The resources on this page offer the best starting point for research projects that have a Canadian focus.
If you need help using these sources, or searching beyond them, don’t hesitate to ask a librarian.
Article Databases
Created by the Université de Montréal, Université Laval and Université du Québec à Montréal, Érudit is the leading provider of Francophone, Canadian peer-reviewed journals in North America.
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Books/eBooks
Use Discovery to do advanced searches for print books from our Dawson Library Catalogue.
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Contains over 15,000 titles from more than 60 of Canada’s leading publishers; and more than 45,000 publications by Canadian public policy and research institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups.
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Reference Sources
Published online by the Historica Foundation, the Canadian Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive, objective and accurate source of information on Canada for students, readers and scholars across Canada and throughout the world. Contents have been contributed by more than 5000 scholars and specialists from every discipline and region of Canada.
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Offers almost 8,500 biographies which describe the lives of Canadians whose deaths or whose last-known activities occurred in the years 1000 to 1930. Also included are entries on voyagers whose verifiable dates precede 1000 – Saint Brendan (Bréanainn), Eirikr Thorvaldsson (Eric the Red), and Herjólfsson Bjarni – and more than 70 biographies of individuals who died after 1930.
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Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is the first large-scale online collection of early Canadian print heritage. It currently offers twelve online collections totalling several hundred thousand digitized titles and is continually expanding.
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News & Websites
Search the websites of leading newspapers, Canadian and Provincial government websites, and other pages hosted in Canada (.ca)
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