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The Drive for Gold
Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia and the fabled Yukon Territory experienced gold rushes during the latter half of the 19th century. Click here for more scenes from that time in the final virtual exhibition of items from the LAC’s Peter Winkworth Collection
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Popular Resources at Library and Archives Canada
Exploring military ancestors - Find out more about LAC's most popular resource |
What's Old?
Friends of Library and Archives Canada has made sizable donations to support superb new acquisitions for Library and Archives Canada collections.
The Peter Winkworth Collection
The Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana is a treasure of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, maps and other documents.
James Cook Manuscript Map
The purchase of a 1765 manuscript map by James Cook (1728-1779) of the south coast of Newfoundland between Little St. Lawrence Bay and the Bay d'Espoir
The Jacob M. Lowy Collection
The Jacob M. Lowy
Collection consists of old and rare Hebraica and Judaica
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New Acquistion for Lowy Collection
The Form of Prayers according to the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Sidur Sifte Tsadikim - New Edition
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