Russ Chamberlayne, longtime reader of, writer to, and friend of this blog, works to populate Wikipedia with Canadian materials available online. He invites other readers of this blog to help crowd-source this endeavour.
Hello, my name is Russ Chamberlayne, and I have a multi-year project to upload links to primary sources relating to Canada for a series of Canadian history pages on Wikipedia.
These specifically are the yyyy-in-Canada pages at Wikipedia. As an example, see the "Historical documents" section on the "1758 in Canada" page, which I uploaded recently.
As you can imagine, it's difficult finding documents to link to that were not written by white men. If you are aware of docs by women and/or BIPOC writers that are online, I'd appreciate your providing the URL. They don't have to be by writers who were located in Canada (as it is now constituted).
What I'm looking for is women's and racialized people's writings about some aspect (pre-1950) of Canada's history (political, social, or whatever), no matter if the circumstance or the writer was in Canada or afar. At a stretch, I will accept links to documents by white men quoting or descriptive of members of other groups with whom they were in touch.
My purpose in creating these lists of primary sources is to show non-professional readers (students and "history buffs") the variety of Canada-related documents, and where to find them online. My hope is that they will search further at any web site I direct them to. I will be pleased if you can help me broaden the range of writers represented.
Please send document URLs to this blog at the posted address [see Comments at right], and they will be forwarded to me. Thank you.
