Peel’s Prairie Provinces
| Access: | Connect to e-resource. |
| Description: | This is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. The site contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items. As of September 2004, the Peel bibliographic database holds some 7,200 titles, approximately 2,500 of which have already been rendered in digital form and mounted on the Web site. These materials are extremely varied in terms of their content and provide an extraordinarily diverse picture of the Prairie experience. These items date back to the earliest days of exploration in the region and include a vast range of material dealing with every aspect of the settlement and development of the Canadian West. |
| Subject Coverage: | History and social sciences of Canadian prairies. |
| Date Coverage: | Varies. |
| Database Type: | Original source material, large body of material in English as well as French, Ukrainian, and numerous other languages. |