Ontario Historical Education Collections

As 2025’s Black History Month comes to a close, we at OISE Library want to shine a spotlight onto a piece of local culture and activism represented in our collections.  Our Lives: Canada’s First Black Women’s Newspaper was published by the… Read more

Not sure what’s in the Ontario Historical Education Collections (OHEC) at OISE Library, or how they could be helpful to you as a student or researcher?  Join our drop-in Zoom information sessions on October 25th from 1pm-3pm and November 8th… Read more

We are thrilled to announce the launch of OISE Library’s newest archival collection — the Jocelyn Motyer Raymond Fonds. The fonds contains the fascinating work of this educator and researcher during her time at the Institute of Child Study, now The… Read more

A lone curriculum resource book entitled Black and White in North America. A thin chapter on Africville in Issues in Cultural Diversity. Another curriculum resource book… nevermind, that’s the same one as before. After several hours scouring deep… Read more

The Ontario Historical Education Collection (OHEC) at OISE Library houses eight special collections from private donors featuring materials related to fascinating moments in the history of Ontario education. One of these collections is the Canadian… Read more

Looking for something mindful to do over the Winter Break? Take some time to colour in some images from the OISE Library Internet Archive. Find out more about the Internet Archive in this blog post and explore the materials in the Internet Archive… Read more

There’s no better time than December to cozy up with a mug of hot chocolate and a classic read! This month, the Ontario Historical Education Collection has gathered its books featuring two of the most well-recognized authors in English Literature;… Read more

  An OISE photograph of staff working with reel-to-reel-tape. The original interviews were similarly recorded on reel-to-reel tape and reproduced as cassette tapes. Calling all Canadian history buffs! This week the OISE Library is launching… Read more

Have you ever wondered what it was like to go to school 50 years ago? Inspired by this recent time capsule recovery at a Vancouver elementary school, we browsed our 1969 textbooks to see what elementary school was like the year that Neil Armstrong… Read more

The end of the school year has finally arrived! After all that you’ve learned this year, could you pass these provincial exit exams from our Ontario Historical Education Collections? The OHEC houses a collection of provincial exams administered… Read more