Library and Archives Canada launched its online Portrait Portal, making available nearly 15,000 high-quality digitized images from the national portrait collection. Heritage Minister James Moore (Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, BC) said the digital approach allows greater access to Canada's national documentary heritage. Call 613-293-4298.
Library and Archives Canada released immigration heritage online kits at the TD National Reading Summit III: A Reading Canada-Building a Plan, in Vancouver, BC. At the event, director general of the services branch at the archives Fabien Lengelle presented the content of the kits and how they relate to the TD National Reading Summit themes of … Read more
Library and Archives Canada launched its new travelling exhibition, "Double Take: Portraits of Intriguing Canadians." The exhibition will open at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Canada's National Memorial to the Fathers of Confederation-Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on March 31, 2012. Call 613-293-4298.
Library and Archives Canada is marking the War of 1812 Bicentennial with Portraits on the Ice, an exhibition on the Rideau Canal Skateway. The portraits on display depict some of the English-and French-speaking militia and colonists, British officers and First Nations allies who worked together to successfully block American invasions over the course of more … Read more
Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Urban Libraries Council and the Canadian War Museum are contributing to Remembrance Week commemorations by announcing, at the Halifax Public Libraries, an expanded collaborative agreement for the delivery of Lest We Forget workshops across Canada. These workshops allow students to research primary source documents by looking through the military … Read more
On October 26, Library and Archives Canada launched the Canadian Feature Film Index. This index, created as a print index in 1972, is now available as an online database and contains information on over 4,300 Canadian feature films produced from 1913 to 2009. The database also features images of movie posters from Library and Archives' … Read more
In order to mark the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, Library and Archives Canada is pleased to launch the Canadian Feature Film Index database. This is one component of how LAC wishes to acknowledge this international day of recognition of audiovisual documents and their importance in society's evolution. Call 819-994-4589.
Library and Archives Canada marked the official opening of the new Nitrate Film Preservation Centre. Library and Archives said the state-of-the-art facility features a range of technological innovations and provides required fire prevention and protection measures that are necessary when dealing with a nitrate-based negative collection. Deputy Head and Librarian and Archivist of Canada Daniel J. … Read more
Library and Archives Canada announced that it is transferring 1,400 original consular files from 1924 to 1960 to the Lithuanian State Archives at the request of the Government of Lithuania. Librarian and Archivist of Canada Dr. Daniel J. Caron said that it is the role of Library and Archives Canada to look at our holding … Read more
For the fourth year in a row, Library and Archives Canada has launched a Portraits on the Ice exhibition on the Rideau Canal Skateway. Call 819-994-4589.
