Canada's printed heritage goes online

Citation

(1999), "Canada's printed heritage goes online", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 27 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.1999.12227dab.012

Canada's printed heritage goes online

Keywords Canada, Internet, History, National cultures

The Canadian project Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is now available on the Internet. This will allow users around the world to search online for some of the most significant events and people in Canada's history.

To date, the full text of some 3,200 books and pamphlets originally published between the 16th and early 20th centuries have been scanned and are now available on the Internet; one third of these will be in French. Subject areas include Canadian literature, women's history, travel and exploration, the history of French Canada and native studies.

Early Canadiana Online is a collaborative project of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM), the National Library of Canada, Laval University Library, Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec, and the University of Toronto Library.

Funding for the project has been provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Canada Millennium Partnership Program, the Royal Bank Financial Group, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Chawkers Foundation, Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Hudson Bay History Foundation, Canadian Heritage, Imasco Ltd., the Crabtree Family Foundation, the Birks Family Foundation, and the Jackman Foundation.

For further information visit the Web site at: www.canadiana.org

Source: Press release