Heritage Community Foundation Presents
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
HOME ABOUT PARTNERS SEARCH SITEMAP

Visit Alberta Source!
Heritage Community Foundation
Canada's Digital Collections
   
Further Reading

General Western Canadian History

Douglas R. Francis and Howard Palmer, ed. The Prairie West: Historical Readings. Edmonton: Pica Pica Press, 1992.

Gerald Friesen, ed. The Canadian Prairies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Gerald Friesen. The West: Regional Ambitions, National Debates, Global Age. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1999.

John Herd Thompson. Forging the Prairie West. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998.

General Alberta History & Biography

Brian Brennan. Building a Province: 60 Alberta Lives. Edmonton: Fifth House Publishers, 2000.

Brian Brennan. Alberta Originals: Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference. Edmonton: Fifth House Publishers, 2001.

T.C. Byrne. Alberta’s Revolutionary Leaders. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises, 1991.

Bob Hesketh and Frances Swyripa, ed. Edmonton: The Life of a City. Edmonton: NeWest Publishers, 1995.

Alex Mair. Gateway City: Stories from Edmonton’s Past. Edmonton: Fifth House Publishers, 2000.

Howard Palmer with Tamara Palmer. Alberta: A New History. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1990.

Aretha Van Herk. Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. Toronto: Viking, 2001.

Canadian Immigration History

Valerie Knowles. Strangers at our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1990. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992.

Valerie Knowles. Forging Our Legacy: Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, 1900-1977. Ottawa: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 2000.

Alberta Immigration History

Palmer, Howard with Tamara Palmer, ed. The Peoples of Alberta: Portraits of Cultural Diversity. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1985.

Palmer, Howard. Land of the Second Chance: A History of Ethnic Groups in Southern Alberta. Lethbridge: The Lethbridge Herald, 1972.

Western Alienation

Roger Gibbins and Sonia Arrison. Western Visions: Perspectives on the West in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1995.

David Kilgour. Uneasy Patriots: Western Canadians in Confederation. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishers, 1988.

George Melnyk, ed. Riel to Reform: A History of Protest in Western Canada. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1992.

Rural Uncertainty

Roger Epp and Dave Whitson. Writing off the Rural West. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001.

Back |  Top
 
Alberta Country
This digital collection was produced with financial assistance from Canada's Digital Collections initiative, Industry Canada. timeline » 

Albertasource.ca | Contact Us | Partnerships
            For more on Alberta’s cultural diversity, visit Peel’s Prairie Provinces.
Copyright © Heritage Community Foundation All Rights Reserved