Genealogical Sources

The Old Library houses the Eastern Townships Collection of the Bishop’s University Library, which includes the following types of resources:

•  published histories on the Eastern Townships
• published and unpublished family histories 
• maps 
• Bishop’s University archives (i.e. The Campus, yearbooks, published histories on Bishop’s University, etc.) 
• historical newspapers (on microfilm) 
• census returns for the Eastern Townships (on microfilm) 
• civil status registers from Protestant Churches in the Eastern Townships (on microfilm)
• Lower Canada Land Petitions (on microfilm)

For more information on the Old Library, please visit the Old Library website.

For a complete list of the newspapers available, please click here.

To view the Guide to Eastern Townships Genealogical Source Material at BU (1993), please click here.

To search the Old Library Collection online, please use the Bishop’s University Library’s online catalogue, BORIS. To narrow your search to the Old Library Collection, select “Old Library” in the “Location” field.