Links to Historical and Other Related Alberta Sites

December Link Highlight

• Friends of the Bar U Historic Ranch Association
• Friends of the Bar U Facebook

Genealogy - Southern Alberta

• Alberta Family Histories Society (Calgary area)
• Alberta Genealogy and Family History
• Alberta Homestead Records 1870 - 1940
• AGS Alberta Homestead Index
• American Historical Society of Germans from Russia - Calgary Chapter
• Alberta History and Genealogical Organizations
• Database of Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930

Historical Buildings

• Dickson Store Museum
• Lougheed House
• McDougall Stoney Mission Church
• Historic St. Paul's Anglican Church
• Stephansson House Provincial Historic Site

Historical Societies

• Calgary Heritage Initiative Society
• Central Alberta Historical Society (Ponoka to Olds)
• Chinook Country Historical Society (Olds to Nanton)
• Historical Society of Alberta
• Lethbridge Historical Society (Nanton south to US border)
• Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta
• Millarville Historical Society Facebook
• Northern Alberta Pioneers & Descendants Association
• Petroleum History Society

Museums and Archives

• Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre
• Glenbow Museum
• The Military Museums
• Royal Alberta Museum

Pioneer Villages and Sites

• Heritage Park
• Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village
• Historic Markerville

Ranching History

• Calgary Stampede
• Calgary Stampede Foundation
• Henderson's Northwest Rancher's Directory and Brand Book 1888
• Henderson's Northwest Brand Book 1889
• North West Brand Book 1900
• Stockmen's Memorial Foundation Library

Research Resources

• Alberta Cultural Heritage
• The Calgary Herald Archive Online (1883-2010)
• Canada's Local Histories online (formerly part of Our Roots/Our Future: Our Past)
• Census Indexing and Linking projects - Automated Genealogy
• Censuses at the Library and Archives Canada
• The Deep South: The ongoing story of Midnapore, Fish Creek, and Calgary's most remote suburbs
• Early Alberta Newspapers (formerly part of Our Future: Our Past)
• The Glenbow Western Research Centre
• Google Newspaper Archive
• History of the Settlement of Southern Alberta
• Individual Histories of Pioneers Who Helped Settle Southern Alberta
• Peel's Prairie Provinces: Sources for Western Canada and Western Canadian History
• Prairie Towns: Historical images of Western Canadian towns - Alberta