ABSTRACT
The law dealing with legal deposit in Canada was the Act for the Protection of Copy Rights issued in 1832 in the province of Lower Canada. Since Canada is a federal state, the provinces have their own legislatures and laws. The Quebec National Library Act of 12 August 1967 requires publishers to deposit two copies of every document published in Quebec with the National Library of Quebec. The provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia all have some type of legal or administrative mechanism to ensure that at least some of the documents produced by the various provincial government departments. Government publications are deposited in accordance with the Treasury Board Canada Administrative Policy Manual. The provincial government documents that the National Library of Canada receives by way of provincial legal deposit regulations are from Manitoba.
