The following is a bibliography of Alberta history.
Surveys and reference
, a short encyclopedia
a very good starting point
scholarly biographies of every important person who died by 1930
primary sources
, standard survey by leading historian
, a comparison with Saskatchewan, Fulltext in EBSCO
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.
Economics, business, labour
1919 primary source
primary sources
Online
A primary source; interviews with oil workers
Author's discussion
Hayward, Anne. Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990: A social and economic history (University of Ottawa Press, 2001).
influential Marxist interpretation
Thompson, John Herd, and Allen Seager. "Workers, Growers and Monopolists: The" Labour Problem" in the Alberta Beet Sugar Industry During the 1930s." Labour/Le Travail (1978): 153-174. online
Medical
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
; and
High culture
Politics and government
- Primary Source
Boudreau, Joseph A., ed. Alberta, Aberhart and Social Credit. Canadian History Through the Press. Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1975. 122 pp. - newspaper reports; primary source
Caldarola, Carlo, ed. Society and Politics in Alberta: Research Papers. Toronto: Methuen, 1979. 392 pp. Elliott, David R. and Iris Miller. Bible Bill: A Biography of William Aberhart. Edmonton: Reidmore Books, 1987. 373 pp.
Hesketh, Bob. Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit. U. of Toronto Press, 1997. 315 pp. Hewitt, Steve. Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939. (2006). 205 pp. excerpt and text search
Lin, Zhiqiu. Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provincial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-32 (2007) online
Mardon, Ernest, and Austin Mardon. Alberta Election Results 1882–1992. Edmonton: Documentary Heritage Society of Alberta (1993). Monto, Tom. The United Farmers of Alberta: A Movement, A Government (Edmonton: GranhPublishing, 1989)
Thomas, Lewis H., ed. William Aberhart and Social Credit in Alberta. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1977. 175 pp. readings
- Textbook
Regional, urban, environment
Belliveau, Anne. The Story of Alberta's Big West Country: Upper North Saskatchewan River Corridor, Shunda Basin, Brazeau Collieries and Nordegg. Calgary: Detselig, 1999. 240 pp.
Foran, Max. Calgary: An Illustrated History/Calgary: Histoire Illustrée. Toronto: Lorimer; Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, 1978. 192 pp.
MacDonald, Graham A. Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies: A History of Waterton Country. (Parks and Heritage Series, No. 3.) U. of Calgary Press, 2000. 210 pp. Melnyk, Bryan P. Calgary Builds: The Emergence of an Urban Landscape, 1905-1914. Calgary: Alberta Culture, Can. Plains Res. Center, 1985. 214 pp.
- impact of oil on Calgary
Timoney, Kevin P., and Peter Lee. "Does the Alberta tar sands industry pollute? The scientific evidence." The Open Conservation Biology Journal 3.1 (2009) online.
Settlement, rural, pioneers
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
Brado, Edward. Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Alberta. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984. 298 pp.