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Residential Schools in Canada
- Directory of Residential SchoolsThis directory produced by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation lists residential schools throughout Canada.
- Search Residential Schools in RG 10Library & Archives Canada
Records of the Department of Indian Affairs - Search Residential Schools in Department of Indian Affairs Annual ReportsLibrary & Archives Canada
This database contains references to the original annual reports for the Indian Affairs portfolio for the years 1864 to 1966 and the complete annual reports for the department of Indian Affairs from 1967 to 1990. - Canadian Residential Schools and Colonial Institutions DatabaseCreated at Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie, Ont. This is a comprehensive database of Residential Schools, Indian Hospitals, and Indian Day Schools in Canada. Includes photos, maps and references.
Key Article Databases
- America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for over 1,700 journals from 1955 to present and full-text coverage of more than 230 journals and nearly 100 books. Coverage: 1955-
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (formerly Bibliography of Native North Americans) This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life Coverage: Works published from the 16th century to the present.
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA) This link opens in a new window
Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Subject coverage is comprehensive and information is available from the broadest range of Canadian sources anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,665 titles Coverage: 1971 -
Full text content 1985 – - CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index) This link opens in a new window
Bilingual resource to more than 400 English- and French-language journals, including more than 30 American titles dealing with North American and international issues. It provides both Canadian and worldwide coverage of mainstream and academic periodicals, as well as 80 business journals. It includes some full-text titles. Coverage: 1980-
Other Databases & Indexes - Indigenous History & Culture
- ASTIS This link opens in a new window(Arctic Science and Technology Information System) - Recent literature about the north (Yukon and Northwest Territories, the northern parts of the provinces and some material from other circumpolar regions). Coverage: 1974-
- Canadian Electronic Library (via Scholar Portal Books) This link opens in a new windowIncludes Canadian E-books.
- Canadiana Online (formerly Early Canadiana Online) This link opens in a new window
Canadiana Online identifies, catalogue, and digitizes documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and nationally-significant archival materials.
Monographs - spanning three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history, holds rich primary materials exploring a wide range of subjects and disciplines. With a projected 84,000 titles by completion, this resource is the most comprehensive full-text searchable set of historical monographs currently available for the study of Canada.
Serials - includes a wide range of dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations. Specialized publications include trade or industry journals as well as many men’s, women’s, student’s and children’s popular magazines
Government Publications - includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents. This collection includes government acts, bills, committee reports, court rules, debates, journals, ordinances, a selection of official publications from France and Great Britain, sessional papers, regulations, royal commission reports, voter’s lists and treaties.
Canadiana Online is projected to digitalize the entire CIHM collection by the end of 2018.
- High North Research DocumentsHigh North Research Documents includes all freely available research documents thematically relevant to the high north. The service covers all subjects and many languages, and is free and open for all.
- iPortal - Indigenous Studies Portal This link opens in a new windowThe Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) connects faculty, students, researchers and members of the community with electronic resources: books, articles, theses, documents, photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. It is an initiative of the University of Saskatchewan Library.
- Our Legacy - Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (RCAP)Access to full-text documents produced by RCAP.
Material relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples.
- Native Health Database This link opens in a new windowBibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of Native American, Inuit people of Alaska, and Canadian First Nations.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- JSTORJSTOR includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.
- Sage Journals OnlineA collection of over 500 full-text journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
- Scholars Portal Journals This link opens in a new windowA digital repository of over 40 million scholarly articles covering every academic discipline.
- Academic OneFile (Gale)(Gale) Is a searchable database of academic and scholarly journals. It contains more than 14,000 titles, including more than 9,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 6,000 in full text.
- Proquest Search (Proquest)Includes over 20 databases in a variety of subjects including business, nursing, psychology, sociology, education, political science, etc.
- Canadian Electronic Library (via Scholar Portal Books) This link opens in a new windowIncludes Canadian E-books.
Index/Databases for Newspaper Articles
- Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History [includes Thunder Bay District News Index] This link opens in a new windowThis is a subject index which brings together newspaper and magazine articles on Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario. This index includes more than 50,000 headlines over the past 16+ years.
- First Nations DrumCanada's largest Aboriginal newspaper.
- WindspeakerWindspeaker volume 4 (1986-87) to volume 33 (2015) was digitized by the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS).