Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Book & Publishing History
Digital Collections
Early Canadiana Online
A digital collection of works in English and French published
from the time of the first European settlers up to the early twentieth century.
The collection includes colonial, provincial and federal
government publications, Jesuit relations texts, and an English Canadian literature collection
with over 800 works of drama, poetry and fiction, biography and exploration written before
1900.
It also contains early dailies, weeklies, specialized journals
and mass-market magazines published up to 1930.
Early English Books Online
Full-text digitized works printed in British North America and
the United Kingdom between 1473 and 1700. Books about Canada mainly consist of exploration
narratives and missionary accounts.
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
Full-text digitized works printed in Great Britain in the
eighteenth century, encompassing an early historical stage of Canadian writing.
Multicultural Canada
Newspapers, books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, audio
files and other materials published and created by Canada’s immigrants.
Toronto Public Library Digital Archive
A range of digitized primary source materials, including
historical maps, books, and assorted ephemera (postcards, advertisements, flyers, and
tickets).
reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI