References
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Google Image Search |
| Host: |
Google |
| Description: |
This website is a comprehensive image search engine.
Type in key words, such as Alberta history or Rural Alberta to bring
up thumbnail images related to the topic. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on thumbnail images to view them in larger format.
Note: Click on Image Search Help (beside the Search Images button) for useful information about Google image search. |
| URL: |
http://www.images.google.com |
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Alberta Folklore and Local History Collection |
| Host: |
University of Alberta |
| Description: |
This website contains an archival collection of approximately 1000 manuscripts, reminiscences, stories, plays, poems, photographs and other materials that portray many aspects of the history, tall tales, humour and stories of Alberta. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on any title to view related photographs and descriptions. Note: Click once on the photograph to enlarge it. |
| URL: |
http://folklore.library.ualberta.ca/srchGenre.cfm?Genre_ID=1&Genre=Other |
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Edmonton: Alberta's Capital City. City of Edmonton Archives |
| Host: |
City of Edmonton |
| Description: |
This website contains civic government and private records documenting Edmonton's history. This includes paper records, oral history tapes, photographs, film, video recordings, computer records, correspondence, diaries and personal histories. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Scroll down and click on City of Edmonton Archives Photographs to access a list of categories. Then, click on a category to view thumbnail images. Click on each thumbnail image to view it in larger format and to access information about the image. Or, enter a search term in the Search the archives box and click on Go to locate photographs related to a specific topic. |
| URL: |
http://www.edmonton.ca/archives |
| Title: |
Early Days—Homesteaders |
| Host: |
Saskatchewan Learning |
| Description: |
This website contains digital images and textual information about homesteading in the early 1900s. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on the subject headings to access information and images. |
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| Title: |
St. Vincent and St. Paul—Memory in Francophone Alberta |
| Host: |
Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta) |
| Description: |
This website contains information about St. Vincent, St. Paul and Franco-Albertan communities. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on highlighted terms to access a menu on the left-hand side to access information which includes virtual exhibits. |
| URL: |
http://www.abheritage.ca/stvincent-stpaul/ |
| Title: |
Our Future, Our Past: The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project. Alberta Newspapers Collection |
| Host: |
University of Calgary Press |
| Description: |
This website contains a digital collection of Alberta newspapers. |
| Navigation Tips: |
To search the collection, select either a year (1885–2001) or a place and then click on Look up. |
| URL: |
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr |
| Title: |
Alberta: How the West was Young. History for your ears, eyes and mind! |
| Host: |
Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta) |
| Description: |
This website contains information about Alberta’s early history. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on the headings—Archaeology and Pre-Contact, First Nations and Métis or Fur Trade and Mission History—in the left-hand-side menu or within the text to access images, text and audio clips.
Note: Click on Read or Listen at the top of the screen to choose how you access the information. |
| URL: |
http://www.abheritage.ca/alberta |
| Title: |
Where the World Meets the West. Archives Photographs |
| Host: |
Glenbow Museum |
| Description: |
This website contains 82 000 historical photographs, illustrations, cartoons and posters documenting the people, landscape and development of the Canadian West from the 1870s to the 1970s. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Type in Photographs in the Keywords/Phrase box under Search the Catalogue and then click Search to bring up images and pertinent information. Then, click on View Detailed Image under each image to enlarge it.
Note: Search Tips provide information about different ways of searching for specific photographs. |
| URL: |
http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosSearch.aspx |
| Title: |
Peel’s Prairie Provinces |
| Host: |
University of Alberta |
| Description: |
This website provides a variety of resources about life on the prairies (e.g. photographs, books, etc.). Click on Find Images, and type in key words, such as Alberta history or Rural Alberta to bring up thumbnail images related to the topic. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on thumbnail images to view them in larger format. |
| URL: |
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html |
| Title: |
Alberta: Land of Opportunity |
| Host: |
Heritage Community Foundation (Now archived by the University of Alberta) |
| Description: |
This website contains the history of
settlement of Alberta, with historical posters and photographs. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on the topics in the left-hand-side
menu or on the highlighted words in the text to access information. |
| URL: |
http://www.abheritage.ca/pasttopresent/en/opportunity/index.html |
| Title: |
Alberta’s Provincial Historic Sites, Interpretive Centres and Museums |
| Host: |
Alberta Culture |
| Description: |
This website contains information, images and some virtual tours for some of Alberta provincial historic sites and museums.
Links are provided to the Provincial Archives of Alberta and to the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation. |
| Navigation Tips: |
Click on the name of a museum or a historic site or on the Map of Alberta to access information. |
| URL: |
http://culture.alberta.ca/museums/historicsiteslisting/default.aspx |
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