Legend
- McGill users only
- In-library-use only
- Catalogue record
Sources for Background Information
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
- Canadian Encyclopedia Online
Historica 2000 edition. Originally published by Hurtig, then M & S. - Oxford Companion to Canadian History
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- World Biographical Information System
Searching the Library Catalogue
Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, histor?, etc.
Search tips
| Truncation symbol: | ? | e.g. histor? will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, histories, historical, etc. |
| Phrase searching: | "___" | e.g. "United Nations" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase United Nations |
| Boolean operators: | (), AND, OR, NOT default: AND |
e.g. history AND (Canada OR "United States") will retrieve catalogue records containing the word history AND either Canada OR the phrase United States |
Core and Additional Databases
Indexes, Bibliographies
- America: History & Life (Ebsco)
- Amerique Française: Histoire et Civilisation
- CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index), 1980-
- JSTOR
- Peel's Prairie Provinces
- Project MUSE
- Repère
Government Documents (Electronic Databases)
Newspapers
- Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
- Quebec Historical Newspapers (from Bibliothèque et archives nationales du québec)
- Toronto Star: Pages of the Past, 1892-2002
Journals (Electronic Databases)
Primary Sources-Bibliographies, Books
- Early Canadiana Online
- 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
Statistics
- Canada Year Book Historical Collection, 1867-1967
- Censuses of Canada 1665-1871 (via E-Stat, choose "search censuses")
- Historical Statistics of Canada
Maps
- Concise Historical Atlas of Canada
- In Search of Your Canadian Past: the Canadian Digital Atlas Project
- The W.H. Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps