In honour of Canadian Veteran's Week, learn more about the great wars. Check out these subject guides created by UVic's History Librarian: First World War Second World War Military History UVic's Military Oral History Collection more »

UVic now has online access to: Hill Times is an independently-owned newsweekly based in Ottawa written for the savvy, political and government insider. New weekly editions are available every Monday. Embassy: launched in 2004, Embassy delves more… more »

The 1901 Canadian census has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a sing… more »

The first black person to hold public office in British Columbia (as a Victoria City Councillor), Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was today designated a Historic Person in Canada by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board. Read more. Read Gibbs' Biography in th… more »

Please note that this resource is available on-campus only. Canadian Directory to Foundations and Corporations is a full-text fundraising database containing more than 3,100 foundation listings, more than 150 corporations and over 90,000 indexed gran… more »