SFU Library Digital Collections
SFU Library Digital Collections
The 1956 Hungarian Memorial Oral History Project celebrates the refugees of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by digitizing 400 hours of oral testimonies collected by second and third generation Hungarian-Canadians. The interviewees tell their personal stories of their involvement in the 1956 Revolution, their reasons for leaving and …
SFU Library's Art Images is a collection of online images documenting a broad range of art in support of teaching, learning, and research at SFU. Currently the collection is composed of over 2000 images with an emphasis on the history of Western Art. Images are licensed for research and classroom use at SFU. See the rights …
This collection of photographs depicts the contributions of immigrants and First Nations peoples to BC. The photographs feature significant events and activities such as the development of Vancouver’s Chinatown, the Chinese contribution to railroad construction in B.C., East Indians and the Komagata Maru incident, the fishing …
A collection of digitized publications and ephemera of several B.C. fine/private presses. Fine/private presses have a distinguished history in British Columbia. Founded in Vancouver in 1946, the Private Press of Robert R. Reid was the first of its kind in Canada. The British Columbia Fine Printing collection contains digitized …
Between the years 1820 and 1870, 50,000 to 60,000 German immigrants settled in Upper Canada and the Ottawa Valley. Many of the immigrants came from southwest Germany, where the practice of dividing inheritances and the influx of products from industrial England had created economic upheaval, resulting in the emigration of 1.7 million …
The Bill Reid Centre Collection is a collection of images that records the arts and architecture of the various First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. The Bill Reid Centre Collection focuses on the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest and their many and varied artistic and material expressions. The records in the collection are …
A digitized collection of HIV/AIDS-related stamps, philatelic materials and ephemera collected by Canadian AIDS activist Blair Henshaw. This collection celebrates the work of Blair Henshaw (1949-2002), stamp collector, AIDS activist, and the man responsible for successfully lobbying the Canadian federal government to issue an …
Presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940. It includes titles of publications and references to archival resources. Directed by Dr. Carole Gerson, this …
Drawing on more than 300 printed sources, this database provides bibliographical references to articles about Canadian publishing that were issued between 1935 and 1985. Topics include the production, distribution and selling of books and magazines in both English and French. Darienne L. McAuley compiled the original work, An …
Selected publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete Canadian Farmworkers Union collection. 500+ publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete CFU archival collection held by the SFU Library's Special Collections. For more information about this collection, including an extensive …
Although the older Punjabi community of British Columbia is better known, an influx of post-war Indo-Canadian immigrants to Toronto and other Eastern Canadian cities created a vibrant and diverse South Asian population. In addition to immigrants from all over the Indian sub-continent, significant groups arrived from intermediary …
The first significant migration of Jews to Canada occurred between the 1840s and 1880's; by 1921, the Jewish population had grown to 126,201, and it continued to grow until 1931, when the government enacted policy to restrict Jewish immigration due to economic reasons and anti-Jewish sentiment. The next major wave of migration …
The Canadian Jewish Review was founded in 1921 in Toronto by George and Florence Freedlander. Published in the English language, in many ways its development follows the trajectory of English-speaking Canadian Jews. Its approach was politically mild, moderately Zionist, religiously Reform, and focused on the social achievements of …
Describes over 1400 archival collections beginning before 1995 which relate to the history of secular English-language book publishing in Canada. It includes records of publishing companies, authors, editors and organizations. Finding aids for these records are available for research use at the project office. Directed by Dr. Carole …
Reports, issue papers, recommendations and more from the CCICED. The Simon Fraser University Library's China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) collection contains over 100 documents since 1993 on the Project's Task Force Reports, Issue Papers, Recommendations and more. Topics …
A collection of records dating from 1867 to 1956 that focus on the activities of the Chinese Freemasons of Canada, particularly in Victoria and Vancouver. Founded in Victoria, B.C. in 1876, the Cheekungtong (or Chinese Freemasons) functioned as an unofficial organization to maintain order in the Chinese communities and assist …
The Chinatown News was an English-language biweekly magazine founded by Roy Mah and published by the Chinese Publicity Bureau in Vancouver, British Columbia. Roy Mah was an active member of many Chinese-Canadian organizations, including the Chinese Veterans, and was a proud first generation Canadian. Roy Mah started an earlier …
Chinese-language documents focusing on the history of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA). A collection of 55 Chinese-language documents focusing on the history of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA). Founded in 1884, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) was a crucial force in …
Although it developed later than the British Columbia community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to form in Toronto and Ottawa, as well other large Canadian cities. As a result, …
The Chinese Times newspaper was published in Vancouver daily from 1914 to 1992; it covered both local information and news about China and Asia generally. Totalling about 250,000 pages, this collection covers many important moments in the history of Vancouver’s Chinese community, from early immigration struggles to the …
A collection of publications related to Chinese immigration to Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. This collection is comprised of publications relating to Chinese immigration to Canada from 1898 to 1910. Included are two phrase books, one published in China in 1898 and another published in Vancouver in 1910, devised for …
A collection of archival material and publications focusing on Japanese-Canadians in Canada between 1900 and 1939. This collection brings together archival material and publications that relate to Japanese-Canadians in 20th century Canada prior to WWII. Included are publications created by Japanese-Canadians: a 1939 directory for …
A collection of textual material, images, and maps relating to the settlement of Scottish, English and Irish immigrants in 19th century Canada. In the years following World War I, the Scottish-born Benedictine priest Roderick Andrew MacDonell (1870-1960) was instrumental in bringing hundreds of families from the Hebrides, England, …
French Canadians began settling in Ontario at the beginning of the 18th century with the establishment of an agricultural settlement on the site that is now Windsor, Ontario. It was almost a century later that this small colony expanded and further settlements were created to meet the demand for industrial labour as Ontario …
Because of immigration restrictions on South Asians, Canada’s Pakistani communities did not begin to be established until well into the 1960s. According to the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, "When the 1951 quota system that provided places for 100 Pakistanis was replaced with a point system in 1967, the number of Pakistani …
A collection of print materials and images focusing on Doukhobor settlement in late 19th - early 20th century Canada. The Doukhobors, a religous group originating in Ukraine, suffered periodic discrimination by Tsarist authorities. At the end of the 20th century, during a period of intense political persecution, thousands of …
A collection of digitized images, print materials, and ephemera relating to the settlement of the Doukhobors in Canada, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of Doukhobors fled religious persecution in their native Ukraine. This collection focuses on their settlement …
El Popular was a weekly Latin American newspaper published in Toronto between 1970 and 1987. Edited by Miguel Rakiewicz, its articles were written in the Spanish language.
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Emily Carr University Masters theses are available as PDFs. Bound paper copies from 2008-2010 are also available in the Library. Search the Library catalogue to find the call number. Hosted at SFU on behalf of Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Hosted at SFU on behalf of Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Hosted at SFU on behalf of Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
The history of Canada’s relationship with German-speaking immigrants is a complex one, marked by a series of policy reversals under the influence of world events. Although this group makes up one of the largest immigrant groups in Canadian history, it was internally diverse and included ethnic Germans from the Russian Empire (later …
Publications by researchers affiliated with the Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre.
This collection of selected digitized publications from the Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre (GRC) is a companion to the SFU Library's Summit Institutional Repository's Simon Fraser University Gerontology …
Photographs from Harrison Brown, a freelance journalist who wrote for several newspapers between the World Wars.
Harrison Brown (1893-1977) was a freelance journalist, writing for The Evening Standard, The New Chronicle, The New Statesman, and the Fortnightly Review between the World Wars. He also worked as a broadcaster for the BBC. …
Online print material and images delineating the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty in 1997.
This extensive collection focuses on the handover of Hong Kong's sovereignty in 1997. Included in the approximately 15,000 pages of digitized content are books, academic papers, original art works, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, …
Chinese immigration to Toronto dates at least to 1877, when two Chinese businesses are listed in the city directory. However, the community remained small for decades, finally reaching 2,500 people in the 1920s. Growth after that time remained slow due to restrictions specifically targeting Chinese immigrants (the Chinese Exclusion …
A selection of interviews conducted with early Indian immigrants to Canada, almost all of them British Columbians, in 53 audio files.
In the mid to late 1980s, two groups of researchers conducted detailed interviews with early Indo-Canadian settlers in Canada, almost all of them British Columbians. The interviews cover reasons for …
A collection of books, newspapers and government documents focusing on the history and culture of Italian-Canadians.
Italians began arriving in Canada as early as the 1400s and in earnest after World War II. This collection of digitized print materials includes books, newspapers and government documents that describe the history and …
A collection of archival images dating from 1950 to 1975 celebrating the contributions of Italian women immigrants to Canadian history and culture.
In 1948, Canada began accepting family-sponsored Italian immigrants. Between 1950 and 1975, over 100,000 Italian women came as sojourners and settlers to their new country. Hardworking …
Interviews collected in the 1970s and 1980s documenting the experiences of Italian women who immigrated to Canada throughout the first three quarters of the twentieth century.
Between 1950 and 1975, over 100,000 Italian women came to Canada as sojourners and settlers. This collection, consisting of approximately 100 hours of …
The collection is comprised of interviews conducted by the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre with Japanese Canadians on topics ranging from early immigration; their participation in pre-World War II industries including fishing, farming, and the lumber industries; and their internment during World War II. The collection …
The Jewish Western Bulletin, which changed its name to the Jewish Independent in 2005, has been the British Columbia Jewish community’s newspaper since 1930. Currently, the paper is published 49 weeks of the year.
Originally labeled “The Organ of the Jewish Community Centre,” the Jewish Western Bulletin was first published as a …
Approximately 80,000 Hungarian immigrants arrived in Canada between 1885 and 1959. Early immigrants came to Canada to escape poor economic conditions and a lack of land and employment in Hungary. Canada offered work to these individuals in agriculture, factories and the mining and lumber industries. Later immigrants came as a result …
In the early hours of Saturday, 23 May, the Komagata Maru anchored on the far side of the Burrard Inlet, opposite Vancouver. At dawn the passengers were out on deck with tree-covered mountains rising behind them and the city across the water in front. They were dressed in their best with their bags packed, ready to go ashore.
This collection presents an aggregated "master list" of multiple passenger lists associated with the Komagata Maru. Each list had its own unique way of collating passenger information, including inconsistent spelling of passenger's names to places of origin. The process of compiling the various data was met with many hurdles: …
French Canadians began settling in Ontario at the beginning of the 18th century with the establishment of an agricultural settlement near Detroit. It was almost a century later that this small colony expanded and further settlements were created to meet the demand for industrial labour as Ontario developed. The majority of …
According to the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, Latvian immigrants to Canada were first recorded as an ethnic group distinct from Russians in 1921; as such, there is no record of how many Latvians arrived prior to this date. Between 1921 and 1945, 409 Latvians arrived; in 1941, the census recorded 975 people of Latvian ethnic …
French Canadians began settling in Ontario at the beginning of the 18th century with the establishment of an agricultural settlement on the site that is now Windsor, Ontario. It was almost a century later that this small colony expanded and further settlements were created to meet the demand for industrial labour as Ontario …
French Canadians began settling in Ontario at the beginning of the 18th century with the establishment of an agricultural settlement on the site that is now Windsor, Ontario. It was almost a century later that this small colony expanded and further settlements were created to meet the demand for industrial labour as Ontario …
The village of Matane, Québec, located on the Gaspé Peninsula directly across the St. Lawrence River from Baie-Comeau, was the site of a French agricultural settlement in the late 18th century. It remained a tiny community until the emergence of lumber and forestry industries in the late 19th century. The weekly town paper, Le Cri …
A French-language newspaper, Le Cultivateur was published in Québec City from 1874 to 1906, an era of economic upheaval for the region. Québec City began losing its primacy as a transfer point for the fur and timber trade, losing out to Montréal, which had a rail link. Shipbuilding, another major industry, also slowed in this …
French Canadians began settling in Ontario at the beginning of the 18th century with the establishment of an agricultural settlement on the site that is now Windsor, Ontario. It was almost a century later that this small colony expanded and further settlements were created to meet the demand for industrial labour as Ontario …
The mai '68Â poster collection in SFU Library Special Collections consists of posters and handbills created largely by the Atelier Populaire. The collection is important as a source of documentary, artistic and historical evidence of the student protests in France during May 1968. Each day during the uprising members of …
Because of immigration restrictions on South Asians, Canada’s Pakistani communities did not begin to be established until well into the 1960s. According to the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, "When the 1951 quota system that provided places for 100 Pakistanis was replaced with a point system in 1967, the number of Pakistani …
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Minchung Sinmun (sometimes spelled Minjoong Shinmoon) was published in Toronto from 1979 to 1993. According to the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, "In the mid-1960s there were only about a hundred Koreans in Toronto. Thirty years later, forty thousand lived in Ontario, the majority in the metropolitan Toronto area." Minchung …
Although it developed later than the British Columbia community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to Canadian immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to form in Toronto and Ottawa, as well other large Canadian cities. As …
Digitized print materials and video relating to multiculturalism and ethnicity generally, as well as to specific ethnic groups within Canada.
This collection contains items such as individual books, pamphlets and video relating to multiculturalism and ethnicity in general and to specific ethnic groups in Canada, including: African, …
"At no other time in the life of the second generation, when hostile voices rise in sharp crescendo, has there been a greater need for some medium through which the Nisei might speak his thoughts and his hopes to the Canadian public at large," declared the editors of The New Canadian in its third issue, published February 1, 1939. "To …
The Northern Justice Society Bibliography contains references to a wide range of research, policy and program materials relating to Native involvement with the criminal justice system in the U.S., Canada and Greenland. As well, there are listings for comparative materials from Australia and Scandinavia. In addition, the bibliography …
Although it developed later than the British Columbia community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to form in Toronto and Ottawa, as well other large Canadian cities. As a result, …
The Peak , the official Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s student newspaper, has been published since 1965 when the University was founded on the peak of the Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, British Columbia. It is currently a weekly publication in both print and electronic versions. It covers many important moments in the history of …
Selected audio recordings of readings of the works of Robin Blaser, poet and SFU professor. The collection also includes special lectures given by Robin Blaser. These recordings come from the SFU Library's Special Collections' Contemporary Literature Collection.
Small-town, rural and reserve rodeos were important opportunities for community-building in Western Canada for aboriginal people and settlers alike. This collection digitizes rodeo ephemera including judging sheets, programs, advertisements and newspaper clippings. It offers researchers, rodeo participants and fans as well as local …
"Scottish Voices from the West" oral histories is a collection of 20 oral histories of Scottish immigrants to British Columbia that were recorded in 2003 and 2004 by SFU's Centre for Scottish Studies.
Due to overpopulation and political and economic instability in their native country, a large number of Chinese emigrated from China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest immigration to Canada occurred on the west coast, in British Columbia, but there is evidence of Chinese businesses in Toronto as early …
This online manuscript catalogue includes over 4500 entries covering 25,000 items of unique materials in the Special Collections Division of the Library. Collections of material by Bill Bissett, Anne Cameron, Betty Lambert, Ezra Pound and others have been entered into this catalogue. The papers of Open letter (a scholarly magazine …
Instructional resources from the SFU Library, its Research Commons, and its Student Learning Commons.
In the years between 1891 and 1937, Canada received over 30,000 immigrants from Japan, almost all of whom settled in British Columbia; in 1941, more than 95% of people of Japanese descent lived in that province. Following the internment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia during the Second World War, some of these individuals …
Ukrainians began arriving in Canada perhaps as early as the 18th century, however the mass immigration began in 1891. By 1914 there were 170,000 Ukrainians in Canada, most of which were specifically desirable to Canada as farmers experienced in working in a similar environment. They were joined by another wave of 68,000 immigrants …
This collection was assembled by John Luczkiw (1923-1974), an immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1950. The collection contains material on Ukrainians published in Canada from 1900 to 1950. Most of the material pertains to the first wave of Ukrianian immigration which began in 1891 and ended with the coming of the First World War, and …
A collection of materials, including posters, images, periodicals and ephemera, documenting the punk movement in Vancouver.
The punk movement went far beyond music or clothes to support and promote various social political causes, such as the environment, women's rights, and opposition to racism. This unique collection is …
Many of the Finnish immigrants that arrived in Canada between 1880 and 1930 brought with them the Socialist beliefs of their homeland. The challenging employment conditions that they faced in their new country encouraged many to become active in the labour movement and to create cooperatives and trade unions. This also resulted in …
Individuals of Russian origin first immigrated to Canada as agricultural and industrial workers in the 1890's. For many years the only Russian newspaper in Canada was Vestnik (Herald), published in Toronto between 1941 and 1998 by the Federation of Russian Canadians (FRK), a leftist cultural organization for Canadian Russian …
Between 1975 and 1976, Canada admitted 5,608 Vietnamese immigrants. In 1979 and 1980, another 50,000 people from Vietnam, refugees who later became known as the "Boat People," settled in Canada. Unlike earlier groups of Vietnamese immigrants, the "Boat People" were internally diverse: they included a variety of social classes and …
Because of immigration restrictions on South Asians, Canada’s Pakistani communities did not begin to be established until well into the 1960s. According to the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples, "When the 1951 quota system that provided places for 100 Pakistanis was replaced with a point system in 1967, the number of Pakistani …
The real beginnings of Indonesian immigration to Canada can be traced to the late 1960s and political unrest in Indonesia. Many Indonesians settled in the cities of Toronto and Vancouver. In 2006 the census recorded a total of 14,320 people of Indonesian origin living in Canada, with 6,325 living in Ontario and 4,640 living in …
Digitized materials from White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona. The collection consists primarily of US Government documents and legal documents from the Apache Tribe related to their land claims and other issues.
Between 1891 and 1914, approximately 170,000 Ukrainians, many agricultural workers, arrived in Canada. While those immigrants that settled in rural areas turned to religious organizations for a sense of community, secular, socialist groups developed among those Ukrainian immigrants that settled in the large urban centres, such as …
A Polish-Canadian press first developed in Winnipeg in the early 1900’s as a way to share news amongst Polish immigrants scattered throughout the country. Newspapers were also a vehicle for educating these immigrants in the customs and laws of their new country. In the years between the end of the First World War and the beginning …
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