World Digital Library – A multilingual resource for viewing primary source materials from countries and cultures around the world.  “Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.”  An outgrowth of work between the U.S. Library of Congress and UNESCO, the project has many partners around the world.

Selected Canadian Resources:

• Immigrant Handbook for Scandinavian Settlers in Canada with descriptions of Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and B.C.
• Cosmographie: Special Features of French Antarctica, Otherwise Called America.
• Early maps of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
• And more …

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