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HST 680 Treaties, Land and Indigenous Governance

This guide is intended to assist students conducting research on the history of treaty making between Indigenous peoples and European settler-colonial governments from the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to today.

TMU Libraries Omni Search

TMU Libraries Omni Search
For optimum use, sign in. This search engine searches for journal articles (many are available electronically), books, e-books, theses and dissertations, and newspaper articles from some recent and a selection of archival newspapers. It indexes digitized content such as out-of-copyright books and journals that are available from sources such as The Internet Archive and The Hathi Trust. Omni facilitates discovery and borrowing of print books from other universities in Ontario excluding the University of Toronto.

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For more advanced searching across a more targeted set of resources, you may want to try a discipline specific indexing/abstracting database or collection as listed in the next boxes.

Key Indexing Resources

Digital Collections (Access Restricted to University Community)

Archival Newspapers

There are numerous initiatives to digitize the text of local newspapers as well as the photographs and negatives of newspapers and news agencies. Additionally, the amount of indexing of historic newspapers continues to increase.Some relevant initiatives follow:

General

Western Canada

Ontario

Quebec

Atlantic Canada

The Google News Archive was live from 2006-2011. The addition of new content and access to the home page was discontinued in August 2011 according to an entry in Wikipedia. You can still browse the content of the Google News Archive but the search function is far from ideal.

See also Carol Singer's extensive guide from Bowling Green State University Library: Historical Canadian Newspapers Online

Current and Recent Newspapers

Search for individual newspapers and journals by title from Omni Journals by title