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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

Publication coverage: 1800 - 1950

Letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives by over 1900 immigrants to the United States and Canada between 1800 and 1950.

North American Indian Thought and Culture

Publication coverage: 17th century - present

Integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indigenous publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries

North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the personal experiences of 1,325 women who lived in North America from colonial times to 1950.

Ontario Community Newspapers Portal

This collection includes early Kingston newspapers (The British Whig, The Kingston Chronicle, and The Kingston Gazette), two abolitionist newspapers from Southern Ontario (The Provincial Freeman and The Voice of The Fugitive), and unique titles for topics such as Great Lakes shipping (The Marine Record) and visual sources for 19th century Canadian history (The Canadian Illustrated News). INK is a project of Our Digital World (ODW) that brings together over 200 years of newspaper titles. 50 community newspapers are presented, representing over 96,000 complete issues, and over 1 million full pages of English and French content.

Playwrights Canada Press

Over 170 plays from established and emerging Canadian playwrights.

Repère

Publication coverage: 1980 - present

Repère is an index to articles from the most widely read French-language periodicals distributed in Quebec.

Toronto Star

Publication coverage: 1894 - approx. 3 years ago

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