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The Canadian Encyclopedia is the most authoritative source of information on Canada. It is available online, at no cost. The Canadian Encyclopedia includes a wide variety of subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports and science. January 2006 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 31 January 2006 (Tuesday) U.S. President George W. Bush delivers the State of the Union Address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate). ...


The website also provides access to the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia Junior Edition, Maclean’s articles and Timelines of Canadian history.


History

Canada had been without an encyclopedia since the 1957 Encyclopedia Canadiana. In response to this Mel Hurtig, a staunch Canadian nationalist, launched a project to create a wholly new Canadian Encyclopedia and 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 088830269X), and a revised and expanded edition was released in 1988 (ISBN 0888303262). The company later published The Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (ISBN 0888303343). 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mel Hurtig (born June 24, 1932) is a Canadian publisher, author and politician. ... The Flag of Canada Canadian nationalism is a loose term which has been applied to ideologies of several different types which promote specifically Canadian interests over those of other countries, notably the United Kingdom and the United States. ... This article is about the year. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 1995, the first CD-ROM edition was published (ISBN 0771020414). Currently the Historica Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation, publishes the encyclopedia for free online. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...


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The Canadian Encyclopedia (1310 words)
It reads "New Canadian Encyclopedia Publishing." It is the only outward indication that this rather commonplace North Garneau house, no longer a residence, is at the centre of the largest publishing project ever undertaken in Canada, an enterprise described by James Adams writing in the daily Edmonton journal as "the literary-reference equivalent of the CPR."
The encyclopedia is laid out in large format 8 1/2 by 11 inch pages, and each volume will have a binding that is heavily reinforced and is so designed that it will stay flat when open.
Another novelty associated with the encyclopedia is the fact that, utilizing the resources of the University of Alberta, it will be the first Canadian encyclopedia to use advanced computer technology.
Encyclopedia - MSN Encarta (1278 words)
Arabic encyclopedias, like the Chinese works, were anthologies of texts designed to help public officials with their varied administrative duties.
A three-volume Canadian Encyclopedia (1st edition, 1985), designed to replace Encyclopedia Canadiana (10 volumes; 11th edition, 1975), was revised and expanded to four volumes in 1988.
Computer users accessed the encyclopedia by means of a modem that used telephone lines to link the computer to the text in the Academic American Encyclopedia database.
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