HIST 403 History of Quebec Institutions

This site has a number of nineteenth century popular journals, such as the Canadian Illustrated News (1869-1883), La Minerve (1826-1899) and the Quebec Chronicle (1847-1824), as well as other primary material related to Quebec history.

This is a full text collection of digital material, such as parliamentary papers and reports, serials, pamphlets and books, up to the early twentieth century. ECO supports both key word searching and browsing by subject.

This is the digitised version of the Toronto daily newspaper The Globe and Mail.

IndexCat is both a catalogue and an index, containing over 4.5 million records to journal articles, books, pamphlets, reports, dissertations and portraits, making this a great source for locating primary material in medical history. The references are multilingual and cover medicine and allied areas. Coverage is of material from antiquity through 1950.

The print version of MEDLINE, Index Medicus, was produced from 1879 to 2004, so is useful for locating material published before the electronic databases were created. This is located in Life Sciences Library reference section.

There is a database listing the Library's collection of over 200 medical almanacs from the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly Canadian. Records of these are in the process of being added to the McGill Library Catalogue.