Heritage Scrapbook

About This Project

Share your photographs, family documents, newspaper articles, and other digitized content with the Heritage Scrapbook online exhibit!

This is a collection of digitized photographs, family documents, newspaper articles, and family histories of people who once lived in the Blue Mountains. Many of the photographs in our collection have been donated by descendants of the people who first settled here in the Blue Mountains. These photographs give a visual history of the people who once farmed, educated, served and lived in the Blue Mountains.

We would like your help! You are invited to submit digital content here to add to the online collection. We are seeking additional photographs, stories, anecdotes, and more!

It also includes unknown families and people; it is our hope that someone might view these unknown people and be able to fill in the missing gaps. If you recognize any of the people in our photographs or have any additional information regarding any of the families or would like to upload families we may have missed please contact the Craigleith Heritage Depot in the Town of The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada or visit the website links below.

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Submission Guidelines

Sharing Your Content

Additional Information

The submission process is free and it takes about 10 minutes. You are welcome to share as many digital items as you like. The content may be used in an online project about local families and would be accessed by the public for the duration of the online exhibit.

Before you submit, please make sure your content:

  • Reflects the families that once/currently live in the Blue Mountains.
  • Is an original work to which you own the rights, or is in the public domain.

What can I submit?

Suggested content includes: digitized photographs, letters, diaries, scrapbooks, newspaper articles/clippings, wedding/death/baptismal certificates, oral stories, or other family material.

Accepted File Formats:

Audio files, images, videos, PDFs. All content will need to be digital. TIP: If you would like to share a brief story or memory by text, you may wish to save the document as a PDF on your device, then select “Written Content (Other)” under Work Type on the next submission page.

Need Help?

If you need help digitizing files, please contact a member of your local library who can help direct you to the best resource (including staff)! If your local library is The Blue Mountains Public Library, please visit the website links below for contact information.

File Types Accepted

MP3, MP4, EPUB2, EPUB3, PDF, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TIF, JPG/JPEG, MPG, MOV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, DIVX, WEBM, OGG