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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia is a source of information on Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. It is available online, at no cost. The Canadian Encyclopedia is available in both English and French and includes some 14,000 articles in each language on a wide variety of subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports and science.

The website also provides access to the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia Junior Edition, Maclean's

Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canada weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events....
articles and Timelines of Canadian history.

da had been without a national encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
since the 1957 Encyclopedia Canadiana.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia is a source of information on Canada

Canada

Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canada weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events....
articles and Timelines of Canadian history.

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Canada had been without a national encyclopedia

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a comprehensive written compendium that holds information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
since the 1957 Encyclopedia Canadiana. In response to this Mel Hurtig

Mel Hurtig

Mel Hurtig is a Canada publisher, author, political activist and former political candidate.He was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the former president of the Edmonton Art Gallery...
, a staunch Canadian nationalist

Canadian nationalism

Canadian nationalism is a term which has been applied to ideologies of several different types which highlight and promote specifically Canadian interests over those of other countries, notably the United States....
, launched a project to create a wholly new Canadian Encyclopedia. Editor in chief James Harley Marsh

James Harley Marsh

James Harley Marsh, Order of Canada is a Canada editor, writer and encyclopedist.After a spotty educational history Marsh found his m?tier in a summer job with educational publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston, learning all aspects of the business from copy editing to the inner workings of the typesetting and printing industries....
recruited more than 3,000 authors to write for it. The first edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia was published in three volumes in 1985 (ISBN 0-88830-269-X) and was a Canadian bestseller (150,000 sets sold in six months), and a revised and expanded edition was released in 1988 (ISBN 0-88830-326-2). The company later published The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (ISBN 0-88830-334-3).

In 1995, the first CD-ROM edition was published (ISBN 0-7710-2041-4). Currently the The Historica Foundation of Canada, a not-for-profit foundation, publishes the encyclopedia for free online.

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