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Biographies
100 Stories: Canadians who served in the First World War
Emma Albani
Marie-Anne Asselin
Pierre-Aurèle Asselin
Jack Ayre
Roméo Beaudry
Juliette Béliveau
Joseph Fournier de Belleval
Mary Travers Bolduc
Rosario Bourdon
Henry Burr
Craig Campbell
Thérèse Casgrain
Choir of the Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac
Herbert L. Clarke
Eugène Daignault
Alexandre Desmarteaux
Pauline Donalda
Blanche DuBuisson
Damase DuBuisson
Tommy Duchesne
Joseph Dumais
The Dumbells
Willie Eckstein
Henrietta Muir Edwards
Hubert Eisdell
First World War Centenary: Honouring Canada’s Victoria Cross Recipients
Sarah Fischer
Howard Fogg
Éva Gauthier
J. Hervey Germain
Elzéar Hamel
Ross Hamilton
Johana Harris
May Irwin
Harold Jarvis
Kilties
Henri Lacroix
Forrest Lamont
Orphée Langevin
Arthur Lapierre
Hercule Lavoie
Édouard LeBel
Christie MacDonald
Harry Macdonough
George MacFarlane
Agnes Macphail
Albert Marier
Nellie McClung
Louise McKinney
Marshall McLuhan
Henri Miro
Alfred Montmarquette
Edmond Moreau
Placide Morency
Billy Munro
Emily Murphy
Red Newman
Alfred (Rochon) Nohcor
Nurses (First World War)
Victor Occellier
Geoffrey O'Hara
Rose Ouellette
Lionel Parent
Irene Parlby
Kathleen Parlow
Hector Pellerin
Albert Plunkett
Mert Plunkett
The Prime Ministers of Canada (Archived)
Quatuor Alouette
Quatuor Octave-Pelletier
Gitz Rice
Joseph Saucier
Joseph-Henri Thibodeau
Andy Tipaldi
Cora Tracey
Fannie Tremblay
Albert Viau
Databases
Acts of Divorce, 1841-1968
Births, Marriages and Deaths Recorded in Canada
Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807- Port Roseway Associates
Cabinet Conclusions
Canada Gazette (1841 to 1997) (Database)
Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown (database) (Archived)
Canadian Directories Collection
Canadian Feature Film Database
Canadian Illustrated News: Images in the News, 1869-1883
Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
Canadian Music Periodical Index
Canadian Olympians
Canadian Patents, 1869-1919
Canadian Poetry Audio Archives
Canadian Post Office Publications
Carleton Papers – Book of Negroes
Carleton Papers – Loyalists and British Soldiers
Census Returns on Microfilm, 1770-1856
Census of Lower Canada, 1825
Census of Lower Canada, 1831
Census of 1842, Canada East
Census of 1842, Canada West
Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
Census of 1861
Census of 1870, Manitoba
Census of Canada, 1871
Census of 1871 (Ontario)
Census of Canada, 1881
Census of Canada, 1891
Census of Canada, 1901
Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
Census of Canada, 1911
Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916
Census of 1921
Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926
Citizenship and Naturalization Records
Citizenship Registration Records, 1851-1945 - Montreal Circuit Court
Courts-martial of the First World War
Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
Disc-O-Logue
Faces of the Second World War
Film, Video and Sound
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) (Database)
Gaspé Land Commission — names of claimants, 1819-1825
Government of Canada Web Archive
History of the Book in Canada (Archived)
Home Children – Boards of Guardians
Home Children Records
Images Canada (Archived)
Immigrant Diaries and Guides - Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience (Archived)
Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937
Immigrants before 1865
Immigrants from China
Immigrants from the Russian Empire, 1898-1922
Immigrants Sponsored by the Montreal Emigrant Society, 1832
Immigrants to Canada, Porters and Domestics, 1899-1949
Index to Federal Royal Commissions
Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
Indian Reserves - Western Canada
Land Petitions of Lower Canada (1764-1841)
Loyalists
Loyalists in the Maritimes — Ward Chipman Muster Master's Office, 1777–1785
Marriage Bonds, 1779-1858 - Upper and Lower Canada
Merrilees Transportation Collection - Canada, by Train (Database)
Military Medals, Honours and Awards, 1812–1969
Naturalization Records, 1828-1850 - Upper Canada and Canada West
Naturalization Records, 1915-1951
New France Archives
North West Mounted Police (NWMP) - Personnel Records, 1873-1904
Orders-in-Council
Passenger Lists
Passenger Lists and Border Entries, 1925-1935 - Nominal Indexes
Passenger Lists for the Port of Quebec City and Other Ports, 1865-1922
Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
Passports
Personnel Records of the First World War
Photographs, War Records Office
PIKA: Canadian Children's Literature Database (Archived)
Post Offices and Postmasters
Postal Heritage and Philately
Public Opinion Research Reports
Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
Rare Book Illustrations, Before 1800
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
RPM
Service Files of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1910-1941 - Ledger Sheets
Service Files of the Second World War - War Dead, 1939-1947
Sheet Music Collection
Ship Registrations, 1787-1966
South African War, 1899-1902 - Service Files, Medals and Land Applications
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers (Database)
Theses Canada Portal
Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
Ukrainian Immigrants, 1891-1930
Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804)
Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
War Diaries of the First World War
War of 1812
Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Digitized Microforms
Border Entries
Border Entry, 1908-1918 (Archived)
Border Entry, 1925-1935 (Archived)
Border Entry, Form 30, 1919-1924
British military and naval records (RG 8, C Series) - Digitized documents
British military and naval records (RG 8, C Series) - Introduction and index
Census of Canada, 1871 (Archived)
Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War
Heir and Devisee Commission
Mass-Digitized Archives
Ocean Arrivals, Form 30A, 1919-1924
Passenger Lists: Eastern U.S. Ports (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: Halifax (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: Montreal (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: New York (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: North Sydney (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: Quebec City (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: Saint John (1925-1935) (Archived)
Passenger Lists: Vancouver and Victoria (1925-1935) (Archived)
School Files Series - 1879-1953 (RG10)
Sir John Thompson fonds - Diary and other material (Archived)
Sir John Thompson fonds - Letterbooks (Archived)
Sir John Thompson fonds - Letters received (Archived)
Upper Canada Land Books
Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865) (Archived)
Upper Canada Sundries
Veterans Death Cards: First World War
War of 1812: Board of Claims for Losses, 1813-1848, RG 19 E5A (Archived)
War of 1812: Lower Canada Nominal Rolls and Paylists, RG 9 1A7 (Archived)
War of 1812: Miscellaneous Records (Archived)
War of 1812: Upper Canada Returns, Nominal Rolls and Paylists, RG 9 1B7 (Archived)
Electronic Collection
Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography (Archived)
Arctic Exploration and the Search for the Northwest Passage (Archived)
Beyond the Letters: A Retrospective of Canadian Alphabet Books (Archived)
Canada at Scale: Maps of Our History (Archived)
Canada's Constitutional Evolution (Archived)
Canada's Digital Collections (Archived)
Canadian Poetry Archive (Archived)
Canadian Private Presses (Archived)
Canadian War Artists (Archived)
Celebrating Dayal Kaur Khalsa (Archived)
Claude Champagne Virtual Exhibition (Archived)
Critical Acclaim: Portraits from the National Archives of Canada (Archived)
Cultivating Canadian Gardens: The History of Gardening in Canada (Archived)
E-book: "Lingua Franca: A Common Language for Conservators of Photographic Materials"
Engine of Immortality: Canadian Newspapers from 1752 Until Today (Archived)
Finding Out About Native Canadian Women Writers Published in English (Archived)
Gabrielle Roy (Archived)
Guardians of the North: The National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art (Archived)
Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources (Archived)
Guide to Canadian Political Science Resources: Federal Institutions and their Structure (Archived)
Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction (Archived)
Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians (Archived)
In Memory of HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (Archived)
Indigenous newspapers digitization pilot project
Karsh Masterworks: Atribute
Legends in Life and Art: The Portrait Photography of Roloff Beny (Archived)
New Wave Canada: Coach House Press and the Small Press Movement in English Canada in the 1960s (Archived)
On the Job: A Century of Canadians at Work (Archived)
Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Sensation (Archived)
Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Archived)
Page by Page: Creating a Children's Book (Archived)
Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration (Archived)
Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers (Archived)
Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (Archived)
Real Stories: A Past in Miniatures (Archived)
Selected Almanacs in Library and Archives Collection (Archived)
Sir Ernest MacMillan: Portrait of a Canadian Musician (Archived)
Sporting Lives: Images of Canadian Athletes (Archived)
Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator (Archived)
The Art of Illustration: A Celebration of Contemporary Children's Book Illustrators (Archived)
The Famous Five (Archived)
The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France (Archived)
The Search for Franklin and Franklin Relics, 1847-1880 (Archived)
The Secret Self: An Exploration of Canadian Children's Literature (Archived)
Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945 (Archived)
Open Data
Open Data from LAC
Open Data Portal
Research Aids
Ancestry.ca (subscription required; available free at many public libraries)
Automated Genealogy
Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective
Bands and Agencies
Battle of Passchendaele: Resources at Library and Archives Canada
Battle of Vimy Ridge: Resources at Library and Archives Canada
Black History in Canada
Blog of Library and Archives Canada
Canadian Historical Association Booklets
Conducting Research on Residential Schools
Directory of Library Symbols in Canada
Early Chinese Canadians, 1858 to 1947
Educational Resources for teachers (Archived)
Electoral Atlas of the Dominion of Canada (1895)
Employment - Genealogy and Family History
Family Search
File and Item Descriptions for Aboriginal Heritage
File History Cards, 1872-1984
From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History (Archived)
Genealogy and Family History
General Index - card catalogue (Archives)
Guide to Sending Organizations and Receiving Homes (Home Children)
Holocaust-related holdings at Library and Archives Canada
Home Children, 1869-1932
The Home Front (1914-1918)
Immigration Documents
Indian Affairs Record Group 10 (RG10) Inventory
Jacob M. Lowy Collection
LAC Forum on Canadian Democracy (Archived)
Land Grants to Veterans
Learning Centre (Archived)
Lest We Forget: Cenotaph Research
Literary Archives: A Guide to the Literary Fonds at Library and Archives Canada
Lord Elgin
Maps, Charts and Architectural Plans Collection: A Search Guide
Métis Genealogy
Métis Scrip Records
Military Heritage
Multicultural Resources and Services (Archived)
Music Archives at the National Library of Canada: A Guide (1994, 2003) (Archived)
Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography (Archived)
Newfoundland and Labrador: Census and Enumerations
Newspaper Collection
Nursing Sisters - Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters
Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada
Rare Book Collection
Read Up On It (Archived)
Residential School Records Resources
Resources for Researchers
TD Summer Reading Club
The 1852 and 1881 Historical Censuses of Canada
The History of Women’s Vote
Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Voters Lists
War Graves
Yousuf Karsh: A Selective Bibliography
Research Aids, Virtual Exhibitions
Canada's UFOs: The search for the unknown
Thematic Guides
Abortion
Avro Arrow (CF-105)
Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition
Canadian Government Expositions Centre
Canadian Immigration Since Confederation and the Department of External Affairs
Deportation from Canada, 1893-1977
Early Meteorology Records
Federal-Provincial Conferences
Grosse-Île Quarantine Station (Québec)
Guide to Sources Relating to Canadian Naval Vessels
Guide to Sources Relating to the Canadian Militia
Guide to Sources Relating to Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Halifax Explosion
Immigration Instructions: A Chart of Circulars, Directives and Operations Memoranda, 1909-1978
Immigration of Farm Labourers to Canada, 1918-1945
Immigration Records, Most Frequently Used
International Joint Commission
Internment Camps in Canada During the First and Second World Wars
List of Pre-Confederation Official Publications, 1534-1866
Louis Riel, the Red River Resistance and the North West Resistance
Organized Crime in Canada After 1945 and Immigration Records
Paris Office Card Index
Records of the Department of Public Works (RG 11)
Records on the Immigration of Domestics
Remembrance Day: An Essential Resource Guide for Media
Rideau Canal
Ship - Empress of Ireland - Thematic Guides
South African War - Thematic Guides
Spanish Flu Epidemic - Thematic Guides
Trans-Canada Highway
Unidentified Flying Objects (thematic guide)
Virtual Exhibitions
Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
Bell Features
Bon appétit! A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks
Bonspiel! The History of Curling in Canada
Building a Just Society : A Retrospective of Canadian Rights and Freedoms
Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters
Canada and the First World War
Canada Games 1967–1977 Photo Album
First Nations
First Pan American Games in Canada in 1967: Spotlight on Canadian Athletes
Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory (Archived)
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) (Archived)
Glenn Gould Archive (Archived)
Government - Celebrating Women's Achievements (Archived)
Gratien Gélinas (Archived)
I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th Century Canada (Archived)
In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832-1937 (Archived)
Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica 1981 Exhibition Catalogue (Archived)
Inuit
Kids' Site of Canadian Trains (Archived)
Laurier House (Archived)
Life of a Rock Star (Archived)
Made in Canada. Patents of Invention and the Story of Canadian Innovation (Archived)
Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War
Métis
Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience (Archived)
New France New Horizons: On French Soil in America
Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan (Archived)
OnThisDay (Canada 150)
Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918 (Archived)
Peter Winkworth Collection: A Collector's Passion (Archived)
Posters and Broadsides (Archived)
Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982
Project Naming
Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters & Sciences 1949-1951 (Archived)
Shamrock and the Maple Leaf: Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at LAC (Archived)
Shipwreck Investigations (Archived)
SOS! Canadian Disasters (Archived)
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers (Archived)
Sport - Celebrating Women's Achievements (Archived)
Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill (Archived)
Tales from the Vault! Canadian Pulp Fiction 1940-1952 (Archived)
Theatre, Dance, and Music - Celebrating Women's Achievements (Archived)
Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film (Archived)
Treaty 8 (Archived)
Under a Northern Star
Unusual collections
Virtual Vault (Archived)
Virtual Vault: The "Four Indian Kings" (Archived)
Writing - Celebrating Women's Achievements (Archived)
Written in Stone: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada (Archived)
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2018-10-05
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