• Searching is not case sensitive.
• Searching does not work across the entire database:
  • Searching within Books, Collections, Periodicals, or Genres will list results from all of those four categories.
  • Searching within People or Alternate Names will list results from those two categories.
  • Searching within Place will list results only in the Place category.
    For example: When you search for Duncan in titles, only titles that include the term Duncan are listed, not titles written by authors with the name Duncan.
• Search terms have to be exact.
  • For example: When searching for names that begin with Mc or Mac, or other such prefixes, remember to try all variations.
  • For example: When looking for authors’ initials, include the periods without any spaces: S.J.D. not SJD.
• Terms used by our authors are not uniform across titles, so search for all likely terms.
  • For example: When searching for terms describing the indigenous peoples of North America, search for: Aboriginal/First Nations/Indian/Native/Indigenous
• The People list is sorted by last name; the Alternate Names list (as it includes non-standard pseudonyms) is sorted by first name.
• Searching within Place, to maintain consistency, the word Fort has been written out; the abbreviation St. has been used regardless of gender; and hyphens have been removed.
  
  • For example: Ft. Langley, BC, is recorded as Fort Langley.
  • For example: Sainte Sophie is recorded as St. Sophie.
  • For example: Niagara-on-the-Lake, is recorded as Niagara on the Lake. The exceptions are placenames such as Clo-oose, BC, where the hyphen separates syllables, not words.

 

 

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