Immigration

• Aspiration, Acculturation, and Impact: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs documenting the history of voluntary immigration to the United states from the signing of the Constitution to the Great Depression
• Caribbean Sea Migration Collection: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries –Materials relating to Cuban, Dominican, and Haitian maritime migration, 1965-1995
• Chung Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – collection of archival documents, photographs, books and artifacts related to three broad themes: British Columbia History, Immigration and Settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
• 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
• 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
• Multicultural Canada – Digitized published texts such as books and newspapers, unpublished texts such as manuscript documents, as well as photographs and ephemeral items such as identity cards and audio files from ethnic groups across Canada
• Sephardic Studies Collection: University of Washington Digital Collections – The collection contains more than 500 original Ladino books and thousands of documents composed in Ladino as well as other relevant languages, such as Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew and French dating between the 16th and mid-20th centuries collected from the local Seattle Sephardic community
• Yip Sang Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – Personal papers of Yip Sang, a Chinese immigrant to Canada in the 19th century who was one of the driving forces in the establishment of the Chinese Benevolent Association, the Chinese School and the Chinese Hospital (now Mount St. Joseph’s) in Vancouver. He was a lifetime governor of Vancouver General Hospital, and was also a benefactor of the Public Hospital in Guangdong province in China