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Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers Beta Website
Learn about the experiences of immigrants and early pioneers to Canada!
Connecting Canadians provides an opportunity for individuals to connect with their heritage by exploring early newspapers and engaging in learning activities. The collection includes Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Latvian, and Lithuanian newspapers.
Communication between immigrants and their loved ones in their home country in the pre-internet, television and radio age relied heavily on newspapers. As a result, immigrant newspapers document the earliest years of immigrant experience in Canada.
Often the newspapers were published in the heritage language of the community, making them an invaluable and unique resource for descendants of immigrants, students and teachers of the immigrant experience, scholars and researchers, as well as genealogists.
The Connecting Canadians project was made possible with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy.
Le projet Contact canadiens a été rendu possible grâce à l’appui du ministère du Patrimoine Canadien Ministère du patrimoine canadien, par l’intermédiaire de la stratégie en ligne de la culture canadienne Culture canadienne en ligne.
