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The townships of Russell county form part of the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. Through the years, the formation of Russell county has varied. Until recent decades, Russell county consisted of the following townships:

Cumberland township is now part of the City of Ottawa and part of the Ontario GenWeb site for Carleton county.

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A 1916 city directory of greater Ottawa includes listings for Russell county beginning on page 442: Vernon's farmers' and business directory for the counties of Carleton, Dundas, Glengarry, Lanark, Prescott, Renfrew, Russell and Stormont.

The relevant 1881 census material is maintained by the LDS.

The relevant 1851, 1871, 1901 and 1911 census material is maintained by Library and Archives Canada.

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) maintains a collection of tax assessments concerning Russell county from 1823 through 1850.

• St. Therese Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kenneth F Collins (1985).
• Edward's Street Protestant Cemetery, Town of Rockland, Township of Clarence, County of Russell, Ontario, David Bryden (1989).
• Saint Viateur Roman Catholic Cemetery, Limoges, Ontario: Concession II, Lot 30, Cambridge Township, Russell County, John Sayers (1994).
• The Clarence cemetery: Ottawa River front, part of lot 13, Township of Clarence, County of Russell, Ontario, Darell & Fern Small (1979).
• Loucks Cemetery, Kenneth F Collins (1982).
• St. Andrew's & St. Paul's Cemetery, Kenneth F Collins (1981).
• Bourget Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Cemetery, Concession 4, Lot 20, Clarence Township, Russell County, Ontario, John Sayers & Helen Small (1995).
• The Casselman cemeteries: Casselman, Cambridge Township, Russell County, Ontario, Ralph Davis (1996).
• North Russell Cemetery, Kenneth F. Collins (1982).
• Pascal Baylon Roman Catholic cemetery, Concession III, Lot 11, Clarence Township, Russell County, Ontario, John Sayers (1996).
• The Hammond cemeteries, Hammond, Clarence Township, Russell County, Ontario: St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Concession VIII, Lot 16, Clarence Township, Russell County and the Hammond Protestant Cemetery, Concession VIII, Lot 17, Clarence Township, Russell County, Ottawa Branch (1996).
• Ste. Felicite Roman Catholic Cemetery, Clarence Creek, Concession VI, Lot 5, Clarence Township, Russell County, Ontario, Ralph Davis (1996).
• St. Jacques RC Cemetery, Embrun, Conc VIII Lot 8 (1982).
• St. Mary's Anglican Cemetery, Conc III Lot 12.

Most of the above cemeteries are included in The Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid.

• Abandoned Cemetery, Cambridge, Concession 6, Lot 10, Ken Collins & Rusty Baird (1982), LAC microfilm #M-7969.
• Grant Cemetery, Cambridge, Concession 1, Lot 25, Ken Collins & Rusty Baird (1982), LAC film #M-7969.

• "Marriage Register of the Ottawa District [1816-1847]" in The Ontario Register, edited by Thomas B Wilson (Lambertville, N.J.), volume 6 (1982), pp. 213-218, volume 7 (1983-84), pp. 23-28, 175-180 & 241-244.
• Répertoire des Mariages de Comté de Russell: Bourget, Casselman, Clarence Creek, Embrun, Hammond, Limoges, Rockland, Russell, St-Albert, St-Pascal B.: 1858-1972, Julien Hamelin (Ottawa: Le Centre de Genealogie S.C.).
• Repertoire de Mariages du Comte Ottawa-Carleton [Marionville], Hubert Houle (Ottawa: Le Centre de Genealogie S.C., 1986).

• St Mary's Anglican, Russell [1876-1973], Anglican Diocese of Ottawa.
• St-Jacques, Embrun [1841-1848, LAC film #C-2978] & [1855-1974, LAC films #M-3124 to #M-3129].
• Très Sainte Trinité, Rockland, Ontario, 1889-1988: Baptêmes, Mariages, Sépultures, Mariages hors Paroisse, Denis Ouimet (Ottawa: J O Lemieux, 1991).
• St-Trinité, Rockland [1887-1910, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec-Outaouais (BANQ-O) microfilms #MFM1094 to #MFM1095].
• St-Albert [1878-1910, BANQ-O film #MFM1065].
• St-Viateur [1888-1910, BANQ-O film #MFM1066].
• Ste-Therese-d'Avila [1904-1910, BANQ-O film #MFM1082].
• Sacre-Coeur-de-Jesus [1885-1910. BANQ-O film #MFM1088].
• St-Pascal-Baylon [1908-1910, BANQ-O film #MFM1089].
• Ste-Felicite [1855-1910, BANQ-O films #MFM1090 to #MFM1093].
• Ste-Euphemie [1897-1910, BANQ-O film #MFM1108].

• Notre-Dame-de-la-Medaille-Miraculeuse, Russell.
• Russell Baptist Church [1894-1978].
• Pentecostal [1949-1959], Russell.
• North Russell United Church [Methodist, 1888-1959].
• Russell Presbyterian Church [1859-1910, United Church of Canada (Ottawa) archives 9/RUS/63].

• St-Mathieu, Hammond.
• St Andrew's United Church, Rockland.
• Clarence Baptist Church [1831-1839, aforementioned "Marriage Register"].

• Casselman Community Church, 715B Principale, telephone (613) 764-0748.
• Eglise Baptiste Evangelique De l'Est de l'Ontario, 2074 Rte 500 ouest, Forest Park, telephone (613) 443-1683.
• Christian Fellowship Church of God, Rte 500 ouest.
• Grant Baptist Church [1891-1950s].

• Bibliothèque Publique du Canton de Russell, Embrun (443-3636) & Russell (445-5331).
• Russell Historical Society, Keith M Boyd Museum, Russell.
• Russell Land Registry Office, Box 10, 422 Concession Street, Russell, Ontario, K4R 1C8, 239-1230.

• Archives de la Corporation de la municipalite, Rockland.
• Archives de la paroisse Tres Sainte Trinite.
• Bibliotheque Canton de Clarence, Succursale St-Pascal-Baylon, Ch. Du Lac.
• Bibliotheque Publique De Rockland, 2085 Laurier, 446-5680.
• Centre culturel La Ste-Famille, Rockland, 446-5770.

• Bibliotheque St-Albert - Cambridge, 987-2143.
• Bibliotheque Publique de Limoges, 443-1976.
• Casselman Municipal Library, Dollard, Casselman, 764-5505.
• Chez l'Ancien, Musée agricole, 582 rte 600 est, Casselman, KOA 1M0, 764-5271.

• Ralliement [Clarence Creek; Library and Archives Canada (LAC) copies: 1895-1897].
• Bonjour Chez-nous [Rockland; LAC: 1985-1988].
• The Russell Villager [LAC: 1989-1997].
• Russell Review was established 1899. There are no known surviving editions earlier than 1970s.

• Casselman, Paul-François Sylvestre (Ottawa: Le Centre Franco-Ontarien de Ressources Pédagogiques, 1984).
• From Swamp and Shanty: The History of Russell Village and the Western part of Russell Township: 1827-1987, Wendell M Stanley (Ottawa: Runge Press, 1987).
• Grant: The People, The Settlement, The Story, Alexandra de Quimper (Hammond, Ontario: 2002).
• Growing up on the Castor River: Stories of Osgoode and Russell Townships in the Early 1900s, W Allison Dempsey (Vernon: Osgoode Township Historical Society and Museum, 1993).
• Histoire d'Embrun, Jean-Pierre Proulx & Francine Bourgie (Embrun, 1980).
• Histoire de Saint-Jacques d'Embrun, J-V Forget & Elie-J Auclair (Ottawa: La Cie d'Imprimerie d'Ottawa, 1910).
• Histoire des Comtes Unis de Prescott et de Russell, Lucien Brault (L'Orignal: Conseil des Comtes Unis, 1965).
• Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Counties of Prescott and Russell (Toronto: H Belden & Co, [1881]).
• La Paroisse Sainte-Euphémie: Un Peuple Autour d'une Croix, Jean-Pierre Perreault (1986).
• La Petite Histoire de Rockland, Vianney Laporte & Serge Beland (Rockland: Municipalite de Rockland, 1982).
• Memories of the Grant Settlement, Evelyn L McNabb (Morewood, Ontario: E L McNabb, 1991).
• My Old Home Church in Rural Ontario, Colin Campbell McLaurin (Edmonton: The Institute Press, Ltd., 1937).
• 125 Ans de Vie: Saint-Albert, 1874-1999, Roger Cayer (St-Albert: Kaice-Tec Reproduction, 1999).
• Rev. James McNally, partial parish register in Prescott and Russell: baptisms, marriages, 1836-1865, arranged by Alex W Fraser & Rhoda P Ross (Lancaster: AW Fraser, 1995).
• Rockland, Daniel Marchildon (Sudbury: Centre franco-ontarien de ressources en alphabétisation, 1991).
• Saint-Jacques d'Embrun, Comté de Russell, Ontario, 1841-1973: étude historique et statistique, Michel Emard (Rockland: M Emard, 1974).

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