- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .Q4P7M2
- Category:
- Quebec
- Creator:
- Quebec and Lower Canada. Provincial and Civil Secretary.
- Material Description:
- 4 microfilm textual records (19 volumes) ; 35 mm
- Background:
Persons who were married following publication of banns in their parish churches were not required to have a marriage licence, and thus did not post a bond. Those wishing to be married by licence were required to have two bonds posted affirming that there was no lawful impediment to the marriage.
- Contents:
The series contains marriage bonds and marriage licence correspondence. The bonds are arranged in a numbered sequence, but grouped by year with each year forming a volume. The last reel contains eight pages of marriage licences for 1843 and 1844.
- Originals:
- The original documents are held by Library and Archives Canada.
- Archival Ref. No.:
NAC RG 4, B 28.
- Finding Aids:
A nominal index on microfilm serves as a finding aid to the Bonds.
A microfilm shelf list which identifies the arrangement of the bonds within the volumes is available in print and as a PDF in the electronic finding aid section.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- QC Provincial and Civil Secretary Marriage Bonds Shelf List.pdf Inventory-Description_Lower-Canada-Marraige-Bonds_LC-Prov-Secretary.pdf
- Related Records:
- The Lower Canada Marriage Bonds are contained in Volumes 29-41A of the larger series of miscellaneous records known as Bonds, Licences and Certificates, 1763-1867, consisting of 138 volumes.