Welcome to the Canada Year Book (CYB) Historical Collection

Discover Canada's social and economic past through the people, events and facts that have shaped this vast country.

Now the wealth of historical data in Statistics Canada's annual Canada Year Book is available free on the Internet in the Canada Year Book Historical Collection. It covers the first century of Canada's history, from 1867 to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps, supplemented by interconnected learning resources for students and teachers.

Welcome to a new way of looking at our past.