Info Guides: Local History: Images & maps

PastForward

A digital archive of Winnipeg’s past, featuring vintage postcards, historic directories, oral histories, and more.

Winnipeg in Focus
Images collection from Winnipeg In Focus, City of Winnipeg Archives.

Winnipeg Tribune : Photograph Search
The Winnipeg Tribune Photograph Collection contains approximately 250,000 photographs and negatives dating from the early 1930s to 1980.
MHS Resources: Manitoba Historical Photographs
Digitized photographs from historical albums, including: "Manitoba History Photo of the Day", "An Illustrated Souvenir of Winnipeg (1903)", "Souvenir of Winnipeg, Manitoba (1889)", "Manitoba and the Northwest (circa 1883)", "Illustrated Souvenir of Brandon (1909)".
Virtual Heritage Winnipeg
This website is owned and operated by Heritage Winnipeg and allows you to search through 3000 images and offers virtual tours of historical buildings in the Exchange District.
MHS Historical Features: Winnipeg, Then and Now
Prepared by the MHS, this site showcases Edwardian postcards of Winnipeg, and corresponding photographs at the same locations today.

Maps

Manitobia collection maps
University of Manitoba Archives and Special Collections
Manitoba Historical Maps (Flickr)
A fantastic collection of digitized local maps, many of which have been buried in old government reports and obscure documents until now. These are beautiful maps as objects but also tell us a tremendous amount about the city at that time.
Old Maps Online - Manitoba maps
"OldMapsOnline developed out of a love of the history and heritage of old maps. The project began as a collaboration between Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland and The University of Portsmouth, UK." Libraries and archives from around the world partner to provide content.