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Search 148,000 documents from 23 municipalities

One search across every member town’s digitized records — minutes, maps, photographs and registers, following the Canadian RAD standard.

Try:fire insurance plan CobourgTrenton bridge 1911cemetery register Smith
148,000documents digitized
1.2 Mpages OCR’d
23member municipalities
1834–2002years covered
Member cities

Every town, its own archive

and 17 more municipalities
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How your archive goes online

01 — Scan

Digitize the paper

Your staff scan documents with our workflow and equipment guidance — boxes in, TIFFs out, with RAD-compliant description templates.

02 — OCR & AI

Make it readable

Every page is OCR’d, named entities are extracted into People / Places / Organizations, and translations are flagged on the record.

03 — Publish

Open it to residents

Your archive goes live in your own city space — searchable by anyone, no registration, with MFIPPA-restricted items handled properly.

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What’s happening in town

NewsAll news
Port HopeSep 12, 2026Heritage Day at the Capitol Theatre — bring your family photos CobourgAug 14, 2026Boardwalk summers: beach photographs go on show at Victoria Hall TrentonJul 21, 2026Trenton digitizes its 7,000th document
BlogAll posts
Port Hope8 min readThe harbour that built the town: 150 years of the east pier Cobourg7 min readVictoria Hall’s restoration, told through council minutes Trenton6 min readThe bridge of 1911: how Trenton crossed the Trent