Comparative History of the Canadian Prairies and the American Northern Great Plains History 390P Librarian Margaret Fast
Reference Resources
The American and Canadian West: A Bibliography Reference F591.S64 A Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces Reference F1060.P44 1973 Canada, A Reader's Guide Reference F1008.S45 1991 The Canadian Encyclopedia Reference F1006.C36 2000 Canadian Indian Policy: A Critical Bibliography Reference E92.S9 1982 Canadian Reference Sources: An Annotated Bibliography Reference F1008.B57 1996 Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples Reference F1035.A1 E53 1999 Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature Reference PS169.F7 S65 1999 European Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States and Canada: A Historical Bibliography Reference E184.A1 E9 1983 The Frontier and the American West Reference F591.P29 The History of Canada: An Annotated Bibliography Reference F1026.H5 1983 Indians of the United States and Canada: A Bibliography Reference E77.I5 v.1 & v.2 The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography Reference F1005.D5 1963 New Encyclopedia of the American West Reference F591.N46 1998 Religion and Society in North America: An Annotated Bibliography Reference BL60.R4 1983
Additional Resources
Boomtime : Peopling The Canadian Prairies HD319.P67 G7 Help Us to a Better Land: Crofter Colonies in the Prairie West. F1060.S4 N67 1994 New and naked land : making the prairies home F1060 .R334 1988 New Moon at Batoche: reflections on the Urban Prairie (30 years of Western Canadian identity and alienation through literature, politics, history, and personal confession. F1060.92 .M47 1999 Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 / Z1392.P7 P44 2003 The Prairie West to 1905: A Canadian Sourcebook F1060.P7 Prairie Women video HQ1459.P7 P7 1995 Three hundred prairie years : Henry Kelsey's "Inland country of good report" F1071 .T49 1993
Online Databases
America: History and Life (1964 - ) A bibliographic database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews.
BGMI (Biography & Genealogy Master Index) (campus access) Indexes current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Check our online catalog for holdings.
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index) (1988-) Contains full-text or abstracts from more than 400 Canadian and international publications, and the full-text of selected sections of The Globe and Mail newspaper. Also available in print, Reference AI3 .C243.
E-Stat - Statistics Canada. This database has interactive features, including maps and graphs. Data available includes: Canadian census population data from 1996, 1991 and 1986. Agricultural Census data from 1996,and 1991. The 1991 Aboriginal peoples survey. Historical census data from 1665-1871. Environmental data. Information from Elections Canada on the 1997 federal election. 450,000 items from the most recent social and economic data available.
JSTOR Digitized complete full-text backfiles of core scholarly journals across the disciplines.
PAIS (Public Affaiars Information Service) (1972-) Contains over 400,000 citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories.
Readers' Guide Retrospective Online(1890-1982); Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (print), Reference AI3 .R4 (1900 to date). Indexes and abstracts articles in selected popular magazines, covering a wide range of general topics.
Sociological Abstracts (1963-) Provides indexing with abstracts of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.
Full-text Historical Documents
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov Library of Congress "American Memory" Pages http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ On-Line Resources on the Great Depression and the New Deal http://newdeal.feri.org/classrm/links.htm University of Saskatchewan, Department of History http://www.usask.ca/history/ Early Canadiana Online http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq National Library of Canada http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ehome.htm National Archives of Canada http://www.archives.ca The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html Peel's Prairie Provinces http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/
Periodicals and Newspapers
Grain Grower's Guide 1908-1928 Microfilm 2W S521.G75 Manitoba Free Press 1878-1894 Microfilm 2W AN5.M35 New York Times 1857- Microfilm 2W AN2 N44 1857- New York Times Index 1851- Wilson 2W Microfilm Index AI21.N48 Prairie Forum 1976- , Periodicals F1060.A1 P7 The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature Wilson 3W PR9194 .P7 #27-31
Directories Listing Canadian Newspapers & Microform Collections Alberta Newspapers, 1880-1982: An Historical Directory / PN4919.A45 S77 1988 Canadian Newspapers On Microfilm; Catalogue. / Oversize PN4904.C3
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