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LAC's collection includes a large number of books (more than 20 million in several languages), images (almost 30 million including photographs, prints and digital images), films (over 90 thousand including documentaries as well as silent, short and full-length films), newspaper archives, sheet music, drawings, plans, maps and other materials. [1]
[13] [16] [17] [18] LAC was established per the Library and Archives of Canada Act (Bill C-8), proclaimed on April 22, 2004, with a subsequent Order-in-Council on May 21, which formally united the collections, services, and personnel of the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada. [19]
Media in category "Images from Library and Archives Canada" The following 14 files are in this category, out of 14 total. Aerial view Canada Pavilion to Quebec Pavilion Expo 67 - LAC e000990837.jpg 356 × 279; 24 KB
The CWMA collection also provided the basis for the University of Ottawa Library's Women’s Archives which features approximately 170 archival fonds of women and organizations that worked to improve the status of women across Canada. The University of Ottawa Library Archives and Special Collections have developed several virtual exhibitions [5 ...
Library and Archives Canada (LAC), known as The Dominion Archives at the time, was founded in 1872 and tasked with acquiring documents related to Canadian history. In 1904, Arthur George Doughty , the newly-appointed Dominion Archivist, began to include maps, flags, posters, portraits and other visual records to the nation’s growing ...
Canadian Libraries is a digital collection of ebooks and texts at the Internet Archive.This collection contains over 400,000 [1] items sponsored by Canadian Library Partners: [2]
This is a list of archives in Canada. These archives , for the purposes of this list, are entities in Canada that work to acquire, preserve, and make available material as documentary evidence about a person, community, business, government, municipality, etc., for future generations. [ 1 ]