Biographies

Sources in the Library's collection

A large collection obituaries and biographical articles from the Winnipeg daily papers dating back to 1885 are kept in scrapbooks and file folders at the Legislative Library. A card index provides access to these biographical clippings. The Library's card and online catalogues should also be consulted, with the help of reference staff if needed.

General Sources

The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
The full text of the encyclopedia in English and French is made available by Historica Foundation of Canada.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
This phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

Great Canadian Scientists
A web site first published in 1995 which has evolved into a book! Twenty essays and 150 brief entries with bibliographic references.

Manitoba Biographies
A quite extensive collection of prominent Manitobans from the Manitoba Historical Society.

Manitobia: Biographies of early Manitobans  

Nobel Laureates
Press releases, from the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, cover the life and works of the prize recipients. Search for prizes or laureates back to 1901.

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