Our favourite resources for Canada day

1st July was Canada Day. The National day of Canada. find out more about its history on the Canadian government website

Here are some of our favourite free resources!

Canadiana from January 2019 free access was made available to a wealth of resources. There are over 60 million digitized pages.

Valuable sub-sections include:
Government publications before 1920
Aboriginal Studies
This collection of 900 titles relating to Canada’s early First Nations Peoples was published from 1558 to 1900 in a variety of countries
Women's History
683 titles consists of the early published writings of Canadian women authors, as well as Canadian publications written about women or "women's issues". published from 1677 to 1900,

The Early Canadian Periodicals collection includes over 1,000 magazines including women’s and children’s popular magazines. This collection even includes the first magazine ever published in Canada, The Nova Scotia Magazine (1789-1792)

An other interesting site rare book site is is the pre-1930 Canadian pamphlet and broadside holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. There are over 2,00 titles covering a range of political, social and economic history topics. For example the earliest reports from 1890 include railway reports.
and the Curse of modern departmental stores!

Library and Archives Canada has a rare photographs website
To locate more consult the CNDHI- Canadian National Heritage Digital Index which focuses upon items digitised by universities, provincial and territorial libraries

For more recent items try :
The Open Government portal which includes: Open datasets