Welcome to Project Gutenberg Canada!
We're celebrating our launch by presenting a baker's dozen: thirteen ebooks specially created by our volunteers, including novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies, as well as a fine monograph on chess.
We are busy preparing new titles for the future: check our New Releases regularly to see what our latest titles are!
Our mission is to provide you with free ebooks of the finest Canadian and international literature. Our ambition is to provide dozens, then hundreds, and in the long run thousands of fine ebooks produced by our volunteers. (And you can be a volunteer! Creating ebooks is an interesting and pleasurable task that is not at all difficult.)
We would like to thank you for visiting our site! Please visit us often.
Also, we would like to thank our volunteers, whose contributions have made Project Gutenberg Canada possible.
Finally, we would like to thank the people of Canada and the Government of Canada. There is a strong political consensus in Canada in favour of a healthy and vigorous public domain. Successive Canadian governments of all parties have consistently protected and indeed strengthened the Canadian public domain: it connects all of us to our cultural heritage.
We can say without hesitation that every single one of the thirteen titles we are presenting is an outstanding work of art. And yet every one of these fine titles has been out of print for many years. Had Canada followed the unfortunate example of some other countries by extending the duration of copyrights, twenty more years would have passed before we could have presented these free ebooks, which, being out of print, cannot be purchased in a bookstore.
Thank you again for visiting us. See you again soon!