Your History, Your Heritage
Online Exhibition Themes

Aboriginal People

Visit Discover the Collection for a complete list of themes and LAC virtual exhibitions.

Aboriginal Documentary Heritage: Historical Collections of the Canadian Government

Exhibition recounts first-hand stories about Canada's First peoples and the territories they inhabit and reveals the complex history between the Canadian government and Canada's Aboriginal people from the late 1700s to the mid-twentieth century.

Aboriginal Sound Recordings: Music and Song

The Aboriginal Sound Recordings: Music and Song exhibition features music and song recordings from First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists, and from the recording labels that produced their work. The recordings are in the Music Collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), and represent a wide range of sounds and styles from the 1970s to the present.

Naskapi Lexicon

A trilingual dictionary providing terms in Naskapi, English and French. Features the use of UNICODE for the display and input of Aboriginal syllabics.

Our Voices, Our Stories: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Stories

The Web exhibition Our Voices, Our Stories will present the rich and varied heritage of Aboriginal storytelling of Canada, as well as contemporary stories of actual aboriginal artists. A selection of Inuit, Métis and First-Nations traditional and contemporary stories from the published collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will be presented. The exhibition will celebrate aboriginal stories, through digitization of audio and video recordings of storytellers, as well as abstract and short movies of contemporary stories.

Project Naming

Photographic exhibition portraying Inuit from Nunavut, dating from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s, who have been identified by their living relatives. Project Naming is a trilingual site containing a searchable photographic database available in English, French and Inuktitut.