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Culture & History

  • Canadian Historical Newspapers

    Explore Canada’s history through the lens of historical newspapers. Fully digitized issues of many major Canadian newspapers back to their first issues. For more recent issues of these newspapers, please see Canadian Newsstream.

  • Canadian History

    This guide will help you find information and resources about Canadian history. Topics include the Great Depression, the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Louis Riel, and the Fur Trade.

  • Canadian Newsstream

    Full-text access to over 500 BC and major Canadian daily newspapers. Some titles go back as far as the 1970s.

  • Canadian Pacific Railway

    This section will help you find resources about the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the Vancouver Public Library.

  • Canadiana.ca

    Brings together historical holdings from the Canadian Knowledge Research Network, Canadiana.org and The Canadiana Héritage Project.

  • Caribbean Literature

    Over 500 works of fiction, poetry and drama centered on the Caribbean experience, published between 1900 and present day.

  • Caribbean Studies in Video (The Banyan Archive)

    Over 1100 hours of archival film, dance performance, and musical performance from Banyan Productions.

  • CBC Digital Archives

    A wealth of CBC Radio and CBC Television clips from more than 75 years of broadcasting.

  • Cemetery Records

    Cemetery records and monumental inscriptions are a very valuable source of genealogical information as they frequently include dates of birth and death as well as the names of spouses, children and other family members.

  • Cemetery Records and Monumental Inscriptions

    Cemetery records and monumental inscriptions are a very useful source of information for genealogists. Cemetery records document burials that have occurred in a particular cemetery, while monumental inscriptions are etched on grave markers or headstones. Although it should usually be possible to find a cemetery record corresponding to a monumental inscription, there may not always be a monumental inscription corresponding to a cemetery record. The family may not have purchased a headstone, or it may have been damaged or destroyed.

    There are few early Chinese graves in Canada, due in part to the