Sources for entries in the bibliography

The data base consists of references to primary materials (such as articles in German-language and English-language newspapers, letters, photos, sound recordings, art work, travelogues, literature, official documents, reports, cooking recipes, oral histories, church and club records, manuscripts and maps) and of secondary materials (articles in scholarly journals, books and chapters in books on the "Germans" in Alberta, and theses and dissertations).

Sources consulted

Please note: Only publicly accessible materials have been catalogued.

1. Newspapers
    1.1 German-language newspapers
        1.1.1 Alberta

Alberta Deutsche Zeitung 1911-1912
Alberta Herold 1905-1915
Albertaner December 1995-
Der Herold 1928-1931
Der Deutsch-Canadier 1908-1914
Deutsch-Canadischer Farmer 1909
Farmerfreund

Der Courier/Der Courier und Herold/Alberta Courier/Kanada Kurier 1907-1996
Deutsch-Kanadische Volkszeitung 1937
Deutsche Arbeiter-Zeitung 1930-1937
Deutsche Zeitung für Canada 1935-1939
Der Nordwesten 1897-1909, 1956-June 1968
Der Courier-NordwestenJune 11, 1968-July 1980

  1880-1900 in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge
  Peace River areas in the 1920s
  Coaldale and area in the 1920s
  August 1914-June 1915
  February 1916
  September 1917
  January 1918-June 1919
  March-June 1933
  September 1939-July 1940
  May 1945-June 1945
  January 1965-April 1973
  September 1973-October 1976
  May 1977-April 1978
  2000-present (in the Calgary Herald and the Edmonton Journal)
  Selected dates of events, such as the German Days, formal balls, etc.

Calgary/Morning) Albertan, Calgary (Daily) Herald, Edmonton (Daily) Bulletin, Edmonton, Journal, Lethbridge (Daily/Weekly) Herald, Lethbridge News, Medicine Hat (Daily/Weekly) News, Medicine Hat Times.

1.2.2 When available for the above focus points:

Barrhead Leader, Brooks Bulletin, Calgary Eye Opener, Camrose Canadian, High River Times, MacLeod Gazette, Northern Tribune, Peace River Gazette, Red Deer News, Red Deer Advocate, Strathcona Plain Dealer, Strathmore and Bow Valley Standard, Strathmore Standard, Sylvan Lake News.

1.2.3 Other newspapers and magazines:

Alberta Report, Athabasca Echo, Calgary Sun, Canadian Collector, Daily Herald, (Daily) Herald Tribune, Eagleview Post, Edmonton Examiner, Edmonton Sun, Farmer and Ranch Review, Farmer's Telegraph, Fort Record, Free Press, Gauntlet, Globe and Mail, Herald Tribune, Maclean's Magazine, Newsweek, Pincher Creek Echo, Calgary Regional, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Saturday News, South Edmonton Sun, St. John's Calgary Report, St. John's Edmonton Report, Time, Weekly Herald, Western people, Western producer.

2. Locations of periodicals, books and archival fonds

    University of Alberta (HSSL, Science and Technology, Education, St. Jean, BARD)
    University of Calgary
    Medicine Hat College
    Inter-library loan of books and articles from the Library and Archives of Canada and from
            universities across Canada and the U.S.
    Alberta Legislature Library
    Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton
    Glenbow Library and Archives
    Regional Alberta archives (e.g., Edmonton City Archives, Whyte Archives of the Rockies)
    Private collections (e.g., American Historical Society of Germans from Russia)

3. Types of entries

    The 10,250 item bibliography (as of May 2014) consists of the following categories of entries: