Your gateway to the history of Quakers in Canada

The Canadian Quaker Library & Archives, composed of the Arthur Garrett Dorland Reference Library and the vault, are located at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario.

On this website, you will find information about the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Canada from the 1700s onwards. This includes indexes to our collection as well as transcriptions of the early records of Quaker Meetings.

More transcriptions, newsletters and information on Canadian Quakers may also be found on the website of the Canadian Friends Historical Association.

Genealogists will also find our early Quaker records on www.ancestry.ca.

The CQLA welcomes inquiries from researchers and genealogists. The archivist will answer as soon as possible. Visits are by appointment only.