842-1901;
  • Papers of the Pontiac MRC and its municipalities;
  • Township valuation rolls;
  • Forgotten villages and old place names of the Pontiac;
  • Papers of the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railroad;
  • An extensive collection of photographs, drawings and maps;
  • Papers of the Pontiac Women’s Institute;
  • Information on the Orange Order and other Pontiac societies.

Pontiac Archives holdings

This collection also includes newspapers and magazine items and clippings, scrapbooks, school projects on Pontiac County, local histories, and numerous donations of private material. Much information has been collected on the families and personalities of Pontiac County. All holdings are indexed.

The genealogy section at the Pontiac Archives includes the following families’ information in books or organized into binders:

Alexander, Anderson, Argue, Armstrong, Arnold, Barton, Beach, Black, Bowie, Brown, Brownlee, Crawford, Cuthbertson, Dagenais, Dagg, Dale, Davidson, Dumay, Dumers, Dumets, Eades, Ebert, Edey, Elliott, Emmerson, Glenn, Godin, Grant, Guest, Harris, Hayes, Helmer, Hill, Hobbs, Hodgins, Homer, Hurd, Jowsey, Kelly, Knipe, Latham, Lepack, Letts, Little, Lucas, Major, Maxwell, Mayhew, McDowell, McKechnie, Mohr, Morrison, Murray, O’Dalaigh, Palmer, Patterson, Prendergast, Robinson, Schwartz, Shouldice, Sinclair, Sloan, Smiley, Smith, Sparling, Sparrow, Stark, Stewart, Sturgeon, Tanner, Tattle, Telford, Vaillancourt, Vanasse, Watts, Wilson.

(If your family is from the Pontiac but is not listed above, don’t worry: we almost certainly will have some records for you to peruse.)

It also includes the following:

  • A computer database of local genealogy;
  • Church records of births, marriages and deaths on microfiche and in binders, as well as records of a number of Pontiac cemeteries;
  • Churches of the Pontiac;
  • Schools of the Pontiac;
  • Protestant and Roman Catholic marriages in book form.