Land Registration Office Locations
The Registry of Deeds for each county has indexes to grantors and grantees for all the different types of transactions; mortgages, deeds, leases, releases, liens, sheriff's deeds, court orders, and some wills involving real estate. Most of these records have been microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, copies are available at the Nova Scotia Archives and on loan through any LDS Family History Centre.
County | Note | Dates of Deeds on Film |
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Annapolis | Formed 1759, was Halifax | 1763-1910 |
Antigonish | Formed 1784, was Sydney Co. 1784-1836 | 1785-1907 |
Cape Breton | Formed 1784, separate to 1820. | 1786-1910 |
Colchester | Formed 1835, was Halifax | 1770-1903 |
Cumberland, Amherst | Formed 1759, was Halifax | 1764-1904 |
Cumberland, Parrsboro | Included in Kings Co. until 1840 | 1789-1905 |
Digby | Formed 1837, was Annapolis | 1785-1910 |
Guysborough, Guysborough | Formed 1836, was Sydney Co. from 1784-1836 | 1785-1910 |
Guysborough, Sherbrooke | Formed 1836, western half of Co. | 1815-1910 |
Halifax | Formed 1749 | 1749-1903 |
Hants | Formed 1781, was part of Kings Co. | 1763-1906 |
Inverness | Formed 1835, was part of Cape Breton Co. | 1825-1910 |
Kings, Aylesford | Jurisdiction moved to Kentville | 1820-1843 |
Kings, Cornwallis | Formed 1759 | 1764-1903 |
Kings, Horton | Jurisdiction moved to Kentville | 1766-1843 |
Lunenburg, Chester | Formed 1759, was part of Halifax | 1879-1908 |
Lunenburg, Lunenburg | Central and western part of county | 1759-1912 |
Pictou | Formed 1835, was part of Halifax | 1771-1905 |
Queens | Formed 1762, was part of Lunenburg | 1764-1920 |
Richmond | Formed 1835, was part of Cape Breton Co. | 1821-1909 |
Shelburne, Barrington | Formed 1784, was part of Queens | 1854-1913 |
Shelburne, Shelburne | Eastern part of county | 1783-1921 |
Victoria | Formed 1851, was part of Cape Breton Co. | 1851-1911 |
Yarmouth | Formed 1836, was part of Shelburne | 1766-1910 |