Women's History

Canadiana.org is a membership alliance dedicated to building Canada’s digital preservation infrastructure and providing the broadest possible access to Canadian documentary heritage. The organizations works closely with major memory institutions to identify, catalogue, digitize and store documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials—in specialized research databases. There are a number of online collections currently available including Early Canadiana Online, Early Canadian Periodicals, and Health and Women’s History. Their website also has several links to other resources and institutions.

Internet Archive contains an extensive collection of free digitized books and texts, including Letitia Hargrave's letters. Editor Margaret Arnett MacLeod wrote in her introduction, "Letitia Hargrave's letters describe a woman's life in the fur trade in Rupert's Land during the years from 1838 to 1852. Valuable first-hand accounts of the lives of pioneer women in Eastern Canada have long been known; but as far as can be discovered, Letitia Hargrave is the only woman to enrich thus the history of Western Canada. The letters written at York factory, Manitoba's oldest settlement, give a unique and intimate picture of that important Hudson's Bay Company depot, and touch as well on the more general aspects of the fur trade."