Guides: Primary Sources: Canada

Canadian Primary Sources

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Early Encounters in North America (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
2,162 authors, 100,000 pages, provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
North American Indian Thought and Culture (CRKN - Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
27,000 pages of text and images including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. Formerly called North American Indian Biographical Database
North American Women's Letters and Diaries (CRKN - Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
The immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Globe and Mail Archive [1844-2014] (CRKN - ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspaper archive of The Globe from June 1844 to The Globe and Mail until 2014.

Canadiana (CKRN) This link opens in a new window
Your single best source for discovering Canadian documentary heritage
Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides This link opens in a new window
A large collection of pre-1930 Canadian pamphlets and broadsides. The collection includes advertisements, campaign literature, protest leaflets, cultural event advertisements, and other ephemera from all regions of Canada.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO (CRKN - Gale) This link opens in a new window
Contains digitized texts of over 183,000 titles published during the 18th Century.