Partnering with the Legislative Library of Ontario in 2007, the Government Documents portal brings together over 120,000 records with downloadable PDFs (representing over 2 million pages) with full-text search, as well as other options for public access. We continue to add government publications to this collection.
Recent release of the updated portal in 2022 includes documents from Ontario Legislative Library and the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks with links to alternate formats via the Internet Archive.
The collection contains documents such as:
- Annual reports
- Budget material
- Commissions of inquiry reports
- Electoral district maps
- Newsletters
- Policy papers
- Public consultation documents
- Quarterly reports
- Research reports
- Task force reports
Most documents are available in both English and French.
Ontario currently has no alternate central repository for government publications in Ontario. Digitization, discovery, and aggregation services for Ontario government documents are currently being undertaken by groups such as the Legislative Library, ODW, the Ontario Digitization Initiative (a project of OCUL), Scholars Portal, and the Internet Archive.
The Ontario Government Publications Roundtable, who collaborate on issues around preservation and access to government documents have created a registry of digitization projects of government documents. If your project isn’t yet in this registry, use the link in the sidebar.
The Legislative Assembly of Ontario also digitized the earliest hansards. These were journalists’ reports originally published in the Globe & Mail and other newspapers. The articles were preserved in the Ontario Scrapbook Hansard which is available for full text search. Work is ongoing to index the articles for improved access and scoped searching.