“Diary-newsletters: The Bee, The Daily Cackle, The Daily Twitter, The Gilston Loud-Speaker,” http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A10203. These diary-newsletters were written and illustrated by Edward Rubidge Crombie and his children and are part of the Crombie Family Fonds at Archives and Research Collections at McMaster University.
“Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries,” http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/show/9. This is part of the larger DIYhistory website which also includes diaries from pioneer times, the Civil War, WWI and WWII. It is a marvelous site and a pioneer in transcribing online.
“Documenting the American South,” http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/texts.html. This site provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.
Teresa Casas, “Brampton Farmer’s Diary 1873,” https://ontariofarmhistory.wordpress.com. This is a beautifully annotated and illustrated transcription of John H. Ferguson’s diary. Our website features this diarist and our volunteers have transcribed his other diaries.
Reading History with Great-Uncle Ernest, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9qvKDOy7dNrLj6DN47kHuQ. A series of videos of Judy Ferrier reading from her Great-Uncle Earnest’s diaries 1902-14, a farmer on the Scotch Line in Perth, Ontario.
Mark Robinson, Park Ranger’s Diaries, Algonquin Park, 1907-1936, https://twitter.com/rgrmarkrobinson?lang=en. Follow the posts of entries from his diaries and learn about the park and his work.
“Rocking P Gazette,” https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/archive/Rocking-P-Gazette-2R3BF1FS4XLF1.html. A diary/newspaper created by two girls aged 12 and 14 living on their family’s ranch in the foothills of southern Alberta in 1923. Dorothy Margaret Macleay and her younger sister Gertrude Maxine produced the paper, edited it, acted as its principal reporters, wrote many of its articles and stories, and sketched and painted nearly all its art.
