It was a meeting of the minds on June 6 when The Canadian Encyclopedia and The Chinese Encyclopedia met in Vancouver to share their histories and pick each others’ brains!

Editor in Chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia James Marsh asks, Will future developments change the very nature of what an encyclopedia can or should be?

“Significant: expressive, suggestive, with unstated or secret sense, inviting attention; noteworthy, of considerable amount or effect or importance” – Oxford English Dictionary One of the words that recurs in the making of reference works is “significance.” While the word “encyclopedia” either means or implies “all the knowledge in the world,” and one might call a [...]