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Proquest (Canadian Newsstream)

Search for Current and Historical Canadian Newspapers

This database offers unmatched access to Canadian news outlets and newspapers including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, along with newswires, websites, and broadcast transcripts that are in full-text format. Extensive backfiles are available for most news sources, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features published in each. Most titles are updated daily and some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.

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Points to the Past

Lifelong Learning for every British Columbian

Points to the Past is a Gale Primary Source of searchable archive collections made available for free to British Columbians. Discover a world-class collection of primary sources, made up of nearly 200 million pages of digitized historical content – maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, and much more. Researchers are free to explore a vast range of resources, including Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, esteemed periodicals such as the Economist and the Financial Times, and digitized materials from the Smithsonian Institution.

Anyone in BC can enjoy free access to this collection.

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KnowBC Online

The Online Home of Harbour Publishing’s ‘Encyclopedia of BC’

The hardcover version of the Encyclopedia of BC (EBC) finally went out of print after selling 30,000 copies, but it continues to be updated and expanded in this online version. Editor Daniel Francis still combs through the newspapers every morning looking at deaths, mergers, election results, name changes and other developments that affect existing EBC entries.

In addition, they have added a number of major Pacific Northwest resources to the KnowBC portal, including many of Harbour Publishing’s most significant publications, including:

  • Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
  • The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names
  • Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia
  • Far West: The Story of British Columbia
  • And more

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Canadian Encyclopedia

Discover More about Canada and Canadians

The Canadian Encyclopedia plays an essential role in providing Canadians and others with accurate, updated information about our people and country. This has been the case even as the Encyclopedia has made the transition from print to CD-ROM, to its present online format. The move to digital, made in 2001, means the Encyclopedia is available free to anyone with internet access.

The Canadian Encyclopedia contains more than 61,000 multimedia items including:

  • Images
  • Maps
  • Games
  • Audio
  • Video

Multimedia is augmented through acquisition and partnerships with Maclean’s magazine and The Canadian Press. Interactive features include curated content collections, interactive timelines and immediate updates of important events. The site also offers a learning centre for teachers and parents that contains classroom resources, quizzes and themed study guides.

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