Free Online Manitoba City Directories

City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and Canada and are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.

This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made available the Online Historical Directories website, which presents links to directories of all types that are available online, including free collections as well as those available only via subscription. I wish to thank Miriam for her help in launching this category of records at The Ancestor Hunt.

So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher?  Naturally city and business directories, but also telephone directories, and alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.

What can you find in these records? How about:

• Full names, including middle names
• Spouse name
• Occupation
• Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
• Maps
• Businesses (and index to advertisers).
• Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, and newspapers.
• Whether a woman is a widow (including the name of her husband).
• List of marriages and deaths of the previous year.
• Death date.
• etc.

Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories:​

• FamilySearch – Canada Directories
• How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research 
• What’s In A City Directory? (a 10-article series about City Directories)

Note: Some of the links listed below take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. Please make sure that you are signed in to FamilySearch, in order to take full advantage of the collections that are available.

(Updated October 2022)

Links to these free collections are presented initially with countrywide and provincewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. Please note that many of the counties no longer exist, but are now districts or regional municipalities. Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory:

Countrywide

• Business Directory of Canada West Directory 1851
• Canada classified Directory 1865-66
• Canada Directory 1851
• Canada Directory 1857-58
• Canada Gazetteer and Business Directory 1864-1865
• Canadian Dominion Directory for Directory 1871
• Canadian Professional and Business Directory, Mackay, 1851
• Dominion Business Directory 1890 — From Internet Archive
• Halifax, Amherst, Charlottetown, Dartmouth, Chatham, Fredericton, Kentville, Moncton, New Glasgow, Sydney, N. Sydney, Pictou, Quebec, St. John, St. Stephen, Summerside, Yarmouth, Woodstock, Truro, Windsor Directory 1900
• Mitchell & Co.’s Canada Classified Directory for 1865-66
• Supplement to the Directory 1851 Canada Directory 1853
• The Canadian Legal Directory 1878

Provincewide

• Henderson’s directory of Manitoba, the city of Winnipeg and incorporated towns of Manitoba
• Henderson’s Manitoba and Northwest Territories Gazetteer and Directory (1884)
• Henderson’s Manitoba and Northwest Territories Gazetteer and Directory (1894)
• Henderson’s Manitoba and Northwest Territories Gazetteer and Directory (1897)
• Manitoba and Northwest Territories Directory 1884
• Manitoba and Northwest Territories Directory 1894
• Manitoba and Northwest Territories Directory 1897
• Manitoba and Northwest Territories Directory 1905
• Manitoba Directory 1876
• Manitoba Directory 1876-1877
• Manitoba Directory 1877-1878
• Manitoba Directory 1878-1879
• Manitoba Directory for 1878-79
• Manitoba. Industrial Development Board. Directory of Western Manufacturers, 1945
• Ontario Gazetteer and Directory, including the Provinces of British Columbia, Manitoba and the North-West Territories, also the City of Montreal, P.Q : Fifth (1892/93)

Brandon

• Brandon Directory 1906
• Brandon Directory 1907
• Brandon Directory 1909
• Brandon Directory 1911
• Brandon Directory 1913
• Brandon Directory 1914
• Brandon Directory 1917
• Brandon Directory 1919
• Brandon Directory 1921
• Brandon Directory 1923
• Brandon Directory 1925
• Brandon Directory 1927
• Brandon Directory 1929
• Brandon Directory 1931
• Brandon Directory 1933
• Brandon Directory 1935
• Brandon Directory 1937
• Brandon Directory 1939
• Brandon Directory 1941
• Brandon Directory 1943
• Brandon Directory 1945
• Brandon Directory 1947
• Brandon Directory 1949
• Brandon Directory 1950
• Brandon Directory 1951
• Brandon Directory 1952
• Brandon Directory 1953
• Brandon Directory 1954
• Brandon Directory 1955
• Brandon Pocket Directory 1903
• Directory of the City of Brandon 1883
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1906)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1907)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1909)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1911)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1913)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1914)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1917)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1919)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1921)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1923)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1925)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1927)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1929)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1931)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1933)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1935)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1937)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1939)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1941)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1943)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1945)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1947)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1949)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1950)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1951)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1952)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1953)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1954)
• Henderson’s Brandon City Directory (1955)

Portage la Prairie

• Portage la Prairie Directory, 1957
• Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, City Directory, 1962

Steinbach, Chortitz, Kleefeld, Greenland

• Telephone Directory: Steinbach, Chortitz, Kleefeld, Greenland, 1946

Winnipeg

• City of Winnipeg Directory for 1890
• City of Winnipeg Directory for 1897
• Greater Winnipeg Official Numerical Telephone Directory, 1951
• Greater Winnipeg Official Telephone Directory, 1949
• Henderson’s City of Winnipeg Directory (1892)
• Henderson’s City of Winnipeg Directory (1895)
• Henderson’s City of Winnipeg Directory (1896)
• Henderson’s Directory of the City of Winnipeg (1888)
• Henderson’s Directory of the City of Winnipeg and Incorporated Towns of Manitoba (1880)
• Henderson’s Directory of the City of Winnipeg and Town of St. Boniface (1882)
• Henderson’s Directory of the City of Winnipeg and Town of St. Boniface (1884)
• Henderson’s Metropolitan Winnipeg (Manitoba) City Directory (1962)
• Henderson’s Metropolitan Winnipeg (Manitoba) City Directory (1963)
• Henderson’s Metropolitan Winnipeg (Manitoba) City Directory (1964)
• Henderson’s Metropolitan Winnipeg Directory (1961)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1891)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1893)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1899)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1901)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1903)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1904)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1905)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1906)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1907)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1908)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1910)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1911)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1912)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1913)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1914)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1915)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1916)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1918)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg City Directory (1919)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1898)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1900)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1920)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1921)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1922)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1923)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1924)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1925)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1927)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1928)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1930)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1931)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1934)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1941)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1942)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1943)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1944)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1945)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1954)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1955)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg Directory (1956)
• Henderson’s Winnipeg, Manitoba City Directory (1894)
• Telephone Directory and Students’ Handbook – University of Manitoba – Vol 22 – 1939/40
• University of Manitoba Students’ Union Directory – 1954/55
• University of Manitoba Students’ Union Directory – 1959/60
• University of Winnipeg Student Directory – 1969/70
• Winnipeg City Directory (1883)
• Winnipeg Directory 1890
• Winnipeg Directory 1891
• Winnipeg Directory 1892
• Winnipeg Directory 1893
• Winnipeg Directory 1894
• Winnipeg Directory 1895
• Winnipeg Directory 1896
• Winnipeg Directory 1897
• Winnipeg Directory 1898
• Winnipeg Directory 1899
• Winnipeg Directory 1900
• Winnipeg Directory 1901
• Winnipeg Directory 1902
• Winnipeg Directory 1903
• Winnipeg Directory 1904
• Winnipeg Directory 1905
• Winnipeg Directory 1906
• Winnipeg Directory 1907
• Winnipeg Directory 1908
• Winnipeg Directory 1909
• Winnipeg Directory 1910
• Winnipeg Directory 1911
• Winnipeg Directory 1912
• Winnipeg Directory 1913
• Winnipeg Directory 1914
• Winnipeg Directory 1915
• Winnipeg Directory 1916
• Winnipeg Directory 1917
• Winnipeg Directory 1918
• Winnipeg Directory 1919
• Winnipeg Directory 1920
• Winnipeg Directory 1921
• Winnipeg Directory 1922
• Winnipeg Directory 1923
• Winnipeg Directory 1924
• Winnipeg Directory 1925
• Winnipeg Directory 1926
• Winnipeg Directory 1927
• Winnipeg Directory 1928
• Winnipeg Directory 1929
• Winnipeg Directory 1930
• Winnipeg Directory 1931
• Winnipeg Directory 1932
• Winnipeg Directory 1933
• Winnipeg Directory 1934
• Winnipeg Directory 1935
• Winnipeg Directory 1936
• Winnipeg Directory 1937
• Winnipeg Directory 1938
• Winnipeg Directory 1939
• Winnipeg Directory 1940
• Winnipeg Directory 1941
• Winnipeg Directory 1942
• Winnipeg Directory 1943
• Winnipeg Directory 1944
• Winnipeg Directory 1945
• Winnipeg Directory 1946
• Winnipeg Directory 1947
• Winnipeg Directory 1948
• Winnipeg Directory 1949
• Winnipeg Directory 1950
• Winnipeg Directory 1951
• Winnipeg Directory 1952
• Winnipeg Directory 1953
• Winnipeg Directory 1954
• Winnipeg Directory 1955
• Winnipeg Directory 1956
• Winnipeg Directory 1957
• Winnipeg Directory 1958
• Winnipeg Directory 1959
• Winnipeg Directory 1960
• Winnipeg Directory 1961
• Winnipeg Directory 1962
• Winnipeg Directory 1963
• Winnipeg Directory 1964
• Winnipeg Directory 1965