Improving your online experience

Our new website was built to be simple, intuitive and accessible. The launch on August 30, 2022, was just the beginning of what will be a process of continuous improvement. As we add new features, we will post them on this page.

Canada’s collection of documentary heritage continues to grow. Our goal is to make it easier for all Canadians to access the collection itself, whether online or in person. As a result, the new website is an important step toward our Vision 2030: Discover. Understand. Connect.

Our focus

• Findability: consistent and intuitive design
• Navigation: based on themes, topics and tasks
• Themes: collection, services and corporate
• Plain language: easy to understand

Tools

• Census Search
• First World War Personnel Records database
• Second World War Service Files – War Dead, 1939 to 1947
• My Account
• Government of Canada Web Archive

Blog series

• Launching the Federal Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry Web Archival Collection: a Brief History of Some of Canada’s Most Important Publications
• Bilingual census data: a better search experience for all Canadians
• Improving your online experience: Analytics, feedback, improvements, user experience and changes to come on our new website
• Improving your online experience: Launch of the new Government of Canada Web Archive
• Improving your online experience: How we are making digital legal deposit better for publishers, LAC and you
• How we are embracing user-centred design to build better online tools
• What to expect at LAC’s new online home
• New blog series: Improving your online experience

Feedback

Your feedback will help to guide us as we improve and expand our website. Send your questions and comments to servicesweb-webservices@bac-lac.gc.ca.