Employment

You can search these two collections by name:

• Applications for commission as notaries and advocates, Quebec, 1740-1852 (RG4-B8, volumes 1 to 28, microfilm H-1410 to H-1418 and H-1755)
  • The alphabetical index of names gives the volume, page and microfilm references for the records, which are digitized.
• Applications for liquor licenses, Yukon, 1898-1901 (RG91-B-2, microfilm M-2883).
  • For information about the records, read the "Scope and content" section of the series description. To find out if there is a file for a particular person, use Collection Search. In the search box, enter the keywords RG91, liquor and a surname.

There are also some files in federal government records. Here are two examples:

• J.H. DeGraff - Ponaka Alberta - For license as auctioneer, 1903
• Yonekich Aoki, New Westminster applying for a license to cut timber, 1899

To search for these types of files, use Collection Search. Select the Collections and fonds database and enter keywords such as a surname, place and type of work or occupation.

Other records

The names in these records are not indexed in Collection Search:

Quebec

• Lists of bakers, pedlars and carters, Quebec, 1780, 509 pages (MG8-C9, volume 1)
• Carters names and residences, Montreal, 1840 (RG4-B14, volume 37)
• Register of Coroners, Quebec, 1853-1855 (RG4-B26, volume 6)
• Roll of oaths of office and allegiance, advocates, notaries and other legal officers, Quebec, 1791-1841 (RG1- E11, volumes 7 and 9)
• Civil Secretary and Provincial Secretary, applications for licences, bonds and certificates (RG4-B28)
  • licences for inns, taverns, pedlars, billiard table keepers, etc., 1765-1848 (volumes 1 to 8)
  • applications for licences as auctioneers, 1805-1853 (volumes 10 and 11)
  • licences, bonds, applications, etc. for cullers of lumber, timber and staves, 1808-1846 (volumes 12 to 23)
  • applications for licences to keep billiard tables, 1802-1838 (volume 57)
  • licences to operate ferries, 1841 and 1846 (volume 58)
  • licences, applications, bonds, etc. to operate taverns, 1766-1847 (volumes 59 to 101)
  • licences and applications to trade as pedlars, 1796-1845 (volumes 116 to 119)
  • applications for licences to sell liquors from and to shops, 1765-1848 (volumes 120 to 128)

Ontario

• Upper Canada and Canada West: Civil Secretary and Provincial Secretary, records relating to the issuance of licences (RG5-B9)
  • correspondence, accounts and returns of licences issued to auctioneers, 1819-1838, 1846-1853 (volume 1)
  • Provincial Land Surveyors, bonds and certificates, 1843-1867 (volumes 45 to 47)
  • correspondence and returns of licences issued to hawkers and pedlars, 1807-1835 (volumes 51 and 52)
  • correspondence and returns of licences for shops, taverns and stills, 1801-1846 (volumes 53 to 60)
• licences - taverns, stills, shopkeepers and innkeepers, 1817-1852 (RG68, volume 215, Liber A, microfilm C-3948
• petitions and applications for appointment as notaries public, 1844-1847 (RG5-B17, volume 1)

Many professions are regulated by provincial organizations or operate voluntary associations. They often publish directories of members, annual reports and other material that include information about members. You can find many of these in our Aurora catalogue by searching by type of employment or occupation. Other keywords to try are association, directory, society, members, list. Here are some examples:

• A directory of the biscuit and cracker bakers of the United States and the Dominion of Canada, 1885
• Clock & watchmakers and allied workers in Canada, 1700 to 1900
• Les tonneliers au Québec : du XVIIe au XXe siècle

Many of these types of publications are digitized on Canadiana. Here are some examples that include names of individuals:

• The Ontario law list and solicitors' agency book, 1882
• Manitoba Beekeepers' Association, incorporated 1915
• Liste des membres-fondateurs de la Société de géographie de Québec, 1878