Canada Gazette

“The Canada Gazette is the official newspaper of the Government of Canada. It informs Canadians about government operations and involves them in the legislative process. It includes statutes, new and proposed regulations, administrative board decisions and public notices. You may search the collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) for digitized issues from 1841 to 1997.” (Description taken from the data provider website)

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General Information

Added to the Research Data: March 2021

Last update: March 2021

Update periodicity: No update plans at the moment

Available formats: PDF

Documents’ assets available? No

Documents’ metadata available? No

Data size: 206Gb

Number of files: 14,560

Copyright: The data and all related documentation are subject to copyright. Please consult the data provider website for more details.

Data Subject Area: Canadian politics

The Data in Graphs

Available formats in “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) - Canada Gazette”

The Data Structure

The files are named according to an unknown naming convention. Each PDF should corresponds to one different edition of the resource.

PDF Availability

All documents are available in PDF format.

Full-text availability

Full text is available in PDFs. The original documents have been OCRised, but note that this process is not perfect, especially for old documents that have deteriorated over time and whose text layout and fonts are not always standard.

Metadata Availability

The files have no metadata, but some metadata were extracted from the data provider’s site and assembled into a TSV file that is available with the other files of this dataset. No quality control of the extracted metadata was performed.

Document’s Bibliographic References

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