Copies of Microfiche collections and individual titles can be purchased from Canadiana.org (formerly the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM)).
Many libraries in Canada and across the world have complete or partial holdings of Canadiana.org microfiche. You can go to Libraries holding CIHM Microfiche to see if a nearby institution has Canadiana.org holdings.
While the Canadiana.org collections can be approached from a variety of thematic perspectives, Canadiana.org does make available twenty-four subject microfiche collections derived from the Pre-1900 Monograph Collection and three sets from the Serial Collections. Microfiche Bibliographies are available for thirteen of the thematic sets.
MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing) records are available free of charge, for most microfiche sets. These records contain bibliographic and related information that may be integrated into an existing library catalogue for searching. Batches of MARC records for most of the Microfiche collections are available for download.
The collection contains publications detailing the exploration and history of northern Canada. The set includes observations of the fur traders, missionaries, travellers and explorers giving insights into the social, economic and cultural aspects of life in the north.
Resulting from a research project on women authors, this microfiche set covers Canadian women authors and their works, as well as Canadian publications written about women or "women's issues". The bibliography provides access to the wide range of genres and ideological bearings of early Canadian women, including memoirs, diaries and collected letters, drama, exploration and travellers' accounts, printed ephemera, political pamphlets, and much more.
Selections include both English and French Canadian authors at home and abroad. They detail the life of children in 19th century Canada. It shows what they had available to read, and how society valued children at the time.
In recent years, there has been rising interest in culinary history, both amongst the general public and the academic community. This collection, consisting of cookbooks published prior to 1921, has been compiled to serve this burgeoning interest. Enjoy trying these old favorites, compare and contrast these traditional methods from the early 1800s to the art of cooking in the twenty-first century.
An essential resource for business historians, it documents the origin of some of Canada's most contemporary debates on issues such as international trade policy, transportation, the role of resources in the Canadian economy, and the state versus the private sector.
This collection traces the development of pedagogy across Canada, in the French Canadian Catholic schools, as well as the public school system. Allows for the comparison of textbooks and education philosophy over the period
Comprehensive subject set of early English Canadian literature. The core collection includes fiction, poetry and drama. Supplementary literatures include biographies, works by women authors, sermons, letters and memoirs, music, travel and exploration.
Subject set of early French Canadian literature. The core collection includes fiction, poetry and drama. Thematic literatures include biographies, works by women authors, song anthologies, works on language, addresses and conferences, and travel and exploration.
This microfiche set, selected from an examination of the Canadiana.org catalogue, includes publications and resources of use to genealogical, family history, and local history research.
This set includes studies of the earth's surface with people's responses to topography and climate, soil and vegetation.
Comprehensively documents the early voyages and explorations to North America, major historical events, and biographies of historical figures. Also rich in local and regional histories and lavishly illustrated guides and travelogues.
A special set of titles published in Quebec or about Quebec. Covers all aspects of early Québeçois(e) life.
Includes titles of all legal monographs filmed from the Pre-1900 Canadian Monographs collection, as well as selected titles from the Pre-1900 Annuals and Periodicals collections. Covers all aspects of early Canadian law including debates, treatises, reports and analyses, from specific questions such as copyright legislation to the civil law tradition of Quebec and the legal interpretation of the Constitution of Canada and the British North America Act of 1867.
This collection offers the opportunity to discover literary references and influences. Students of literature can access poetry, fiction, children's literature, and drama. Also included is a large variety of books on orthography, spelling, and grammar, many of which were authorized for use in schools by the provincial Departments of Education.
This set includes both monographs and serials on the emergence of medical and dental practices in Canada. It also contains the Hannah Institute's collection of Canadian Medical Periodicals 1826-1910.
Includes information on the early automotive industry in Canada, the electric railroad, immigration, and the settlement of western Canada. Many of the titles are accounts of Canadian participation in World War I.
Includes collections of hymns, Gregorian chants, concert programs and songs popular at the time. Discussions on the philosophy of art, works on nineteenth century architecture, catalogues of exhibitions, booksellers and private libraries are common in the collection.
This collection focuses on the languages, traditions, legends, and religions of early North American aboriginal peoples. It includes accounts of North American native habits and customs, major events and battles, biographical sketches, linguistic information and comparative studies on native North American languages, and invaluable primary documentation of the clash between European and native North American culture and traditions.
This set focuses on the governance of Canada from colonial outpost to Parliamentary democracy. Monographs, lectures, and speeches trace the development of the constitution and of the political parties. Canada is placed within an international context.
Includes almanacs, annual reports and directories as well as proceedings, transactions and yearbooks.
This microfiche collection, (a subset of the annuals collection) will be useful in genealogical or general historical research, and includes Canadian directories and gazetteers from provinces, counties, townships, cities and towns.
The complete collection of monographs held by Canadiana.org for the period before 1900.
The entire subject range of early Canadian periodicals available is present, including religion and temperance; banking, the economy, and finance; manufacturing, mining and agriculture; literature, arts and culture; and much more.
Includes material previously inaccessible to researchers, from the Séminaire de Québec and other private church archives. Traces the diverse religious traditions of the founding people of Canada and their influence on the development of our nation.
For historians of Canadian science and technology, both the monograph and periodical collections add significantly to the literature. Most of the monographs were published in the latter half of the nineteenth century during a period of rapid scientific development. Strong in areas of geology, geography, zoology, botany and transportation.
Urban life, the prohibition debate, the question of women's rights and their role in Canadian society and immigration are just some of the topics covered in this collection. Scholars will discover materials that are very rare, as well as documents, which reconstruct the lives, movements, and social milieu of early Canadians.
A variety of documents detailing the early exploration and discovery of Canada. It contains personal observations by missionaries and explorers travelling in Canada from the 17th century.
