Research Guides: Pacific NW Environmental History &amp; Governance: Canada

British Columbia

Province of British Columbia
Official government website
First Nations Forestry Agreements
University of British Columbia Digital Collections
UBC Library's Open Collections include digital photos, books, newspapers, maps, videos, theses and more.
Simon Fraser University Digitzed Collections
SFU's digitized collections include over 130 collections, with more than 1.3 million digitized newspapers, photographs, documents, sound recordings, and other objects.

Canada Government

Canadian Government Agency Publications in print (DOC-CA)

EN -- Environment; coverage is roughly the 1980's-2000's

Fs - Fisheries and Oceans

JU - Courts

Supreme Court Reports 1983-2013
Federal Court Reports 1983-2013

Parliamentary Publications

Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, 1867-1925
During each session of Parliament, various documents and reports are submitted to both the House of Commons and the Senate. These include, among others, the reports and evidence of parliamentary committees, departmental annual reports, and answers to written questions from members of Parliament.
Sessional Papers of the Province of Canada, 1841-1866
House of Commons Debates, 1867-1874
Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
1875-

Debates of the Senate (Parliament of Canada)
"Senate Debates are an edited transcript of what senators say in the course of Senate Chamber deliberations."

Official Report of Debates, Senate
1871-

Debates of the House of Commons (Parliament of Canada)
"the edited verbatim report of proceedings that take place in the House and in Committees of the Whole House."

Parliamentary Papers - Legislative Committees in print (DOC-CA)

XC -- House of Commons

XC 29 Forestry and Fisheries, 1968-1993

YC -- Senate (coverage below generally from the late 1980s through 1990s/early 2000s)

YC 25 Fisheries
YC 26 Energy, Environment and Natural Resources
YC 27 Agriculture and Forestry