Canadian History

Sources for Background Information

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

• Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Oxford Companion to Canadian History
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Core and Additional Databases

Indexes, Bibliographies

• America: History & Life (Ebsco)
• CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index)
• CBCA Complete
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE
• Érudit
• Repère

Newspapers

• Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
• Montreal Gazette (1857-2010)
• Quebec Historical Newspapers (from Bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec)
• Toronto Star: Pages of the Past, 1892-2002
• Paper of Record
• Google News Archive - contains historical issues of several Canadian newspapers, such as the Montreal Gazette
• Manitoba Historical Newspapers
• Prairie Newspapers

Primary Source Collections

• Early Canadiana Online
• Canadiana Collection
• Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (Great Britain)
• Early Encounters in North America
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) 1475-1700
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• Empire Online
• North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
• North American Women's Letters and Diaries
• Peel's Prairie Provinces

Statistics

• Canada Year Book Historical Collection, 1867-1967
• Historical Statistics of Canada

Citation

• Chicago Manual of Style