QUEBEC ARCHIVES

[avacuppa]

Does anyone have access to the Quebec Archives?

 I very much need a civil marriage, and a death.  These cannot be found in church records, I have hunted and hunted for a few years now.  Being from 1870-1875  these records, apart from the church, should have been also registered with the Quebec courts.  So I am hoping that the Archives would have copies of them.   Thank you.

[chinakay]

There are some legal records in Drouin. Could we have a name?

Cheers,
China

[eileenwilson]

There were no civil records in Quebec at the time -- the church was the keeper of all records.

[mgeneas]

When did civil records begin in Quebec?

[eileenwilson]

From familysearch:

From 1679 to 1993, most vital records for Québec were copies of church records. The province required churches to send copies to government archives. On 1 January 1994, the government began to keep separate vital records. Vital records could be registered civilly without a church record as early as 1926. Beginning in the 1960s, many births and marriages were recorded only in civil registers.

[mgeneas]

Thank you eileenwilson