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There are many online databases for locating government information. The most frequently used are:
Search government repositories, websites, documents, Statistics Canada. A good choice for beginning a search for Canadian materials.
At the Canadiana link, there is a link on the page to Government Publications - "The Government Publications collection includes over 1.7 million pages of historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents. This collection includes government acts, bills, committee reports, court rules, debates, journals, ordinances, a selection of official publications from France and Great Britain, sessional papers, regulations, royal commission reports, voter’s lists and treaties."
HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 150 million pages and 200,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in historical research by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,500 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of law journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
Heinonline also is a source for some Canadian and Provincial Statutes - current, historical, and revised. Note that the collection is not complete, but additions are made periodically. When you connect to this database, look for the box titled Browse Databases by Name section, and click on the desired entry. There also is a Library Guide in the database for information about the Provincial Statutes collection -
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Sessional Papers