To keep you informed about our work in building the collection, we will soon be posting a list of new and significant acquisitions on the Library and Archives Canada website, which we hope to update twice yearly.
The fonds of the Inuit Art Foundation, the only Aboriginal arts service in Canada owned and operated by Inuit artists.
The papers of former New Democratic Party leader Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a national political party.
The records of Chuck Cadman (1948-2005), former Reform Party/Canadian Alliance member until 2004 and later an independent Member of Parliament. In the spring of 2005, he attracted national attention by supporting the Liberal government in a no-confidence vote.
A total of 7,300 images by photographer Beverley Rockett, which document the fashion industry of the 60s and 70s. This collection also includes the campaign photographs of John Roberts, images of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and portraits of other well-known Canadians and Americans.
An early diary, family papers, literary manuscripts and photographs were added to the papers of writer Timothy Findley.
A rare 17th-century broadside relating to New France and Louisiana; it is perhaps the earliest item published in England that describes Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's intended voyage to Louisiana to establish a colony.
A hand-coloured copper-engraved map entitled Peregrinationis Divi Pavli Typus Corographicus, drawn by Abraham Ortelius in 1579, and printed in a French edition of the atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: Plantin, 1598). It shows the eastern Mediterranean region, from Italy to Mesopotamia, as travelled by the apostle Paul in the first century.
A volume from the Troisième voyage abrégé du capitaine Cook dans l'océan Pacifique (Paris, 1785), which contains maps and landscapes, prints of animals, of objects of art and of daily life, portraits and sketches of group gatherings.
Derashah tsemer u-fishtim (Lodz, Poland, 1912), a discussion of the religious and legal issues arising from the practice of mixing certain textiles in the manufacture of garments. This volume is one of 29 early editions of works authored by communal leader Rabbi Yehudah Yudl Rozenberg (1859-1935).
The fonds of amateur filmmaker E.F. Attridge, which contains documentaries, theatrical shorts and home movies, including the handwritten script of the film Casa Loma, winner of the best Canadian amateur motion picture for 1979.
The addition of 27 honorary medals to the fonds of Jean-Louis Roy, the elected Secretary-General of the Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie in 1990.
The complete listing of major acquisitions for the period of April to September 2005 will be posted on the Library and Archives Canada website in May.
