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Revised Statutes of Canada

This database includes complete coverage of all six revisions from the official printed volumes of the Revised Statutes of Canada in nearly 80,000 pages.

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Using the Main Search Bar

  • For example, enter the phrase "Canadian waters" inside quotation marks into the search bar
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Using Advanced Search

  • Click Advanced Search to be taken to a page with custom facets to help maximize your research within this collection
  • Use the drop-downs to choose a variety of ways to search: Text, Book Title, Book Author, Section Title, and Volume Date 
    • Add another search field if three isn't enough
  • Pick a title by citation to search within
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About Venn Diagram Search

 

  • Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other
  • Helps users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward
  • Find the link to Venn Diagram Search on the Advanced Search page
  • Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks

 

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Results on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles)

  • Select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram and see all possible search term combinations from our original query
  • In our example, we can see results for:
    • duties AND transportation
    • duties AND freight
    • freight AND transportation
    • the terms freight, transportation, and freight individually
  • Sort the results, save or export, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title