Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953

by Peel, Bruce Braden; Ingles, Ernest Boyce; Distad, N. Merrill

• ISBN13: 9780802048257
• ISBN10: 0802048250
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The previous edition of Bruce Peel's Bibliographywas hailed by authorities as the single, finest introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies ever compiled, and one of the pioneering monuments of Canadian bibliographic scholarship. It now appears in a greatly expanded and revised edition. For years prior to his death in 1998, Peel laboured, with the assistance of volunteers, to collect additional material. Although he had planned to issue only a separate supplement to the second edition, additional entries multiplied until clearly an entirely new edition was warranted. Sixty-five percent larger than its predecessor, this edition features almost 2000 new entries bringing the total to more than 7429. All entries are integrated into one continuously numbered sequence, and entry numbers are cross-referenced and indexed to the previous editions. As well, the annotations, source bibliography, author and title indexes, and biographical notes have been expanded and revised. As F. Hedley Auld said in his foreword to the original 1953 edition, Peel's Bibliography'pictures kaleidoscopically the occupation and development of a region of great agricultural importance which became in the course of a few decades the new home of a multitude, many of whom had previously been landless people.' Ingles and Distad's third edition proves even more invaluable to students and academics interested in the history of the prairie provinces, prairie writers, or even the pattern of immigration within Canada itself.

Author Biography

Ernest B. Ingles is the Associate Vice-President (Learning Systems) and Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta and editor of the Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies. N. Merrill Distad is the Associate Director of Libraries (Bibliographic Services) at the University of Alberta.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Douglas Owram
Introduction & Acknowledgements	xi
Foreword to the 1973 Second Edition	xvi
Preface to the 1973 Second Edition	xvi
Preface to the 1963 Supplement to the First Edition	xviii
Foreword to the 1956 First Edition	xix
Preface to the 1956 First Edition	xx
Biography of Bruce Peel	xxv
Sample Entry Explained	2	(1)
Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies	3	(558)
Subject Index	561	(32)
Title Index	593	(120)
Author Index with Biographical Notes	713	(160)
Sources Cited in Biographical Notes	873	(6)
Language Index	879	(4)
Pseudonym Index	883	(2)
Second to Third Edition Cross Reference	885