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Project Gutenberg Canada began on Canada Day
Canada Day

Canada Day , formerly Dominion Day , is Canada's National Day, a Public holidays in Canada, celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces....
 2007. Canadian citizens will be able to create e-texts and download many books that are not yet in the Public Domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
 of some other countries. Some authors whose complete works can now be made available (in Canada) are A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an England author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work....
, Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an British poetry, short story writer and British literature, probably best remembered for his works for children and "The Listeners"....
, Sheila Kaye-Smith
Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition....
, Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael

Amy Wilson Carmichael was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Tamil Nadu. She served in India for fifty-five years without furlough and authored many books about the missionary work there....
, Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence was an English people actress and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End Theatre and on Broadway theatre....
, Marshall Broomhall
Marshall Broomhall

Marshall B. Broomhall , was a United Kingdom Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. He also authored many books on the subject of Chinese missionary work....
, Lilias Trotter
Lilias Trotter

Isabella Lilias Trotter was a artist and a missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria....
, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was an United States author, who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books based on her childhood in a settler family....
 and Isobel Kuhn.

As of 1 December 2007 the separately run Distributed Proofreaders Canada project has started contributing ebooks to Project Gutenberg Canada.








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Project Gutenberg Canada began on Canada Day
Canada Day

Canada Day , formerly Dominion Day , is Canada's National Day, a Public holidays in Canada, celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867 enactment of the Constitution Act, 1867, which united Canada as a single country of four provinces....
 2007. Canadian citizens will be able to create e-texts and download many books that are not yet in the Public Domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
 of some other countries. Some authors whose complete works can now be made available (in Canada) are A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an England author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work....
, Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an British poetry, short story writer and British literature, probably best remembered for his works for children and "The Listeners"....
, Sheila Kaye-Smith
Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition....
, Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael

Amy Wilson Carmichael was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Tamil Nadu. She served in India for fifty-five years without furlough and authored many books about the missionary work there....
, Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence was an English people actress and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End Theatre and on Broadway theatre....
, Marshall Broomhall
Marshall Broomhall

Marshall B. Broomhall , was a United Kingdom Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. He also authored many books on the subject of Chinese missionary work....
, Lilias Trotter
Lilias Trotter

Isabella Lilias Trotter was a artist and a missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria....
, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was an United States author, who wrote the Little House on the Prairie series of children's books based on her childhood in a settler family....
 and Isobel Kuhn.

As of 1 December 2007 the separately run Distributed Proofreaders Canada project has started contributing ebooks to Project Gutenberg Canada.

See also

  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg

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  • Project Gutenberg Australia
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