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Biographies of Athletes and Sports Figures

Biographies of Family Life and Growing Up 

Biographies of people from London, Ontario

Biographies of Musicians

Biographies of People in History

Biographies about Politics and People in Politics 

Biographies with Recipes 

Biographies about Scientists 

Biographies about Travelling

Dictionaries of Famous People

We Recommend... Canadian Biographies

We Recommend: Family Matters (If you liked Glass Castle, then try...)

We Recommend: Health Memoirs

We Recommend: Surviving Parenthood

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Finding Biographies at your Library

Books about individuals are placed in the Dewey numbers with other material on that subject. If you are looking for material on a specific person, search in the catalogue by subject, using the individual's name.

Some examples of individual biography are :

610-619 - Biographies of people in the medical sciences
616.462 Ban Dr. Frederick Banting
780-789 - Biographies of musicians and composers
780.92 Bee Beethoven
781. 66 Rol The Rolling Stones

Websites

Canadian Information by Subject : BIOGRAPHY
Search this National Library of Canada website under the alphabetic listing for Biography where there are numerous sources of information on notable Canadians from many fields of endeavour, through historic and contemporary time periods.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Includes biographies of persons who died between 1000 and 1930.  This includes Canadians and other people who played a role in Canadian affairs e.g. British officials serving in Canada.

heroines.ca : a Guide to Women in Canadian History
Includes individual and some group biographies of Canadian women in all fields of endeavour, as well as covering topics such as stamps, statues, historic sites, 'This month in Herstory' (significant dates), films and videos, etc.