Historical books, documents, maps, newspapers, etc

[DeniseA]

The Archive CD Books Project
http://www.archivecdbooks.ca/information.html

1901, 1911 Canadian Census Blank Forms
http://www.archivecdbooks.ca/downloads.html (bottom 1/3)

[DeniseA]

Wellington County Virtual History Book
Wellington County, Ontario
http://www.wcm.on.ca/tweedsmuir/search_name.php

[J.J.]

Will come in handy for historical medical terminology...

A Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm

some historical diseases listed here:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/disease.html

Medical lexicon late 1700s to late 1800s
http://www.archive.org/details/2medicallexicond00dunguoft

Medical Times & Gazette 1854
http://books.google.ca/books?id=XiQCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover
Medical Times & Gazette 1858
http://www.archive.org/details/medicaltimesand12unkngoog

[Glenn Baird]

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/

Was able to tracked a few people after landing in Canada.
Excellent 1880 maps of land owners.

Glenn

[J.J.]

1893 "Canadian almanac and directory"
http://www.archive.org/stream/canadianalmanacd46vancuoft#page/114/mode/2up

If you are lucky enough to have an ancestor of some historical significance, he might be listed here: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
http://www.biographi.ca

An inventor? Manufacturer? Designer?...You never know! Database of Canadian Patents - 1869-1894!
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/patents/001038-100.01-e.php
and if invented more recently:
http://patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/en/search/basic.html

[Adeline]

Early Canadiana Online
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO

Toronto Then and Now
http://historicity.tpl.toronto.on.ca/

Toronto Digital Collections
http://digit.tpl.toronto.on.ca:8000/

Canadian Genealogy Centre Databases
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-500-e.html

Canadian Directories, Who Was Where
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canadiandirectories/index-e.html

Toronto 1858 Tax Rolls & Toronto 1911 Street Finder
http://www.ontarioroots.com/1911/index.html

[MJP]

Hi - not sure if this one is on here yet.  It contains digitized versions of the Ontario atlases that were published around 1880 for every county in Ontario. The name of the person occupying each lot/concession is printed on the map.  It is searchable by name and location. 

Often the names only have the first initial, so you need to be fairly confident about what township they were in in order to know you have the right person.  And, if your person was a "prominent member of society" they could pay to have their bio, photo, or photo of their house included in the atlas, so sometimes you find extra tidbits. 

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/default.htm

[Janice M]

OURROOTS
A large selection of books to look through online (free)
http://www.ourroots.ca

INTERNET ARCHIVE
Large selection of books, directories, etc. as well as Way Back Machine where you can search (old) internet sites
http://www.archive.org/index.php

THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

EARLY CANADIANA ONLINE
http://www.canadiana.org/

PROJECT GUTENBERG
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

CANADIAN GENEALOGY & HISTORY BOOKS ONLINE
http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/bcanada.html

[loo]

Information on the 1851 census:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1851/index-e.html