Alberta Archives and Libraries

Canada Alberta  Archives and Libraries

The National Institute for Genealogical Studies has contributed extensive content from its Alberta Course on Alberta Archives and Libraries as follows:


 * Alberta Libraries (National Institute)
 * Glenbow Archives and Library (National Institute)
 * Alberta Provincial Archives (National Institute)
 * Alberta Other Archives (National Institute)

The following archives and libraries are some of the many depositories which have collections of genealogical value to Alberta] family historians.


 * Library and Archives Canada

395 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0N3 CANADA Telephone: 613-996-7458 Website


 * Provincial Archives of Alberta

12845-102 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5N 0M6 CANADA Telephone: 403-427-1750 Fax: 403-427-4646 Website


 * City of Edmonton Archives

10440-102 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5H 3Z9 CANADA Telephone: 403-496-8710 Fax: 403-496-8732 Website


 * United Church Archives

St. Stephen's College University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8 CANADA Telephone: 403-439-7311 Fax: 403-433-8875 Website


 * Glenbow-Alberta Institute

130 9th Avenue S.E. Calgary, AB T2G 0P3 Telephone: 403-263-9552 Website
 * The Glenbow Museum has scanned images of diaries, letters, minute books, scrapbooks, and other unpublished archival records for over 3,000 individuals, families, clubs, businesses, schools, and organizations in Calgary, southern Alberta and Western Canada. For example, there are Will Parker's letters to his father in England, in which he tells of getting typhoid fever and joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police


 * Family History Library

35 West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400 Telephone: 801-240-2331 Fax: 801-240-5551 Website


 * Alberta Family Histories Society

712 - 16 Avenue NW Calgary, AB Telephone: 403-214-1447 Website


 * Esplanade Art and Heritage Centre

Website Search their archival collections in Fond Summaries, Textual Files, Audio-Video, Images, and Maps.


 * Galt Museum in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Website Areas available to Search are Audio Recordings; Films, Negatives, Photographs, Slides and Videos; Government and Government Agency Records; and Maps and Technical Drawings.