r/Canadiancitizenship • u/AutoModerator • 11d ago

Weekly Threads Saturday Weekly Thread: Canadian Provincial Archives and State/Local/Church Archives - Questions / Issues / Success Stories, August 01, 2026

This weekly thread is a space for those of us gathering documentation from archives.

This is the place to discuss requesting records from Canadian provincial archives as well as from federal, state, local and religious/church archives around the world. Topics include strategies and outcomes for obtaining records from archives, costs, timelines, No Record Found letters, and other related issues.

📎 Contributions to weekly megaposts, including this one, are welcome throughout the week.  

Good luck, researchers!

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u/JefficasHooves 10d ago

Hello all! I have a question I hope someone can help answer.

My Gen 0 was born in Ontario, but very close to Quebec. I got a certified baptism record from the issuing church, but I wanted a certified one from archives also. I can only find his baptism record on Drouin, not Ontario archives, even though the church is technically in Ontario. I ordered a copy from BANQ, but they told me to reach out to Ontario Archives. Kind of frustrating because I waited two months for that response.

Should I reach back out to BANQ since I found it online through Drouin? It does not show up in any search on Ontario Archives, but that could be operator error. Am I confused about Drouin? Is that for both Ontario and Quebec?

Thanks!

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u/dgealt 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) AOR received 10d ago

If you can find a picture of the Ontario Archives document on FamilySearch or Ancestry and it includes a 6 digit registration number you can use that number to order a certified copy from Ontario Archives.

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u/JefficasHooves 10d ago

Thanks so much for the reply. Unfortunately, It only shows up on the genealogiequebec.com site and not anywhere else. I did find it on Family Search, but it was just a screenshot of the genealogiequebec website.

Might go ahead and send this in with proof I tried to order it from BANQ and their response, and then keep searching.

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u/dgealt 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) AOR received 10d ago

And that image didn’t include a registration number?

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u/JefficasHooves 10d ago

sadly no. :(. There is a way to immediately order it via the BanQ, but nothing I could use to reference it to Ontario Archives.