Stanford Libraries will be operating on reduced hours from Saturday, December 14, 2024 through Sunday, January 5, 2025. For more information about services during this period, please visit the Libraries Intersession and Winter Closure page.
The Parliament of Canada in collaboration with the Library of Parliament initiated a project to reconstitute the early debates of the Senate from 1867 to 1870, and of the House of Commons for the years 1867 through 1874, using newspaper reports of the day as the source of information. Official reporting of the debates of Canada's Parliament began in 1871 in the Senate and in 1875 in the House of Commons. Prior to this, there was no official record of what was said in Parliament.