In Canada every province and major city has its own library and archives Web sites. Look into Canadian university and college Web sites which contain information from their libraries, archives, and presses that often engage in digitization projects.

Also search out museums, historic sites, genealogy associations, historical societies, and re-enactment groups for historical information. Use your search engine and enter terms such as Saskatchewan Provincial Archives or Bibliothèque de Montréal to obtain the proper URL. Use your terms of interest (such as 19th century costume) to seek out relevant sites.

Choose Web sites that have affiliations to organizations or recognized researchers. An organization will have its name up-front, and a recognized researcher will have his/her credentials/experience listed. If there are articles of value to you, look for the references for the information used in the article.

Remember to keep track of your personal Web resources. It reduces the frustration when later you look at your project and can't recall where the information came from.

Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Quebec City
http://www.bnquebec.ca/
Select: "Banque images et sons" to access historical information, images, post cards, maps, sound recordings, historical newspapers

British Columbia Digital Library Project
(contains historical newspapers)
http://bcdlib.tc.ca/links-subjects-newspapers.html

Patrimoine Heritage Canada
Canadian Heritage
http://www.pch.gc.ca/

Canadian Initiatives on Digital Libraries (CIDL/ICBN)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl-icbn
This is a 60-member library organization (public, university and specialty).
Their goal is to create and safeguard standards for digitization projects to be used on the Web. Many of their members have either completed or, regularly add to digitization projects. You can visit this site to see the contact list of members and grab a link to digitization projects of interest to you. If you are a techie you will want to visit their E-resources pages.

Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, Ottawa
Based at the National Library of Canada this organization continues to store material on microfilm in tandem with its digitization projects.
Early Canadiana Online (ECO) / Notre mémoire en ligne
http://www.canadiana.org

Canadian Library Index
Canadian Library Index
http://www.lights.com/canlib

Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC), Hull
Library, Archives and Documentation Services
CMC Photographic Archives Digitization Project and more
http://www.civilisations.ca/

Canadian War Museum
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/cwme.asp

Champlain Society
http://www.champlainsociety.ca/

Champlain Society Digital Collection
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq-champlain

Concordia University Libraries , Montreal
Canadian Sculpture: Coming of Age
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sculpture

Eleanor Milne: The Making of An Artist in Canada
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/milne/

Anne Savage, Artist and Art Educator
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/savage

Canadian Sculpture from the Hayward and Brault Collections
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/brault

The Art of Guido Nincheri
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/nincheri

Department of National Defence
http://www.dnd.ca/

Genealogy Links
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
Cyndi's List is one of the best and largest resources.
http://www.cyndislist.com/

HALINET (Halton Information Network)
http://www.hhpl.on.ca/
Three times, the HALINETonline local history services, highlighted in the Genealogy and Local History page maintained by the Halton County (Ontario) GenWeb group has been awarded the CanadaGenWeb monthly Award of Excellence

International Development Research Centre
IDRC Reports Digital Archive
http://www.idrc.ca/library/#digital

Selected technical reports of IDRC-supported research projects
http://www.idrc.ca/library/document/index_e.html

Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/initiatives/erella.htm
The Canadian Inventory of Digital Initiatives provides descriptions of Canadian information resources created for the Web, including general digital collections.

Marleau Family Geneology
L'Association Des Marleau - The Marleau Association
Prepared by a Vankleek Hill & District Historical Society supporter.
http://www.hawk.igs.net/~duroche/

McGill University Digital Collections Project
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/
The Digital Collections Program (DCP) has been created to digitally capture and provide electronic access to McGill University's unique rare and special collections via the World Wide Web using advanced digital technologies. These collections include, rare books, maps, manuscripts, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and more.

National Archives of Canada
http://www.archives.ca/

National Film Board
http://www.nfb.ca/

National Gallery of Canada
http://www.national.gallery.ca/

National Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/
The National Library of Canada has a growing bank of digital projects on-line that are of use to historians, and for general research purposes. The National Library has also made its collection catalogue Amicus available on-line so that you can search out titles, authors, subjects. Here are a few that we found useful and lively. There are many more.

Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/

Canadian Illustrated News
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cin/

Susannah Moodie & Catherine Parr Trail
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/3/1/

Newspapers
Vankleek Hill Review
http://www.thereview.on.ca/

Ottawa Citizen
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/

Ontario Archives
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/

Ontario Library Service
http://www.library.on.ca/

Parks Canada - Includes National Historic Sites
Parks Canada
http://www.parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/

Prescott-Russell Regional History Resources
Franco-ontarienne Geneology
Hawkesbury Public Library
Home of the local Société franco-ontarienne d'histoire et de généalogie who are now developing their own Web site.

Wharves of Prescott-Russell
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/ont_archaeol_soc/wharves/jeanfr.htm

Province of Ontario Archives: Prescott-Russell Surrogate Records
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/c-pres-t.htm

Schoolnet
Schoolnet Projects
Schoolnet is one of the best educational web sites with over 5,000 Learning Resources.
http://www.schoolnet.ca/

Simon Fraser University
Canada's Early Women Writers
A Biographical Database
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/canadaswomenwriters
This database presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.

University of Alberta: SunSITE
http://www.sunsite.ualberta.ca/Digital_Collections/libraries.html
Contains quicklinks to digital libraries and text projects in Canada and around the world.

University of British Columbia
http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/showcase-sites.html
Showcase: a selection of UBC Library Web sites that profile unique or significant collections of information resources.

University of Calgary
Alberta Heritage Digitization Project
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/futurepast/

University of Victoria
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/history.learn-teach/learning.html
Learning and Resources