Provided by the online Library and Archives of Canada, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography site is a tremendously helpful source of brief and informative profiles of those personages of importance throughout Canadian history from the year 1000 to 1930. The print edition of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography's first volume was released in 1959 and was a collaborative research and publishing...

This site from the Canada's Library of Parliament is an excellent resource for students and scholars of Canadian political history. Using the site, visitors can access information on all of the federal election candidates since Confederation in 1867. Visitors can search by riding (constituency), name of a candidate, political party, general election, and by-election, or conduct a full-text search...

Borrowing a good idea from PictureAustralia (last mentioned in the December 1, 2000 Scout Report), Images Canada provides a central point to start a cross-collection search through more than 75,000 images held by participating Canadian museums, archives, and libraries. Like PictureAustralia, there are three ways to search: by keyword (simply enter terms in a box), advanced (limit terms to specific...

This site, provided by the National Library of Canada (discussed in the July 5, 1996 Scout Report) contains a virtual treasure chest of Canadiana. Highlights include Canada Speaks, biographical information and selected speeches by Canadian Prime Ministers since 1867; Canadian Confederation, information on the interplay between the American Civil War and Canadian Confederation; the Glenn Gould...

Based on the Rare Book Collection of the National Library of Canada, this Web exhibition presents accounts of European voyages and explorations to North America, from Columbus's Atlantic crossing in 1492 to the famous trip through the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen in 1905. Proceeding through the exhibition using Chronological Navigation allows users to browse summaries that include links to...

The National Library of Canada has recently updated their collection of historical Canadian sheet music. Sheet Music from Canada's Past (see the November 17, 2000 Scout Report for an earlier mention) has updated their collection of sheet music from the World War I era with sheet music published before the Confederation in 1867. One can search the entire collection or search the World War I and...

This site from the National Library of Canada lets you see and hear music of the First World War era. Sheet Music in Canada is a searchable database of about 400 pieces of sheet music published in Canada between 1914 and 1918, including cover images, catalog descriptions, and scores (if copyright clearance has been obtained). Composer names, titles, subjects, and keywords can all be used as search...

In December 2000, Historica, a Canadian foundation dedicated to the preservation of Canadian cultural heritage, posted the first online edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia, a massive one-volume reference to Canada authored by over 4,000 Canadians. This searchable edition features more than 10,000 articles written by a broad base of Canadians who are experts in their individual subjects. (An...

Hosted by the History Department at Malaspina University College, this site is an effort to create a digital archive of the Canadian war experience, as told through the letters and images of Canadians themselves. At present, the site contains 20 collections. Some offer transcriptions of letters along with images of the originals; others have only digitized images; others also include photos....

This site from the National Library of Canada lets you see and hear music of the First World War era. The latest addition to the Virtual Gramophone (last discussed in the January 12, 1999 Scout Report for Social Sciences) consists of over 700 recordings from the World War I era. Similar to other sections of the Virtual Gramophone, in addition to audio recordings, the WWI portion includes...