Print and Online Reference Sources
- Canadian EncyclopediaCanada's national encyclopedia covering all branches of knowledge. Includes more than 35,000 articles in English and French.
- Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867-1967The Canada Year Book Historical Collection 1867 to 1967: historical text, tables and maps on Canadian society, events, and the economy: population, industry, trade, immigration, labour, transportation, government, etc. No search function: browse topics and timelines.
Koerner reference HA744.S81
- Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public AffairsYearly calendar of important events, Canadian political highlights, provincial highlights
- CBC ArchivesSearch the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's digital archives.
- Dictionary of Canadian biographyThe definitive Canadian biographical dictionary. Includes entries for non-Canadians who played a significant role in the history of the country.
- Canadian Book Review Annual OnlineMore than 40,000 reviews of Canadian-authored books over the last 35 years.
- Encyclopedia of Canada's PeoplesPresents information on the people of Canada, from native communities, or First Nations, to groups formed in Canada, such as the Acadians and Metis.
- ITP Nelson Canadian dictionary of the English language: an encyclopedic referenceKoerner reference PE3235 .I77 1997
Canadian Theses and Dissertations
- Theses Canada PortalElectronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities. There is a four-year contractual time lag for adding fulltext theses & dissertations that have been digitized by ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Fulltext theses & dissertations are currently available for 1998-2005 plus harvested EDTs from universities.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalIncludes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
- Canadian Institutional Repositories (CARL)List of repositories in Canada. An institutional repository is a digital archive of an institution’s intellectual output.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To make it easier to search across institutional repositories, NDLTD has initiated a project to harvest metadata from university electronic theses and dissertations. Electronic theses and dissertations are harvested monthly from Canadian universities.
- OAIsterOAIster is a union catalog of over 30 million records representing open access digital resources from over 1,500 institutions. OAIster is useful for searching multiple online archives for theses and dissertations simultaneously.
- UBC Open Collections Theses and DissertationsFull text of virtually every dissertation and thesis produced at UBC.