McGill’s digital collections

If your family roots are in Ontario you're familiar with the McGill University Ontario Beldon Atlas collection providing access to 43 volumes produced between 1874 and 1881. 

You may not be aware of other McGill resources available online.

Canadian Architect and Builder was the only professional architectural journal published in Canada before World War I. With both advertisements and articles appearing in the text files, CAB provides a wealth of information on the state of architecture and building in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection (1881–2018)  a large collection, some digitized, many with only metadata. Find out what a family member might have investigated while at McGill.

The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company, 38 manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers comprising letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally. The papers represent a settler perspective of North American places and peoples. 

Chapbook Collection contains over nine hundred British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries. The contents are organized by subject categories: Books of Instruction (40), Crimes and Criminals (2), Dramatic (1), Geographical Description, Local History and Natural History (43), Historical, Political and Biographical (19),  Jest Books, Humorous Fiction, Riddles (13), Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose (63), Metrical Tales and Other Verse (122), Nursery Rhymes (60), Occult (5), Odd Characters and Strange Events (1), Prose Fiction (15), Religious and Moral (439), Song Books (29), Travel and Adventure (23).

See a more complete description here.

via a mention in the always informative Documentary Heritage News.