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Historical announcements and articles from Barrie news sources from 1847-1979.
Some gaps in online coverage exist due to missing or damaged original pages.

Historical newspapers from elsewhere in Ontario can be found at: Ontario Community Newspaper Portal.

Getting Started and 'how-to' guides for online library resources.
Features tips and troubleshooting for eBooks, getting started with online databases like SimplyAnalytics or Ancestry and tutorials on common tools like Email and Zoom.

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Getting Started Guide

Find images and transcriptions of headstones from Canadian cemeteries. Records are all hosted and stored exclusively in Canada.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) contains 8,500 biographies. This includes the complete contents of volumes I to XV, revealing the life stories of Canadians covering the years 1000 to 1930.

FamilySearch is a resource for genealogical data from a wide variety of countries, including census, birth/marriage/death records, military and probate records. It allows you to create your own family tree online and search those of other users.

Barrie Public Library is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, which allows users within a library branch to access over 350 million otherwise restricted images.

This resource requires users to register for a free account.

Getting Started Guide

Full page images of the Globe and Mail from 1844 - four years from the present date. Easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Getting Started Guide

An online searchable database containing information about settlers and early residents of Simcoe County as recorded in a number of sources.

Originally named the 'Simcoe County Surname Settlers Database'.

Getting Started Guide