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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
 

Page created October 17, 2001
updated: February 2005

Margaret Fast,  Wilson Library
Librarian for History
Western Washington University
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