, 1787-1966  The Ship Registration Index Database (SRI) contains more than 78,000 entries of ships registered in ports of Canada between 1787 and 1966. Through this research tool, you can obtain information about a ship such as its name, its type, its official number, the year and port of registration, where...

 c 1759 to WWI  Leap into the pages of old books and travel through Ontario history from the 1750s to World War I!

   Virginia Woolf (Jan. 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was one of the most influential writers of her day and continues to fire the popular imagination. 

   George Baxter said of his prints, "while their artistic beauty may procure for them a place in the Royal palaces throughout Europe, the prices at which they are retailed introduces them to the humblest cottages."

   Books exhibited are from the Wesleyana Special Collection of Victoria University.

   This exhibition was mounted to commemorate the centenary of Annesley Hall at Victoria University

   Victoria University Library owns a comprehensive collection of Northrop Frye's books, manuscripts, and personal papers.

   Claire Pratt, artist, poet and editor was born in Toronto in 1921. She was the daughter of Viola Whitney (a writer and editor of the magazine World Friends) and E.J. Pratt (noted poet and educator). At the age of four Claire contracted polio and subsequently developed osteomyelitis, an...

   An informative and aesthetic exhibit sampling the impressive Canadian Manuscript collections held within the library. From the early nineteenth century missionary, James Evans, to the seminal geologist, A.P. Coleman, to the medical doctor and suffrage worker, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, this selection...

   In May 1968 France experienced a political and social upheaval that shook the regime to its foundations. Student unrest in the late 60's was a world-wide phenomenon, fueled by American protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam and by sympathy for Latin American revolutionaries such as Fidel...

   Defined as the documents of everyday life intended for short-term use and disposal, ephemera comprises a wide range of printed and handwritten material, including pamphlets, newspapers, calendars, greeting cards, posters, advertising novelties, packaging and other treasures rescued from the...

   This exhibition honours the memory of Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman and commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of her founding of the Virginia Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Collection at Victoria University Library.

   Thomas Edward Lawrence, popularly known as 'Lawrence of Arabia', was more than the dashing soldier of fortune depicted in David Lean's film.

   Our exhibit of Baxter's art portrays the image of the world of Baxter's time. The Early Prints, the Missionary Prints, the Needle-box Prints, the Portraits, the Coronation, and the Exteriors and Landscape prints are all represented.

   This exhibition, in celebration of the gift of the Bentley Collection to Victoria University, necessarily presents a limited, yet representative, selection from its riches. The exhibition and catalogue notes show aspects of Blake's social, artistic and business relationships with important members...

   A First Nations portal and website. This is where your stories live. Watch, Listen and Look at the stories submitted by people just like you. You can Create Content and Record your own video or Invite other to join.

   An interactive history website about Champlain's explorations and travels in French Canada.

   The On-line Library enables you to verify if a publication is available in one of our 13 research centres across the province of Ontario.

   Visit Brock University Archives' virtual exhibit at ARCHEION, featuring items from the archives of the Women's Literary Club of St. Catharines. Find minutes of the first meeting in 1892, an early treasurer's report, a photograph of the members, a commemorative program, a postcard, an essay, and a...

   In January of 2002 the Library hosted a birthday celebration for its namesake, James A. Gibson, Founding President of Brock University. Visit the 90th birthday photo exhibit and find out more about this distinguished Canadian.

   A history of Brock University listed by event, date and decade.

   In 1919, there was a universal feeling that the heroic efforts of the sons of Queens in the Great War should be memorialized by some fitting and permanent monument.

   John Buchan was Governor General of Canada from 1935 until his death in 1940. His private papers, along with his personal library, were acquired by Queen's University, through the generosity of Colonel & Mrs. Robert McLaughlin of Oshawa; the purchase being orchestrated through the good offices of...

   This site, launched in conjunction with Asian Heritage Month 2003, highlights some of the achievements of Canadians of Asian heritage.

   The Lowenthal Dance Collection was acquired through the joint efforts of the Ryerson Library and Ryerson's Dance Program. The collection represents a broad cross-section of dance forms and includes biographical, critical, pictorial and philosophical discourses on dance. This virtual exhibition is...

   A selection of images found in the archival collections of Ryerson University, representing people, places, events and activities from Ryerson's history.

   The story of a Canadian Nurse in World War I

   The story of the designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock

   This site contains a selection of items pertaining to the Honourable John Beverley Robinson which are located in our Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani fonds (94-016 and 97-003) at Trent University Archives.

   Memorabilia from and about the women pioneers of Peterborough County

   Precambrian Sublime: Bauhaus in the New World

   Collection of correspondence of Alfred Tennyson DeLury.

   History, water colours and diaries of Harriet Pengelley.

   The Winnett Boyd Papers consist of correspondence, drawings, research notes and patent applications of Winnett Boyd, aero-engine designer and nuclear power engineer.

   Photographs and text about he beginnings of Trent University.

   Photographs 1840-1920, examples from the Trent University Archives.

   Trent University Archives holds a wonderful fonds known as the Geale-Rogers Papers that includes over 1000 photographs in these papers, many of them taken by Rogers during the course of his work on various sections of the Trent Canal.

   The Jacobite era spanned a number of important political, religious, and socio-economic events in Scottish history: the establishment of Presbyterianism as the national church (1688-89) again; the ill-fated Darien Colony scheme in 1695; and the Act of Union (1707) with England that provided...

   John Galt (1779 - 1839) was born in Irvine, Scotland, and died at Greenock. He was the author of over 80 books, but is best known for his initiative in forming "The Canada Company" who purchased crown land in Ontario, Canada (then called Upper Canada) and sold it to settlers. Galt was the first...

   Celebration in photos of the MacDonald Institute