Research Guide to History of Canada & BC

Reference Books

Reference books include material such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks and provide a useful starting point for doing research. Try the following examples:

Bibliographia Canadiana	REF FC 10 Z9732
British Columbia: A History	FC 3811 O7
British Columbia Local Histories	REF FC 3811 H343
Canadian History: A Reader's Guide	REF FC 164 Z933 v. 1 & 2
Changing Women, Changing History	REF HQ 1453 P433 1996
Dictionary of Canadian Biography	REF FC 25 D52
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online	Online
Early Canadiana Online	Online
Encyclopedia of British Columbia	Online
Handbook of North American Indians	REF E 76.2 H36
Historical Atlas of Canada	REF FC 179 H394 2002
Historical Documents of Canada	REF FC 163 H58 v.5
Historical Statistics of Canada	REF HA 746 H58
Historical Statistics of Canada	Online
Horizon Canada	REF FC 23 H67 1987
Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature	REF PS 8015 S766
A Reader's Guide to Canadian History	REF FC 164 Z968 v. 1 & 2
Source-book of Canadian History	REF FC 10 R436 1964

Most of the above titles are at both campuses. Check the Library catalogue to verify locations.

Library Catalogue

Search in the library catalogue for books and audio visual material. For example, the following series contains books that cover most periods of Canadian history. To find the individual titles in these series, do a title search in the catalogue using the following titles:

Canadian Centenary series
Canadian Historical Readings

Guides to History

Benjamin, Jules R. A student's Guide to History.
D 16.3 B4 2004
Marius, Richard. A Short Guide to Writing about History .
D 13 M275 1995
Steffens, Henry John & Mary Jane Dickerson. Writer's Guide: History .

Subject Headings

The following are examples of subject headings that may be used in the library catalogue:

BRITISH COLUMBIA - HISTORY
CANADA - HISTORY
CANADA - HISTORY - CONFEDERATION, 1867
CANADA - HISTORY - TO 1763 (NEW FRANCE)
CANADA - HISTORY - WAR OF 1812
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA - CANADA - HISTORY
VANCOUVER (B.C.) - HISTORY

Classification

FC Canadian History
E51 - E99 Indians of North America

Article Databases

In order to find articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, one must first search in a periodical index or database. See the following indexes and databases for articles in Canadian History.

• Academic Search Complete
• BC Studies: a cumulative index - print index
• The Beaver Index - print index
• Canadian Periodical Index - print index
• Canadian Historical Review Index - print index
• CBCA Complete
• CPI.Q - Canadian Periodical Index
• JSTOR

Newspapers

Columbian Daily Colonist Financial Post Globe & Mail Province

1861 - 1889, 1899 -1983 1858 - 1896 1907 - present 1849 - 1949, 1982 - present 1894 - 1983 & current 4 months