City of Toronto Archives
Search the Archives’ database for records and information.
At the City of Toronto Archives you can find historical records (information), including:
- records created by the City of Toronto government
- records created by municipal governments that existed before the 1998 amalgamation
- papers of people, families, organizations and businesses
- photographs
- maps, plans and architectural drawings
A new exhibit called “The Twenties: Snapshots of Everyday Life” is now on display, to commemorate the upcoming 100th anniversary of the beginning of the 1920s.
The exhibit runs until August 2020 and admission is free.
The Archives will be open on Saturdays from October 19, 2019 to April 25, 2020. Staff are available to help you with your research during Saturday hours but we cannot retrieve boxes.