Quebec City Directories: Lovell and Marcotte

The collection is organized by directory, year and, when available, by category. The Montreal Lovell Directory covers the Greater Montreal area from 1843 to 1978. The Quebec Marcotte Directory covers Quebec City and surrounding communities from 1822 to 1904, with a few missing years.

Other historical Quebec city directories cover different cities and regions, including Laval from 1958 to 1963 and 1968, the South Shore from 1956 to 1966, and Ottawa and Hull from 1875 to 2000. Additional directories are also available for Rimouski, Saint-Jean and Cornwall.

These directories complement parish records, census records and civil registrations. Comparing multiple editions often makes it possible to follow a family over time, identify residential moves, confirm occupations and discover new leads for genealogical research.

Published for more than a century, the Montreal Lovell Directory is one of the most valuable resources for researching families who lived in Montreal. Depending on the edition, it includes residents, street indexes, occupations, businesses and other useful information about the city's population.

By consulting several editions, researchers can follow an ancestor's residential history, identify occupational changes and better understand how families moved throughout the Montreal area during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Quebec Marcotte Directory provides valuable information about Quebec City and nearby communities during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It complements parish registers and census records by helping researchers locate individuals, addresses and occupations within the city.

Consulting different editions can reveal where a person or family lived over time and provide additional clues for continuing research in other historical Quebec records.