Library and Archives Canada collects and preserves Canada's documentary heritage, and makes it accessible to all Canadians. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio-visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites.
The Canadian Illustrated News site is 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 Montréal, Quebec by George Desbarats from 1869 to 1883 and was notable for its innovative use of half-tone photographs.
Early Images of Canada: Illustrations from Rare Books contains 550 illustrations, mostly engravings, from Library and Archives Canada's Rare Book Collection. All of the images are taken from books, often exploration or missionary narratives, published before the year 1800. These particular images have been selected because they depict geography that is now part of Canada or events that are significant in Canadian history.
McGill's digital collections range from archival inventories (The Moshe Safdie Hypermedia Archive); bibliographic databases (Cookbook Collection, Canadian Olympic Collection) which provide access to items in the collection; image databases (Ramsay Traquair: The Architecture of Old Quebec, Napoleon Print Collection); full-text collections (In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company and the Canadian Architect and Builder); hybrid projects like In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project.
Ontario History Quest is a website dedicated to student learning - it is for students in grades 7 - 12 studying history from 1820-1970.The website brings together a variety of primary and secondary source materials from the collections of the Archives of Ontario, the City of Toronto Archives, and Toronto Public Library.
History becomes hands-on with the launch of the Ontario Time Machine, a partnership project of the Toronto Public Library, Hamilton Public Library and the Kingston Frontenac Public Library. A digital collection of 19th and early 20th century crime reports, tourist guides, farming manuals and settler handbooks comes to life with interactive, page-turning and fun facts about each item.
The Simon Fraser University Library Editorial Cartoons Collection aims to make all of the editorial cartoons held by the library available on the World Wide Web. Currently, the library holds approximately 2200 cartoons by Len Norris, Roy Peterson, and other Canadian cartoonists. The library has digitized over 1200 of these cartoons, and by the fall of 2002 will have digitized the remainder.
The University of Toronto Library's 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.
