Established in 1976, the Multicultural History Society of Ontario collects, preserves, and makes available irreplaceable records of histories of migration, ethnicity, and Indigeneity. The MHSO is the creator of the most extensive collection in Canada of archival materials documenting immigrant, ethnic, and Indigenous experiences. Their archival holdings reflect some 100 ethnocultural and Indigenous communities, and over 280 municipalities in Canada. A description of their online resources is at http://mhso.ca/wp/research-online-resources/
Many of these collections of oral testimony, historical photographs, and textual records originated with the Multicultural Canada digitization project. The project grew from the conviction that the cultural groups that make up our country have little-known stories that need to be researched and told.
The multicultural newspaper collection includes the important Jewish historical newspapers of record, namely the Canadian Jewish Review and the Canadian Jewish News. They, along with other newspapers in Croatian, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian, Serbo-Croation, and Ukrainian, are available online at the Multiculturalism Canada website housed at Simon Fraser University.
