Databases for Canadian History

Online Resources for Canadian History

National Archives of Canada: Digital collection from the National Archives of Canada. Includes information about Canada's people, places, and historical events.

Canadian Historical Association Booklets: Published by the Canadian Historical Association, these booklets provide information about the immigration and history of Canada's ethnic groups. You may choose any title and download as a pdf file.

Canadiana Online: this site provides an historical perspective of Canada's history through the words of the men and women who shaped the country.

Manitoba Historical Society: A searchable database with information on Manitoba's history, from early settlement to the 20th century including photos, maps, and biographies.

Manitobia, otherwise known as the Mantioba Local History Collection, includes digitized newspapers including the Winnipeg Tribune and other newspapers published during the Second World War as well as over 800 Local History books.

TimeLinks is in interactive site devoted to Manitoba history 1910-1920 by Manitoba Historical Society.

Prairie Immigration Experience: Information provided by the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, the University of Saskatchewan Archives and the Archives of Oseredok, the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre about immigration policy and the prairie immigrant experience in the early twethieth century using digitized archival documents.

Peel's Prairie Provinces, though the University of Alberta Libraries, is intended to support researchers "in their exploration of western Canadian history." It includes books, newspapers, images, maps, and more.

CBC Digital Archives: Is a collection of radio and television clips.

The Atlas of Canada includes digitized historical maps of Canada.

Democracy at War, Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War includes more than 144,000 Canadian newspaper articles from the Second World War from the Canadian War Museum.

Online Resources for Canadian History

The Canadian Encyclopedia includes timelines and a summary of significant events

The Heritage Minutes are a collection of bilingual Canadian 60-second short films, each depicting a significant person, event or story in Canadian history.

Canadian Museum of Civilization contains collections of Canadian objects, artificats, and archives as well as virtual exhibits.