Canadiana.org

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Canadiana.org is a website also simply called Canadiana . It emerged from the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions , a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to making Canadian sources widely available,

history

The Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions was founded in 1978 by the Canada Council based on the recommendations of the Commission on Canadian Studies . In turn, the commission was sent by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada , an association of higher education institutions. Her report was published under the title To Know Ourselves . On the one hand, this drew attention to the deteriorating condition of the archives , and on the other hand, he drew attention to the fact that they were difficult to grasp for most students and scholars because they were and are scattered in numerous archives across the vast country. First of all, the older items in particular should be collected at Library and Archives Canada as originals or copies. This huge collection was spread over a total of 85 libraries and was visited by more than 100,000 users each year. The president was Lynn Copeland, Simon Fraser University in 2012, and Leslie Weir, University of Ottawa in 2015 .

Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital collection of more than four million page sources cataloged in ten digital collections. The associated database was built in 1999 by the University of Toronto library , the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library . A search engine was programmed at the University of Waterloo . Initially, four main topics were entered. These were English Canadian literature, travel and discovery, women's history, French Canadian history, and Native American. Meanwhile, the Jesuit Relations , the archives of the Hudson's Bay Company , the early official Canadian publications, then newspapers, medical journals and the papers of the governor-general are added. The material has grown to around 60 million pages, which are spread over 33 research institutions and are accessible to the public via search masks.

literature

  • NN: Preserving and Providing Access to Canada's History. The Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions at 25 Years , 2003.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Val Ross: Step right on-line for your early Canadiana , in: Globe and Mail, October 6, 1999.