Links

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Archives of Ontario

• The Black Canadian Experience in Ontario 1834-1914: Flight, Freedom, Foundation
• Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada
• The Freedom Seeker: The Life and Times of Daniel G. Hill
• French Ontario in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries
• Images of Black History: Exploring the Alvin McCurdy Collection

Canadian Heritage Information Network

• Auswanderer to Canadians: Diverse Journeys Germany-Canada, 1940-1975
• Emigration from Lower Saxony, Germany, to Canada around 1750
• Emigration from Schwaben-Neuburg, Germany to Canada, 1849-1851
• The Family Reflects: The Effects of German to Canada Migration
• First Emigration Wave: 1750-1752, Germany to Canada
• People Born in Germany: Maps of Canada, 1931-1996
• Rhine: Migration Highway to the Sea, Germany to Canada 1750-1752 

Canadian Historical Association

• Immigration and Ethnicity in Canada Booklet Series

Canadian Museum of History

• Boat People No Longer: Vietnamese Canadians
• Chris Bennedsen: Scrapbook of a Life in Letters
• Citizens – Portraits of Canadian Women of African Descent
• Crossroads of Culture: Exploring 200 Years of Canadian Immigration, 1800-2000
• The Lands Within Me: Expressions by Canadian Artists of Arab Origin
• The Last Best West: Advertising for Immigrants to Western Canada, 1870-1930
• Presenza: A New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage

CBC Digital Archives

• Boat People: A Refugee Crisis
• Chinese Immigration to Canada: A Tale of Perseverance
• Promised Land
• Seeking Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers

City of Toronto Archives

• Black History in Toronto
• Caribbean Connection: One Man’s Crusade
• Chinese History in Toronto

Community and Individual Initiatives

• A One Way Ticket: Red Lake’s Immigration Story
• According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community
• Arrivals.ca
• African Canadian Workers: From the Second World War to 1960
• Back Lane Studios
• Baldwin Street Gallery: Photography 1960s & 1970s
• Bill Gladstone.ca (website of historian and genealogist Bill Gladstone primarily on the history of the Jewish community in Toronto)
• British Home Children in Canada
• Cal Best
• Canadian Orange Historical Site
• Canadian War Brides
• Cosmopolis Toronto
• The Croatian Canadian Internment Project
• Dutch Heritage in Prince Edward County
• Echoes of the Old Durham Road
• Effect of Quakers on the Development of Newmarket
• “Enemy Aliens”: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-1943
• The First Black Doctor in Canada: Anderson Ruffin Abbott
• Freedom City: Uncovering Toronto’s Black History
• The French Connection
• From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration
• Gallery of the Portuguese Pioneers
• General Eclectic: Oral Histories from Kensington Market
• Harbord Village History
• Heritage of the Jewish Religion in Ottawa
• Historical Brief of Chinese Canadians in Ottawa Ontario Canada
• The History of Toronto’s Y.M.H.A.
• Immigrant Children
• Immigrants to Canada
• The Indochinese Refugee Movement 1975-80
• Ireland Park Foundation – Toronto Irish Famine Memorial
• Italian Canadians as Enemy Aliens: Memories of World War II
• Japanese Canadian History
• The Jewish Community of Lowertown, Ottawa
• Kensington Alive! A Pictorial History of Kensington Market in Toronto, Canada
• Kirkland Lake: A Jewish History
• Let’s Talk Aurora: Interviews with residents about our history
• Lives of the Family in Ottawa and Nearby Small Towns
• Mennonite Memories of Pelee Island, Ontario, 1925-1950
• Murder in Navan
• Ontario’s Small Jewish Communities
• Open Hearts – Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project
• Ottawa: Ukrainian Reflections
• Our Little Italy: Preston Street, Ottawa, Ontario
• Our Stories: Remembering Niagara’s Proud Black History
• Pathways to Toronto
• The Petworth Emigration Project
• Picturing the Ward
• Polish Heritage in Canada
• Portuguese Canadian Walk of Fame
• The Ragnarokr Cordwainery: The History of an American exile community in Toronto, 1968-1996
• Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection
• The Rosina Project: Bloorcourt
• Sedai: The Japanese Canadian Legacy Project
• A Sense of Belonging: Somali Settlement Experiences in Canada
• The Souls of Black Folk: Hamilton’s Stewart Memorial Community
• Spadina iTour
• The Tale of a Town
• Toronto Multicultural Calendar (cultural blog managed by travel writer and photographer Ruth Lor Malloy)
• Toronto’s Central Neighbourhood House: 100 Years in the Making
• Toronto’s First Synagogues
• The Underground Railroad: Finding Freedom in the Niagara Region
• Virtual Museum of Franco-Ontarian Heritage
• The World in Ten Blocks

Community Museums, Archives and Heritage Organizations

• Amherstburg Freedom Museum – Amherstburg
• Anderson Farm Museum – Lively
• Baltic Heritage Network – Toronto  (See in particular the virtual exhibits.)
• Black History Ottawa – Ottawa
• British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa – Ottawa
• Buxton National Historic Site and Museum – North Buxton (See in particular the virtual exhibits.)
• Canadian Friends Historical Association – Newmarket
• Canadian Immigration Historical Society – Ottawa
• Canadian Jewish Heritage Network
• Canadian Macedonian Historical Society – Toronto
• Canadian Polish Research Institute – Toronto
• Canadian Quaker Archives and Library – Newmarket
• Canadian Slovenian Historical Society – Etobicoke
• Centre franco-ontarien de folklore – Sudbury
• Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society Black Mecca Museum – Chatham
• Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society – Vancouver
• Danish Canadian Museum – Spruce View, Alberta
• Estonian Canadian Historical Commission – Toronto
• Friends of the Finnish Labour Temple – Thunder Bay
• German-Canadian History and Culture (includes the German-Canadian Historical Association, German-Canadian Heritage Museum and Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada)
• John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum – Windsor
• Joseph Schneider Haus National Historic Site – Kitchener
• Kensington Market Historical Society – Toronto
• Lithuanian Museum-Archives of Canada – Mississauga
• Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario – Waterloo
• Museum of Jewish Montreal – Montreal
• Ontario Black History Society – Toronto
• Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre – Toronto (See in particular the virtual exhibits.)
• Ottawa Jewish Archives – Ottawa
• Ottawa Jewish Historical Society – Ottawa
• Pennsylvania German Folklore Society of Ontario – Waterloo/Markham/Jordan
• Serbian Heritage Museum – Windsor
• Sheffield Park Black History and Cultural Museum – Clarksburg
• Sien Lok Society – Calgary
• Sikh Heritage Museum of Canada – Mississauga
• Slovak Canadian Heritage Museum – Oshawa
• Taras Shevchenko Museum – Toronto
• Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society – Thunder Bay
• Toronto Ward Museum – Toronto
• Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Ontario Branch – Toronto
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site – Dresden
• VEMO Museum of Estonians Abroad – Toronto
• Vietnamese Boat People Museum – Ottawa
• Wilno Heritage Society and Polish Kashub Heritage Museum & Skansen – Wilno

Documentaries

• A Scattering of Seeds: The Creation of Canada (a series of 52 documentary films on immigrants to Canada)

Ethnocultural and Migration University Research Centres

• Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (See in particular the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre.)
• Centre de recherche en civilisation française, University of Ottawa
• Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
• Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, University of the Fraser Valley
• Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities, University of Ottawa
• Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
• Centre for Scottish Studies, University of Guelph
• Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada, York University
• Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba
• Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto (includes Toronto Korean-Language Newspapers)
• Culinaria Research Centre, University of Toronto Scarborough
• David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communication, Simon Fraser University  (See in particular the Chinese Canadian History Public Education Project.)
• Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies, University of Toronto
• Greek Canadian History Project, York University
• Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, York University
• Institute for Diaspora Research and Engagement, Simon Fraser University
• Institut franco-ontarien, Laurentian University
• Institute of Italian Studies, Lakehead University
• Italian Canadian Archives Project, Lakehead University and York University
• International Migration Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies, York University
• Mennonite Archives of Ontario, University of Waterloo
• Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage, University of Saskatchewan
• Portuguese Canadian History Project, York University (See in particular the virtual exhibits St. Christopher House, 1912-2012: a century of social services in Toronto, Comunidade newspaper, 1975-1979. Part 1: Records and commentary, Comunidade newspaper, 1975-1979. Part 2: Video interviews, Gilberto Prioste: photographing the community, 1978-1981, and Portuguese women in Toronto’s cleaning industry, 1970-1990.)
• Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of Toronto
• Robert F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, University of Toronto
• Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement, Ryerson University
• Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, University of British Columbia
• Waterloo Centre for German Studies, University of Waterloo
• Western Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Western University
• York Centre for Asian Research, York University

Historica Canada / Canadian Encyclopedia

• Asia/Canada
• Asia-Canada Timeline
• Asian Heritage in Canada
• Black Female Freedom Fighters
• Black History Canada
• Black History Timeline
• Hogan’s Alley
• Immigration and the Communities of Canada
• Passages Canada
• Southeast Asian Refugees: A Long Journey to Freedom
• Toronto in Time – A City for All
• Toronto in Time – Immigrant Toronto
• Vancouver Asahi

Learning Associations and Teaching Centres

• ActiveHistory.ca (See in particular the podcast section.)
• Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia (includes the Historical Thinking Project) 
• The Critical Thinking Consortium (See in particular Immigrant Experiences.)
• Facing History and Ourselves
• HerstoriesCafe
• The History Education Network
• Ontario History and Social Sciences Teachers’ Association

Library and Archives Canada

• The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada
• The Early Chinese Canadians, 1858-1947
• Ethno-Cultural Groups (includes databases, research aids, etc.)
• Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory – The Canadian Mosaic
• Home Children (podcast)
• Home Children, 1869-1932
• Immigration (includes databases, research aids, etc.)
• In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Ile, 1832-1937
• The Kids’ Site of Canadian Settlement
• Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience
• Project Naming
• Project Naming and Canada’s North (podcast)
• The Shamrock and the Fleur-de-Lys (podcast)
• The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf: Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
• Under a Northern Star

MHSO-Partner Websites

• Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers
• Heritage Toronto Diversity Stories
• Interracial Intimacies: Sex and Race in Toronto 1910 to 1950
• Multicultural Canada

Migration History Museums, Centres and Initiatives

• Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Halifax  (See in particular the Culture Trunks.)
• Child Migrant Stories: Voices Past and Present – London, UK
• DOMiD, Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany – Cologne, Germany
• Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration – New York, USA
• The Emigration Museum – Gdynia, Poland
• Immigration History Research Center and Archives, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, USA
• Immigration Museum – Melbourne, Australia
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum – New York, USA
• Migration Museum – Adelaide, Australia
• Migration Museum Project – London, UK
• Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England – Surrey, UK

Ontario Heritage Trust

• Slavery to Freedom
• Snapshots of Franco-Ontarian Heritage
• Snapshots of Ontario’s Sports Heritage

Oral History University Centres

• Centre for Memory and Testimony Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
• Centre for Oral History and Tradition, University of Lethbridge
• Oral History Centre, University of Winnipeg

Parks Canada

• On the Road North: Black Canada and Journey to Freedom

SSHRC-Funded University Projects

• Borderlands, Transnationalism, and Migration in North America, York University
• Borders in Globalization, University of Victoria
• Counter Cultures Network: Exploring the Chinese Shopkeeping Diaspora, Ryerson University
• Elders’ Digital Storytelling Research Project, Simon Fraser University
• The Family Camera Network, Western University
• The Lakehead Finns – The Working Class 1867-1962: Hard Work Conquers All, Lakehead University
• Landscapes of Injustice, University of Victoria
• Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and Other Human Rights Violations, Concordia University 
• Stories of Homeland, Violence and Migration: Memories and Histories of Refugees in Manitoba, 1945 to the Present, University of Winnipeg

Torontoist

• A Killer on the Loose
• Banning Little Black Sambo
• Bombs on Spadina Road
• Bridge of Sighs
• Chinatowns
• The Church on Cecil Street
• Citizenship and Character
• Come Out to Caribana ’67
• Disaster at Hogg’s Hollow
• Dr. Bernardo’s Children
• Fair Play for Sikh Pioneers?
• Forgotten Urban Squalor of the Ward
• Greektown on the Danforth
• Hometown Rivals
• “The House He’s Earned”
• The KKK Took My Baby Away
• Nights Out at the Naaz Theatre
• Public History and William Peyton Hubbard
• Sewing the Seeds of Discontent
• Sounds of Home I
• Sounds of Home II
• Third World Books and Crafts
• Torn Between the Synagogue and the Concert Hall
• Toronto’s First Mosques
• Toronto’s Lost Soul and Reggae Stars Revisited
• Toronto’s Yiddish Playhouse

University-Led Initiatives and Networks

• CERIS (Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement), York University
• Chinese Canadian Stories, University of British Columbia
• East Asian and Asian-Canadian Collections, University of Victoria
• Ethnography Lab – Kensington Market, University of Toronto
• Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection, University of British Columbia
• Komagata Maru: Continuing the Journey, Simon Fraser University