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Navigating the Collections

Browse, search, and explore material from the Canadiana collections by following these guidelines. Additional guidance for navigating the Héritage collection in particular is offered at the bottom of the page, including reference guides for certain series.

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Use the Canadiana search form to search for descriptive information and material metadata, such as titles, author/creator names, subject keywords, or the text content of books and other documents, where available. Search terms are not case- or accent-sensitive.

The following features can be used within the search box to refine the results:

Wildcards: ? and *

Use ? in the middle or at the end of a word to match any one character. Use * to match any number of characters (including zero).

  • For example, to find either defence or defense: defen?e
  • To find either labour or labor: labo*r

Phrases: " "

To search for an exact phrase, enclose all of the words in double quotes. You cannot use wildcards within a phrase.

  • For example, to find documents that contain the phrase quebec city and not just the individual terms quebec and city: "quebec city"

Excluded terms: -

Use - in front of a word or phrase to indicate that the term must not appear in the record.

  • For example, to find documents that contain paris but not france: paris -france

Alternate terms: |

To match any one of a number of alternative terms, put a | between them.

  • For example, to find "ontario" and either "york" or "toronto": ontario york | toronto

Field search: ti:, au:, su:

Use ti: in front of a word or phrase to search only document titles. Use au: and su: to do the same for author/creator names and subject headings/keywords.

  • For example: to find documents that contain vancouver in the title: ti:vancouver

 

Tips for Navigating the Héritage Collection

Clicking on the About tab of an individual series and reading the notes in the Description field can provide hints on how those documents and reels are arranged and whether or not a finding aid or index has been created for it.

Finding aids: The collections in Héritage are digital versions of microfilm collections held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). LAC has created finding aids for many of these collections which can be found either on the digitized reels at Héritage or on the LAC website.

  • Finding aids available on Héritage: If a finding aid is available within the digitized reels on Héritage, the collection’s description will list the reel in which the finding aid is located. For example, for the William Lyon Mackenzie King Collection, the description section notes that a subject index is located on film reels C-4591 to C-4593.  
  • Finding aids available on Library and Archives Canada’s website: LAC assigns an identifier to all of its collections, called a MIKAN number. This number can be found in the Identifier field in a collection’s About tab at Héritage. For example, for the [Governor General] Numbered Files collection, the MIKAN number is 133507. Using LAC’s Collection Search, you can search for this number by typing it in the search box and selecting “Collections and Fonds” from the drop-down menu. Once you have retrieved the collection’s record from LAC’s search results, scroll down to the section entitled Record Information - Details, and under Finding Aid, click on Show Details. In many cases, LAC has made available a Finding Aid (presented as a PDF) for the collection.

Reference guides: Several reference guides have been developed to assist researchers with navigating the following series. These guides have been developed by Library and Archives Canada (2013) or CRKN staff.

  • The Heir and Devisee Commission
  • Upper Canada Sundries
  • Upper Canada Land Books
  • War Diaries - Second World War
  • Juvenile Inspection Reports (RG 76 C4c)
  • Manifest Indexes,1906-1920 (Index Passenger Lists,1906-1920)

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