The Great Lakes Maritime Records

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Marine Museum of the Great Lakes - Kingston - An Index of Research Resources - The holdings are well in excess of 3,000 artefacts, 11,000 bibliographic titles, 40,000 ships plans, and 3,000 boxes of archival material.

Maritime History of the Great Lakes - This site is an ongoing experiment in the design of a "digital library", a collection of documents intended to be of value to those researching Great Lakes History.

Great Lakes and Seaway Shipping - Photo galleries, facts and figures, discussion boards.

Downward Bound - This site was developed to help find records pertaining to the years of service for those employed on the great lakes.

Great Lakes Passenger Lists - “The mission and purpose of this site is to bring together researchers and records of passengers lists or ship manifests as they pertain to travel on the Great Lakes.”

CHIN’s Ship Information Database

Historical Collections of the Great Lakes - Bowling Green State University.

Dave Swayze’s Great Lake History

Shipwreck Investigations Database - Shipwreck investigations at Library and Archives Canada.

Wisconsin Great Lakes Shipwrecks

Save Ontario Shipwrecks – Marine Heritage Database

The Great Lakes Shipwreck File (1679-1999) - “This document is the most complete and accurate list of losses of Great Lakes commercial vessels in existence.”