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L'Île Centre de documentation virtuel sur la littérature québécoise
Littérature québécoise en 600 titres
Bernard Andrès, Université du Québec à Montréal
CEAD (Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques)
Includes bio-bibliographical database
Brunet, Berthelot. Histoire de la littérature canadienne-française
"The Encyclopedia collects and disseminates information on plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners."
Contemporary Canadian Authors.
A bio-bibliographical guide to current Canadian writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. Bibliographies include writings and bibliographical/critical sources.
Desmeules, Georges. Dictionnaire des personnages du roman québécois : 200 personnages des origines à 2000
Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires du Québec.
Also available online at http://services.banq.qc.ca/sdx/DOLQ/. (In progress) Each volume of this work has a lengthy bibliography for the period covered. The author entries include bibliographical information, critical evaluation and reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Coverage extends from the "beginning" to 1980. Partly supplemented by: Tellier, Sylvie. Chronologie littéraire du Québec, 1760-1960.
Hamel, Réginald. Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord.
Supersedes the author's Dictionnaire pratique des auteurs québécois (Ref PS8073.H34 1976 Porter).
Helly, Denise. Romanciers immigrés : Biographies et œuvres publiées au Québec entre 1970 et 1990
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.
Also available electronically through the library's Oxford Reference Online. Contains entries on authors, notable works, genres, themes, regional literatures, etc. Emphasis on modern writing in both English and French Canada.
Québec. Bibliothèque nationale. Écrivains québécois de nouvelle culture.
Provides brief biographies, accompanied by extensive primary and secondary bibliographies for ten authors.
Québec. Centrale des Bibliothèques. Littérature québécoise contemporaine.
Includes 460 titles published to the end of 1981.
Société des écrivains canadiens, Montreal. Répertoire bio-bibliographique
Tellier, Sylvie. Chronologie littéraire du Québec, 1760 à 1960.
Supplementary volume to: Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec. Consists of three sections: 1761-1899, 1900-1939, 1940-1959, which are further sectionned by year and genre. Includes statistical tables of literary publishing in Quebec.
Vinet, Bernard. Pseudonymes québécois
Who's Who in Canadian Literature.
Library has: 1983/1984-1985/1986,1987/88,1992/93. Ref PS8081.W46x Porter. Biographical notes on French speaking authors are given in French.
Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord (BAnQ)
Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires du Québec des origines à 1939 (BAnQ)
An innovative, comprehensive Québecoise encyclopedia
Encyclopédie de la Francophonie
A comprehensive coverage of the Francophonie, including language and literature
L'Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française
A multimedia focus on cultural heritage of Francophone communities in North America
L’ÎLE: l'Infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois
Provides biographies and bibliographies to over 1 000 Québécois writers, and 360 dossiers de presse
Covers world literatures in English. Entries include authors, philosophers, works, and topics/events (In progress)
Provides brief biographies and some idea about the content of the authors' works
Proulx, Paul André. Littérature québécoise.
Covers authors from Québec who published since 1998. Limited to novels and short stories by Québecois authors and also to French speaking authors living in other provinces of Canada. Includes annotated bibliographies of works and brief commentaries on the authors.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
v. 53 Canadian Writers since 1960. First Series. Ref PS8081.C37 1986 Porter.
v. 60 Canadian Writers since 1960. Second Series. Ref PS8081.C373 1987 Porter.
v. 68 Canadian Writers, 1920-1959. First Series. Ref PS8081.C36 1988 Porter.
v. 88 Canadian Writers, 1920-1959. Second Series. Ref PS8081.C362 1989 Porter.
v. 92 Canadian Writers, 1890-1920. Ref PS8015.C36 1990 Porter.
v. 99 Canadian Writers before 1890. Ref PS8081.C358 1990 Porter.
Sylvestre, Guy. Canadian Writers. Écrivains canadiens. A Bibliographical Dictionary.
Offers brief bio-bibliographical data on more than three hundred and fifty authors. Covers nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Notes on French speaking authors are given in French.
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada.
French version of: Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Petit dictionnaire des écrivains québécois.
Entries consist of a short biography and a listing of works.
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies = Bibliographie des bibliographies canadiennes
Cantin, Pierre. Bibliographie de la critique de la littérature québécoise dans les revues des XIXe et XXe siècles
Dionne, René. Bibliographie de la critique de la littérature québécoise et canadienne-française dans les revues canadiennes.
Coverage: 1974-1984.
Hayne, David M. Bibliographie critique du roman canadien-français, 1837-1900
Covers works by and about specific authors.
Tremblay, Jean Pierre. Bibliographie québecoise : roman, théâtre, poésie, chanson, inventaire des écrits du Canada français
Littérature québécoise en 600 titres
(Bernard Andrès, Université du Québec à Montréal)
British Library. French Québec: Imprints in French from Québec, 1764-1990, in the British Library. A Catalogue.
Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope. Inventaire chronologique des livres, brochures, journaux et revues publiés en diverses langues dans et hors la province de Québec, 1904-1911.
Dionne, Narcisse Eutrope. Invenatire chronologique des livres, brochures, journaux et revues publiés en langue française dans la province de Québec, depuis l'établissement de l'imprimerie au Canada jusqu'à nos jours.
Québec (Province). Bibliothèque nationale. Notices en langue française du Canadian catalogue of books 1921-1949.
Tod, Dorothea D. A Check List of Canadian Imprints, 1900-1925.
Vlach, Milada. Catalogue collectif des impressions québécoises, 1764-1820.
Voilà: Canadian National Catalogue
A catalogue listing the holdings of libraries across Canada. As a national catalogue, AMICUS not only shows the published materials held at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) but also those located in over 1300 libraries across Canada. AMICUS contains over 30 million records for books, magazines, newspapers, government documents, theses, sound recordings, maps, electronic texts as well as items in braille and large print.
Bibliographie du Québec (January 2003- )
Lists all documents published in Québec during the current year and the previous year, and acquired by legal deposit or purchased. Included are documents published abroad but related to Québec by author or subject.
Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec
The BAnQ acquires, by legal deposit, all new documents published in Québec: books, journals, magazines, newspapers, cartographic documents, artists' books, music scores, prints, posters, art reproductions, postcards, sound recordings, software and microforms (microfiches and microfilms). Its holdings include also retrospective purchases, which helped to develop a nearly exhaustive collection of Québec's documentary heritage as well as large holdings of foreign publications about Québec.
Biron, Michel. Histoire de la littérature québécoise
History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian
Littérature et culture francophones de Colombie-Britannique : espaces culturels francophones
Mailhot, Laurent. La littérature québécoise : depuis ses origines : essai
Parcours Québécois : Introduction à la littérature du Québec
AIEQ: Association Internationale des Études Québécoises
CRCCF: Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française
Contains scholarly resources in French Studies, including Canada.
Liste des émissions de télé québécoises (Wikipédia)
L'ONTARIO FRANÇAIS ET SES PREMIERS TEXTES (Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo)
This web site will display our findings, research, observations and conclusions throughout the course of our three year project, L'Ontario Français et ses premiers textes. Our research focuses on the writings of French voyageurs and missionaries in the Great Lakes Region (Ontario, New York, Michigan) between 1636 and 1760. These fascinating texts constitute the earliest form of literature written in French in what is now the Canadian province of Ontario.
By the Government of Canada. Language portal to Canadian and International Francophonie.
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ)
Collections - Au fil des mots (Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec)
List of French Canadian Writers from Outside Quebec (Wikipedia)
List of Quebec Writers (Wikipedia)
L'île: L'infocentre littéraire des écrivains québécois
Littérature québécoise en 600 titres (Bernard Andrès, Université du Québec à Montréal)
Présence francophone
Per PC2002.P73 Porter.
Québec Studies
Per FC2901 .Q4 Porter.
Etudes françaises (Erudit)
v. 1 (1965)-
Etudes littéraires (Erudit)
v. 1 (1968)-
Francophonies d’Amérique (Project Muse)
no. 17 (2004)-
Francophonies d'Amérique (Scholarsportal)
no. 17 (2004)-
Protée (Erudit)
v. 30, Numéro 1 (2002)-
Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne
v. 1 (1976)-
Tangence (Erudit)
Numéro 35 (1992)-