Chinook Regional Library

Online Reference Databases - Biography and Genealogy


ArchiviaNet ArchiviaNet ,  provides access to the archival holdings in the National Archives.  Searching is by theme or by type of document.
Canadian Archival Information Network CAIN (Canadian Archival Information Network)  from Archives Canada is a gateway to archival resources found in over 800 repositories across Canada. 
CIHM (Canadian
Institute of Historical Microreproductions)
CIHM  preserves early printed Canadian materials  on microfilm. Spanning three and a half centuries of Canadian development, the Early Canadiana microform collection contains more than sixty-five thousand titles. 
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB) This first phase of the DCB Online presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1920 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. 
Literature Resource Center  Covers biographies, bibliogrphies and critical analysis of over 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other authors.

 
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