Early Canadiana Online "Fulltext online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history." Non-members have access to approximately 678,000 page images. Also see the Champlain Society Digital Collection.
Artefacts Canada Database of records of artefacts from hundreds of museums, includes approximately 200,000 images grouped under humanities, natural sciences and archaological sites. Sponsored by the Canadian Heritage Information Network. Also see the Collection Storage database at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Canada's Digital Collections This site brings together a "vast array of multimedia resources celebrating Canada's history and culture, its landscapes, technology, scientific discoveries, and Aboriginal communities." Many of the projects tend to be exhibits.
Canadian Heritage Galleries Collections of images with a few selected documents pertaining to the heritage of Canada.
Images Canada "Images Canada provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions." Collections searched include the National Library of Canada, Simon Fraser University and the City of Calgary Archives.
Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide "A fully-searchable database with information about 2200 Mi’kmaq and Mi’kmaq-related textual records and published items with links to digitized images for 300 representative documents."
Newfoundland
and Labrador Heritage Web
"The purpose of this web site is to furnish a wide range of information and analysis on the history, geography,
population, culture, and society of Newfoundland and Labrador.
The site is intended for use by high school students and by
members of the general public."
Voices, Vessels and Vellum: Saint John History
"A joint project with the Saint John Free Public Library, containing digital images and text transcriptions of one hundred 18th century documents from the Library's Primary Source Documents Collection, containing rare New Brunswickana, Canadiana, and local history." See other related sites at the Electronic Text Center at the University of New Brunswick Libraries.
Simon Frasier University Library Editorial Cartoons Collection More than 2,000 editorial cartoons by Graham Harrop, Bob Krieger, Len Norris, and Roy Peterson originally published in the Vancouver Sun, Province, and Globe and Mail between 1952 and the present.
Who Killed William
Robinson? A complete collection of documents dealing with the murder of William
Robinson on Salt Spring Island, B.C. in 1868. Maintained by the
University of Victoria.
Ontario
Dionne Quintuplet Digitization Project Documents such as photographs and newspaper clippings illustrating the life and phenomenon of the Dionne quintuplets.
The Shingwauk Project Documents, images and oral histories dealing with the Shingwauk school, a residential school for native children in Sault Ste. Marie.
Estevan Mercury Articles on 1931 Miners Strike Collection of transcribed articles dealing with the strike in Estevan, Saskatchewan. Also see the chapter within On Strike: Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada 1919-1949 on the Estevan strike.
Manitoba Life and Times Effort to provide digital access to historically significant documents and publications dealing with Manitoba.
Peel's Prairier Provinces provides sources for Western Canada and Western Canadian history including early Alberta Newspapers, Alberta legal documents, and local histories.
Quebec
Canadian Illustrated News "A selection of almost 4000 images of people, places and events across Canada and around the world taken from the popular 19th-century magazine. Canadian Illustrated News was published in Montreal, Quebec by George Desbarats from 1869 to 1883."
Barren Lands Digital Collection
"This site documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. Drawing on materials from the J.B. Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, it includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports." Part of the University of Toronto Libraries Digital Collections.
Historical Statistics of Canada "This volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s."
