Multicultural History Society of Ontario

Published purpose

The Multicultural History Society of Ontario (MHSO) is rearranging and re-describing its archival holdings in a multi-year initiative. Its overall objective is to increase public awareness of, and access to, archival materials documenting the histories of ethnocultural and Indigenous communities. In the final phase of the initiative, the Society will focus on collections of hardcopy newspapers and newsletters currently in storage. Specifically, it will review and appraise 325 newspapers and 585 newsletters produced by / for 50 different communities. It will rearrange—both physically and intellectually—and then re-describe these materials. It will prepare administrative histories based on research it conducts for the newspapers and the organizations that produced the newsletters.