Encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks offer generalist information that may be useful in learning more about a topic or beginning research. The links below offer resources for Canadian history.
This book is an essential guide to the history of Canada with over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
The Historical Booklets series published by the Canadian Historical Association provides the general reader, the teacher and the historical specialist with concise accounts of specific historical issues in the history of Canada.
Broad, short surveys of Canada's immigrant and ethnic groups written at a level accessible to general readers, historians, and students from high school to graduate school. An excellent place to begin a research project on immigrant groups in Canada. There are over three dozen booklets ranging from the Acadians to West Indians.