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- Aboriginal Resources and Services (Database)
- AVITUS - Directory of Canadian Genealogical Resources
- Biophil - Stamp Creators
- Cabinet Conclusions
- Canada, by Train (Database)
- Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown (database)
- Canadian Directories: Who Was Where
- Canadian Families
- Canadian Historical Association Booklets
- Canadian Illustrated News: Images in the News, 1869-1883
- Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
- Canadian Music Periodical Index
- Canadian Naturalization 1915-1951
- Canadian Olympians
- Canadian Patents, 1869-1919
- The Canadian Poetry Audio Archives (Database)
- Canadian Post Office Publications
- Canadian Postal Archives (Database)
- Catalogue of Census Returns on Microfilm 1666-1901
- Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia)
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index)
- Census of Canada, 1881
- Census of Canada, 1891
- Census of Canada, 1901
- Census of Canada, 1911
- Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906
- Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916
- Circumstances of Death Registers, First World War
- Citizenship Registration Records for the Montreal Circuit Court (1851-1945)
- Commonwealth War Graves Registers, First World War
- Courts-martial of the First World War
- The Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
[www.biographi.ca/index-e.html] - Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries
- Disc-O-Logue
- Divorce in Canada (1841-1968)
- Documentary Art
- Early Images of Canada: Illustrations from Rare Books
- Electoral Atlas of the Dominion of Canada (1895)
- Electronic Collection: A Virtual Collection of Monographs and Periodicals
- Faces of War (Database)
- Federal Publication Locator
- Film, Video and Sound
- French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) (Database)
- Government of Canada Files
- Government of Canada Web Archive
- History of the Book in Canada
- Home Children (1869-1930)
- Images Canada
[www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html] - Immigrants at Grosse-Île
- Immigrants from China
- Immigrants to Canada
- Immigration Records (1925-1935)
- Index to Federal Royal Commissions
- Indian Affairs Annual Reports, 1864-1990
- Indian Reserves - Western Canada
- Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada’s Patriot Statesman (Database)
- Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection
- Lower Canada Land Petitions
- Maps, Plans and Charts
- Medals, Honours and Awards
- Métis Scrip Records
- Microform Digitization
- Montreal Emigrant Society Passage Book (1832)
- Naskapi Lexicon
- A Nation's Chronicle: The Canada Gazette (Database)
- New Books Service
- North West Mounted Police (NWMP) - Personnel Records, 1873-1904
- Open Data from LAC
- Orders-in-Council
- Passenger Lists, 1865-1922
- Philatelic Bibliography
- Philatelic Library
- Philatis - Postal Archives
- Photographs
- Photographs: Canadian Nurses
- Photographs: War Records-Manufacturing (WRM) Series - National Film Board of Canada
- PIKA: Canadian Children's Literature Database
- Port Roseway Associates
- Post Offices and Postmasters
- Prime Ministers' Fonds
- Private Archives and Colonial Records
- Project Naming (Database)
- Public Opinion Research Reports
[www.porr-rrop.gc.ca/index-e.html] - Quebec City Passenger Lists Index, 1865-1900
- Railway Employees (Employees Provident Fund)
- Red and Black Series
- RPM
- Second World War Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces War Dead
- Sheet Music from Canada's Past
- Ship Registration Index
- Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)
- Soldiers of the South African War (1899 - 1902)
- Theses Canada Portal
- Treaties, Surrenders and Agreements
- Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds
- Upper Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records (1828-1850)
- Upper Canada Land Board (1765-1804)
- Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865)
- The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
- War Diaries of the First World War
- Ward Chipman, Muster Master's Office (1777-1785)
- Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Research Aids
- Aboriginal Documentary Heritage
- Aboriginal Peoples - Guide to the Records of the Government of Canada
- Aboriginal Resources and Services
- Abortion - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Anti-slavery Issues in Canada, 1830-1870: A Selective Bibliography (archived site)
- Arctic Exploration and the Search for the Northwest Passage (archived site)
- Arctic Quest: The Northwest Passage
- ArtVenture: A Collector's Challenge (archived site)
- Avro Arrow (CF-105) - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The Battle of Passchendaele: Resources at Library and Archives Canada
- Black History Month
- Canada at War: A Guide to Library and Archives Canada Websites Recalling the Canadian War Experience
- Canada's Digital Collections (archived site)
- Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Genealogy and Family History
- Canadian Government Expositions Centre - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Canadian Immigration Since Confederation and the Department of External Affairs - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Children's Literature
- Deportation from Canada, 1893-1977 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Early Canadiana Online
[www.canadiana.org/en/] - Early Meteorology Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Federal-Provincial Conferences - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Finding Out About Native Canadian Women Writers Published in English (archived site)
- From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History
- Government, Legal and Constitutional Information
- Grosse-Île Quarantine Station (Québec) - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources (archived site)
- Guide to Canadian Political Science Resources: Federal Institutions and their Structure (archived site)
- Halifax Explosion - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration Instructions: A Chart of Circulars, Directives and Operations Memoranda, 1909-1978 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration of Farm Labourers to Canada, 1918-1945 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Immigration Records Most Frequently Used - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- International Joint Commission - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Internment Camps in Canada during the First and Second World Wars - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
- Jacob M. Lowy Collection
- The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France (archived site)
- LAC Forum on Canadian Democracy
- Learning Centre
- Lest We Forget
- List of Pre-Confederation Official Publications, 1534-1866 - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Literary Archives: A Guide to the Literary Fonds at Library and Archives Canada
- Lord Elgin
- Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion and the North West Campaign - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Most Frequently Used Immigration Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Multicultural Resources and Services
- Music Archives at the National Library of Canada: A Guide (1994, 2003)
- Native Residential Schools in Canada: A Selective Bibliography
- Newspapers at Library and Archives Canada
- Organized Crime in Canada After 1945 and Immigration Records - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The periodical collection in the Philatelic Library
- Portrait Gallery of Canada
- The Rare Book Collection
- Read Up On It
- Records of the Department of Public Works (RG 11) - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Records on the Immigration of Domestics - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Reference Internet Resources
- Rideau Canal - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- The Search for Franklin and Franklin Relics: 1847-1880 (archived site)
- Selected Almanacs in Library and Archives Canada Collection (archived site)
- Ship - Empress of Ireland - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- South African War - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Spanish Flu Epidemic - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- TD Summer Reading Club
[www.td-club-td.ca/index-e.html] - Trans-Canada Highway - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Unidentified Flying Objects - Unpublished Thematic Guides
- Yousuf Karsh: A Selective Bibliography
Virtual Exhibitions
- Aboriginal Sound Recordings: Music and Song
- The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
- The Art of Illustration: A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Children's Book Illustrators (archived site)
- Artists' Books: Bound in Art
- Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective
- Backcheck: Hockey for Kids
- Before e-Commerce. A History of Canadian Mail Order Catalogues
- Beyond the Funnies: The History of Comics in English Canada and Quebec
- Beyond the Letters: A Retrospective of Canadian Alphabet Books (archived site)
- Bon appétit! A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks
- Bonspiel! The History of Curling in Canada
- Building a Just Society : A Retrospective of Canadian Rights and Freedoms
- By Executive Decree
- The Call to Duty: Canada's Nursing Sisters
- Canada and the First World War
- Canada at Scale: Maps of our History (archived site)
- Canada By Design: Parliament Hill, Ottawa
- Canada - A Collector's Passion: The Peter Winkworth Collection (archived site)
- Canada, by Train
- Canada: A Literary Tour
- Canada's Constitutional Evolution (archived site)
- Canada's UFOs: The Search for the Unknown
- Canadian Confederation
- The Canadian Poetry Audio Archives
- Canadian Postal Archives
- Canadian Private Presses (archived site)
- The Canadian State: Documents and Dialogue
- Canadian War Artists (archived site)
- Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
- The Canadian West
- Canadian Writers
- Celebrating BC Culture
- Celebrating Dayal Kaur Khalsa (archived site)
- Celebrating Women's Achievements
- Claude Champagne Virtual Exhibition (archived site)
- Codex canadensis
- Confederation for Kids
- Cool Canada
- Critical Acclaim: Portraits from the National Archives of Canada (archived site)
- Cultivating Canadian Gardens: The History of Gardening in Canada (archived site)
- Detecting the Truth: Fakes, Forgeries and Trickery
- The Early Chinese Canadians, 1858 to 1947
- Encountering Gabrielle Roy
- Engine of Immortality: Canadian Newspapers from 1752 until Today (archived site)
- Sir Ernest MacMillan: Portrait of a Canadian Musician (archived site)
- Expo '67: A Virtual Experience
- Faces of War
- Famous Canadian Physicians
- The Famous Five (archived site)
- Featuring... Gratien Gélinas
- First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics
- First Among Equals: The Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics - Children's site
- Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
- French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919)
- Gabrielle Roy (archived site)
- The Glenn Gould Archive
- Guardians of the North: The National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art (archived site)
- Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction (archived site)
- I Do: Love and Marriage in 19th Century Canada
- Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians (archived site)
- In Memory of HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (archived site)
- In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832-1937
- Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica 1981 Exhibition Catalogue
- Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada's Patriot Statesman
- Karsh Masterworks: A Tribute (archived site)
- The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement
- The Kids' Site of Canadian Trains
- Laurier House
- Legends in Life and Art: The Portrait Photography of Roloff Beny (archived site)
- Life of a Rock Star
- Made in Canada. Patents of Invention and the Story of Canadian Innovation
- Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War
- Moving Here, Staying Here. The Canadian Immigrant Experience
- A Nation's Chronicle: The Canada Gazette
- New France New Horizons: On French Soil in America
[www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html] - New Wave Canada: Coach House Press and the Small Press Movement in English Canada in the 1960s (archived site)
- Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan
- On the Job: A Century of Canadians at Work (archived site)
- Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918
- Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Sensation (archived site)
- Our Voices, our Stories - First Nations, Métis and Inuit Stories from Yesterday and Today
- Out of This World: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Page by Page: Creating a Children's Book (archived site)
- Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration (archived site)
- Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers (archived site)
- Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (archived site)
- Paul-Emile Miot: Photographs of Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
- Polar Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
- Posters and Broadsides
- Pride and Dignity: Aboriginal Portraits
- Project Naming
- A Real Companion and Friend: The Diary of William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Real Stories: A Past in Miniatures (archived site)
- Reflecting on Anne of Green Gables
- Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters & Sciences 1949-1951
- The Secret Self: An Exploration of Canadian Children's Literature (archived site)
- The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf: Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at LAC
- Shipwreck Investigations
- SOS! Canadian Disasters
- Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
- Sporting Lives: Images of Canadian Athletes (archived site)
- Stephen Leacock: Humorist and Educator (archived site)
- Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
- Tales from the Vault! Canadian Pulp Fiction 1940-1952
- Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film
- Treaty 8
- Under a Northern Star
- Victory Bonding: Wartime Messages from Canada's Government, 1939-1945 (archived site)
- A Virtual Schoolhouse
- Virtual Silver Screen
- Virtual Vault
- Virtual Vault: The "Four Indian Kings"
- William Hind's "Overlanders of '62 Sketchbook"
- William James Topley: Reflections on a Capital Photographer
- "Without Fear, Favour or Affection" The Men of the North West Mounted Police
- Written in Stone: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada
