Example: The bibliography for the article entitled "Canada, History of" in The Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed. (1974) --- Macropædia Vol. 3, p. 751, reads:

W.L. Morton, The Kingdom of Canada, 2nd ed. (1969), is the fullest one-volume history and the most traditional.... To understand the place of the colonies that became Canada in the British Empire, the following are most useful: H.A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada, 2nd ed. (1956), and The Cod Fisheries, rev. ed. (1954);... The following works both introduce and analyze the development of the remaining British colonies to self-governing communities and their union in confederation. W.S. MacNutt combines in a single narrative the histories of the Atlantic provinces in The Atlantic Provinces, the Emergence of Colonial Society, 1712-1857 (1965). Fernand Ouellet in his Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760-1850 (1966; Eng. trans. in prep.), applies with great success the demographic method of French historiography to the little known domestic development of that province....

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<ref><cite type="full"><author>W.L. Morton</author><title edition="2" date="1969">The Kingdom of Canada</title></cite> is the fullest one-volume history and the most traditional...</ref>.
To understand the place of the colonies that became Canada in the British Empire, the following are most useful:
<ref><cite type="full"><author>H.A. Innis</author><title edition="2" date="1956">The Fur Trade in Canada</title></cite>, and <cite type="ibid"> <title edition="rev" date="1954">The Cod Fisheries</cite></ref>;...
The following works both introduce and analyze the development of the remaining British colonies to self-governing communities and their union in confederation.
<ref><cite type="author><author>W.S. MacNutt</author></cite> combines in a single narrative the histories of the Atlantic provinces in <cite type="ibid"><title date="1965">The Atlantic Provinces, the Emergence of Colonial Society, 1712-1857</title><cite></ref>.
<ref><cite type="author><author>Fernand Ouellet</author></cite> in his <cite type="ibid"><title date="1966" language="Fr" status="Eng. trans. in prep.">Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760-1850</title></cite>, applies with great success the demographic method of French historiography to the little known domestic development of that province</ref>....
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Possible queries:

  1. List all author-title pairs cited in the article.
  2. Who wrote cited works with date after 1960?
  3. How many cited works were written by W.S. MacNutt?