Over 65,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

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Institut Drouin
Published on
11/15/2022
Over 65,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

More than 65,000 obituaries have been added to the Obituary Section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These obituaries were published online and in newspapers. They cover various regions of Quebec and Canada and date from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Search for the name Cyr in the Obituary section newspaper obituaries: thank-you notice for Carmen Albert Cyr, 2009
Page of newspaper clippings with obituaries for several Desjardins, including Gilbert, Gisèle, Hugo and Hervé, with photos

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The Obituary section

This section contains most of the obituaries, memorial cards and headstones available on Genealogy Quebec. It is divided in 4 sub-sections:

  • Internet obituaries, which contains over 2,95 million obituaries published online from 1999 to today.
  • Newspaper obituaries, which now contains close to 1,310,000 newspaper obituaries published between 1860 and today
  • Tombstones, which contains more than 740,000 pictures of headstones from hundreds of cemeteries in Quebec and Ontario.
  • Memorial cards, which contains near 100,000 memorial cards published between 1860 and today.
Black granite tombstone of the Larue family, inscribed for Perrault Larue (1925-1987) and his wife Denyse Bérard
Memorial card of Alfred Daoust, husband of Eva Lapierre, who died on June 9, 1924, aged 38, with his portrait
Memorial card of Edward McDonald (1881-1964), with a picture of the Virgin Mary praying and a prayer

These collections are indexed and can be explored using a search engine. You will find more information about this section on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

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Institut Drouin

Founded in 1899 by Joseph Drouin, the Drouin Genealogical Institute preserves and digitizes Quebec’s genealogical records. Its team publishes Genealogy Quebec news and practical guides here.

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