Obituaries Resources

Online

The following are just a few of the sites where you will find obituaries online. 

• BC Genealogical Society: List of BC newspapers with links to obituaries online: 
• Victoria Daily Times: Index to death notices from 1901-1939. 
• City of Victoria Burial Index:  Records and indexes from the Ross Bay Cemetery and the Victoria Daily Times 
• Nanaimo Family History Society: Obituaries extracted from three Nanaimo newspapers from 1998-2004. 
• Kelowna and District Genealogical Society Obituary Listings
• Alberta Newspapers 1885-2001: Digital images of Alberta newspapers 
• Library & Archives Canada: 
  • Links to online obituaries. 
• Legacy: Search obituaries from more than 800 newspapers worldwide. 
• Rootsweb: Search Obituaries
• Google:  Search, for example, “obituaries Mission” or “obituaries Maple Ridge,” to see what is available online for the area you are interested in.
• Google News Archive

Print at Surrey Public Library

Search the Surrey Public Library catalogue for collections of obituaries in print using keywords or subject headings such as:

• Obituaries – Ontario
• Obituaries – Canada

The Canadian Obituary Record – 920.71 CAN 

Copies from 1988-1992

• A biographical dictionary of Canadians – anyone from authors, businessmen, politicians etc.

Electronic Resources at Cloverdale Library

• Ancestry Library Edition has a few Canadian obituary databases and many more U.S. ones. Most are indexes only, but a few have digital images of the newspaper. Search the Newspapers & Periodicals Records database:
  • enter the name and the keyword “obituary”
    • choose country, province/state and a year range
• CD-ROM Collection:
  • Some of the CDs in the Genealogy collection include obituaries and death records
    • Ask at the Information Desk for more information