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Link to Bonnycastle Library Catalogue
Databases
Databases
Click the icon to access. You require a username and password from home. For tutorials and information about the database click the help button below or beside the resource.
Canadian Sources and streaming video
Canadian Sources and streaming video
Curio is a streaming video service through the CBC. It includes documentaries from television and radio, news reports and more. SJR subscribes to the News in Review, National Geographic, and BBC channels.
Canadian news and current events magazine. Full issues from 1905 - present.
Globe and Mail is one of Canada's major newspapers. It is based out of Ontario.
Online Sources
Online Sources
The following are a list of sources worth exploring for Canadian history topics:
Contains content from books, serials, and government publications that span over three hundred years.
From a US university, this page links to various places to view digitized copies of historical newspapers across Canada.
Manitoba Sources
Manitoba Sources
Manitobia is particularly helpful because of the digitized early newspapers. It also includes local history books. Manitobia is now part of the University of Manitoba's Digital Collections.
Peel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies.
Canadian Government site
Canadian Government site
to search all the Government of Canada site at the same time use the follow search prompt: site:.canada.ca
Online Searching - Tips
Online Searching - Tips
With Canadian research, you may want to focus on materials on the Canadian government websites. It is important to know what level of government is responsible for your topic .
To search all federal (Government of Canada) material try using the following search in your browser of choice: site:.canada.ca topic OR site:.gc.ca topic
To search all provincial (Manitoba Government) material try using the following search in your browser of choice: site:.gov.mb.ca topic
News aggregators:
News aggregators:
News aggregators are very helpful because they search a large number of sources with one search. Periodical databases are an example of an aggregator as they combine journals, magazines, newspapers, and other sources into one platform. If you choose to search the web for news articles, please try:
When searching online (and in databases):
When searching online (and in databases):
think about your search terms - are there synonyms that could work? - women OR woman ; climate change OR global warming
surround phrases with quotation marks: "division of powers"
to combine search terms, use AND: "division of powers" AND Canada
use singular terms when possible: revolution instead of revolutions
Citation generator and Essay organizer
Citation generator and Essay organizer
NoodleTools will help format citations and bibliography in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. It will also help organize notes, create an outline, and integrate sources into a paper.
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