| Archives are the records
created and accumulated by a person or an organization in
the course of routine business and kept due to their continuing
or enduring value. These will be records no longer needed
in day-to-day decisions, but recognized as being important
for historical or legal purposes.
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Deed of Land for town lot in Amherstburg from
Douglas Terry, Photographer to
Lovedy Ann Campeau, 1894
Land Records Collection; file, Amherstburg,
Essex Co., 1853-1916;
Reference Code: F 603, MU1688
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Tender for Printing, January 24, 1910
Brant County fonds
Reference Code: F 1551-3-8
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| While we usually think of
archives as tangible items, in today’s digital world,
archival material can be “born digital” as documents,
or multimedia records. This is quite distinct from the use
of the term ‘archives’ in computer departments
and at websites, where ‘archives’ refers to
long-term storage or a collection of older and less used
files.
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Examples of past and current digital media
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Example of a variety of archival media
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In Ontario, the Archives of Ontario
is the central repository for Ontario’s history. When
established in 1903, the Archives of Ontario was charged with
preserving historical records and in 1923 the mandate was
expanded to include custody of inactive government records.
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Guardianship order for Johnston children of Sault Ste. Marie,
1863
Algoma District Surrogate Court guardianship file
Reference Code: RG 22-381-0-1
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Death Register page : Temiskaming entries, 1918 Registrations
of Deaths
Reference Code: RG 80-8-0-688
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Ottawa, 1908
Published by J.L. Wiseman
Colour photo
Reference Code: F 4491
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Today, the Archives of Ontario is the premier source
for records in Ontario. It holds a collection dating
back to 1729 of private sector collections and government
records valued at more than $410 million. In all, the
AO has over 310,000 cubic feet of textual material,
1.7 million photographic images, 40,000 maps, over 200,000
architectural drawings, and over 40,000 audio, video
and film recordings.
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