North West Territories History & Genealogy {15
Volumes} on DVD
The North West Territories Provincial History Collection is an electronic library
of historical books, in searchable PDF format, relating to the
people of
the
province of the North West territories during the 18th to 20th centuries. Many of these
volumes offer wonderful digital reproductions of historical
illustrations and portraits.
List of Books Included:
:: The Canadian west, a geography of Manitoba and the North-west territories
(1904) - Alexander McIntyre - 296 pages.
:: An exploration of the Tazin and Taltson rivers, North West Territories
(1916) - Charles Camsell - 152 pages.
:: Canadian life as I found it, four years' homesteading in the North-West territories (1908) - By Homesteader - 156 pages.
:: The treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-west territories, including the negotiations on which they
were based, and other information relating thereto
(1880) - Hon. Alexander Morris - 386 pages.
:: The ordinances of the North-West Territories : being an office consolidation of such ordinances of the North-West Territories in
force on August 21st, 1905, as the same appear in the consolidation of 1898 and the amendments thereto, together with the public general
ordinances enacted by the Legislature of the North-West Territories after the year 1898, as have not been replaced by statutes of the
Legislature of the province of Alberta : together with the amendments made thereto by the said Legislature up to and including the second
session of the second Legislature, 1910
(1911) - 714 pages.
:: The prairie provinces, a short history of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, being a revision of "A history of Manitoba and
the North-West Territories". For use in public schools
(1908) - D. M. Duncan - 160 pages.
:: A summer in Prairie-land, notes of a tour through the North-West Territory
(1882) - Rev. A. Sutherland - 224 pages.
:: Pathfinding on plain and prairie: stirring scenes of life in the Canadian North-West
(1898) - M. Dougall - 314 pages.
:: Lovell's gazetteer of British North America: containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities,
towns and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, British
Columbia, and the North West Territories; and general information, drawn from official sources, as to the names, locality, extent, etc., of
over fifteen hundred lakes and rivers, with a table of routes
(1874) - 642 pages.
:: Diary of Nicholas Garry, Deputy-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1822-1835 a detailed narrative of his travels in the
Northwest Territories of British North America in 1821
(1900) Nicholas Garry - 141 pages.
:: The riders of the plains, a record of the Royal North-West Mounted Police of Canada, 1873-1910
(1910) - A. L. Haydon - 470 pages.
:: The history of the Dominion of Canada
(1897)
:: Distribution list for Manitoba and the North-West Territories
(January 1, 1904) - 125 pages.
:: Our North Land - being a full account of the Canadian North-West and Hudson's Bay route, together with a narrative of the
experiences of the Hudson's Bay expedition of 1884, including a description of the climate, resources, and the characteristics of the native
inhabitants between the 50th parallel and the Arctic circle
(1885) - Charles Tuttle - 596 pages.
:: The Canadian West, its discovery by the Sieur de La Vérendrye, its development by the fur-trading companies, down to the year
1822
(1905) - Abbe G Dugas - 332 pages.
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