Other Historical Resources
Presented by the Heritage Committee of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)
Miscellaneous on-line resources related to Canadian astronomy and astronomers. The University of Alberta's Peel Library has digitized some of its holdings which may be found at http://www.library.ualberta.ca/specialcollections/
Dominion Observatory: 100th Anniversary
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/dominion_observatory.cfm
Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
by Wolfgang R. Dickhttp://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
University of Alberta's Peel Library
Enter "astronomy" in the search field and you will find works such as:
Alexander MacKenzie's "Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans, in the years 1789 and 1793: ..."
Authors: Mackenzie, Alexander (Sir); Combe, William; Mackenzie, Roderick
Published: London: T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1801 (Peel: 55)Louis François Masson, "Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du nord?ouest: récits de voyages, lettres et rapports inédits relatifs au nord?ouest canadien: publiés: avec une esqu ... "
Authors: Masson, Louis François Rodrique; Macdonell, John; Larocque, François Antoine
Published: Quebec, Que.: Imprimerie générale A. Coté et cie, 1889?1890 (Peel: 159)Albany Featherstonhaugh and Sir William Abney's "Narrative of the operations of the British North American Boundary Commission, 1872?76"
Authors: Featherstonhaugh, Albany; Abney, William de Wiveleslie (Sir); North American Boundary Commission (1872?1876)
Published: Woolwich, England: A.W. & J.P. Jackson, 1876 (Peel: 777)and its American counterpart ....
Archibald Campbell and William Twining's "Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to ... "
Authors: United States. Department of State; North American Boundary Commission (1872?1876); Campbell, Archibald; Twining, William Johnson
Published: Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1878 (Peel: 859)George Dawson's "Report on the geology and resources of the region in the vicinity of the forty?ninth parallel: From the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains: With ..."
Authors: Dawson, George Mercer; North American Boundary Commission (1872?1876),
Published: Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1875 (Peel: 731)George Bryce's "The Mound Builders"
Authors: Bryce, George,
Published: Winnipeg: Manitoba Free Press Printers, 1885 (Peel 1357 see also / voir aussi Peel: 1581)