Bibliography of Alberta history

The following is a bibliography of Alberta history.

Surveys and reference

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  • "Alberta Online Encyclopedia". Heritage Community Foundation. 2009., a short encyclopedia
  • "The Canadian Encyclopedia". Historica Canada. 2008. a very good starting point
  • "The Dictionary of Canadian Biography". University of Toronto/Université Laval. 2017. scholarly biographies of every important person who died by 1930
  • Cashman, Tony (197). A Picture History of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta: Hurtig. ISBN 978-0-88830-157-4.
  • Friesen, Gerald (1987). The Canadian Prairies: A History (student ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-6648-0.
  • MacGregor, James Grierson (1972). A History of Alberta. Hurtig. ISBN 978-0-88830-063-8.
  • Owram, Doug; Macleod, R. C., eds. (1979). The Formation of Alberta: a documentary history. Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-987-4. primary sources
  • Palmer, Howard; Palmer, Tamara (1990). Alberta: A New History. Hurtig Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88830-340-0., standard survey by leading historian
  • Payne, Michael; Wetherell, Donald; Cavanaugh, Catherine, eds. (2006). Alberta formed, Alberta transformed. Vol. 1. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-194-6.
  • Payne, Michael; Wetherell, Donald; Cavanaugh, Catherine, eds. (2006). Alberta formed, Alberta transformed. Vol. 2. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-194-6.
  • Pitsula, James M. (2005). "Disparate Duo". The Beaver. 85 (4): 14–24., a comparison with Saskatchewan, Fulltext in EBSCO
  • Herk, Aritha Van (2001). Mavericks: An Incorrigable History Of Alberta. Penguin Canada. ISBN 978-0-14-317695-4. OL 7643613M. 14 popular essays on the fur trade, aboriginal peoples, exploration, the North-West Mounted Police, ranchers, homesteaders, territorial and provincial politics, women, and Albertan culture.
  • Wardhaugh, Robert, ed. (2001). Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History. University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 978-0-88755-388-2.

Economics, business, labour

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Medical

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  • Boschma, Geertje. "Community mental health nursing in Alberta, Canada: An oral history." Nursing History Review 20.1 (2012): 103-135.
  • Boschma, Geertje. "Deinstitutionalization reconsidered: geographic and demographic changes in mental health care in British Columbia and Alberta, 1950-1980." Histoire sociale/Social history 44.2 (2011): 223-256 online.
  • Boschma, Geertje. "“You Had To Just Kind Of Rub Her Cheek”: Memories and Emotions of Mental Deficiency Nurses in Alberta, Canada, 1945-1975." Quality Advancement in Nursing Education-Avancées en formation infirmière 6.2 (2020): 5+. online
  • Burnett, Kristin. Taking medicine: women's healing work and colonial contact in southern Alberta, 1880-1930 (UBC Press, 2010).
  • Corbet, Elise. Frontiers of Medicine: A History of Medical Education and Research at the University of Alberta (University of Alberta, 1990).
  • Smith, Mary, and Nazilla Khanlou. "An Analysis of Canadian psychiatric mental health nursing through the junctures of history, gender, nursing education, and quality of work life in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan." ISRN nursing 2013 (2013) online.

First Nations, Metis

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High culture

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Politics and government

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Regional, urban, environment

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Settlement, rural, pioneers

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  • Baker, William M., ed. (1993). Pioneer Policing in Southern Alberta: Deane of the Mounties, 1888-1914. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta. ISBN 0-929123-02-6.
  • Bennett, John W. and Seena B. Kohl. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building. An Anthropological History. U. of Nebraska Press, 1995. 311 pp. online
  • Bowen, Lynne (1992). Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 1-55054-053-X.
  • Brado, Edward. Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Alberta. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984. 298 pp.
  • Brunvand, Jan Harold (1974). Norwegian Settlers in Alberta. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Cultural Studies, Paper no. 8. Ottawa: National Museum of Man.
  • Danysk, Cecilia (1995). Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 0-7710-2552-1.
  • Hurt, Leslie J. The Victoria Settlement, 1862-1922. Occasional Paper, no. 7. Edmonton: Alberta Culture, Hist. Resources Division, 1979. 242 pp.
  • Jaques, Carrol (2001). Unifarm: A Story of Conflict and Change. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 1-55238-051-3.
  • Jones, David C. Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. U. of Nebraska Press, 1987. 330 pp.
  • Jones, David C., ed. "We'll All Be Buried Down Here": The Prairie Dryland Disaster, 1917-1926. Calgary: Alberta Records Publ. Board; Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1986. 200 pp. collects primary sources
  • Leonard, David W. Delayed Frontier: The Peace River Country to 1909. Calgary, Alta.: Detselig, 1995. 256 pp.
  • Palmer, Howard. The Settlement of the West (1977) online edition
  • Rennie, Bradford James. The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta, 1909-1921. U of Toronto Press, 2000. 282 pp.
  • Gross, Renie. Groundwork: Carl Anderson, Farm Crusader. Wardlow, Alta.: Badlands Books, 1998. 352 pp.
  • Jackson, Mary Percy. Suitable for the Wilds: Letters from Northern Alberta, 1929-1931. ed. by Janice Dickin McGinnis, Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1995. 264 pp.; a primary source
  • Sharp, Paul F. Whoop-up Country: The Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. Reprint ed., Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1973. 347pp. primary source
  • Silverman, Eliane Leslau. The Last Best West: Women on the Alberta Frontier 1880-1930. Montreal: Eden, 1984. 183 pp.
  • Thompson, John Herd. Forging the Prairie West. (1998)
  • Voisey, Paul. Vulcan: The Making of a Prairie Community. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1987. 341 pp.

Social, ethnic, religion and schools

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  • Banack, Clark (Spring 2014). "Evangelical Christianity and Political Thought in Alberta.'". Journal of Canadian Studies. 48 (2): 70–99. doi:10.3138/jcs.48.2.70. S2CID 145237154.
  • Byrne, M. B. From the Buffalo to the Cross: A History of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary. Calgary Archdiocese. 555 pp.
  • Cavanaugh, Catherine A. and Warne, Randi R., ed. Standing on New Ground: Women in Alberta. U. of Alberta Press, 1993. 202 pp.
  • den Otter, Andy A. Civilizing the West: The Galts and the Development of Western Canada. U. of Alberta Press, 1981. 395 pp.
  • Flint, David. The Hutterites: A Study in Prejudice. Oxford U. Press, 1975. 193 pp.
  • Gray, James. Booze: The Impact of Whisky On the Prairie West (Toronto: Macmillan, 1972.)
  • Hoe, Ban Seng. Structural Changes of Two Chinese Communities in Alberta, Canada. Mercury Series, no. 19. Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, Can. Centre for Folk Culture Studies, 1976. 385 pp.
  • McLachlan, Elizabeth. With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression Era. Edmonton: NeWest, 1999. 187 pp.
  • Palmer, Howard and Palmer, Tamara, eds. Peoples of Alberta: Portraits of Cultural Diversity. Saskatoon, Sask.: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1985. 551 pp.
  • Palmer, Howard. Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta. McClelland and Stewart, 1982. 217 pp.
  • Scheffel, David. In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers in Alberta. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1991. 252 pp.
  • Stebbins, Robert A. The Franco-Calgarians: French Language, Leisure, and Linguistic Life-Style in an Anglophone City. U. of Toronto Press, 1994. 152 pp.
  • Ukrainian Pioneers' Association of Alberta. Ukrainians in Alberta. Edmonton: Ukrainian Pioneers' Assoc. of Alberta (1975) 560 pp.
  • Wall, Karen L. Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta (2013) online review
  • Williams, Robert J., Yale D. Belanger, and Jennifer N. Arthur. "Gambling in Alberta: History, current status and socioeconomic impacts" (Alberta Gaming Research Institute, 2011) online.

See also

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