Collections and Fonds (with four subsets)
Summary: Search descriptions of archival holdings consisting of millions of texts, photographs, audio files, philately, cartography and architectural materials.
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Sample record:Collections and Fonds – 1
Subsets
Portrait Portal
Summary: Search through a selection of works from the largest group of portraits in the country. These include more than 20,000 paintings, drawings and prints, 4 million photographs, several thousand caricatures, and 10,000 medals and philatelic items.
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Sample record: Portrait Portal – 1
Ship Registration
Summary: This subset provides access to approximately 1,900 references to the ledger cards for ships and vessels that were closed out between 1904 and 1964. Details include names of vessels, the port of registry, vessel registration numbers and the year of registration. More records will continue to be added, so the total number will increase over time.
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Sample record: Ship Registration – 1
Sir John A. Macdonald fonds
Summary: This subset provides access to approximately 90,000 references to the Sir John A. Macdonald fonds (MG26-A). This fonds consists of political and personal papers divided into subject files, correspondence files, legal and financial papers, family papers, and letterbooks.
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Sample record: Sir John A. Macdonald fonds – 1
Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
Summary: Search through an extensive though incomplete collection of historic Canadian treaties with First Nations and a single occurrence with the Métis, land surrenders and related agreements. This collection has documents that span more than 275 years, including a May 1680 seigneurial grant to the Jesuits in New France and a 1956 adhesion to western Treaty 6 (1876).
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Sample record: Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements – 1