Hoover Library and the McDaniel Archives Reading Room will be closing for construction from Monday, 12/16/24, reopening Tuesday, 1/21/25. The librarians and all virtual resources and services will be available throughout the closure. For specific questions, contact Elizabeth Davidson. For information on holiday hours, please see our hours page.
Like the UK's Dictionary of National Biography, Canada's Dictionary of National Biography give you quick and easy information about important figures in Canadian history. The site also provides some of work of these important figures
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
The following subcollections are in NCCO:
-Asia and the West
-British Politics and Society
-British Theatre, Music, and Literature
-Children's Literature and Childhood
-Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
-European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790–1840
-Maps and Travel Literature
-Photography
-Religion, Reform, and Society
-Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I & II
-Women and Transnational Networks
"ARCHIVESCANADA.ca is an official archival portal maintained by the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and is a joint initiative of CCA, the Provincial and Territorial Archival Networks, and Library and Archives Canada (LAC)."
"The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to the Ymir Mirror, date from 1859 to 1995."
"The Canadian Letters and Images Project is an online archive of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves."
"This collection provides access to the pre-1930 Canadian pamphlet and broadside holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library by supplying both page images in full colour, and full searchability of the contents of each item. To date the site consists of 597 broadsides (single sheets, printed on one or both sides) and 2,062 pamphlet titles which amounts to 71,508 page images. The collection includes items printed in Canada, by Canadian authors, or about Canadian subjects, mainly of a non-literary nature."
"The Library of Parliament, in collaboration with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, is pleased to provide access to Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources, a free searchable database of digitized versions of parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament (1867) until coverage at ourcommons.ca and sencanada.ca begins. The publications that are made available are: debates, journals, committee documentation and bills of both the Senate and the House of Commons. It also contains the Senate Minutes of Proceedings, the Rules of the Senate, the House of Commons Votes and Proceedings, and the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. Historical sessional papers are also available from 1867 to 1901."
HeinOnline Academic is a multidisciplinary database, with coverage in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law. Specialized collection callouts are available such as: Civil Rights and Social Justice.
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