The Canadian Encyclopedia is a print and electronic encyclopedia about the nation of Canada its geography, history, and people. Canada had been without an encyclopedia since the 1957 Encyclopedia Canadiana. In response to this Mel Hurtig, a stauch Canadian nationalist, launched a project to create a wholey new Canadian Encyclopedia and recruited over 3000 authors to write for it. The first edition of the Canadian Encyclopedia was published in three volumes in 1985 a revised and expanded edition was released in 1988. The company later published the Junior Canadian Encyclopedia. Currently Canadian Heritage, a government department, is paying to have the encyclopedia available free online to all Canadians.

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