Research Guides
The following sources are provided to supplement the primary information source, L4U, our Online Public Access Catalogue. These titles are suggested as a starting point for your searches. If you need assistance using L4U or any of the materials listed below, please ask the library staff.
Canadian History
General Guides
Comprehensive
Canadian history in documents, 1763-1966 / J.M. Bliss. FC12 .B64
Building the Canadian nation / George Brown. FC163 .B761
Documentary problems in Canadian history / J.M. Bumsted. FC18 .D63
Canada: a story of challenge / J.M.S. Carless. FC164 .C37
Political annals of Canada / A.P. Cockburn. FC162 .C63
Readings in Canadian history / R. Douglas Francis. FC164 .R42
Canada: a political and social history / Edgar McInnis. FC163 .M15
Source-book of Canadian history / J.H. Stewart Reid. FC18 .S6
Canada and its provinces / Adam Shortt. FC18 .C36
Basic documents in Canadian history / James J. Talman. FC18 .T18
Western Canada
Fur trade wars: the founding of Western Canada . J.M. Bumsted. FC3212 .B84
History of Prairie settlement / A.S. Morton. FC3205 .M75
Birth of Western Canada / George Stanley. FC3215 .S72
Dictionaries / Encyclopedias / Handbooks
Canadian encyclopedia. REF FC23 .C36
Encyclopedia Canadiana, REF FC23 .E625
Historical atlas of Canada / D.G.G. Kerr. OVERSIZE G1116 .H5
Writing about Canada / John Schultz. FC149 .W7
Oxford companion to Canadian history and literature / William Toye. REF FC23 .S86
Biography
Dictionary of Canadian biography. REF FC25 .D5
Macmillan dictionary of Canadian biography / W. Stewart Wallace. REF FC25 .M33
Bibliographies
Comprehensive
Western Canada since 1870 / Alan Artibise. REF Z1365 .A78
Bibliography of Canadiana published in Great Britain, 1519-1763. REF Z1365 .W34 1990
Reader's guide to Canadian history / Delphin Muise. REF Z1382 .R42
Canadian history: a reader's guide / Douglas Owram. REF Z1382 .C236
Records of federal government royal commissions / James Whalen. Z1373 .N37
Saskatchewan
German, Mennonite and Hutterite communities in Saskatchewan: an inventory of sources / Alan Anderson. REF Z1392 .S27 A527
Saskatchewan bibliography / Ved Arora. REF.Z1392 .S27 A76
Saskatchewan bibliography. First supplement / Ved Arora. REF Z1392 .S27 A762
Periodicals
Beaver. OVERSIZE FC3201 .B42
Canadian historical review. FC1 .C21 H5
Prairie forum. FC3231 .P89
Saskatchewan history. FC3501 .S35
Internet Resources
WWW-VL History: Canadian History
CHIN (Canadian Heritage Information Network): "...the information gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage in Canada and around the world.”
Canadahistory.com: “Canadahistory is intended to collect, present and disseminate material, writings, visual sources, and opinions on the site and to actively encourage academic and socially responsible debate concerning Canada's history.”
