Contributors

These memory institutions have kindly contributed their digital collection catalogues with links for each item to their online collections. The Canadiana Discovery Portal can search all these collections at once to find all items that meet your search request including -- books, newspapers, government documents, journals, photographs, audio and videos.

The number of Contributors and sizes of online digital collections of Canadian content is growing, so check back often.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

In honour of its 100th anniversary, the Agriculture Canada Library has contributed a digital collection consisting of departmental publications that showcase the Canadian Department of Agriculture’s history, organization and work.

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec 

BAnQ is moving towards digitizing the whole of the published and archival documentary heritage produced in Québec since the 17th century, or of foreign origin and related to Québec.  more....

Calgary Public Library

The Calgary Public Library has contributed over 5000 images of cities, towns and other scenery in Alberta, dating from 1900 to the modern era.

Canadiana.org 

Canadiana has made approximately 1.5 million pages from its Early Canadiana Online collection accessible through the Canadiana Discovery Portal.

Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada - Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada (DFAIT) 

A collection of DFAIT Press releases and Statements and Speeches from 1949 to 1995.

Library and Archives Canada - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (LAC)

LAC has contributed part of their MIKAN collection, a wide-ranging repository of Canadian images, covering many aspects of Canadian life between 1850 and 1950.

Manitobia

Manitobia has supplied information about the province and its people, first-hand accounts from letters, memoirs and diaries, drawings, maps and photos - all of which record the early development of the province. Also included is a rich archive of Manitoba newspapers, with issues dating back to the late 19th. century.

Memorial University

The Memorial University's Digital Archives Initiative (DAI) is a gateway to the learning and research-based cultural resources held by Memorial University and partnering organizations.  more....

The National Gallery of Canada

The National Gallery of Canada has contributed 51 Albums of photographs and drawings of Canadian cities from the late 19th and early 20th century as well as a selection of exhibition catalogues from the same time period.

Queen's University

Metadata for several years of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering.

Scholars Portal/University of Toronto

Scholars Portal and University of Toronto have provided access to about 300,000 digitized books as part of their Internet Archives project.

Simon Fraser University

SFU has provided access to The Chinese Times daily newspaper, published in Vancouver from 1914 to 1992. more....

Toronto Public Library

A collection of images and photographs of Toronto and other Ontario municipalities to approximately 1950.

University of Alberta 

U of A has contributed access to their Peel's Prairie Provinces collection. It contains an online bibliography of books, pamphlets and other materials related to the development of the Prairies, as well as a searchable full-text collection of many of these items. more....

University of British Columbia

The UBC contribution to the Canadiana Discovery Portal consists of the British Columbia History Digital Collections, containing historical images, diaries, books, newspapers, audio and video recordings, manuscripts and other publications. Metadata from a recently digitized collection of historic BC newspapers was added to the Canadiana Discovery Portal in November 2011. More...

University of Saskatchewan  

An eclectic collection of digitized items including poetry, Saskatchewan post cards, magazines, books, paintings and historical documents generally with a Saskatchewan connection.

University of Victoria

U Vic has contributed metadata of a collection of approximately 7,000 Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia from the period 1846-1871. They provide a fascinating insight to the important issues of the day, from treatment of the Native population to military tactics and general governance matters.

Vancouver Public Library  

A collection of over 15,000 historic images, mostly of Vancouver and its surrounding area, covering many subject matters.

Alouette Canada   

Member organizations of the former AlouetteCanada have made significant contributions to the Canadiana Discovery Portal on a wide variety subjects and in various formats, including books, audio and video recordings, posters, photographs and other images.
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How to contribute digital information to the Canadiana Discovery Portal

At this point, Canadiana is only set-up to receive metadata contributions from institutions such as universities, museums, libraries, art galleries and metadata aggregators at the provincial level. Future plans, however, do include providing the capability for private individuals to contribute digital information.

Canadiana wants to make contributing your metadata for indexing into the Discovery Portal as easy as possible. If you have an OAI repository, simply send us a link to the repository root along with any special instructions you might have about which collections you'd like us to index or ignore, or what metadata format(s) you recommend, and we'll begin harvesting.

Alternatively, you can send us your metadata in whatever format you've got and we'll get to work on it. We can handle any standard format (such as MODS, MARCXML, Dublin Core) but we'll work with whatever you've got as best we can.

Canadiana will index both bibliographic metadata and full text (e.g. OCR) if you have it. If the text is separate from the bibliographic record, we may need some further coordination or discussion in order for us to be able to match the text with the appropriate metadata and page URLs.

Organizations wishing to contribute metadata to the Canadiana Discovery Portal should contact us at 613 235-2628 ext.231 or e-mail us at info@canadiana.ca