Canadian History

Multidisciplinary; leading source of peer-reviewed, fulltext content.

BC Stats is the central statistical agency of the Province of British Columbia. It maintains the provincial government's largest concentration of statistical products, services, and expertise.

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America contains citations for newspapers, magazines, academic journals, books, reviews, and trade publications from the United States and Canada with expanded content from Great Britain and Australia.
This database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, linguists, theologians, and policymakers. BIPNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions and lived experiences of North America's Indigenous peoples.

The Canadiana Online collection contains 19 million pages (95,000 titles) of digitized historical publications, including monographs, serials, and government publications. The collection is largely composed of materials published prior to 1921.

A national encyclopedia that offers the largest collection of authored, accurate and continually updated articles focused on Canada's history and culture.

This database focuses on periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues in general reference arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs.

This database focuses on periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues in general reference arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences and current affairs.

A dictionary of biographical entries for individuals who have contributed to the history of Canada.

This comprehensive reference work contains more than 4,000 articles on BC places and things and hundreds of historic and colour photographs, statistics, maps, tables, charts and diagrams.

Primary source material including maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, sermons, poems and more. Subjects range from business, colonization & British studies, History, Indigenous peoples studies, journalism, literature, newspapers, political science, science, law and government, and LGBTQ and gender studies.

Statistics Canada is a key socioeconomic database. Provides fast and easy access to a large range of the latest statistics available in Canada.

Log in here to access the historical archives of The Province (1894-2010), The Times Colonist (1884-2010) and The Vancouver Sun (1912-2010).

Anyone in British Columbia or the Yukon with a computer or mobile device can access 125+ years of digital news archives at no charge, remotely, anytime – no authentication required. This online access is made possible through a collaboration of academic, public, and school libraries across B.C.

Log in straight from this page to search nearly 5 million digitized pages of news, ads, images and more that showcase B.C.'s heritage – a remarkable trove of content for research, teaching, and learning.

Articles, columns, editorials and features published in a variety of Canadian newspapers.

Designed for Canadian college and university faculty & students, CAN-CORE is your go-to destination for current and relevant Canadian video content. The streaming platform features quality programming from many of Canada’s best producers.

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