Prairie Postcards PC005373 Palliser Hotel, Calgary, Alta., Canadian Pacific Railway. [Calgary: after 1910. Image courtesy of Peel's Prairie Provinces, a digital initiative of the University of Alberta Libraries.
Peel’s Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies.
This website contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies, as well as a searchable full-text collection of many of these items. As of Fall 2010, Peel contains approximately 7,500 digitized books and over 35,000 newspaper issues (2.5 million articles!). These materials are extremely varied – rich in both text and images, providing an extraordinarily diverse picture of the Prairie experience. Many of the 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.
Materials selected for Peel are highly diverse in regard to the cultural experiences that they reflect. Although English-language titles predominate the database, Peel also contains a very substantial body of materials in French, Ukrainian, and numerous other languages.
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