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Presents biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940. It includes titles of publications and references to archival resources. Directed by Dr. Carole Gerson, this project was supported by SSHRC, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, with substantial research and editing by Carol McIver, Marjory Lang, Deborah Blacklock, Sandra Even, and Katrina Harack. Copyright is held by Carole Gerson.

Carolyn Guertin of the University of Alberta in Canada provides this online resource for hyperfiction and critical works. This website will be of interest to students of hypermedia, web writing, literature and of course postmodernism and contemporary schools of thought.

is a collaborative undertaking, involving participants from universities in Canada, the United States, England, and Australia. It is writing the first full scholarly history of women's writing in the British Isles. At the same time, it is conducting an experiment in humanities computing and providing both training and scholarly community for graduate students. The project will provide an overarching account of women's writing across the centuries. This will appear in the form of four individually authored volumes of history together with an extensive, collaboratively authored, electronic textbase

Linguist Rick Aschmann spent years creating this painstakingly detailed map of regional American and Canadian dialects. Aschmann has been steadily adding to it as people from all over the U.S. send him audio samples of themselves speaking. In addition to the videos people send him, Aschmann says he made the map from information he found on several language websites, from the Atlas of North American English, and also by watching a lot of online videos of people who he says retain their local dialect well, like politicians, gospel singers and NASCAR drivers.

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