@Mtl_zack: The trick here is how you search. You may not find something under one search term, but you might find it in another. You say you’re using the article databases at McGill, where you will be able to search a large number of academic journals. There have got to be any number of articles on the topic you choose. Some of those articles are probably also available online. I should think that using an academic journal is acceptable grounds for getting it over the internet.
As a side note, when my daughter was told to research without using the Internet, I was incensed. I was going to make a stink about it, but my daughter said she didn’t care. She did use access to the library from home to get call numbers, and then we took her to the library (first time I’d been there to look for books, lol) to find the books, and gave her a little bit of library lore (like don’t just look at the book you want, but look at the books near it on the shelf to see if any of those might be useful. Hmm, you could actually create a feature like that for internet searches).
Still, as a librarian who handles virtual collections, it just raises my hackle when people are forbidden to use the internet. What kind of research is that? You miss out on a rapidly increasing set of available information!
If you’re worried about Wikipedia responses, then teach that. If you want people to experience a library, then take them. Telling people to eschew the internet—I have no idea what that accomplishes.