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| Human Rights Organizations: A list of Canadian, and a few key international, human rights agencies. |
| External Research Tools: These sites are dependable resources for conducting primary research on-line. |
| Canadian History Sites: A list of internet portals dealing with Canadian history. |
| Canada Presents... : These sites combine a narrative with direct access to primary sources. |
| Academic Journals: Human Rights |
| Academic Journals: History |
| Academic Journals: Social Movements |
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- Library and Archives of Canada
- The LAC has one of the best on-line collections of primary documents and exhibits on Canadian history. Some of the most prominent resources include:
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- A database containing biographical information on thousands of individuals who died before 1930.
- Early Canadiana
- An general resource for primary documents.
- Canadian Committee on Women's History
- A bibliography of publications on women's history.
- Canadian Committee on Labour History
- Atlantic Centre for Human Rights [Research Tools]
- Human Rights Treaties
- Legal Information Institute
(United States)
- A rich database of statutes and case law for all levels of government in the United States.
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- A database of statutes, regulations and case law in Canada.
- Documents in Quebec History
- The Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage Since 1844
- A searchable database of each issue. Please visit your university or public library catalogue to access this database.
- Uniting Canada
- Primary documents relating to national unity.
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Recent cases are available on-line, as well as biographical data on all Supreme Court of Canada justices, past and present.
- Another useful database is available at Judgements of the Supreme Court of Canada.
- Gallup Polls, Carleton University
- University of Toronto, Bora Laskin Law Library
- This section of the law library's website provides links for research on various legal topics.
- Simon Fraser Editorial Cartoon Collection
- Canadian Voices
- Canadian Voices presents talks by Canadian authors, academics, activists, artists, and thought-provoking citizens who explore ideas and events that characterize our country.
- Global Legal Information Network
- A public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. Maintained by the Library of Congress (United States).
- Canadian Families Project
- The project team is studying families in Canada, and has completed a national sample of the 1901 Census of Canada.
- Canadian Century Infrastructure Initiative (Census)
- The CCRI is a pan-Canadian, multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional effort to develop a set of interrelated databases centered on data from the 1911, 1921, 1931, 1941 and 1951 Canadian censuses. The result will be a new foundation for the study of social, economic, cultural and political change.
- Statistics Canada
- Virtual Museum of Canada
- Exhibits on Canadian history, society, culture, science and technology.
- Byron Sheldrick provides a comprehensive list of internet links for the study of law in Canada in the appendix to his book: Byron Sheldrick, Perils and Possibilities: Social Activism and the Law (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2004).
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- American: History and Life and JSTOR
- Databases of articles, books, reviews and many other research tools. Individuals affiliated with a university or college can access these resources for free through their library's web site.
- History Cooperative
- HC is a database of history journals from around the world. Many of the journals, such as Labour/Le Travail and the American Historical Review, offer free access to their articles.
- Érudit
- Érudit is another major database for accessing electronic journals. Érudit is the best portal for accessing French language journals, although it has many other journals including the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association.
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