Suggested Sources for Finding Articles
- America : History & Life This link opens in a new window
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America History and Life contains citations, with abstracts to social science and humanities literature on all aspects of U.S. and Canadian history, culture and current affairs from prehistoric times to the present.
Maximum of 6 simultaneous users. - Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new window
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This database, with 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines. - Canadiana This link opens in a new window
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Canadiana is a bilingual digital library of primary (source) documents of early Canadian printed publications including books, annuals and periodicals. Over 1,300 sources (including 350 titles from outside the U.S.) are indexed and abstracted. Of these, 600 are available in full text.
Formerly known as Early Canadiana Online. - Canadiana Heritage Project This link opens in a new window
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The Héritage project is a 10-year initiative to digitize and make accessible online some of Canada’s most popular archival collections encompassing roughly 60 million pages of primary-source documents. Chronicling the country and its people from the 1600s to the mid-1900s, this collection represents a vast and unique resource for Canadian historians, students, and genealogists. - CPI.Q Canadian Periodicals Index This link opens in a new window
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CPI.Q is Gale’s award-winning full-text resource specifically designed to provide instant access to the most requested Canadian reference materials. Covering a wide range of disciplines, CPI.Q is the perfect one-stop resource for researchers in need of information from Canadian-focused journals, magazines, newspapers and reference sources.
CPI.Q features a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals, Canada’s national newspaper The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s weekly magazine and Canadian News Facts as well as comprehensive encyclopedic reference material. - Maclean's Magazine Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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Maclean’s Magazine Digital Archive, offering content from 1905-2015, a Canadian news and general interest magazine, provides a unique perspective on both national and international affairs. Topics include investigative reporting, opinion and analysis on politics, economy and business, science and technology, society, arts and culture, education and work. It was initially known as then The Busy Man’s Magazine from 1896-1911, with a couple of 1905 issues published as The Business Magazine, and then changed to the current title, Maclean’s, in 1911. - Archindont (Architectural Index for Ontario) This link opens in a new window
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Archindont is a database of architectural information and citations about buildings in Toronto and Ontario appearing in selected books, non-Canadian periodicals and local (Toronto) newspapers.
If using Search Everything from the TMU Library home page, the default setting excludes non-electronic content. Some journals remain print-only or are only partially digitized. Subject specific indexing and abstracting tools like America: History & Life will also identify resources that you can request through our Inter-library Loan Service.
Newspaper Resources
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Globe and Mail This link opens in a new window
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1844 - 2020 - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star This link opens in a new window
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1894 - 2021 - Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
There are numerous initiatives to digitize the text of local newspapers as well as the photographs and negatives of newspapers and news agencies. Additionally, the amount of indexing of historic newspapers continues to increase.Some relevant initiatives follow:
General
- Canadian News Online links to online resources maintained by Library and Archives Canada
- Canada Gazette (1941-1997) via Library and Archives Canada
- Canada Gazette (1998- )
- CanGenealogy Historical Newspapers
- Multicultural Canada - this project contains some digitized newspapers
Ontario
- INK OWD (Our Digital World) Newspaper Collection
- Ontario Community Newspapers
- The Globe and Mail photographic archive fonds (1922-1953) at the City of Toronto Archives. Almost 32,000 of the 140,000 negatives have been digitized.
- Toronto Telegram (1876-1971) The photographic archive of "The Tely" is being digitized by York University's Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. Inventory of the Toronto Telegram Fonds
The Google News Archive was live from 2006-2011. The addition of new content and access to the home page was discontinued in August 2011 according to an entry in Wikipedia. You can still browse the content of the Google News Archive but the search function is far from ideal.
See also Carol Singer's extensive guide from Bowling Green State University Library: Historical Canadian Newspapers Online
A Sample of Books from the TMU Library Collection
Competing Modernisms: Toronto's New City Hall and Square by ISBN: 9780929112688Publication Date: 2015
Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles by ISBN: 9781442630147Publication Date: 2016
Newspaper City: Toronto's Street Surfaces and the Liberal Press, 1860-1935 by ISBN: 9781442646797Publication Date: 2017
Toronto Public Library Resources
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Toronto's 187th Birthday. Drawings of Toronto from 1854-1856 ... from the Album of Drawings and Sketches of Toronto and Surroundings. Digitized images posted to the library's Flickr site.
Toronto in the Camera: O. Thompson's Photographs of Historic Toronto. Photographs of 48 buildings taken by Octavius Thompson between 1864 and 1868.
Ontario in the Spotlight: Early Photographs of Toronto, Niagara, and Belleville. A collection of 38 photographs, chiefly "cartes de visite" collected by Henry Scadding in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Archival Resources
Archives at the local, provincial and national level may be custodians of important primary sources, particularly photographs, registers, legal documents etcetera. Some university archives also contain unpublished theses and dissertations that are not available in digital or microformat.
Archives and Special Collections LibGuide -- Toronto Metropolitan University
Archival Research Tutorial -- York University Libraries
York University holds the Toronto Telegram Fonds featuring photographic from 1930-1971 when the paper closed plus some material to 1978
Using the Archive webpage -- City of Toronto Archives. [The staff at this archive is extremely helpful to inexperienced archive users. Groups of 10-30 can book a tour and orientation to the archive.]
City of Toronto Archives
The City of Toronto Archives houses the Globe and Mail Fonds featuring photographic negatives from 1922-1953
MHSO Multicultural History Society of Ontario
Sounds Like Toronto. A project of the Virtual Museum of Canada and Heritage Toronto.
The blogTO.com website contains numerous postcards and other images. Images may be protected by copyright legislation. For further guidance, consult the TMU Library Copyright guide.