Update for September 25, 2024:

• Rally material from Shawn Bishop, Ian McArthur and Al Watson
• Breckenridge Speedway press clippings
• Westwood movies
• Mont Tremblant race programs
• NASCC race results
• Trois Rivieres race programs and results
• Pete Matthews column from Calgary Herald
• Pinecrest Speedway photos
• NASCC ice racing

Update for July 28, 2024:

• We now have over 41,000 assets
• NASCC ice racing 2022
• Don Roberts Collection: stock car photos from 1950s and 1960s
• John Cross photos from 1966 and 1968 at Mont Tremblant
• Sports Car Club of Saskatchewan club events 1950s and 60s
• Brad Buckler photos 2002

Update for June 17, 2024:

• We now have over 40,000 assets
• Brad Buckler fond covering Westwood, Calgary and Mission
• CSCC -Davidson 1964
• Frank Smart - Harewood 1959

Update for May 1, 2024:

• We now have over 38,000 assets
• Brad Buckler images from Westwood and Mosport
• Early press clippings from Sports Motor Car Club (Montreal)
• Grant McLean press clippings
• Robin Edwardes press clippings
• Calgary Sports Car Club scrapbook
• Silver Lake Rally press clippings
• Pit Patter column fond

Update for April 18, 2024:

• We now have over 37,000 assets
• Mosport photos by Brad Buckler from 2005 and 2007
• Continued work on the Calgary Sports Car Club scrap books including Groeneveld Hill Climb
• Canadian Winter Rally photographs, press clippings and updated results lists

Recent uploads as of April 4, 2024:

• We now have 36,000 assets
• 1972 Canadian Winter Rally photos by Michael Dodd
• Calgary Sports Car Club scrapbook photos
• Terry Godsall press clippings
• Edmonton Regals Hot Rod Club material from Matt Hotte
• Mosport photos from the Brad Buckler fond
• 1966 Sundance race from the Ed Makarenko Fond

Recent uploads as of March 7, 2024:

• We now have 35,000 assets
• Shell 4000 Rally images from Paul Manson
• Westwood race programs
• Calgary Sports Car Club material from scrapbooks
• More material from Linda Sakaluk
• Sixty issues of Formula magazine from Shawn Bishop

Recent uploads as of January 24, 2024:

• We now have 34,000 assets
• Bighorn Rally photos from Richard Dekker
• Westwood race programs
• More material from the Craig Fisher estate
• More material from Linda Sakaluk
• 1966 and 1967 Shell 4000 images
• 26 issues of SCCBC Pit Pass magazine

Recent uploads as of January 13, 2024:

• Rally material contributed by Linda Sakaluk
• Canadian Grand Prix race programs contributed by Scott MacKenzie
• Club newsletters:
• Toronto Autosport Club - Fifth Gear
• Northern Alberta Sports Car Club - Straight Pipe
• Edmonton Light Car Club - Sump

Recent uploads as of January 2, 2024:

• Archive has over 33,000 assets
• Documents from Craig Fisher Estate starting in 1958
• Images from BEMC GT races at Mosport 2003
• Canadian Winter Rally press clippings 1953 to 1961
• 64 issues of Hamilton Sports Car Club Clutch Chatter newsletter
• 300 issues of Sports Car Club of BC Pit Pass newsletter
• Images from Westwood 1961
• 2004 CASCAR season photos from Peterborough and Kawartha

Recent uploads as of December 4, 2023:

• More Autosport Canada
• Results for Race City, Gimli and Canon / Yohohama Formula Ford
• Newsletters - Cargosy, LSCC, Aficionado, CVRA, VARAC

Recent uploads as of November 22, 2023:

• Issues of Broken Spoke, The Straight Pipe, Autosport Canada, Lethbridge Sports Car Club newsletters
• More Gerry Frechette photos
• More files related to Edenvale, Green Acres and St Eugene

November 12, 2023:

• Our first anniversary is coming up on November 22
• The Archive now has over 30,000 assets, including:
• Images from Westwood by Ed Makarenko
• Harewood Acres race programs and press clippings
• Photographs from Edmonton International Speedway- Formula Atlantic and NASCC Club race
• Sports Car Club of BC Pit Pass Bulletins from 1966
• Vancouver Indy 1992

October 2, 2023:

• The Archive now has over 28,000 assets
• New press clippings in the pre-war fond
• Gerry Frechette images from Race City Calgary 1990
• Sports Car Club of BC Pit Pass newsletter from 1965
• Model T race programs from 1940s
• Race programs from Mosport 1986

September 14, 2023:

• The Archive now has over 25,000 assets
• Gerry Frechette images from Race City Calgary 1990 added
• Finished Mosport data for 1985

August 31, 2023:

• We now have 24,700 assets even after the summer slow-down of administrators and volunteers
• Check out Gerry Frechette's 200 photos for the 1990 Vancouver Indy Street circuit
• There are also 124 photos by Gerry of the last Westwood race weekend from 1990
• You can now read on-line another 47 Pit-Pass newsletters
• The Mosport data for 1983 and 1984 have been processed
• Behind the scenes numerous metadata updates are ongoing to keep the website search engine churning

July 27, 2023:

• The browse functionality has been implemented (only for full-size screens)
• 144 images from Westwood at 1990 Player�€™s Pacific have been added

July 11, 2023:

• The archive has more than 24,000 records
• Images from Westwood in 1990 from Gerry Frechette – search westwood AND 1990
• 74 issues of the VARAC Pit Signals from Jeremy Sale with more as we find them – search VARAC

June 28, 2023:

• The archive has more than 21,000 records
• Images from June 2003 VARAC race at Mosport
• Images from June 2003 CASCAR Super Series race at Peterborough Speedway

June 20, 2023:

• Assets for 1982 at Mosport are uploaded
• The Archive has more than 20,000 records
• Hundreds of photos from the May 2003 Trans-Am weekend at Mosport have been uploaded - search trans-am AND mosport
• Images from 1992 Firehawk Enduro Series at Mont Tremblant – search firehawk

June 15, 2023:

• Photographs from Westwood 1960 �€“ search Westwood AND 1960
• Results from Can-Am race weekend at Mosport June 1982 �€“ search Mosport AND 1982
• Race programs from Harewood Acres �€“ search �€œHarewood�€�
• Sports Car Club of BC Newsletter Pit Pass �€“ search �€œPit Pass�€�

June 9, 2023: Mosport programs and documents for 1981 have been added

June 4, 2023:

• The Archive has over 18,000 assets
• Rally photos by Len Stevens courtesy Geoff Sprawson
• Results and photographs from Mirabel 2008-2022
• Programs for Moosehead 300 enduro

May 29, 2023: 276 assets for Shannonville Motorsport Park spanning 1998-2022

May 27, 2023: 112 assets from Calabogie Motorsport Park – search ‘calabogie’

May 27, 2023: BC Motorsport Digitization project is progressing - search “Westwood” for images starting in 1959

May 27, 2023: Data for Circuit Gilles Villeneuve starting in 1978 added – search "circuit gilles villeneuve"

May 27, 2023: Images from Souris Manitoba airport circuit added – search “souris”

May 27, 2023: Digitization of the Calgary Sports Car Club archive has begun – search “CSCC”

May 21, 2023: 127 press clippings for Kay Petre added – search “kay petre”

May 21, 2023: 100 images from Westwood 1959-1961 added – search “Westwood” and sort by upload time - latest  

May 9, 2023: There are now over 17,000 assets in the CMHS database.

May 9, 2023: A large number of road racing documents covering eastern Canada, courtesy of Dominic St. Jean, have been added

May 5, 2023: Over 1100 photos from the ColourTech Motorsport Photography collection have been uploaded. These photos are from Mosport Speedway and cover the mid-1990s.

May 2, 2023: Mosport Speedway programs from 1997 added – search “Mosport Speedway”

April 30, 2023: Press clippings for 1978 Hamilton Formula Atlantic Race added

April 27, 2023: Mosport programs and documents for 1978 and 1979 have been added

April 24, 2023: The CMHS would like to thank the Clarington Community Funding Program for their generous grant, which we will use to continue expanding the Mosport Archive

April 22, 2023: The CMHS has received a $2,000 grant from the University of British Columbia to fund the digitization of the Westwood collection. Thank you for funding.

April 21, 2023: There are now over 15,000 assets in the collection

April 21, 2023: All material for Mosport 1977 added - search: Mosport AND 1977

April 14, 2023: Now at 92 assets from St LAC 1000 Islands rally – search “1000 Islands”

April 14, 2023: Race program and recaps from 2000 Mosport Speedway – search “mosport speedway"

April 13, 2023: Route books and press clippings for 1000 Islands Rally loaded – search “1000 Islands Rally”

April 13, 2023: 16 issues of Prairie Region Motorsport magazine – search "Prairie Region Motorsport"

April 8, 2023: 49 images from Standard Stock Car Club - Standard, Alberta October 15, 1978 race, Stan Munn photographer  

April 8, 2023: Archive now has over 400 press clippings on Model T racing 1939-1951

April 6, 2023: Recent new scanner for larger 11 x 17 size documents will generate more library assets to be uploaded; started scans for Players GM Challenge series newsletters ... more issues needed.

March 31, 2023: Adding the Keith Pearcey photo fond of Can-Am, Formula 1 and more for Mosport from 1965-1976. Thanks Keith for the contribution.

March 31, 2023: Moving on to 1978 Mosport uploads next

March 28, 2023: Files for 1997 Panama-Alaska rally, Calgary stages and overnight added – search “Panama-Alaska”

March 27, 2023: All assets in the Mosport collection up to 1976 are now complete – search “Mosport AND 1976"

March 27, 2023: 250 newspaper clippings from 1939-1951 Model T racing uploaded – search “Model T”

March 27, 2023: Ed Deak correspondence files uploaded – search “Ed Deak”

March 27, 2023: Early stock car driver Kaija Kalevala press clippings loaded – search “Kaija Kalevala”