A list of past blog posts by TPL staff made for our Digital Archive Ontario site.
Ontario Communities
Mesmerized by Muskoka: The Postcards of William Alfred Anderson (1880–1962) | 2024
Carnegie Libraries in Ontario: Vintage Postcards | 2023
Vintage Views of Rat Portage — Now Kenora, Ontario | 2022
Cobalt’s First Bloom: Early Views of Ontario’s Silver City | 2021
Snapshot of Smiths Falls, Ontario | 2020
Ontario Cottage in Ontario: A Bit of History | 2019
Belleville: Vintage Postcards and Rare Photos, opens a new window | 2018
Cornwall: From Loyalist Village to Industrial City | 2019
Discover Stratford Ontario, opens a new window | 2018
Owen Sound: Rare Vintage Photographs, opens a new window | 2018
Ontario History
The Great Depression: Federal Work Camps in Ontario | 2021
The Grange: Vintage Photos of a Toronto House with a History in Art | 2020
Ontario History: 40 Colouring Pages from Our Special Collections | 2020
Selections and Full PDFs of “The Jesuit Relations”: Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and Beyond | 2020
Ghost Towns of Ontario | 2019
Going Nuclear: Ontario’s Historic Chalk River Laboratories | 2019
How to Find Old Pictures of Ontario Online | 2019
Ontario’s Tuberculosis Sanatoriums, 1897-1960 | 2019
Ontario’s Past: 8 Interesting Items, opens a new window | 2019
Cool Vintage Maps from Digital Archive Ontario | 2019
The United Empire Loyalists Come to Upper Canada, opens a new window | 2018
Maps: Representing Land, People and Activities, opens a new window | 2018
Ontario on Fire: Digital Archive Images, opens a new window | 2018
Ontario’s Historic Breweries, opens a new window | 2018
Canadian History
100th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act | 2023
Coronation Celebrations in Canada: Six Rarities from Our Archives | 2023
Cartography in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Maps of North America from Digital Archive Ontario | 2022
I Tried Reading the First Novel Written in Canada | 2022
First-Hand Accounts of a French Officer in Canada During the Late 17th Century | 2022
Give Us a Place to Stand, opens a new window | 2018
Royal Tour Across Canada in May, 1939, opens a new window | 2018
The Early Years of the Exhibition in Toronto, opens a new window | 2018
War and Conflicts
Discover the Dumbells, WWI Entertainers and Drag Performers | 2024
Monuments in Ontario: Grief, Beauty and Controversy | 2020
World War II Posters: 5 Things They Told Canadians to Do | 2019
World War II Training in Canada: Troops on Skis, opens a new window | 2019
Discover New Perspectives on the Battle of Vimy Ridge, opens a new window | 2018
NoVember is for Victory Bonds, opens a new window | 2018
War of 1812: Battle of York, 1813, opens a new window | 2018
War of 1812: Surrender of Fort Detroit, opens a new window | 2018
Transportation
Ontario’s Defunct Railways of the Past | 2019
Discover Ontario’s Aviation History: Three Stories, opens a new window | 2018
Bridging Niagara Falls From Past to Present, opens a new window | 2018
Some Bridges in Ontario, opens a new window | 2018
Sports and Festivities
Celebrate the Toronto Blue Jays (1976-1999), opens a new window | 2018
International Plowing Match: Past and Present, opens a new window | 2018
Fergus Scottish Festival and Highland Games, opens a new window | 2018
Early Days at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, opens a new window | 2018
Winter Olympians Born in Ontario (Digital Archive Photos), opens a new window | 2018
Nature and Parks
Hiking in Ontario: Photos from Digital Archive Ontario | 2021
Niagara Falls in Winter: Beauty and Tragedy | 2020
Photos from Our Archives: Summer in Ontario | 2019
Chaudière Falls, or Can You Say “Boiler” in French?, opens a new window | 2019
Frozen in Time: Ontario’s Wintry Past | 2019
A Picnic Basket, a Blanket and a Park, opens a new window | 2018
Autumn in Algonquin Park, opens a new window | 2018
Muskoka’s Earliest Tourists, opens a new window | 2018
Ontario’s First Provincial Park, Algonquin, Turns 125 This Year, opens a new window | 2018
Ontario’s Snowy Past, opens a new window | 2018
People
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Inspiring Trip to Bala, Ontario in 1922 | 2023
Lucy Maud Montgomery and the First Canadian Book Week | 2022
From Our Archives: Parties in Ontario During the Late 1960s | 2022
From the Archives: Ontario’s Musical Greats (Part 1) | 2019
23 “Firsts” for Women Working in Ontario, opens a new window | 2018
John James Audubon and Birding Today, opens a new window | 2018
Portraits of John Graves and Elizabeth Simcoe, opens a new window | 2018
Stunning Art by “Canadian Audubon” Added to Digital Archive, opens a new window | 2018
Collection Highlights
Cure-Alls & Cure-Naughts: 6 Vintage Ads & Pamphlets for Medical Remedies Sold in Ontario | 2022
Snapshot of Swimming History in Ontario | 2021
Art Conservation Project: Watercolours of an Early Ontario Naturalist | 2020
Pieces of History: 70 Digital Puzzles of Items in Our Special Collections | 2020
58 Lesson Plans from Archives and Museums for Ontario Educators | 2020
Leap Year: Digitized Items from Our Collection | 2020
Dogs in Our Digital Archive (Bark-ive?) | 2019
Signs of Spring: Tremulous Eyes, Like April Skies | 2019
These Vintage “Valentines” from Ontario Aren’t What You Expect |2019
October Reflections from Digital Archive Ontario, opens a new window | 2018
Seven Fiction and Fantasy Books by Early Ontario Writers (Free Downloads) | 2018
Typewriters Lost in Time, opens a new window | 2018
Business & Personal Finance
Creased Receipts: Historical Receipts from Digital Archive Ontario | 2021
Inside General Stores of Ontario: A Step Back in Time | 2019
5 Essentials of Modern Marketing | 2018
Saving for a House | 2018
Small Business Access: Helping Ontario Small Businesses | 2018