Research Guides: Indigenous Studies: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Canadiana Online This link opens in a new window
- Full text of Canadian historical documents.
- Includes three major collections: Early Canadian Monographs, Government Publications, and Serials.
- An excellent resource for Ontario and Niagara historical documents, including primary sources.
- Terms of Use from Publisher Site
Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new window
- Find letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters in North America 1534 to 1860.
- Permitted Uses
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters This link opens in a new window
- This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920
- Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
- Permitted Uses
Heritage This link opens in a new window
- Primary-source documents covering Canadian history from the 1600s to the mid-1900s.
- Terms of Use from Publisher Site
North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
- Find biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, oral histories and other primary resources related to indigenous history and culture.
- Coverage:1790-current
- Permitted Uses