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February 5, 2013
Preserving Canada's flavourful history
Food history has also been a major focus of Canadiana.org's acquisition and preservation efforts, resulting in a collection that reaches back to the origins of Canada’s published culinary history.
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December 3, 2012
Rare First World War government publications on Early Canadiana Online
These rare primary source materials, borrowed and digitized from Library and Archives Canada, trace the Canadian federal government's unprecedented advertising and propaganda campaign of 1918-9.
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November 10, 2012
Digitizing First World War Honour Rolls
Memorial volumes are an essential resource for investigating the attitudes, behaviours, and rituals of a society experiencing bereavement and collective trauma on a mass scale.
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November 9, 2012
New collection of First World War "trench" journals
This collection of First World War military newspapers, or "trench journals," was produced as part of the Early Canadian Periodicals project for its valuable insights into the social and cultural responses to war among Canadian expeditionary soldiers.
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November 6, 2012
New collection of early student periodicals
Drawing on a mix of microfilm and new archival material, this collection brings to the table essential resources in the history of Canadian higher education, highlighting the important contributions of college and university journalism to Canadian literature, politics, and society.
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October 10, 2012
Trusted Digital Repository certification
Drawing on a mix of microfilm and new archival material, this collection brings to the table essential resources in the history of Canadian higher education, highlighting the important contributions of college and university journalism to Canadian literature, politics, and society.
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September 30, 2012
Early women's magazines digitized by Canadiana.org
Early magazines and periodicals are prized by social sciences scholars as a window into all aspects of social life. As part of our project to preserve all Canadian magazines prior 1920, Canadiana.org has produced a collection of key women's magazines for Early Canadian Online.
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September 10, 2012
Canadiana.org repeats on Best Genealogy Websites list
For the second straight year, Family Tree Magazine has named Canadiana.org one of the 101 Best Websites for Genealogy.
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July 11, 2012
Out of the Trenches : A Linked Open Data Project
This collaborative pilot project from the Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network uses First World War records from Canada's major memory institutions to illustrate the power of linked open data and the semantic web.
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June 28, 2012
Researchers build a national portal to preserve Canada’s War of 1812 history
Canada’s research libraries are launching a platform to collect and share surviving War of 1812 heritage. The War of 1812 Digital Collection is an open-access database allowing users to search and display diverse artefacts held by Canada’s libraries, museums, and archives.
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March 22, 2012
Canadian Digital Preservation Initiative
Canadiana.org is pleased to join the Canadian Digital Preservation Initiative, a network of organizations committed to preserving long-term access to Canada’s digital resources.
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February 9, 2012
Partnership with Canada's universities renewed
Canadiana.org and 46 member libraries from the Canadian Research Knowledge Network signed a three-year Early Canadiana Online license agreement to December 2014.
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January 18, 2012
Early Canadiana Online beta release
Canadiana.org is replacing its original Early Canadiana Online research platform with a faster and more flexible site open to the public for the first time.
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November 28, 2011
British Columbia historical newspapers on the Canadiana Discovery Portal
The University of British Columbia library recently completed the digitization of historic British Columbia newspapers and has made the metadata available to Canadiana for accessing them through the Canadiana Discovery Portal.
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June 6, 2011
Canadiana.org named one of 101 Best Genealogy Websites for 2011
Family Tree Magazine, a U.S.-based publication, has named Canadiana.org as one of the top 101 websites for genealogy research.
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