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OVERVIEW
This Bibliography documents the cultural
history of the settlers of German origin in Alberta from its beginnings
in the 1880s to the present by assembling in one place references
to the thousands of primary and secondary materials available in libraries
and archives across Alberta and elsewhere. The objective of this project
is to facilitate research in German-Albertan history by scholars, teachers,
students, and anyone else interested in the subject.
The site consists of four parts:
- The searchable annotated bibliography (i.e., in addition to the bibliographic data, an annotated bibliography provides a concise summary of each source), containing 10,370 entries. (Click here for hints and instructions for searching the data base).
- 29 lists of keywords (=search terms) used to index the bibliography, which are indispensable for efficient, focussed searches, including an alphabetical listing of all keywords and a hierarchically organized list of the literally thousands of keywords.
- A profile of the German-speaking communities in Alberta. This is a detailed narrative account of the
socio-cultural history of the many German-speaking groups in Alberta from the 1880s to the present, accompanied by photos and
excerpts from original documents. The site consists of sections on
- the immigration history of Alberta's German-speaking communities;
- their geographical origin in Central and Eastern Europe, and Canadian immigration regulations; and
- 13 German-speaking communities in the province.
There is also a detailed discussion of
the possible reasons for the decline of German as a mother tongue and home language in the province.
- Several maps of Alberta where immigrants of German origin settled. There are also maps of Central and East European regions from where many of the settlers came.
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