Local history

This Virtual Archives of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) provides a platform to some of the many documents the Women's Institutes (WI) have created across the Province of Ontario since 1897. This allows the original documents to remain within their communities, while researchers across Ontario, Canada, and the world can access them electronically. They will learn about the rich communities in Ontario, conduct family research, and discover the wonderful work that has been created by WI Members.

Full text articles articles from Barrie news sources from 1847 onward. Also contains an index of births, marriages and deaths as they appeared in local newspapers.

Historic photographs and documents relating to the Town and Township of Whitby. Over 9000 images. Special exhibits.

The Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives Digital Collection offers a rich repository of local history, including photographs, documents, and records highlighting the heritage of Arnprior and McNab/Braeside and the surrounding areas. The collection aims to preserve and make accessible the community's stories and experiences.

Early Modern Maritime Recipes examines recipes circulating before 1800 in print and manuscript in the area now defined as Canada's Maritime provinces. Early modern recipe writing focused on food and medicine, but recorded a range of other practices associated with alchemy, cosmetics, veterinary, medicine, and laundry, amongst other things. These recipes are texts about knowledge exchange and social networks.

Letters written during the Cariboo Gold Rush by merchants in Victoria, British Columbia to a shipping agency in San Francisco

Ephemera published in the late nineteenth century in Vancouver

Issues of Okanagan History, an annual publication of the Okanagan Historical Society dating from 1925 onwards

Sketches drawn by Hudson's Bay Company employee Harry Bullock-Webster between 1874 and 1880, mostly in northern British Columbia, with an emphasis on Indigenous peoples

Maps of Metro Vancouver produced between 1965 and 1983