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Government Information

Canada

Our Country, Our Parliament: an Introduction to How Canada's Parliament Works

General information on the Canadian Government

How Canadians Govern Themselves
Powers of the National and Provincial Governments (chapter 3)
Provinces and Municipalities (chapter 8)

Starting Points

Aggregate searches allow you to search across a number of information sources, and are a great starting point for government information research.

Government of Canada Publications
Catalogue of over 275,000 Government of Canada publications, with 150,000 free electronic publications available for download.
Voilà
Library and Archives Canada's National Union Catalogue.
Federal Science Libraries Network
The FSLN is a one-stop, self-serve web portal that makes government research and resources visible to all Canadians by connecting them with the collections of seven departmental libraries.

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) This link opens in a new window
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Also known as Search the Library (University of Alberta Library). It searches for print and ebook holdings in the NEOS Libraries catalogue AND ~300 databases AND the Education and Research Archive (ERA).

Custom Google Search

Use this custom google search to restrict searches to federal government web pages. Make sure to keep the site domain included.

Government News Sources

Historic Document Databases

Canadiana: Hritage This link opens in a new window
Canadian Research Index (Microlog) This link opens in a new window
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Please note: The Microlog number can be used to locate the documents. If the document is not available online, submit an Interlibrary Loan Request and we will find a copy for you. Please include the Microlog ID in the patron notes.

Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources

Government of Canada Open Data

Open Data Portal - Government of Canada
Completed Government of Canada Access to Information (ATI) Requests
Search ATI summaries by keyword, institution, month, and year.

Archived Government of Canada Websites

Government of Canada Web Archive
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has federal and non-federal web resources in the context of its Web Archiving Program since 2005.
Government of Canada - Web Content - CGI-PLN Web Archive
Canadian Federal Government Databases Available Through the Internet (2008)

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