Legal Research

Internet Archive for Older Ontario Regulations

By Ted Tjaden

I have in the past hoped for good (or better) interfaces to the massive amounts of older Canadian legal materials being digitized on the Internet Archive.

While that hope still remains (since I think there is a need for it), I was pleasantly surprised this morning that by simply searching the words “ontario AND regulations AND 1979″ in the “Canadian Libraries” database, the result came first and it was relatively easy to get to the particular regulation I was looking for by choosing the PDF format of the document (although the PDF file was a bit large at over 80 MB).

Since most private law libraries don’t necessarily have older regulations on the shelf, this desktop access saved the need to request a photocopy from the courthouse library, thereby saving both time and money.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).