Résultats

      The role that railways have played in the history and development of Toronto is celebrated with a train tour, an online gallery and some interactive “fun and games.”

      Selected from Toronto Public Library’s rare books, original art and postcard collections, this virtual exhibit features prints from Audubon’s Quadrupeds, images of wild and domestic animals as well as animals at play.

      The exhibition features prints from the library’s rare first edition of Audubon's Birds of America and Audubon stamps from around the world. Includes the Canada Post design process used to transform a print into a stamp and commemorates Canada's first Audubon stamp series.

      This exhibition commemorates the 60th anniversary of VE Day, the end of the war in Europe. The exhibit of colour posters, unique ephemera, manuscripts, books, periodicals and photographs from the collections of the Toronto Public Library is dedicated to those who served their country at home and abroad.

      An exhibition celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes, but he was also the author of many other works and one of the best known public figures …

      Footprints of the Hound celebrates the centenary of the re-emergence of Sherlock Holmes in Hound of the Baskervilles, and the thirtieth anniversary of the opening to the public of Toronto Reference Library's Arthur Conan Doyle Collection.

      Books, maps and prints from the Library’s collections, dating from 1578 to 1907, document 300 years of Arctic exploration, from Sir Martin Frobisher’s discovery of Baffin Island in 1576 to the first navigation of the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen in 1903-5.

      Book illustrations and bookplates designed by Group of Seven artists J.E.H. MacDonald and A.Y. Jackson are examined in this virtual exhibit. Also includes biographical information and commentary on the designs.

      This exhibition features materials from the Toronto Reference Library, the Archives of Ontario and the City of Toronto Archives. Ontario's history is brought to life through the eyes of a new settler to Upper Canada, a working child at the turn of the century, and a 1950s family.

      A celebration of Canadian picture book art, featuring more than 50 original book illustrations from The Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library. This virtual exhibit highlights Canadian book illustration at its most imaginative, colourful and audacious!

      An exhibition of designs, photographs, costumes, props and prints to celebrate 20 years of design by Opera Atelier. The exhibition traces the company's design process beginning with Orfeo in 1986, followed by Pygmalion, Persée, The Magic Flute, Médée, Iphigénie en Tauride and Armide and more.

      For the serious scholar or the young at heart, the exhibition features the history of children's pop-up and other movable books, 1771 to 2001, from the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.

      Artifacts, artwork and documents illustrating ten thousand years of the city’s history are presented in five timelines from 8000 BCE to the present day.

      Welcome to the library's online canal history collection. It includes an extensive collection of photographs from our picture files, and an index of newspaper clippings from our clipping files which are available to the public in our reference department. Please visit the Welland Historical Museum's Picture Files by clicking on …

      The primary focus of this site is to provide online access to our collection of photographs, newspaper clippings, documents and other items pertaining to Welland's industrial history and ethnic communities.

      The Windsor Cultural Mosaic Project is a valuable resource which shares with our community, the heritage, customs and contributions of Windsor’s cultural mosaic.

      This web site is an educational tool, specifically aimed for a Grade 5 audience and their teachers. It also increases awareness of our history and cultural institutions.

      Learn about events from the War of 1812 that occurred in and around Essex County.

      Windsor's Community Archives' Bruce Macdonald collection has been digitized. WPL works with the University of Windsor to chronicle the life of this local Canadian hero.

      At the turn of the century Windsor began life with the auto industry, enduring both the pain and the joy of birth, the years of discovery and experimentation and the uncertainty of adolescence.