ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Edmonton Journal is a historical archive of the Edmonton Journal newspaper. Coverage spans from 1903 to 2010, allowing you to search cover-to-cover for local views, events and people. It includes access to feature articles, newspaper editorials, advertisements, cartoons, obituaries and classified ads, all through a cross-searchable platform. Full-page and article images can be easily downloaded.
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Voices of the Land
This resource is the Voices of the Land platform, an Indigenous digital public space hosted by Edmonton Public Library and created to support cultural storytelling and language revitalization across Alberta. This site provides a central platform for communities to create, share and discover unique and localized Indigenous perspectives. Voices of the Land recognizes that Indigenous stories are dynamic and may take different forms. Therefore, stories can be video, audio, text, or images.
Take the Introduction to Voices of the Land online training to learn more about this resource.
Please contact voicesofamiskwaciy@epl.ca or your local community librarian for more information on how to respectfully participate with Voices Of The Land.
Genealogy & History
AncestryLibrary
Provides access to hundreds of millions of fully searchable individual records contained in thousands of databases. The collection of databases includes Canadian, English, & U.S. Census Records, Ireland Vital Records, German Immigration Records, select passenger lists and numerous databases dedicated to specific ethnic origins and regions. Includes census, birth, marriage, death, immigration, military records and more.
Watch the AncestryLibrary tutorial to learn more about this resource.
Please note: Ancestry Library is only offered in-branch. Please visit HeritageQuest Online, powered by Ancestry, for more great genealogical content available from the comfort of home!
Available for in-library use only
British Literary Manuscripts Online
British Literary Manuscripts Online is comprised of two collections (c.1660-1900 and Medieval and Renaissance) and presents facsimile images of a range of literary manuscripts — including letters, poems, stories, plays, essays, journals, literary manuscripts, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials — from roughly 1120 to 1900. It encompasses extensive materials related to major British literary figures from the Bronte sisters to Sir Walter Scott to Oscar Wilde.
Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive provides close to ninety years of analysis and commentary on international policy such as briefing papers, special reports, pamphlets, conference papers, monographs, and full text of two of Chatham House’s flagship periodicals: International Affairs and The World Today.
The archive offers access to thousands of hours of audio recordings of Chatham House lectures and their fully searchable transcripts, offering insight into the experiences and opinions of key figures in international affairs, including Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Willy Brandt, King Hussein of Jordan, François Mitterrand, Henry Kissinger, Prof. A.J. Toynbee, Chaim Weizmann, Dr. Andreas Papandreou, Caspar Weinberger, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, HE Yousuf Al-Alawi Abdullah, Dr. Zhores Medvedev, and Hans Blix.
Early Arabic Printed Books
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues and Periodicals is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books of folktales, pre-Islamic literature, Islamic poetry and prose, proverbs and sayings, language and lexicography, dictionaries, grammar, syntax, rhetoric, manuscript publication records, and periodicals.
Edmonton Obituaries
Search our index to locate the date on which an obituary was published in the Edmonton Journal. Index coverage is from January 1950 to December 1982.
EPL Canada 150: Edmonton Stories Movies & TV
At Edmonton Public Library, we share stories and we hope to inspire all Edmontonians to share their stories with us. Here you will find stories from Edmontonians of the people, places and events that have shaped our country for the past 150 years and look ahead to the next 150 years. You will also find resources on how to share your story through EPL’s Digital Storytelling project.
Frontier Life
Frontier Life includes primary source material from 1650 to 1920 on movement by Europeans to Africa, Australasia and North America and the resulting consequences for frontier regions. Canadian history covering the Hudson’s Bay Company, Archives of Manitoba and the Glenbow Museum are included in the archives. This resource will appeal to history buffs, genealogical researchers, teachers and students.
Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources allows you to discover primary sources from 35 key historical resources. It includes access to many research collections like the Archives of Human Sexuality & Genre, 19th Century U.K Periodicals, Daily Mail Historical Archive, Punch Historical Archive, the Smithsonian Collections Online, and the Times digital archive.
Watch the Gale Primary Sources tutorial to learn more about this resource.
Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean
Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean is an archive of digitally reproduced primary documents, reference material, and scholarship. It provides access to monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, statistical information, government reports, video and audio files.
Globe & Mail: Canada’s Historical Newspaper 1844 to 2017 Newspapers & Magazines
Search and then read from the scanned pages of every issue of the Globe & Mail from May 1844 to December 2017.
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest Online is rich in family histories, interactive census maps, unique primary sources and more. It contains more than 4.4 billion records, delivering an essential collection of genealogical and historical records from the United States and North America dating back to the 1700s. It contains more than 700 million records from the U.S. Federal Census, 1.5 million records from various U.S. city directories, 170 million pages from the largest collection of wills and probate records in the U.S. and more. Access this resource from home and enjoy the easy-to-use interface that is perfect for genealogists of all skill levels.
Watch the HeritageQuest Online tutorial to learn more about this resource.
Indigenous Peoples of North America
An historical collection of newspapers, manuscripts, drawings and sketches, photographs, maps, periodicals, monographs, reports, legal materials, organizational records, and population census records. It is sourced from both American and Canadian Institutions, as well as direct-from-source from newspapers from various nations and related organizations. The collection also features Indigenous language materials, including dictionaries, Bibles, and primers.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Vol. 1 Music
This resource is a multi-volume series of in-copyright classical music scores. It contains more than 53,000 titles and 1.3 million printable pages of the most important scores in classical music, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The resource covers more than 4,600 composers, from Mozart and Tchaikovsky to contemporary artists including Kaija Saariaho, Peter Maxwell-Davies and John Tavener.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald 1883 – 2010
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald is a historical archive of the Calgary Herald newspaper. Coverage spans from 1883 to 2010, allowing you to search cover-to-cover for local views, events and people. It includes access to feature articles, newspaper editorials, advertisements, cartoons, obituaries and classified ads, all through a cross-searchable platform. Full-page and article images can be easily downloaded.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Edmonton Journal 1903 – 2010 Newspapers & Magazines
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Edmonton Journal is a historical archive of the Edmonton Journal newspaper. Coverage spans from 1903 to 2010, allowing you to search cover-to-cover for local views, events and people. It includes access to feature articles, newspaper editorials, advertisements, cartoons, obituaries and classified ads, all through a cross-searchable platform. Full-page and article images can be easily downloaded.
ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Edmonton Journal Newspapers & Magazines
Browse, search and read from the scanned pages of the Edmonton Journal, from 2011 until present. This resource does include a 3-month embargo, meaning full issues cannot be accessed for the 3 months prior to today’s date.
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is a digital archive in four series devoted to the study and understanding of the history of slavery in America from the 17th century to the late 19th century. The collection assembles a wide variety of materials, with over 5 million cross-searchable pages sourced from books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, legal documents, court records, monographs, manuscripts and maps. This resource represents the world’s largest digital archive on the history of slavery.
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK - before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the Hanover rulers George I (1714-1727), George II (1727-1760) and part of the reign of George III (up to 1782), the manuscripts that reveal the behind the scenes, day-to-day running of government during the eighteenth century.
Voices of the Land
This resource is the Voices of the Land platform, an Indigenous digital public space hosted by Edmonton Public Library and created to support cultural storytelling and language revitalization across Alberta. This site provides a central platform for communities to create, share and discover unique and localized Indigenous perspectives. Voices of the Land recognizes that Indigenous stories are dynamic and may take different forms. Therefore, stories can be video, audio, text, or images.
Take the Introduction to Voices of the Land online training to learn more about this resource.
Please contact voicesofamiskwaciy@epl.ca or your local community librarian for more information on how to respectfully participate with Voices Of The Land.