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July 26, 2005The 1911 Canadian Census Online
Okay, the good news is that the 1911 Canadian Census is available online. The bad news is that it's only searchable by geographic location and is not searchable by name. You can check it out at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1911/index-e.html . The search...
June 29, 2005Topix.Net Adds Canadian News
Topix.net has announced that they have added new Canadian content; a dedicated channel for Canada and local news for over 4,200 Canadian cities and towns. You can check out the Canadian news page at http://topix.net/ca . You can also search...
September 21, 2004Google Local Canada
I must have missed it somewhere, but Google is also offering an Canadian version of its Google Local search. Google Local Canada's available at http://local.google.ca . Searches are provided within a kilometer instead of a mile radius, but other than...
August 02, 2004Toronto Star Archives Available; 1945 Free
The Toronto Star has digitized its archives -- 1892-2001 -- and made them available online in a searchable archive. And while you have to pay to search the whole thing (you can buy subscriptions for five hours, 48 hours, or...
Continue reading "Toronto Star Archives Available; 1945 Free" » February 26, 2004New Guide to Researching Aboriginal Genealogy in Canada
Library and Archives Canada has added a new guide, Researching Your Aboriginal Ancestry at Library and Archives Canada, to its virtual Canadian Genealogy Centre. The new guide is available at http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/02/020501a_e.html and is in HTML and PDF. The guide is...
Continue reading "New Guide to Researching Aboriginal Genealogy in Canada" » November 19, 2003Canadian Government Now Offering RSS Feeds
You GO, Canada. The government of Canada is now offering RSS feeds. (Apparently they've been offering them for a while, but a reader just clued me in.) The feeds are available at http://tinyurl.com/vrh7 . All the feeds I saw were...
Continue reading "Canadian Government Now Offering RSS Feeds" » October 23, 2003Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The English version of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online is available at http://www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html . I'm not providing the main URL because it's a) pretty much all Flash and b) you have to click in the EXACT right spot to...
Continue reading "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online" » October 18, 2003Blogs In Canada
Blogging north of the border? BlogsCanada ( http://www.blogscanada.ca/ ) is a directory of over 6700 Canadian blogs arranged by category. The site looks a bit strange in Opera but fine in IE. From the front page choose "Directory." You'll get...
August 22, 2003Historical Photographs of Vancouver
Special Collections at the Vancouver Public Library has added 1500 new images to their Historical Photographs Database at http://collections.ic.gc.ca/vancouver/index.html . These new photographs depict life in Vancouver between 1900- 1910, though I saw photographs in my search of the collection...
July 23, 2003Canadian Genealogy Centre Offers 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization Lists
The Canadian Genealogy Centre is offering a new database of immigrants who received Canadian naturalization certificates, which were published in the Canada Gazette between 1915 and 1932. It's available at http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/01/010203_e.html . You can search this database by given name,...
Continue reading "Canadian Genealogy Centre Offers 1915-1932 Canadian Naturalization Lists" » November 06, 2002Oh Canada 1901 Census
Wow, it's been a great couple of weeks for online census data, hasn't it? And it's only getting better. The National Archives of Canada have announced an online version of the 1901 census. The snag is that you can't search...
November 04, 2002Project Underway To Create Database of Canadian War Dead Graves
The Maple Leaf Legacy Project ( http://www.mapleleaflegacy.ca/ ) is an immense project to "photograph or obtain a photograph of every Canadian War Grave of the 20th Century." This includes Canadians who served in British units and Americans who served in...
Continue reading "Project Underway To Create Database of Canadian War Dead Graves" » October 29, 2002The Waldren Studios Feature Nova Scotia Photographs
The Waldren Studios, at http://www.library.da l.ca/archives/waldren/ , feature photographs taken in Nova Scotia between 1870 and 1940. The collection consists of about 35,000 images on glass plate and film negatives. Search by title, subject, description, location or keyword. Note that...
Continue reading "The Waldren Studios Feature Nova Scotia Photographs" » August 27, 2002Metadata in Forestry in Canada
The Canadian Forest Service Library Network has started a meta- search of forestry resources at http://metafore2.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca . This site searches a catalog of over a million documents in the seven libraries in the network (libraries are located in Victoria British...
August 21, 2002The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History
A collection of materials about the history of Northwestern Ontario are available at the Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History, http://www.nextlibrary.com/tbpl/home.html . After you get past the "Do you want English or French?" splash page, you'll get to a main page...
Continue reading "The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History" » January 31, 2002Choo-Choo, Eh?
(Wow, that was a painful headline. In my defense, I must note that it is Monday.) You like trains? You like Canada? Check out Rails Canada at http://www.railscanada.com/. This site is a searchable subject index of Canadian-railroad related sites, with...
October 11, 2001Canada Encyclopedia Now Available Online
The Canada Encyclopedia is now available free online at http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ . A simple keyword search is at the top of the site's main page or you can do an advanced search. (Advanced search appears in a popup window and seems...
Continue reading "Canada Encyclopedia Now Available Online" » January 31, 2001Canadian Magazine Search Engine Launched
A Canadian magazine search engine was recently launched at http://www.magomania.com/english/ . According to the press release, the site contains information about over 300 Canadian magazines, as well as an archive of freely-available articles. Articles can be keyword searched, and the...
Continue reading "Canadian Magazine Search Engine Launched" » August 25, 1998Yo Canada!
Yo Canada! Find out all about Montreal at http://www.montrealinfo.com ....
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