What's New? 
Thursday, May 17, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
The Friends of Library and Archives Canada Present...
Joseph Scanlon, professor emeritus and director of the Emergency Communications Research Unit (ECRU) at Carleton University, will present his research and use of archival materials to show the evolution of his folk song research. His presentation will include songs about death and disaster as well as 43 folk songs in seven languages about the Titanic.
Click here for more information about this Ottawa event and to register.
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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.
 Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia and the fabled Yukon Territory experienced gold rushes during the latter half of the 19th century.
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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