Petitions for land grants and leases : 1783-1867.

            Petitions submitted to the Executive Council of Upper Canada and the United Province of Canada by applicants for land grants and leases, 1791-1867, were referred to the Land Committee and came to form a distinct series of records from other submissions to the Executive Council proper.
            

            The Petitions include a variety of reports, certificates, and other documentation submitted in support of individual requests for land, as well as occasional lists of settlers.  A list of petitioners appears at the beginning of each volume.  The series should be used in conjunction with the Minute Books which record the Land Committee's decision on each Petition.

            

            A nominal card index of land petitioners' names in both the Petitions and in the Executive Council Minute Books on Land Matters, is available on microfilm and should be used first.  See Index to the Upper Canada Land Petitions.  FC LPR .O5E9L3P4 Index.

An inventory description and microfilm shelf list are available in print and as a PDF in the electronic finding aid section.
 
The microfilm shelf list must be used to convert the reference given in the index of petitioners' names to the correct microfilm reel number in order to access the full text of the Petitions and/or the *Minute Book reference.            

Petitions for land grants submitted to the Land Committee of the Executive Council of Quebec and Lower Canada: 1764-1841, together with related and supportive documentation, are to be found in NAC Series RG 1, L 3 L, 1637-1842. These Lower Canada records form a related series which is available in the Loyalist Collection.

*References from the nominal index indicating Upper Canada Land Books will be found in the Minutes of the Land Committee of the Executive Council, FC LPR .O5E9M5.