I enjoy reading about history, especially community history, and I’m always looking out for interesting new resources
This week I discovered Digital Museums Canada’s Community Stories Collection. The collection includes more than 500 Canadian online community history projects funded by Digital Museums Canada.
Want to learn more about the Village History of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade? Interested in the Grimsby Homebuilding Co-operative in Ontario? How about a little bit about B.C.’s Black history?
This week I read accounts of the history of Fernie, B.C.’s early Italian community, Ontario’s 1942 Almonte Train Wreck, Eel Fishing in the Côte-du-Sud, the Carrefour mondial de l’accordéon festival in Quebec’s Montmagny région, and Chilliwack, B.C.’s historic Chinatowns.
The site is searchable by subject and by region and each story is available in both English and French.
Have a look if you enjoy great community stories well told.
Image: Marie Albertina Stark Wallace, age 98, author of “The History of the Stark Family”. Salt Spring Island Archives/Gulf Islands Driftwood Archives, August 19, 1965
Catherine Fisher, blogger
