Bibliography of Alberta history

The following is a bibliography of Alberta history.

Surveys and reference

• "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 978-0888301574.
• 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
• Pitsula, James M. (2005). "Disparate Duo". 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. 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

• Ascah, Robert L. (1999). Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks and Alberta's Social Credit. University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-0-88864-306-3.
• Bercuson, David Jay, ed. (1978). Alberta's Coal Industry, 1919. Alberta Records Publication Board: Historical Society of Alberta. 1919 primary source
• Breen, David (1993). Alberta's Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board. University of Alberta. ISBN 978-0-88864-245-5.
• Breen, David H., ed. (1984). William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta. Calgary: Alberta Records Publication Board: Historical Society of Alberta. primary sources
• Bright, David (1998). The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-4166-5. Online
• Burrill, Gary (1992). Away. Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario and Alberta: An Oral History of Leaving Home. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0899-6. JSTOR j.ctt819s3. A primary source; interviews with oil workers
• Chastko, Paul Anthony (2004). Developing Alberta's Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-124-3. Author's discussion
• Ferguson, Barry Glen (1986). Athabasca oil sands: northern resource exploration, 1875-1951. Alberta Culture. ISBN 978-0-88977-039-3.
• Hart, E. J. (1983). The selling of Canada: the CPR and the beginnings of Canadian tourism. Altitude Pub. ISBN 978-0-919381-09-4.
• House, J. D.; Studies, Carleton University. Institute of Canadian (1980). The last of the free enterprisers: the oilmen of Calgary. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 978-0-7705-1846-2.
• Johnston, Alex; Gladwyn, Keith G.; Ellis, L. Gregory (1989). Lethbridge, its coal industry. Lethbridge Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-919224-81-0.
• Kennedy, Margaret Anne (1997). The Whiskey Trade of the Northwestern Plains: A Multidisciplinary Study. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-2596-2.
• Klassen, Henry C. (1999). A Business History of Alberta. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 978-1-55238-022-2.
• Parker, James McPherson (1987). Emporium of the north: Fort Chipewyan and the fur trade to 1835. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism and University of Regina - Canadian Plains Research Center. ISBN 978-0-88977-044-7.
• Richards, John; Pratt, Larry (1979). Prairie capitalism: power and influence in the New West. McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-7177-5. influential Marxist interpretation
• Schneider, Ena (1991). Ribbons of Steel: The Story of the Northern Alberta Railways. Calgary: Detselig. ISBN 978-1-5505-9239-9.
• Wetherell, Donald Grant; Kmet, Irene (1990). Useful Pleasures: The Shaping of Leisure in Alberta, 1896-1945. Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism and University of Regina - Canadian Plains Research Center.

First Nations, Metis

• Drees, Laurie Meijer. The Indian Association of Alberta: A History of Political Action. U. of British Columbia Press, 2002. 246 pp.
• McClintock, Walter. The Old North Trail: Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians. (1910). 539 pp.
• Pocklington, T. C. The Government and Politics of the Alberta Métis Settlements. Regina: Can. Plains Res. Cen., 1991. 162 pp.
• Price, Richard, ed. The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties. Toronto: Butterworth, 1979. 202 pp.
• Samek, Hana. The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U. S. Indian Policy. U. of New Mexico Press, 1987. 236 pp.
• Ward, Donald. The People: A Historical Guide to the First Nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1995. 115 pp.

High culture

• Ainslie, Patricia Ainslie, and Mary-Beth Laviolette. Alberta Art and Artists: An Overview (2007) 147 pages
• Calder, Alison and Wardhaugh, Robert, ed. History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies. U. of Manitoba Press, 2005. 310 pp.
• Keahey, Deborah. Making It Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. (1998). 178 pp.
• Johns, Walter H. A History of the University of Alberta, 1908- 1969. Edmonton: U. of Alberta Press, 1981. 544 pp.
• Melnyk, George. The Literary History of Alberta, Vol. 1: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two. Edmonton: U. of Alberta Press, 1998. 240 pp.
  • Melnyk, George. The Literary History of Alberta. Vol. 2: From the End of the War to the End of the Century. U. of Alberta Press, 1999. 302 pp.

Politics and government

• Aberhart, William. Aberhart: Outpourings and Replies. ed. by David R. Elliott, Calgary: Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1991. 296 pp. a primary source
• Barr, John J. The Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of Social Credit in Alberta. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. 248 pp.
• Bell, Edward. Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1993. 196 pp.
• 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
• Bruce, Christopher J.; Kneebone, Ronald D.; and McKenzie, Kenneth J., eds. A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program. Oxford U. Press, 1997. 518 pp.
• 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.
• Finkel, Alvin. The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta. U. of Toronto Press, 1989.
• Gray, James H. R. B. Bennett: The Calgary Years. U. of Toronto Press, 1991. 310 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
• Johnson, William. Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada (2006)
• 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)
• Rennie, Bradford J. ed. Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. (2004) excerpt and text search
• 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.
• Thomas, Lewis H., ed. William Aberhart and Social Credit in Alberta. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1977. 175 pp. readings
• Thomas, Lewis Gwynne. The Liberal Party in Alberta. University of Toronto Press: (1959).
• Tupper, Allan and Gibbins, Roger, eds. Government and Politics in Alberta. U. of Alberta Press, 1992. 335 pp. 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.
• Conrad Norman C. eading the Entrails: An Alberta Ecohistory (U. Alberta Press 1999) online
• Foran, Max and Jameson, Sheilagh S., eds. Citymakers: Calgarians after the Frontier. Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1987. 386pp.
• Foran, Max and Foran, Heather MacEwan. Calgary: Canada's Frontier Metropolis. An Illustrated History. Windsor, Ont.: Windsor, 1982. 367 pp.
• Foran, Max. Calgary: An Illustrated History/Calgary: Histoire Illustrée. Toronto: Lorimer; Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, 1978. 192 pp.
• Hesketh, Bob and Swyripa, Frances, eds. Edmonton: The Life of a City. Edmonton: NeWest, 1995. 366 pp.
• Johnston, Alex and denOtter, Andy A. Lethbridge: A Centennial History. Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1985. 240 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.
• Rasporich, Anthony W. and Klassen, Henry C. Frontier Calgary: Town, City, and Region, 1875-1914. U. of Calgary and McClelland and Stewart West. 306 pp.
• Reasons, Chuck, ed. Stampede City: Power and Politics in the West. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1984. 216 pp. impact of oil on Calgary
• Smith, Donald B., ed. Centennial City: Calgary, 1894-1994. U. of Calgary Press, (1993) 88 pp.
• Wetherell, Donald G. and Kmet, Irene R. A. Alberta's North: A History, 1890-1950 U. of Alberta Press, 2000. 520 pp.
• Wetherell, Donald G. and Kmet, Irene R. A. Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947. U. of Alberta Press, 1995. 368 pp.

Settlement, rural, pioneers

• Baker, William M., ed. Pioneer Policing in Southern Alberta: Deane of the Mounties, 1888-1914. Calgary: Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1993.
• 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. Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992. 234 pp.
• Brado, Edward. Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Alberta. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1984. 298 pp.
• Brunvand, Jan Harold. Norwegian Settlers in Alberta. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Cultural Studies, Paper no. 8. Ottawa: Natl. Mus. of Man, 1974. 71 pp.
• Danysk, Cecilia. Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930. (1995). 231 pp.
• Hurt, Leslie J. The Victoria Settlement, 1862-1922. Occasional Paper, no. 7. Edmonton: Alberta Culture, Hist. Resources Division, 1979. 242 pp.
• Jaques, Carrol. Unifarm: A Story of Conflict and Change. U. of Calgary Press, 2001. 342 pp.
• 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

• Banack, Clark. "Evangelical Christianity and Political Thought in Alberta." Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes 48#2 (2014): 70–99
• 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

See also

• Bibliography of Canada
• Bibliography of Canadian history
• Bibliography of Nova Scotia
• Bibliography of Saskatchewan history
• Bibliography of British Columbia
• Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
• List of books about the War of 1812