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Discover your family's history! Search census, birth, marriage and death records, passenger lists, immigration records, maps, and more from Canada, US, and Europe. To access Ancestry Library Edition, please visit your local Cambridge Public Library location to use it onsite.

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The Canadian Periodical Index offers a vast selection of Canadian reference information. Search more than 700 full text titles, including the Globe and Mail (from 1985) and The Waterloo Region Record (from 2008), as well as the Cambridge Reporter and Cambridge Times. View a full list of titles for CPI.Q 

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Access full issues of Maclean's Magazine, Canada's preeminent news magazine from 1905-2015. Great for research and projects where you need trustworthy Canadian news and facts.

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