The following is a list of Web links to museums, libraries, archives, and other organizations that house broad collections of photographic archives and/or historical artifacts. Check back often for additions to the list.

Museums
General Resources
Specific Resources

Museums

Most of the museums listed under Online Document Resources offer image or multimedia materials.

Canadian Heritage Information Network. This enormous site offers tons of useful information. Artefacts Canada, for example, offers “millions of collection records and over 329,000 images from hundreds of museums across the country.”

Images Canada "provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions.” Type in a key word in the search box or browse through Image Trails or Photo Essays.

National Archives of Canada. This site offers a variety of fascinating exhibits about Canada’s past, most with a very strong visual component. You can also search ArchiviaNet databases for images, documents, and materials on specific topics.

National Gallery of Canada website provides information on the gallery’s permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Some images are included.

British Columbia Archives offer online exhibitions and an extensive online visual archive, which is fully searchable. Selected maps are also available, as is a catalogue of textual records.

UBC Archival Collections: Audio-Visual Database offers a searchable database of photographs you can view online.

Glenbow Museum is western Canada’s largest museum, encompassing an art collection, library, and archives. Use the online search tools to find archive and library records.

Archives of Ontario site offers detailed information about the archives and includes online exhibitions, as well as a searchable database of visual records.

New Brunswick Provincial Archives site includes description of the archives, searchable online database of images, and online exhibitions.

Provinacial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Gallery features historical photographs taken in the area, organized by topic.

The Picture Gallery of Quebec History offers images, along with detailed descriptions, of several places and people in Quebec history.

Other Resources

General

Google Images. Search for historical images using keywords.

HistoryLands offers multimedia virtual tours of some of Canada’s most fascinating National Historic sites.

Historical Atlas of Canada Online Learning Project offers interactive historical maps.

Map Archives can be accessed by clicking on “Map Archives” in the sidebar menu. Select the edition of the atlas in which you are interested.

Canadian Art. Part of the canadahistory.com website, these pages feature reproductions of artworks divided into three categories: Krieghoff Gallery, Group of Seven, and Canada at War.

Canadian Heritage Gallery offers reproductions of historical images.

CN Images of Canada Gallery, from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, features hundreds of images related to the technological, industrial, and agricultural development of Canada, as well as its natural resources and its people.

Specific

Early Images of Canada contains reproductions of illustrations from rare early books.

Hudson’s Bay Company’s Digital Collections feature photographs of artifacts formerly in the possession of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

History of the Hudson’s Bay Company. This site provides a succinct, illustrated history of the development and expansion of the company.

Mi’kmaq Portraits Collection. This website features hundreds of images related to the Mi’kmaq from the 1500s to the present.

Potlatch Collection, from the U’Mista Cultural Centre in British Columbia, contains over 160 images of items from potlatch ceremonies.

Religion, Society, and Culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. This site offers in-depth information on a wide range of religions in the region. Many illustrations are included.

Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians is an online exhibition about printing in Canada, since its beginning in Halifax in 1751.

Images in the News: Canadian Illustrated News, 1869–1883 offers images of people, places, and events taken from Canadian Illustrated News, a popular nineteenth-century magazine.

Group of Seven and Their Contemporaries, from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. This site includes biographies of, and reproductions of works by, the members of the Group of Seven and their associates, as well as a brief history of the Group.

The Kathleen Shackleton Gallery contains an exhibition of pastel portraits by Kathleen Shackleton (1884–1961), sister of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, of the “men and women of the North.”

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914–1920. This extensive website offers detailed information on this regrettable chapter of Canadian history, with helpful maps and photographs.

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