Book Resources

There have been quite a few regional family history books published, quite a few of them in the year 1981. 1980 was Saskatchewan's 75th birthday or anniversary celebration since Saskatchewan entered confederation in 1905 as a province. Previously the area of Saskatchewan was a district of the North West Territories. They include a history of the town, and area, local clubs and events, as well as any family biographies individually submitted by the local families. Some local history committees compiled cemetery transciptions and war veteran listings in their books also. There were also a few communities creating books in the 1950's as well.

Saskatchewan communities published local history family biography books in 1950-1951 and more extensively in 1981. By checking out the regional sites of Sask Gen Web there will be look up resources available to help you discover where your family ancestors are recorded. Local history family biography books may also be obtained via inter library loan from the National Library of Canada

How do you determine the title of the book you need to locate your family's biography? Type in the Saskatchewan Town or Placename into an online Library database. Local history / family biography books were published locally by historical committees set up in the province's 50th anniversary 1950 followed by books being released in 1955, many more were published for the 75th anniversary 1980-1981, and some communities compiled data following the communities 100th anniversary celebrations 2005-2006.

To determine your family's particular neighboring placename try the various methods at Sask Gen Web for Kids Getting Started in Genealogy for Saskatchewan or Saskatchewan Gen Web Getting Started Page 2. These 'getting started' resources speak of historical map sites, how to find legal land locations for homesteads and the local placename near the homestead.

Also check if the local history committee published the local history / family biography book under the name of the rural municipality for yet another search option.

Many of the regional Saskatchewan gen webs have provided the rural municipalities for localities and unincorporated areas.

The RM can be also be found by searching Statistics Canada Standard Geographical Classificaiton SGC which will provide a listing of locatalities within a rural municipality. [Villages, towns, cities have their own civic administration, mayors, councilors and town halls, only rural unincorporated areas, farms and rural residents are within a rural municipality which is a civic administration consisting of reeves and councillors.]

Method 3. The RM can be found by locating the homestead or place name legal land description on a Rural Municipality (RM) map, by locating the local placename by the cemetery index ordered by RM, or by using the 1996, 2001, or 2006 census community profiles online. A note, if you find your ancestor on the 1921 census living rurally, the place of habitation stated is the "rural municipality" see 1921 Canada Census : Place of Habitation : Rural Municipalities

The Saskatchewan One Room Schoolhouse Project may provide the name of a community where an ancestor once resided, as early pioneers may have spoke of living in the district, using the schoolhouse district for their location. In this regards, the SK One Room Schoolhouse Project is compiling a bibliography listing in the Footnotes page containing the relevant local history books pertinent to pioneer education and the specific one room schoolhouse districts.

Saskatchewan Family History Books

• Carlyle, Saskatchewan : where they grow wheat 1910
• Profitable point for the settler in the last west Aberdeen, Sask. Board of Trade 1910: Our Roots Nos Racines
• Saskatchewan bibliography : first supplement Arora, Ved Parkash 1993: Our Roots Nos Racines
• Souvenir 210th Battalion, C.E. F. reunion, January 28 th, 1920, Moose Jaw, Sask 1920: Our Roots Nos Racines
• Where wheat makes money Aberdeen, Sask. Board of Trade 1911: Our Roots Nos Racines
• Valley between the bridges" : the history of the battle valley Lashburn, Beatrice Atkinson 1979: Our Roots Nos Racines

• Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is a library of 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired
  For example:
  • Canadian Dominion, The; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Skelton, Oscar Douglas, 1878-1941. - 2001. - Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Etext Card ID - 3510-
    
    
  • Chronicles Of Canada -- Volume 01: The Dawn Of Canadian History - Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. - 2003. - Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Etext Card ID - 4727
    
    
  • Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. - 2003. - Chronicles Of Canada -- Volume 02: Mariner Of St. Malo: a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier> - Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. - 2003. - Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Etext Card ID - 4821
    
    
  • Chronicles Of Canada -- Volume 03: The Founder Of New France: a chronicle of Champlain - Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944. - 2003. - Colby, Charles William, 1867-. - 2003. - Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Etext Card ID - 4749
    
    
  • Chronicles Of Canada -- Volume 04: The Jesuit Missions: a chronicle of the cross in the wilderness- Marquis, Thomas Guthrie, 1864-1936. - 2003. -Project Gutenberg Official Home Site Etext Card ID - 5027
    
    

• Online Books by Website A few of the books which are online by communities or historians
  
  • 1888 McPhillips' alphabetical and business directory of the District of Saskatchewan, North West Territories N.W.T.
    -->see maps for more information about the size and area of the District of Saskatchewan NWT
    
    
  • 1981 local history and family biography book [partial] listing at the Saskatchewan One Room School House Project...(several online because of digitisation by Our Roots Nos Racines)
    
    
  • Ancestry magazine May-Jun 2000 66 pages Vol. 18, No. 3 ISSN 1075-475X Published by Ancestry IncChapter O! Canada. Northern Roots Beginning Canadian Research by Kyle J. Betit
    
    
  • Appleton's annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year.
    -->see chapter on "Minnesota" (they were being optimistic in 1890 this is usually referred to as the North West Territories, Canada, and not Minnesota except for this book) page 628. 1890.
    
    
  • Town of Bruno history book Up to Now The Bruno History Book Committee. Originally published by The Bruno History Book Committee and Printed by Turner-Warwick Printers Inc., North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada 1984.
    
    
  • Canada in Flanders 1916. By Sir Max Aitken
    
    
  • Canada: a memorial volume. Immigration Office, Ontario. Dept. of Education. Edward Stanford, 1889
    -->Discusses population and characteristics of the provisional districts of Athabasca, Assiniboia and Saskathewan
    
    
  • Canadian almanac and repository of useful knowledge 1890
    -->Lists post offices of the NWT as of 1890 ~ the abbreviations pertinent to the area now known as Saskatchewan are the Electoral Districts of Saskatchewan, Assiniboia, Athabaska, and Saskatchewan see maps for more information about Saskatchewan's historical evolution.
    
    
  • Canadian books from the early 20th century / Livres canadiens datant du d?but du XXe si?cle ~ Books online from Library and Archives Canada
    • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Western Canada June 1913
    • Regina Saskatchewan, Canada, the queen city of the prairies. c1920s
    • Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western HemisphereAuthor Christina K. SchaeferEdition illustratedPublisher Genealogical Publishing Com, 1998ISBN 0806315768, 9780806315768
      
      
    • Law of the North: a story of love and battle in Rupert's Land by Samuel Alexander White
    • The conquest of the great Northwest. being the story of the adventurers of England known as the Hudson's Bay Company: new pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and western States
    
    
    
  • Canadian Life and Scenery, with hints to intending emigrants and settlers 1886
    
    
  • Canadian Pictures drawn with pen and pencil (p.175)
    
    
  • Estevan Access Project
    
    
  • Canadian Reference Sources: An Annotated Bibliography : General Reference Works, History, Humanities = Ouvrages De Reference Canadiens : Une Bibliographie Annotee : Ouvrages De Authors Mary E. Bond, Martine M. Caron. Edition 3. Publisher UBC Press, 1996. ISBN 077480565X, 9780774805650.
    
    
  • Exploration ~ British North America: The Journals, detailed reports ~ John Palliser
    
    
  • From Roots to Twigs - Book 1: A Story of the Descendants of William and Sarah Heeney in Canada.Volume 1 of From Roots to TwigsAuthor Heeney, Harold BlairPublisher Jeff Heeney, 2005 [ancestry Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]
    
    
  • Guide Book containing information for intending settlers with illustrations ~ Canada Dept of Agriculture
    
    
  • Hero of the Saskatchewan Life among the Ojibway and Cree Indians in Canada ~ Maclean, John 18511-1928
    
    
  • History of Nokomis - The Junction Town 1905 - 1955
    
    
  • A History of Buffalo Narrows,Saskatchewan --history of the Town of Buffalo Narrows, from earliest settlement until the early 1980's.
    
    
  • How to Find Digitized Publications ? Part II | Library and Archives Canada Blog
    
    
  • Hunting and Trapping in Northern Saskatchewan
    
    
  • Investigation of the unsettled boundaris of Ontario. 1873
    
    
  • Look At The Past A History of Dore Lake
    
    
  • Manager's Tale Hudson's Bay Company from 1948 to 1957. Saskatchewan District
    
    
  • Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. 1879
    
    
  • Memoirs of Clarence W. Truman
    Biography of Clarence W. Truman, a settler of Midale, Saskatchewan, Canada who was born in Minnesota and his family was originally from Sweden.
    
    
  • Minnesota, its place among the states: being the first annual report of the commissioner of statistics, for the year ending January 1st, 1860 Authors Minnesota, Minnesota. Bureau of Statistics. Publisher Press of Case, Lockwood and Co., 1860. Original from Harvard University. Digitized 17 Apr 2008 Note even though this book says Minnesota, it was written before the U.S. Canadian boundary line was surveyed
    
    
  • Moffatt's Geographical Readers. Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australasia. (Section 49 p.167 ~Assibiniboia and Alberta. Section 50 p.169 ~Saskatchewan and Athabasca)
    
    
  • "Neither Waif Nor Stray: The Search For A Stolen Identity?
    --PDF download for $6.00 or purchase from publisher.
    
    
  • North~west territory Henry Youle Hind. Canada.
    
    
  • Our strength and their strength: the North West Territory and other papers
    
    
  • Picture Gallery of Canadian History
    1945 by Jeffereys
    
    
  • Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan 1924, Biographies by Canadian Publicity Co.
    NOTE: additional biographies added to Pioneers and Prominent People of Saskatchewan upon submission!
  • Popular history of the dominion of canada from the discovery of America to the present time (1888)
    
    
  • Red River country; Hudson's Bay & North~west Territories considered
    
  • Religious History Of St. John Baptiste Parish Ile-A-La-Crosse
    150 Years The Church The People Of God
    
    
  • Sakitawak Bi-Centennial Ile-A-La-Crosse 1776 - 1976
    
    
  • Saskatchewan And Its People
    by John Hawkes. 1924
    ?Photos Volume II
    ?Biographies Volume III
    
    
  • Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains ~ James Carnegie Southesk (Earl of)
    
    
  • Saskatchewan Biographies at FamilySearch.org >>This page adopted by: The Saskatchewan GenWeb and its members who welcome you to contribute.
    
    
  • Title The Shurtleff and Lawton Families: Genealogy and HistoryAuthor William ShurtleffEditor Lawton L. ShurtleffEdition illustratedPublisher Pine Hill Press, 2005 - Beatrice Joyce Birbeck from Moose Jaw and her ancestors.
    
    
  • Sketch of an overland route to British Columbia ~ Henry Youle Hind, Sir Sandford Fleming
    
    
  • Souvenir of the Silver Jubilee St. Peter's Colony 1903-1928
    
    
  • Summer on the Canadian Prairie
    By G. Binnie-Clark 1910
    
    
  • Timber Trails History of Big River and District
    Compiled by the Big River Historical Society
    
    
  • Wheat and Woman
    By Georgina Binnie-Clark 1914
    
    
  • Wild North Land: being the story of a winter journey with dogs across northern North America ~ Sir Francis F.. Butler
    
    

• Publications
• Newspapers
• City Directories
• Local Histories
• Family Histories

• Himka, John-Paul. -- Sources for researching Ukrainian family history. -- John-Paul Himka and Frances A. Swyripa. -- Edmonton : Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, 1984
• Index to the census of Canada 1891. -- Eileen P. Condon, editor. -- Regina : Regina Branch, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, 1988- . -- vol. : maps. -- 0969333803 (Assiniboia West) 0969333846 (Assiniboia East) 1895859026 (Saskatchewan)
• The western Canadians, 1600-1900. -- Noel Montgomery Elliot. -- Toronto : Genealogical Research Library, c1994. -- 3 vol. -- 0919941311 (set)
• Index to the census of Canada 1891. -- Eileen P. Condon, editor. -- Regina : Regina Branch, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, 1988- . -- vol. : maps. -- 0969333803 (Assiniboia West) 0969333846 (Assiniboia East) 1895859026 (Saskatchewan)
• Hande, D'Arcy. -- Changes of name : The Saskatchewan gazette, 1917 to 1950. -- Compiled by D'Arcy Hande, Debbie Moyer, Rae Chamberlain. -- Regina : Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, c1993. -- [3], iii, [1], 89 p. -- 1895859042
• Hande, D'Arcy. -- Exploring family history in Saskatchewan. -- Prepared by D'Arcy Hande ; assisted by Robert L. Pittendrigh. -- Regina : Saskatchewan Archives Board, 1983. -- vi, 24 p. : ill. --(Saskatchewan Archives reference series ; 2). -- 0969144504
• Index to the census of Canada 1891. -- Eileen P. Condon, editor. -- Regina : Regina Branch, Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, 1988- . -- vol. : maps. -- 0969333803 (Assiniboia West) 0969333846 (Assiniboia East) 1895859026 (Saskatchewan)
• Main, Lorne W. [Lorne William]. -- Index to 1881 Canadian census of North West Territories & Algoma, Ontario. -- [Vancouver] : Lorne William Main, c1984. -- v, 105, [3] p. : maps. -- 0969109334
• Saskatchewan Genealogical Society. -- Members' interests. -- (1989)- . -- [Regina] : the Society, c1989- . -- vol. -- 1197-0146
• Saskatchewan Genealogical Society. -- A subject index to the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Bulletin, volume 1, 1970 to volume 22, 1991. -- Compiled by Rae W. Chamberlain. -- Regina : Saskatchewan Genealogical Society, c1992. -- [4], 39 p. -- 0969333897
• Szalasznyj, Kathlyn. -- How to research your Ukrainian ancestry in Saskatchewan : rodovid. -- Saskatoon : Ukrainian Canadian Committee, Saskatchewan Provincial Council, 1986. -- [2], iii, 33 p., [2] leaves : ill., charts, maps. -- 0969282702 -- Cover title.

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