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Research Tools for Canadian Studies
Use these research tools to find information related to Canadian Studies from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
*Blue asterisk indicates recently added tool.
Archival Collections and Primary Sources
Article Databases and Indexes
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Bibliographies & Subject Guides
Biographical Sources
Country Data Sources
Dictionaries, Thesauri and Quotations
Directories
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Government Information Sources
Image and Sound Databases
Library and Book Catalogs
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Organizations
Statistics and Numeric Data
Web Gateways and Search Engines
Archival Collections and Primary Sources
Resources that list, or provide access to, materials typically found in archives and used for primary source research. Examples include manuscripts, diaries, letters, first-hand accounts or documentary sources on a subject, person, event or issue.
Article Databases and Indexes
Article databases and indexes are used to search for journal and magazine articles on a research topic. Databases may provide citations, abstracts, and/or the full text of articles.
Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers
Resources that provide maps or tools you can use to generate maps. Gazetteers are geographical dictionaries, giving information about cities, mountains, rivers, etc.
*Concise Historical Atlas of Canada / edited by William G. Dean ... [et al.] ; cartography by Geoffrey J. Matthews and Byron Moldofsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [1998]
Earth Sci fG1116.S1.H52 1998
Bibliographies & Subject Guides
Lists of materials in any format (books, articles, videos, web sites, etc.) organized around a common theme or topic. Subcategories as appropriate, i.e., chronological, language, geographic, etc.
Online Resources
*Canadian Literature Archive (University of Manitoba)
Canadian Poetry (University of Toronto Library)
*Canada Poetry Archive / Archives de Poésie Canadienne
*French Canadian Literature Subject Guide (McGill)
Print Resources
*Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies / editor and compiler, Ernie Ingles; principal... 3rd ed., updated, rev. and enlarged. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Doe Refe F1008.A12.I64 1994
*Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers / edited by Douglas
Ivison. Detroit: Gale Group, c2002. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 251
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.251
*Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1994.
Main Stack F1026.A12.C36 1994 v.1-2
*Canadian Reference Sources: An annotated Bibliography: General Reference Works, History, Humanities = Ouvrages de réferénce canadiens: une bibliographie annotée: ouvrages de référence généraux, histoire, science humaines / Mary E. Bond, compiler and editor; Martine M. Caron, co-compiler.
Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, c1996.
Doe Refe F1008.A12.B66 1996
*Canadian Writers, 1890-1920 / edited by W.H. New. Detroit: Gale Research, c1990. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 92
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.92
Moffitt PS129.D5 v.92
*Canadian Writers Before 1890 / edited by W.H. New. Detroit: Gale Research, c1990. Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 99
Doe Refe PS129.D5 v.99
Moffitt PS129.D5 v.99
*The Oxford Companion to Canadian History / edited by Gerald Hallowell.
Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Doe Refe F1026.O93 2004
*The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature / edited by Eugene Benson and William Toye / 2nd ed [Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Doe Refe PR9180.2.O94 1997
*The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre / edited by Eugene Benson and L.W. Conolly. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Doe Refe PN2300.O94 1989
Biographical Sources
Information about people, including biographical dictionaries, profiles of people or "Who's Whos", personal narratives, and other resources with significant biographical information.
*Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists/ edited by Keir B. Sterling ... [et al.]. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Bioscience QH26.B535 1997 Ref Shelves
Doe Refe QH26.B535 1997 Biographies
*Dictionnaire biographique des femmes célèbres et remarquables de notre histoire / Marie-Paule Desjardins. Montréal: Guérin, c2007.
Doe Refe CT3270.D47 2007 Bioographies
*Who's Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada: A Contemporary Directory / Dawn P.... [2nd. ed.] Toronto: D.P. Williams, c2006.
Doe Refe CT283.W55 2006 Biographies
- Who's Who in Canada. Toronto, International Press, 1923-2001. Continues: Who's who and why
NRLF/Main Stack F1005.W6
- Who's Who in Canadian Literature. Toronto: Reference Press, 1985-.
NRLF/Main Stack PR9189.6.W47
Country Data Sources
Sources of information about specific countries.
Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations
General and subject specific dictionaries in any language, dual language dictionaries, thesauri, dictionaries of quotations, and acronym lists.
- Online Resources
- *Bilingual Canadian Dictionary (University of Ottawa)
- Print Resources
- Acrobuster: Dictionary of Canadian English Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations / Vadim Fotinov, Svetlana Fotinov. Ottawa: Fotinov & Fotinov, 2000.
Doe Reference PE3239.F68 2000 Abbreviations
- Canadian Oxford Dictionary / edited by Katherine Barber. 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Main Stack PE3235.C36 2004
- Dictionary of Canadian French = Dictionnaire du français canadien / Sinclair Robinson, Donald Smith. Toronto: Stoddart, 1990.
Main Stack PC3637.R59 1990
- Dictionnaires de langue française du Canada: lexicographie et société au Québec / Annick Farina; preface de Claude Poirier. Paris: Champion, 2001.
Main Stack PC3637.F37 2001
- Dictionnaire des canadianismes / Gaston Dulong. Nouv. ed., rev. et aug. Sillery, Québec : Septentrion, c1999.
Main Stack PC3637.D82 1999
- Dictionnaire des régionalismes du français parlé des îles de La Madeleine / Chantal Naud. L'Etang-du-Nord [Québec] : Les Editions Vignaud, 1999.
Main Stack PC3645.I43.N38 1999
- Guide to Canadian English usage / Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine. Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Main Stack PE3235.F44 1997
Doe Reference PE3235.F44 1997 Dictionaries
- *Multi dictionnaire de la langue française / Marie-Éva de Villers. 4é ed. Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2003. Collection Langue et culture.
Doe Refe PC2625.V54 2003 Dictionaries
Directories
Alphabetical or subject listings containing names, addresses, and identifying data of persons, organizations, publications, web sites, etc.
*Parks Directory of the United States [and Canada] / Darren L. Smith, Kay Gill, editors. 5th ed.
Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, c2007.
Doe Refe E160.P37 2007 Directories
Bioscience E160.S65 2007 Ref Shelves-Directories
Environ Dsgn E160.P37 2007 Reference
Dissertation and Thesis Sources
Sources for locating masters theses and doctoral dissertations.
Encyclopedias and Almanacs
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections of factual information.
*Encyclopedia Canadiana. [Editor-in-chief: John E. Robbins] Ottawa, Canadiana Co. [1968]
Main Stack F1006.E58 1968 v.1-10
*Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples / Paul Robert Magocsi, editor. Toronto; Buffalo: Published for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario by University of Toronto Press, c1999.
Main Stack F1006.E66 1999
*Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies / editor in chief, Jacob Ernest Cooke ; associate editors, W.J. Eccles ... [et al]. New York: C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
Doe Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3
Moffitt Refe E45.E53 1993 v.1-3
*Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America / editors, John M. Herrick, Paul H. Stuart. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2005.
Doe Refe HV12.E497 2005
*The Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates / editorial director Richard W. Pound ; supervising... 3rd ed. Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2005.
Doe Refe F1006.M94 2005
*Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies / edited by Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Doe Refe P306.E57 2009
Government Information Sources
Listings of publications and other information published by authority of a governmental body, whether federal, state, local, or foreign, and of intergovernmental organizations, such as UNESCO, etc. Many of these sources include the full text of the items.
Image and Sound Databases
Listings of material in audio or video format, photographs, paintings, or other visual materials. Some of these sources include or link to the actual items.
Library and Book Catalogs
Listings of books and other items belonging to a particular library or, as with union catalogs, a group of libraries, and usually containing information on the location and subject classification of each item. This category also includes national bibliographies, or lists of all books published in a particular country.
News Databases, Indexes and Web Sites
Listings (may include abstracts or full text) of articles in newspapers, newsmagazines, broadcast news transcripts or wire services. Also includes web sites of these media, or directories of such sites.
Organizations
Listings of subject-related associations, learned societies, or professional organizations.
Statistics and Numeric Data
Resources that provide tables of numerical information, or listings indicating where such information can be found.
*The Canada Year Book. Ottawa: Census and Statistics Office, 1906
Continues: Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Statistical year-book of
Canada ... CIS national statistical compendiums.
Main Stack HA744.S81
Shelved: Latest (2001) in Government Reference
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Web Gateways and Search Engines
Broad, subject-related sites and subject-specific search engines available without restriction on the World Wide Web.
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