Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

• That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
• We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
• On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Upper Canada Village (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Upper Canada Village. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Upper Canada Village ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Upper Canada Village: Upper Canada Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Cemeteries Near Upper Canada Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Upper Canada Village.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Upper Canada Village covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Upper Canada Village, with the one closest to Upper Canada Village listed first.

• Bradford Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bradford Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bradford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Lawrence Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawrence Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawrence Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Wright Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wright Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wright Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• St. Lawrence Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Lawrence Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Lawrence Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Pleasant Valley Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2334170 <2>
• Dodge Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dodge Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dodge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Morrisburg.
  • The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Mariatown Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333685 <2>
• Miller Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Brookside Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brookside Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brookside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• St. Marys Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• St. Marys Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
• Chamberlain Corners Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chamberlain Corners Cemetery
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chamberlain Corners Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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  • Kent Mill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kent Mill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kent Mill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Grove Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • West Orvis Street Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Orvis Street Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Orvis Street Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Upper Canada Village. See our List of 1890's Communities around Upper Canada Village.

Newspapers Published in Upper Canada Village ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Upper Canada Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Upper Canada Village, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Upper Canada Village.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Upper Canada Village:

• Websites specific to Ontario
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Ontario
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Ontario
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Ontario
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Ontario

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Upper Canada Village. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/