The Notaries of Montreal 1760-1791

The following database consists of :

• The Notaries who began their careers from 1760 to 1791
• The Notaries who began their careers during the French regime of Nouvelle-France (New France) and were reappointed by the British governors and administrators after 1759.

Note that BAnQ keeps adding new online search engines which did not exist about two years back,  such as :

• BAnQ Advitam-Numérique
• BAnQ Archives

BAnQ Advitam-Numérique in regard to notaries and their dossiers is a regrouping of Notarial Acts which previously were only available within the 10 repositories of the Archives nationales du Québec across the province in the form of :

• Microfilms
• Original Minutiers (Notarial books)
• Or as in-house digitized dossiers which could only be accessed within the 10 libraries of BAnQ across the province on dedicated computers

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