Canadian Literature: Primary Texts
General information about primary sources
- Full text collection of 3000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history and literature.
Canadian Poetry
(University of Toronto)
- Features poetry written by contemporary and 19th-century poets. Also includes author biographies and links to Canadian poetry journals, magazines, and presses.
Canadian Poetry: An
Electronic Resource (University of Western
Ontario)
- Scholarly editions of early Canadian long poems, including full-text editions of the work of the Confederation poets. Also includes critical studies of Canadian poetry.
Canadian
Poetry Archive (Library and Archives Canada)
- A searchable database of poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets, digitized from the collections of the Library and Archives Canada. Also contains some biographical information.
Bibliothèque
virtuelle (Faculty Saint-Jean, University of
Alberta)
- Contains classic out-of-copyright texts of French-Canadian literature in rtf (rich-text) format. Browsable by author.
Le Centre de
documentation virtuel sur la littérature
québécoise.
- Digitized 19th-century French-Canadian texts in pdf format from the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.
Library and Archives
Canada: Canadian Writers
- Manuscript collections and biographical information on Canadian writers Marie-Claire Blais, Roger Lemelin, Carol Shields, Michel Tremblay, Jane Urquhart, and Elizabeth Smart. These e-collections include typescripts, correspondence, journals, notebooks, and miscellany.
Last Updated: 13 August 2009
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