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The CUFTS Resources Comparison Tool is a nifty little utility that allows you to compare the contents of one database to another. [Distant Librarian]

Some suggestions for students doing a history assignment on a particular date.

Globe & Mail and Toronto Star: search by date, can limit to news, entertainment, etc.
(Also CBCA and Canadian Newstand)
Britannica Online - and the other encyclopedias, quick search for year gives a rough bunch of stuff
Maybe even the CBC archives
But the motherlode is in the Reference books section:

WHO'S WHO DA 28 W6 1982

FACTS ON FILE D410 F3 V. 42

CURRENT BIOGRAPHY 1982 CT 100 C8

EDITORIALS ON FILE D410 E3

TIMETABLES OF HISTORY D11 G78

CANADIAN ALMANAC AY414 .C2 (in serials collection)

CANADIAN NEWS FACTS F 5003 C3 1967-2001

Keesings Record of World Events (1987 on in Ref; earlier vols in Serials D410.K4 under slightly diff. title)
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Historical Statistics of Canada

This volume contains about 1,088 statistical tables on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada
from the start of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s.
In the Reference section at HA742 .H57 1983
and online at
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-516-XIE/sectiona/toc.htm