Project Gutenberg Canada began on Canada Day

Canada Day

Canada Day , formerly Dominion Day , is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act , which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire...

 2007. Canadian citizens can create e-texts and download many books that are not yet in the Public Domain

Public domain

Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...

 of many other countries. Some authors whose complete works can now be made available (in Canada) are A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...

, Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....

, Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition...

, Amy Carmichael

Amy Carmichael

Amy Wilson Carmichael was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur...

, Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.-Early life:...

, Marshall Broomhall

Marshall Broomhall

Marshall B. Broomhall , was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. He also authored many books on the subject of Chinese missionary work. He was the most famous son of the anti-opium trade activist and General Secretary of the C.I.M...

, Lilias Trotter

Lilias Trotter

Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria.-Early life:...

, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder was an American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family...

 and Isobel Kuhn.

As of 1 December 2007 the separately run Distributed Proofreaders Canada project has started contributing ebooks to Project Gutenberg Canada.

Copyright in Canada lasts until 50 years after the end of the year of the author's death. If the book was published during the author's lifetime, and the author died 51 years ago or more, the book is in the Canadian public domain. In some cases, Project Gutenberg of Canada has received permission to redistribute books which are still under copyright.