The University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources website holds is an amazing collection of local and family histories from across Canada which contains over 5870 digitized and searchable books!
Overview
- Author: National network of libraries, universities, colleges, archives, historical associations, businesses and individuals have generously donated time and copyright permission to have their materials digitized
- Title: University of Calgary, Digital Collections
- URL: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/
- 5870 Assets of which 5720 are text-searchable in the Local Histories collection
How to access
The number and types of resources which the University of Calgary makes available on this site is immense. The resources which we have found most valuable are in the collection Local Histories which is then broken down by region or Province. As of June 2024 the site shows a total of 5880 searchable books in this collection – there are 523 from the province of Saskatchewan.
Click here to the search through the Local Histories collection
Site history
The University previously had a website for digitized local history collections called ourroots.ca but they pulled that in to be part of their greater library research site in 2018.
eCollections
Find more eCollections we have used during our research in the article Family History eCollections.
Document Your Sources
You are probably a Genealogist if you have found this website so we shouldn’t have to remind you about documenting your sources. …but document your sources. You can read about our experience in the article entitled Sources.
