Canadian Literature

Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements.  Content covers all genres and disciplines, all time periods and all parts of the world.

The primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents along with a range of contextual secondary material, including scholarly essays, case studies and interactive maps. Access to modules "Personal Experiences" and "Propaganda and Recruitment."

Focuses on literature and language periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. It is a subset of CBCA Complete.

Focuses on history periodicals covering Canada and Canadian issues. It is a subset of CBCA Complete.

Contains 834 plays by 124 playwrights, together with detailed fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. More than 100 of the plays are published here for the first time including a number by major authors.

This collection includes the immediate experiences of numerous women and contains many pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.  The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.

Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants.

Approximately 27 000 pages of text and images included are biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters and oral histories. When complete IBIO will include 100 000 pages of text and images. Full length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.

North American Indian Thought and Culture brings together more than 100,000 pages, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.

Contains plays by many different playwrights, with detailed fielded information on related production theaters production companies and more. .Full text of plays written from Colonial times to the present by many women from the United States and Canada. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. The database also includes selected playbills production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.