Canadian Automotive Research Guide (PDF); general information on a range of motoring topics, a good place to start any research project.

Carriage Research Guide (PDF); for research on horse-drawn vehicles from across Canada.

List of Inventoried Periodicals (PDF); a full listing of all the periodicals, motoring magazines and other serial publications in the CAM library. Note that the collection does not necessarily include the full published range of each periodical and there may be gaps or absences, especially with older publications.

Automotive Brochure Finding Aid(PDF); a listing by manufacturer and year of the nearly 11,000 automotive brochures in the collection.

Automotive Advertisement Finding Aid (PDF); a listing of the approximately 350 brands of vehicles covered by the advertising in our collection.

The Benson Ford Research Centre; based out of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, the BFRC is the definitive resource on the history of Ford, in Canada and abroad.

Canadian Motorsport Historical Society; Canada’s largest all-digital collection of motorsports history.

Canadiana.ca; part of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, this database includes more than 60 million digitized, searchable pages of historical books, periodicals, maps and more.

Canned-Ham; the definitive research and community resource on the development, history and use of the Can-Am marque of dirtbikes.

Detroit Public Library Digital Collections; the DPL maintains a database of hundreds of thousand motoring photographs and documents spanning the whole range of North American automotive history.

The Heritage Dictionary of Historic Vehicles, by Dr. Gundula Tutt. This Creative Commons work is a superb reference for untangling the often contradictory world of historical vehicle vocabulary.

Library and Archives Canada; the national archives of Canada includes audio, video, maps, photographs, genealogical and business records and more.

Oshawa Public Library; the City of Oshawa’s municipal library maintains a public database of the CAM’s library and periodicals.

The Petersen Museum Digital Archive; in addition to hosting a world-class collection of more than 255 cars, the Petersen has digitized more than a million photographs and documents in their collection, and counting.

The Revs Institute; based in Naples, Florida, the Revs archive includes one of the largest collections of automotive photographs and advertising in existence.