Library and Archives Canada boasts an extensive collection of music and audiovisual heritage. 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.
The Canadian Music Periodical Index is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals dating from the late-19th century to the present day.
Consult the database Film, Video and Sound to find information about archival audiovisual recordings or use Library Search to find information on published audiovisual recordings, such as television productions.
Online historical films are available on our YouTube channel or listen to musical heritage recordings at Virtual Gramophone.
Biographies
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
Open Data
Reference Websites
Reference Websites, Research Aids
Research Aids
Research Aids, Virtual Exhibitions
Thematic Guides
Virtual Exhibitions