his collection includes letters and supplementary material compiled by the Canadian branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts during the period 1722-1952. The documents detail the day-to-day activities of SPG missionaries, including their work in churches, schools, and indigenous communities.
Historical records of Canada from the 1500s through 1900s published by the Champlain Society. Includes accounts of explorers, settlers, missionaries, politicians, and many other voices from Canada's history.
Digitized archive that documents the relationships among early North American peoples and the environment.
Includes prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages documenting the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America. Focuses on personal accounts and providing unique perspectives from all the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, Native Americans as well as a wide range of Europeans.
Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. [1493-1750]
Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Provides access to the full text of thirty-eight manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers, which comprise letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally.
A collection of more than 700,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America.
