Canada isn’t being ignored. An increase of 905 Canadian results since 6 November, now 22,500,069, is cause for optimism, if not celebration, that we may see more soon. FamilySearch doesn’t indicate which records have been added. Here are the classifications now available.
By Collection
Canada, Homestead Records, 1600 – 2011 (8,064,701)
Canada, Probate Records, 1600 – 2020 (14,435,290)
By Province
Canada (14,359)
Alberta (2,673)
British Columbia (1,612,985)
Manitoba (781,062)
New Brunswick (361,862)
Newfoundland and Labrador (433,679)
Northwest Territories (2)
Nova Scotia (1,898,039)
Ontario (11,507,544)
Prince Edward Island (239,627)
Quebec (892,633)
Saskatchewan (4,755,606).
If you haven’t tried this experimental search, you do need a free FamilySearch account, I strongly recommend doing so. While preparing this post, I deviated from Canada and found new information about my Northwood family in Birmingham, England, in the 1820s.
I have been with Family Search for yonks. When Ancestry began cannibalizing their free research, yet gave no attribution to them, I started arguing with Ancestry for their overreach, their sheer marketing themselves with no credit to the old LDS. I have never returned to Ancestry which, in my mind and experience with them, are just a huge masterful Corporation, with years of misleading mis-transcriptions. Never returned. I stay with Family Search, which always gets it right.