Canadian Poetry Archive

Canadian Poetry Archive now available!


The Canadian Poetry Archive features some 1,000 poems, dating from 1826 to 1925, by more than 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets.

The database also includes biographies of some of this period\’s more prominent poets, including Pauline Johnson, Archibald Lampman, Susanna Moodie, Émile Nelligan, Charles G.D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott.


\”The richness and diversity of the poetry represented in our Canadian Poetry Archive remind us that Canada has a long and distinguished literary tradition,\” said National Librarian Roch Carrier.

The Canadian Poetry Archive can be found on the Internet at:

The National Library of Canada