Among the major collections is one devoted to British-American diplomacy which includes treaties that defined British Columbia. Site includes a search engine to the doucments. Links to full-text electronic versions of federal and provincial statutes, and municipal bylaws, along with interpretative texts. Full-text publications in HTML format of basic writings on British Common Law and other legal systems. Originally published as a five-volume book in 1986, this is an encyclopedic compilation of important manuscript items and published materials, chiefly of the 17th and 18th centuries, which influenced the writers of the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights and its amendments.
Access is through a table of contents, hyperlinked indexes or a site-search engine.
All foreign language works are in English translation. For anyone seeking to understand the philosophical underpinnings of the United States legal system from source documents, there is no better tool. Digital facsimiles of various treaties with Canadian First Nations executed between 1795 and 1908.