Archives are mainly made up
of ‘primary sources’. These are original records
created at the time of the event. They are generally unpublished.
Some examples are:
- letters, manuscripts, diaries often from famous people
- notes or recordings of interviews
- photographs,
sketches
and paintings
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birth,
death and marriage records
- land registries, titles to property, and maps
- court records
- architectural
plans and engineering drawings
- audio,
video and film records
- meeting minutes, memoranda, and correspondence of associations,
political parties, local government councils, school boards,
and other formal groups.
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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.
Archives of Ontario |
RG 9-138 Information Services Branch of the
Department of Economics and Development
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Family group outside a log building, [ca. 1900]
Frank Wright
Black and white print
Reference Code: C 171-1
Archives of Ontario, I0014408
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Many items are unique, fragile and irreplaceable.
They require temperature controlled conditions for storage,
careful handling, and, because of their rarity, supervised
viewing.
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Governments, corporations, and other organizations
may have working papers and reports from studies and investigations
they undertook. As an example, the Archives of Ontario,
holds the records for the Walkerton Inquiry into the causes
of the contamination of Walkerton water supply in May 2000.
Archives are not necessarily old. Governments and organizations
archive material continuously according to records management
policies. A public archives might also receive recent papers
from individual donors.
Cover of: Ontario. Commission of the Walkerton Inquiry.
Part One: Report of the Walkerton Inquiry:
the Events of May 2000 and Related Issues.
Toronto: The Commission, 2002
Archives of Ontario Library Collection
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Fire Insurance Plan, Toronto
Volume 1, Sheet 15,
Fire Insurance Plan Collection
Reference Code:
C 234-1-386-61
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