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Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants,and their culture through the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Covers the years 1000-1920).  Research people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada.

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Offers complete online access to all volumes of Gale's reference series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and including the Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. Find detailed biographies of more than 143.000 contemporary and historical authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights.

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Online access to microfilmed Vancouver Sun, Province, National Post and Victoria Times Colonist, 2011-2012. Coverage for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal goes back to 2008. Updated monthly.

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Provides access to full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. An excellent resource for articles written in other languages.

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Medical and Science materials covering diseases and other health related topics. A subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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