Canadian Issues

Online Databases - Resources Requiring Login (Library card and password)

Canadian Newsstand - Newspaper and magazine articles (for the last 10 to 20 years). Includes the Times-Colonist and Vancouver Island's Black Press newspapers.

Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q) - A 20-year index of nearly 200 Canadian magazines. Also includes full-text articles (from 1995) Canadian biographies, company profiles, and historical information.

CBCA Business - Canadian business magazines, trade journals, general business publications, academic journals, topical journals and professional publications.

CBCA Reference & Current Events - Canadian coverage of politics, business, the arts, sports, and other news from newspapers, magazines, television and radio transcripts. Subjects include opinions, public policy, children/youth, lifestyles, arts and culture, health, regional concerns and more.

Gale Canada In Context - Created especially for researchers and educators studying Canada, its people and its history, Canada in Context is a media-rich database with audio, video, interactive maps, image maps, and global news feeds as well as biographies and original essays.

Statistics Canada E-STAT - Available at all GVPL locations. Census and CANSIM data (Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System) provides primary information on Canadian labour, manufacturing, investment, international trade and much more.

Subject Guides - Open Resources (no login required)

The Canadian Encyclopedia - The complete text of the original multi-volume set with additional multimedia. Continuously updated. [How to use]

Canadiana Discovery Portal - This portal site enables users to search across the valuable and diverse digital collections of Canada’s libraries, museums and archives. It provides Canadians with access to a wealth of digital material such as books, journals, newspapers, government documents, photographs, maps, post cards, sheet music, audio and video files about our nation’s heritage.

DSP E-Collection (Federal Government Publications) - Electronic publications from departments of the Government of Canada. [How to use]

Images Canada - Thousands of images held on the web sites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Pictures of Canadian events, people, places and things.