Canada

• “Born-digital” archival records from the SARS Commission, the Walkerton Inquiry, and the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology: Archives of Ontario
• Aboriginal Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records include photograph collections by province; Indian Affairs Annual Reports; Treaties, Surrenders, and Agreements; and School Files
• Archives Photographs: Glenbow Museum – over 112,000 historical photographs, illustrations, cartoons and posters documenting the people, landscape and development of the Canadian West from the 1870s to 2000
• Art: Library and Archives Canada – Collection of documentary art, some of which dates back to the 17th century, including paintings, watercolours, prints, drawings, caricatures, posters, medals, and sculptures
• Canadian Association for the History of Nursing – Many listed resources available for the overall history of nursing in Canada, including a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
• Canadian Census Analyzer: Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto – short-form and long-form data, 1961–present *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
• Canadian Olympians: Library and Archives Canada – More than 10,000 images of Canadian Olympians from the early 1900s to 2004
• Canadian Patents, 1869-1919: Library and Archives Canada – 190,000 digitized Canadian patents, from 1869 to 1919
• Censuses: Library and Archives Canada – census records, from 1666 to 1916
• Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
• Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War: Library and Archives Canada
• Directory of Federal Real Property: Treaty Areas Government of Canada: Government of Canada Treasury Board Secretariat – Current real property holdings of the Canadian government including information about Reserves and federal buildings on Reserves. This section of the site shows the geographical area of the numbered treaties and other pre-Confederation treaties, including those on Vancouver Island
• Emma Crosby Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Correspondence of Emma Crosby, wife of a missionary in nineteenth-century British Columbia
• Ethno-Cultural Groups: Library and Archives Canada – Immigration and naturalization records as well as databases on the various ethno-cultural groups in Canada
• Exploration and Settlement: Library and Archives Canada – Resources related to exploration, immigration, naturalization and citizenship. Some of the types of resources available include immigrant diaries, Geological Survey of Canada records, fur trade records, Hudson’s Bay Company records, land grants, quarantine records, French and British colonial records, maps and artwork
• Health and Medicine Collection: Early Canadiana Online – digitzed rare books, periodicals, and government publications from Canada from the 1600s through the 1940s
• Images Canada – Provides central search access to the thousands of images of Canadian events, people, places and things held on the websites of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada
• Immigration: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of immigration records including: ship registration, 1787-1966; naturalization records dating back to 1828, passenger lists for arrivals at various ports from 1865 to 1935; and immigrants at Grosse-Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
• Indian Affairs Annual Reports: Library and Archives Canada – Digital versions of theIndian Affairs Annual Reports (1864-1990)produced by the various federal departments responsible for Indian affairs in Canada. The Schedules of Indian Bands, Reserves and Settlements 1902-1992 have also been digitized and are included in the site
• Literature: Library and Archives Canada – Library and Archives Canada holds a vast collection of Canadian literature, including translations of these works into other languages, as well as a significant collection of Canadian children’s literature which includes original children’s book illustrations and manuscripts
• Maps, Charts, and Architectural Plans Collection: Library and Archives Canada
• Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: National Library of Medicine – A collection of monographs, early printed books, and journals, including works from the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, which demonstrate the evolution of medicine in North America from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20thcentury
• Military Heritage: Library and Archives Canada – Records relating to Loyalists, the War of 1812, the Rebellions, the South African War, the First World War and the Second World War. The records include muster rolls, military service files, unit war diaries, medal registers, photographic collections, documentary art and posters, as well as published sources
• Museum and Art Collection Database – Glenbow Museum has recently begun to digitize its art and artifact collections. This database is a small selection from the museum’s art, community history, military history, minerals, world culture and native North America collections
• Music, Films, Videos, and Sound Recordings: Library and Archives Canada – This collection includes motion picture films, feature films, short films, sponsored films, animation, documentaries, newsreels, radio and television programs, home movies, and sound recordings such as music, poetry readings, or oral history interviews
• Newspapers: Library and Archives Canada – Databases of digitized newspapers including 160 years of the Canada Gazette and French-Canadian newspapers, 1808-1919
• Our Roots: Canada’s Local Histories Online – primary and educational sources in both English and French *Accessible through the McMaster Libraries with a valid MacID
• Photography: Library and Archives Canada – The photographic collection is comprised of a variety of formats, including colour prints, black-and-white prints, negatives, glass plate negatives, daguerreotypes and tintypes
• Politics and Government: Library and Archives Canada – Records in this collection include textual documents, photographs, audio recordings, Orders-in-Council, theCanada Gazette, private archives and colonial records, and Royal Commissions reports
• Portrait Portal: Library and Archives Canada – more than 20,000 paintings, drawings and prints, 4 million photographs, several thousand caricatures, and ten thousand medals and philatelic items
• Postal Heritage and Philately: Library and Archives Canada – The philatelic collections include stamps and other philatelic materials as well as archival documents on all aspects of the design and production of postage stamps and on the Canadian postal service as well as Canadian mail order catalogues
• Royal Fisk Gold Rush Letters: UBC Library Digital Collections – over 900 original manuscript letters from the Cariboo Gold Rush period, 1862-1868 written by Victoria area merchants to Royal Fisk, a forwarding and shipping agent in San Francisco
• Scanned Documents: Glenbow Archives – 75,000 pages of digitized archival documents related primariy to Mounted Police, First Nations, immigration and settlement, agriculture and politics in the Canadian West
• Service files of members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from the First World War: Library and Archives Canada
• Service files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1941: Library and Archives Canada
• Service Files of the Second World War – War Dead, 1939-1947: Library and Archives Canada
• Shipwreck Investigations: Library and Archives Canada – photographic, cartographic and documentary evidence on shipwrecks in Canada
• SOS! Canadian Disasters: Library and Archives Canada – Images and newspapers articles on natural disasters in Canada
• Statutes and Regulations Relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs: Government of Canada Department of Justice – Statutes and regulations relating to Indian and Aboriginal Affairs including the Indian Act, the Nunavut Act, and the Nisga’a Final Agreement Act
• The Alberta Medical History Collection: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project -photographs, journals and books relating to the history of medicine in Alberta, as well as profiles of important medical figures in Alberta’s history
• The Atlas of Canada: Natural Resources Canada – Hundreds of online maps about Canada’s environment, society, economy and history
• Veterans Death Cards: First World War: Library and Archives Canada
• Vital Statistics: Archives of Ontario – Births (1896-1910), Marriages (1869-1927), Deaths (1869-1937)
• Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, and Deaths: Library and Archives Canada – Several databases of vital statistics including Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968; Births, Marriages, and Deaths Recorded in Canada; and Marriage Bonds, 1779-1858 – Upper and Lower Canada
• We Remember Database: Great War Centenary Association of Brantford, Brant County, and Six Nations – A database of the war records of the more than 5,000 men and women from Brantford, Brant County, and the Six Nations who served during the First World War
• Whitehern Museum Archives: An Online History of the McQuesten Family – The website includes 4,000 letters, documents, and photographs about the McQuesten family of Whitehern in Hamilton, Ontario