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Canadian History

Canadiana.org is a membership alliance dedicated to building Canada’s digital preservation infrastructure and providing the broadest possible access to Canadian documentary heritage. The organizations works closely with major memory institutions to identify, catalogue, digitize and store documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials—in specialized research databases. There are a number of online collections currently available including Department of Foreign Affairs, Early Canadian Periodicals, and Health and Medicine. Their website also has several links to other resources and institutions.

Nametau innu: Memory and knowledge of Nitassinan is a website dedicated to the Innu nation in which elders pass on their skills and knowledge to younger generations.

Statistics Canada: Canada Year Book Historical Collection

CBC Archives

The Champlain Society Digital Collection contains almost 50,000 digitized pages of original documents dealing with early white explorers in Canada.

France in America is a bilingual digital library of documents from the Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque nationale de France which explores the history of the French in North America from the 17th to the 19th century.