Nova Scotia and Ontario were among the first places where American colonists, including Loyalists, English, Scottish, and Irish immigrants, settled.
The limited availability of civil records from Nova Scotia and Ontario amplifies the significance of the records contained in these books. Notably, there is a vast assortment of newspaper columns that focus on New England families of English ancestry who relocated to Nova Scotia during the American Revolutionary War.
- Nova Scotia emigrants to 1867, vols. 1–2, compiled by Leonard H. Smith, Jr. and Norma H. Smith
- Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia: a list compiled by Marion Gilroy
- Yarmouth, Nova Scotia genealogies: transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald/ George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha and William Reamy
- Early Ontario settlers: A sourcebook, Norman K. Crowder
- Ontario people, 1796–1833, transcribed and annotated by E. Keith Fitzgerald