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Quebec Historical Documents & Newspapers- Quebec Research Tip #3

Here are lists of Quebec-related Online Historical Documents and Newspapers I have come across while performing data gathering searches.

Please let me know of others as you stumble upon them, so I may add them to the list here.

Getting Started with Quebec Research (from FamilySearch)
From Concordia University (Canada):
  • Early Canadiana Online: Early Canadiana Online is a digital library providing access to almost 14,000 digitized volumes comprising over 2 million pages of Canada’s printed heritage.
  • Archives Canada Digitization Projects: view historical maps, photographs, and documents.
  • Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec: BANQ’s digitization program encompasses the whole of the published and archival documentary heritage produced in Quebec since the 17th century, including printed and handwritten material, photographs, and sound recordings.
  • Canada’s Digital Collections: contains more than 600 collections mainly for youth. Includes learning materials and interactive games.
  • Canadiana Discovery Portal: search across the digital collections of Canada’s libraries, museums, and archives. Find books, journals, newspapers, government documents, photographs, maps, post cards, sheet music, audio and video files.
  • 150 Years of Canada Images: central search access to the images held on the websites of Canadian cultural institutions.
  • Les Classiques de Sciences Sociales: “une bibliothequeunique et originale dans la francophonie”. Jean-Marie Tremblay en cooperation avec l’Université du Quebec.
  • McGill University Digital Exhibitions & Collections: “…more than forty digital projects covering a wide array of subjects including, art, architecture, history and literature, engineering, medicine, maps, music, and urban design.”
  • University of Toronto Libraries Digital Collections: includes the digital collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, such as Anatomia, Papyri, and Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides.
Library & Archive of Canada (Newspapers- the largest in Canada)
Canadiana Online
French-Canadian Newspapers: An Essential Historical Source (1808-1919) (mostly single page per publication)
CanGenealogy (Historic Newspapers)
Keneder Adler (1908-1932)  (Transcribed obituaries)
Bibliotheque et Archives Nationales du Quebec

major revision: 30 Jan. 2015
18 Aug. 2018

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