The Canadian History and Culture Series

Highlights

Over 250,000 pages of rare historical and literary magazines, newspapers, and other primary sources, many of which are digitized for the first time.

Content Highlights: The first volume will include:

  • Art and Architecture magazines such as Punch in Canada,

  • Canadian Literary Magazines, such as The Grip-Sack

  • Diverse perspectives, such Nisei Affairs;

  • Social and political history, such as

  • Labor history, including Ontario Workman

  • Historical Magazines such as The Beaver and Goblin.

Full-text links and indexing to thousands of openly available sources such as:

  • Moccasin Telegraph

  • The Irish Canadian

  • The Prairie Immigration Experience Collection

  • The Japanese Canadian Photograph Collection

  • Kinesis: News About Women That Is Not in the Dailies

Publish and Suggest: Subscribers to Canadian History and Culture are able to upload content and suggest additional historical and cultural resources for indexing and preservation.

In February 2024, Coherent Digital, in partnership with Ontario-based Trojman Corporation, acquired the rights to more than 1.5 million pages of rare and important Canadian primary source collections from McLaren Micropublications and the microfilm itself. These resources will now form the foundation of a major new digital publication series, Canadian History and Culture.

McLaren Micropublishing

McLaren Micropublishing was founded in 1973 by Duncan McLaren, a librarian at the University of Toronto. Over the following fifty years, the company published more than 200 microform collections of Canadian newspapers, serials, and other publications covering topics including art, architecture, Canadian history, LGBTQ history and culture, and women’s history.  Many of the materials are extremely rare, and more than sixty percent of McLaren’s 1.5 million microfilmed pages have yet to be digitized.

In addition to supporting libraries that offer Canadian studies programmes, this catalogue is relevant for collections in art and architecture, African Canadian history, North American immigration history, history of labour and radical movements, LGBTQ studies, and women's history. Here’s an overview of the McLaren catalogue:

McLaren customers include colleges, art institutes, and public libraries around the world, including:

  • Art Institute of Chicago

  • The British Library

  • Chicago Public Library

  • Columbia University

  • Copenhagen University

  • Harvard University

  • Helsinki University

  • Library of Congress

  • Los Angeles County Public Library

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington

  • National Library of Australia

  • National Library, Moscow

  • New York Public Library

  • San Francisco Public Library

  • Technische Universität Berlin

  • Turku University, Finland

  • University of California Los Angeles

  • University of Chicago

  • University of Michigan

  • Yale University

Trials and Pricing

The following packages are available:

For more information please contact:

Salvy Trojman
The Trojman Corporation
145 Macarthur Drive, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 8J6
salvy@trojmancorp.com
416-617-2592