October 20, 2008
A recent addition to the Library's catalogue, the Oral History Forum online, provides a valuable resource to those exploring topics such as the preservation and interpretation of recorded oral histories. The online archive includes the first 25 years of...
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3:55 PM
July 3, 2008
Statistics Canada's website will be temporarily unavailable from 4:00 a.m. on Saturday July 12, 2008, to 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 13, 2008 because of maintenance....
Posted by CJ de Jong at
10:33 AM
May 25, 2006
Page images have just been released by Library and Archives Canada of the 1851 nominal census returns for Canada East [Quebec], Canada West [Ontario], New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. (In Canada West, the census was actually taken in 1852.)...
Posted by Dobson-J at
9:41 AM
August 26, 2005
In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives is a searchable collection of 2,500 oral histories in English from around the world, with more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000...
Posted by Dobson-J at
11:21 AM
August 10, 2005
In recent years the state of science education in the United States has suffered under pressure from religious groups to include Creationism -- or its more subtle name, "Intelligent Design" -- in science courses. Textbooks teaching evolution are now...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
9:23 AM
August 8, 2005
Anyone who's taken a look at -- or contributed to -- the Wikipedia knows what a groundbreaking website it is. You may not realize, however, that it is in fact celebrating its 10th birthday this year!...
Posted by Michael Dudley at
1:49 PM
July 21, 2005
Ethnologue.com recently released free online a new edition of its Languages of the World database, corresponding to the 15th print edition (2005). This encyclopedic reference work catalogues all of the world's 6,912 known living languages, indicating their places of...
Posted by Dobson-J at
9:11 AM
June 23, 2005
A three-millennium-old Phoenician inscription from Lebanon, a sixth-century Albanian codex, medieval manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy from Azerbaijan, and Austrian Gothic architectural drawings are among 29 documentary collections in 24 countries newly earmarked for United Nations help in preservation. The...
Posted by Dobson-J at
9:27 AM
April 18, 2005
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia built on the concept of a Wiki, or "a collaborative collection of interlinked web pages, all of which can be visited and edited by anyone at any time". Wikipedia Overview: FAQ You can visit the...
Posted by hunt-k at
12:33 PM
April 7, 2005
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has released a new, bilingual atlas on the Web. The Canadian Atlas Online contains information on Canada’s history, culture, people and geography, and uses the latest interactive technologies such as animation. Users can zoom...
Posted by Dobson-J at
9:47 AM
February 28, 2005
(From a press release by Canadiana.org, dated 7 February 2005) Looking for reliable, curriculum-relevant Canadian content online? Visit the recently expanded and updated Canada in the Making site! It features hundreds of primary source documents interwoven into narratives on the...
Posted by cminor at
6:11 PM
November 26, 2004
I get a lot of students who are studying specific countries through international development, conflict resolution and other courses. Here is my best set of web sources based on 1000s of scrambles. I have crosschecked my experience with other librarian's...
Posted by Nielson-P at
8:29 PM
July 18, 2004
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/caninfo/esub.htm (by DDC classification) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/caninfo/ealpha.htm (Alphabetical Order) If you are looking for the Canadian web angle on any topic, this list is more selective than a Google Canada or Yahoo Canada web search....
Posted by Nielson-P at
12:50 PM
June 27, 2004
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ab_languages/ In this website you will find This website links users to provincial and territorial Aboriginal Languages and Cultures websites from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. WNCP Framework - The Western Canadian Protocol Common Curriculum...
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3:00 PM