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Canada
Archives and Libraries
- Canadian Library Gateway
- CCA Directory of Archival Repositories at the Canadian Council of Archives.
- Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. Home to the Jean and Dorothy Newman Industrial Relations Library. General information.
- Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878 A digital collection of 90 petitions relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick. In addition to the digitized petitions the website also features learning activities for teachers and students, contextual materials, a gallery of contemporary images, and a comprehensive bibliography; from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Dalhousie University Libraries - Special Collections Listings of its archives which include the Nova Scotia Labour Archives.
- Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries at the National Library of Canada.
- Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources at the National Library of Canada.
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Holdings information.
- Killam Library at Dalhousie University. Business and labour archives from Atlantic Canada. General holdings information.
- Library and Archives Canada
- Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Documents "relating to the history of sea-based activities in the North Atlantic region". Extensive holdings information, online catalogue.
- Robert S. Kenny Collection at the University of Toronto Library. A diverse collection covering many aspects of radicalism in Canada. The primary focus of the collection is Communism in Canada during the period 1919 to the mid-seventies.
- Stauffer Library - Queen's University Library (Kingston, Canada) The humanities and social sciences library at Queen's University includes most of the May Ball Library collection on industrial relations.
- University of British Columbia Manuscript Collections Information on the labour and business records, especially in fishing, foresting and mining.
- University of Saskatchewan University Library Special Collections: Major Collections See also the Special Resources section for Aboriginal studies, Herstory and Doukhobors, a small sect of Russian pacifist dissenters, in Canada.
Research Institutions
Museums
- Canada Museum of Science and Technology Corporation The aim of the Corporation and its three Museums - the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum - is to foster scientific and technological literacy throughout Canada by establishing, maintaining and developing a collection of scientific and technological objects, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada, and by demonstrating the products and processes of science and technology and their economic, social and cultural relationships with society.
- Cape Breton Miners' Museum (Glace Bay, Nova Scotia). General information
- Nova Scotia Museum of Industry (Stellarton). General information.
- Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (Hamilton). General information.
Associations and Societies
Special Topics
- Black History Canada An annotated guide to online resources on the history of Canada's black community. Its topics include enslavement, black settlement, Caribbean and African immigration, and equity and human rights.
- Canada's Unique Social History Educational website on the history of social welfare and social work. It contains hundreds of pages of text, audio lectures, videos, and photographs. Part of a larger site on social work and welfare in Canada maintained by Steven Hick, Ottawa, Ontario.
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing / l'Association canadienne pour l'histoire du nursing (CAHN/ACHN) General information, newsletter, a Guide to Canadian Nursing Archival Resources
- Canadian Labour History at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. A multimedia presentation.
- Canadian Labour History Bibliography at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Updated quarterly.
- Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878 A digital collection of 90 petitions relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick. In addition to the digitized petitions the website also features learning activities for teachers and students, contextual materials, a gallery of contemporary images, and a comprehensive bibliography; from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Cradle of Collective Bargaining: History of Labour and Technology in Hamilton and District A visual history of the rise of trade unionism in Hamilton and the changing conditions of work in the city from the early decades of the century through to the 1950s. It is based on the photographic collection housed in the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and supplemented with photos and written documents drawn from union archives held at the University library.
- Early Chinese Canadians 1858-1947 A website devoted to Canada's early Chinese immigrants, covering the period 1858 to 1947; from the Library and Archives of Canada (LAC).
- Immigration and Ethnic History Society Aims to promote the study of the history of immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world, including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants.
- In Their Words: The Story of BC Packers A history of the British Columbia Packers Limited, Steveson, once the largest fishing and fish processing company in British Columbia. The website features interviews with men and women employees of BC Packers. (Macromedia Flash Player).
- Institute for Anarchist Studies (Canterbury, Quebec). A nonprofit foundation established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is primarily a grant-giving organization for radical writers. Publisher of a biannual newsletter, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory.
- North American Anarchist Studies Network - l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN)
- On the Job A century of Canadians at work. Photographic exhibition at the Library and Archives Canada.
- Social Progress Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. "The story of how Canadians worked to advance social progress": Canadian labour history, the history of the vote, the history of public pensions.
Journals
Reference
- Canadian Statistics Selection of summary tables providing an overview of statistical information on Canada?s people, economy and governments.
- History of Coal Mining in Nova Scotia This website, maintained by Gary W. Ellerbrok, contains transcripts of existing old publications, historical editorials based on research, photographs, diagrams and plans. The information comes from the Cape Breton Development Corporation, the Beaton Institute, and the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources.
Last updated 28 January 2014 |
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