Virtual museum of New France

Useful links

Sites that address specifically or in passing the history of New France abound on the internet. Lovers of history and professional historians, teachers and students alike, will find here avenues of further exploration and research. Though this list is not exhaustive, it will periodically be enriched and updated.

PORTALS AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS

New France, New Horizons (Library and Archives Canada)
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/exploration-settlement/new-france-new-horizons/Pages/new-france-new-horizons.aspx

Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America
http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/

France in America (Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France)
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiahome.html

400 ans de présence française au Canada, 1604-2004 (Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson, l’Université de Moncton)
http://139.103.17.56/cea/

Site archéologique Cartier-Roberval (Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec)
https://www.capitale.gouv.qc.ca/nos-projets/sites-historiques/site-archeologique-cartier-roberval

Trésors et secrets de Place-Royale, Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec)
https://www.pinterest.ca/rpcq/tr%C3%A9sors-et-secrets-de-place-royale/

Archaelogy comes to the rescue of a 17th-Century Shipwreck (Centre de conservatrion du Québec)
https://www.ccq.gouv.qc.ca/phips/wreck01.htm

La présence française en Ontario : 1610, passeport pour 2010 (Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, Université d’Ottawa)
http://www.crccf.uottawa.ca/passeport/index.html

Torture and the Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/angelique/accueil/indexen.html

Pathfinders and Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (Library and Archives Canada)
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/exploration-settlement/pathfinders-passageways/Pages/pathfinders-passageways.aspx

The Jesuit Relations and the History of New France
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/jesuit_relations-ef/jesuit-relations/index-e.html

Louis Nicolas. Life & Work, by François-Marc Gagnon (Art Canada Institute)
https://aci-iac.ca/art-books/louis-nicolas

Virtual Cathedral of the Archdiocese of Quebec
http://www.archivesvirtuelles.com/expo.php

Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage (The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website)
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/home.html

Canadian Military Heritage Gateway (Department of National Defense)
http://cmhg-phmc.forces.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspx

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association and Memorial Hall Museum)
http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/

Mapping the French Empire in North America (Newberry Library)
http://www.newberry.org/smith/exhibits/fe/fe.html

La Belle. The Ship That Changed History (Bullock Museum)
https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/la-belle/the-exhibit

La Belle Shipwreck (Texas Beyond History. The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage)
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/index.html

Le rêve de Champlain (Groupe Média TFO)
http://www.revedechamplain.com/en

Fort St. Louis (Texas Beyond History. The Virtual Museum of Texas’ Cultural Heritage)
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/stlouis/index.html

France-Brésil / França-Brasil (Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fundação Biblioteca Nacional du Brésil)
https://heritage.bnf.fr/france-bresil/fr/projet-article

Les Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France
http://www.nouvellefrance.qc.ca/en/

MUSEUMS AND HISTORIC SITES

Quebec

Société des musées du Québec
https://www.musees.qc.ca/en/museums/

Musée de la civilisation
https://www.mcq.org/en/

Saint-Louis Forts and Châteaux National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/saintlouisforts

Fortifications of Québec National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/qc/fortifications/index.aspx

Le Monastère des Augustines
https://monastere.ca/en

Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines
https://www.polecultureldesursulines.ca/english/

Huron-Wendat Museum
https://tourismewendake.ca/en/activities/cultural-events/huron-wendat-museum/

Musée des Abénakis
https://museeabenakis.ca/en/

Site archéologique Cartier-Roberval (Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec)
https://www.capitale.gouv.qc.ca/nos-projets/sites-historiques/site-archeologique-cartier-roberval

Cartier-Brébeuf National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/cartierbrebeuf

Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archeology and History Complex
https://pacmusee.qc.ca/en/

Château Ramezay, Historic Site and Museum of Montréal
https://www.chateauramezay.qc.ca/en/

Stewart Museum
https://www.musee-stewart.org/en/

Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum / Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel
http://www.marguerite-bourgeoys.com/en/

Musée des Hospitalières de l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
http://museedeshospitalieres.qc.ca/home/

Maison Saint-Gabriel, Museum and Historic Site
https://www.maisonsaintgabriel.ca/en/

Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice
https://universcultureldesaintsulpice.ca/en/

Forges du Saint-Maurice National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/saintmaurice

Fort Chambly National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/fortchambly

Battle of the Restigouche National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/ristigouche

Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
http://www.mrvs.qc.ca/

Obadjiwan-Fort Témiscamingue National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/qc/obadjiwan-temiscamingue

National Battlefields Commission, Plains of Abraham
http://www.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/en/

Poste de traite Chauvin
https://www.musees.qc.ca/en/museums/guide/chauvin-trading-post

Site Nouvelle-France
http://www.sitenouvellefrance.com/

Site patrimonial de l’Habitation-Samuel-De Champlain (Ministère de la culture et des communications du Québec)
http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=97606&type=bien#.XqBus8hKj4c

Site patrimonial du Vieux-Québec (Ministère de la culture et des communications du Québec)
http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=93523&type=bien#.XqBvg8hKj4c

Musée acadien du Québec
http://www.museeacadien.com/en

Maritimes

Saint Croix Island International Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nb/stcroix

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/louisbourg

Melanson Settlement National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/melanson

Port Royal National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/portroyal

Grand-Pré National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/grandpre

Boishébert and Beaubears Island Shipbuilding National Historic Sites (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nb/boishebert

Fort Anne National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/fortanne/info

Fort Edward National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/edward

Charles Fort National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/charles

Canso Islands National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/canso

Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nb/beausejour

Bloody Creek National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ns/bloodycreek

Castle Hill National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/castlehill

Signal Hill National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/signalhill

Red Bay National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nl/redbay

Skmaqn-Port-la-Joye–Fort-Amherst National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/pe/skmaqn

Monument-Levebvre National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nb/lefebvre

Musée acadien (Université de Moncton)
https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-maum/

Village historique acadien
https://www.villagehistoriqueacadien.com/en

Ontario and Canadian West

National Gallery of Canada
http://www.gallery.ca/

Canadian War Museum
https://www.warmuseum.ca/

Bank of Canada Museum
https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/

Royal Ontario Museum
http://www.rom.on.ca/

Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
http://www.saintemarieamongthehurons.on.ca/sm/index.htm

Fort Frontenac National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=392

York Factory National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/mb/yorkfactory

Fort la Reine Museum
https://flrmuseum.com/

Fort La Reine National Historic Site (Parks Canada)
https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=127

United States

Fort Ticonderoga (New York)
https://www.fortticonderoga.org/

Crown Point State Historic Site (New York)
https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/34/details.aspx

Old Fort Niagara (New York)
http://www.oldfortniagara.org/

Mackinac State Historic Parks (Michigan)
http://www.mackinacparks.com/

Grand Village of the Natchez Indians (Mississippi)
http://www.mdah.ms.gov/new/visit/grand-village-of-natchez-indians/

Fort de Chartres State Historic Site (Illinois)
http://www.fortdechartres.us/

Fort Toulouse (Alabama)
http://www.fttoulousejackson.org

Louisiana State Museum (Louisiana)
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/

The Historic New Orleans Collection (Louisiana)
https://www.hnoc.org/

Saint Croix Island International Historic Site (Maine)
https://www.nps.gov/sacr/index.htm

Old Mobile Site (Alabama)
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalhistoriclandmarks/old-mobile-site.htm

France

Jacques Cartier Manor House and Museum
http://www.musee-jacques-cartier.fr/index_en.php

Musée d’Aquitaine
http://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/

Musée d’histoire de Nantes
http://www.chateaunantes.fr/en

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/

Musée national de la Marine
http://en.musee-marine.fr/

Musée de la Compagnie des Indes de Lorient
https://musee.lorient.bzh/museum-english-version/

Musée du Nouveau Monde de La Rochelle
https://museedunouveaumonde.larochelle.fr/

RESOURCES FOR RESEARCHERS

Archives and Digital Collections

Library and Archives Canada
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
http://www.banq.qc.ca/

New France Archives
https://nouvelle-france.org/eng/Pages/new-france-archives.aspx

Bibliothèque nationale de France
https://catalogue.bnf.fr/index.do

Gallica, Bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en/content/accueil-en

Archives nationales de France
http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/en/web/guest/home

Archives nationales d’outre-mer
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/anom/fr/

Centre historique des archives, Service historique de la Défense
https://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/centres-shd/vincennes-centre-historique-des-archives

Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime
https://archives.charente-maritime.fr/

Archives départementales de la Gironde
https://archives.gironde.fr/

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
https://www.bsg.univ-paris3.fr/iguana/www.main.cls

Historical booklets of the Canadian Historical Association
https://cha-shc.ca/english/cha-publications/historical-booklets.html

Canadiana
http://www.canadiana.ca/?usrlang=en

Champlain Society Digital Collection
https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/action/showPublications?pubType=bookSeries&

La Nouvelle France, Ressources françaises (Ministère de la culture et de la communication, France)
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/nllefce/fr/

The John Carter Brown Library
https://jcblibrary.org/

The Newberry Library
https://www.newberry.org/

Reference Tools

Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/en/

Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Université de Montréal and Drouin Institute)
https://www.prdh-igd.com/en/accueil

The Atlas of Canada
https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/maps-tools-and-publications/maps/atlas-canada/10784

Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America
http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/

Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec (Ministère de la culture et des communications du Québec)
http://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/

64 Parishes, Encyclopedia (Louisiana)
https://64parishes.org/encyclopedia

Associations and Research Centres

Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française
https://ihaf.qc.ca/

Commission franco-québécoise sur les lieux de mémoire communs
https://www.cfqlmc.org/

Institut d’études acadiennes (Université de Moncton)
https://www.umoncton.ca/iea/node/24

Institut d’études acadiennes et québécoises (Université de Poitiers)
http://ieaq.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/

Institut du patrimoine culturel de l’Université Laval (Université Laval)
http://www.ipac.ulaval.ca/

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
http://csecs.ca/

French Colonial Historical Society
http://www.frenchcolonial.org/

Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson (Université de Moncton)
https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/

Centre d’études nord-américaines (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
https://www.ehess.fr/fr/centre-d%C3%A9tudes-nord-am%C3%A9ricaines-cena

Centre de recherche Cultures – Arts – Sociétés (Université Laval)
http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/

Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française (University of Ottawa)
https://arts.uottawa.ca/crccf/overview-english

Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la première modernité XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
http://cirem16-18.ca/

Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises (Université Laval et Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)
https://www.cieq.ca/

Center for French Colonial Studies (Texas)
http://frenchcolonialstudies.org/

Groupe de recherche en histoire des sociabilités (UQAM)
http://www.grhs.uqam.ca/