The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (French Encyclopédie canadienne ) is a National Encyclopedia about Canada.

It contains 14,000 articles in English and French languages, each article in one language, a translation into the other is present. The Encyclopedia covers many areas of life, such as history, culture, events, people, places, politics, art, Native, sports and science.

In 1957, the Encyclopedia Canadiana was published, but was considered obsolete. The publisher Mel Hurtig, a staunch Canadian nationalist, launched at the beginning of the 1980s, a project for the creation of a new encyclopedia. Editor in chief James Harley Marsh recruited some 3,000 authors who should write the article. The first edition appeared in 1985 in three volumes and was with 150,000 copies sold in half a year a great success. A revised and expanded edition, 1988.

In 1995, the Canadian Encyclopedia was published on CD- ROM. Since 2006 it is published by the Fondation Historica free on the Internet. The website also provides access to the encyclopedia of Canadian music to an edition for young people and for selected articles of the weekly magazine Maclean's.