If you’ve saved bookmarks or links to Library and Archives Canada resources over the years, some of them may no longer work. Unfortunately, that means links you may have included in resource lists may no longer work.
LAC has been migrating the contents of nearly 80 legacy databases into its unified Collection search tool, and those older databases are now being decommissioned. Any links pointing to the old systems may be broken.
What to do:
- For yoiur personal resources, find them through Collection search and update your saved links
- Create a LAC account to save records to private research lists — a more stable alternative to bookmarking URLs
- You may want to report any broken links using the Give feedback link on the LAC website
The link (on this site, not the LAC site) to _LAC account_ leads to the LAC home page.
I found this link works:
https://compte-account.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/index
Yes, it’s very frustrating. Would think there’s a programmer behind the scenes there who can take care of that with redirects, rather than just presenting broken link messages.
Yes, you would almost think they did not want us to find the material.