Welcome to Civilization.ca's
portal for scholars, academics, and researchers in the various fields related
to human history.
Major museums such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Canadian
War Museum are, by definition, centres of learning. They have an obligation
to undertake research and to stimulate research on their own collections
and relevant to their purposes. The Canadian Museum of Civilization is
heir to a tradition of research and collecting that extends back to
the Geological Survey of Canada (1842), while the Canadian War Museum
dates from an unofficial initiative in 1880 on the part of the militia
officers of the Ottawa Garrison. Researchers who have been associated
with the museums since those times have given the museums an international
reputation and made enduring contributions to Canadian studies.
The Scholars section of
Civilization.ca is intended
to provide convenient access to selected information and knowledge
resources that are the outcome of the institutions' research activity
or are tools designed to assist the research process (e.g. bibliographies).
Most of these resources are aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at a
scholarly audience. The four menu choices given above will lead to the
different kinds of resources available on this site. Further sources
of information useful to researchers will be found under the "Explore by
Subject" menu.
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