Early Canadiana Online

Attention This page has been kept for Archival and Historical Purposes and does not reflect the latest information and documentation regarding DP. Please see the Official Documentation for the latest information, or ask around on the Forums. Thank you.

Background

Canadiana hosts a collection of images of more than 4000 texts related in some way to Canada. This thread exists to help us keep track of the progress of the material in the collection as it moves through this site.

How to Find and Claim a Project

If you want to process a book from this collection, then:

• Browse the project status page, (this link is inoperative--is there still such a page?)

which lists all projects in the archive, along with their processing status.

• Reply to this thread with the identifier of the book or books you wish to process (the identifier is the number at the end of the link -- so for example the identifier of 'A happy holiday', by 'Denison, Grace E. (Grace Elizabeth), d. 1914' is '06215'.

You should also use this thread to report any problems with the scans -- poor quality images, missing pages, etc. We'll also keep track of texts that are being processed from other sources, or books which cannot be processed (because, for example, they would not be clearable). Note that there's no reason not to process a different edition of a work already in DP -- so please check to see whether the different versions match up.

In particular, if you have harvested material from Canadiana in the past, please take the time to give the status of the projects you've harvested.

The code used to generate the project information page is available from here.

How To Process Projects From This Site

Please be sure that the project you choose meets the Requirements for Harvested Material.

We will not be using a special account to process this material; the books will go through your normal account. In the project comments for each book you should note that the images were harvested from Canadiana, and preferably link to the information page on it.

We are now trying to make note of the image sources of projects on this site. Therefore, PMs using material from this source should select the appropriate option (i.e. "Canadiana") from the Image Source drop down. It is important to do this, as it will automatically give credit to the collection for the initial scans in the finished Project Gutenberg text.

Snatch

The site presents the page images for a project one page at a time. You could download all these images manually, or you could use the command-line utility snatch, developed by caw. This will download all the images associated with a particular project, and has many options. Read the documentation included with the program for more information.

Claimed

By amastronardi

• 53177 Franz Boas. The central Eskimo
• 14300 Franz Boas. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians
• 14342 Franz Boas. Tenth report on the north-western tribes of Canada
• 02420 Franz Boas. The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
• 34738 Haliburton, Thomas Chandler. The letter-bag of the Great Western, or, Life in a steamer -- Acess denied
• 35605 Guide des voyageurs : le tableau des heures des bateaux de l'océan, des rivières, chars urbains et ligne d'omnibus = Guide for travellers, time tables of ocean and river steamers, railway street cars and omnibus lines. -- Access denied
• 06236 Fleming, Sandford, Sir. Our Atlantic steamship service -- Access denied
• 09730 Fleming, Sandford, Sir. Report in reference to the Canadian Pacific Railway

By dvdeug

• 12030 Phillips, J. A. From bad to worse : Hard to beat ; and, A terrible Christmas : three stories of Montreal life

By Tamise

• 17838 Williamson, A. W. The Dakotan languages, and their relations to other languages
• 38328 My pet recipes, tried and true : contributed by the ladies and friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec.
• 07465 Ballantyne, R. M. The buffalo runners : a tale of the Red River plains

By tinasim

• 26436 De Mille, James The Treasure of the Seas
• 02705 De Mille, James The B. O. W. C.
• 27574 De Mille, James The Boys of Grand Pre School
• 05999 De Mille, James Fire in the Woods