The University of Alberta Library is excited to announce that the Peel’s Prairie Provinces Collection has a new website! 

Peel’s Prairie Provinces is a collection of digitized materials related to western Canada and now includes over 30,000 postcards, 8,000 books and printed ephemera, 900 maps, and 66,000 historic newspapers. Although many materials are in English, the collection also includes numerous materials in French, Ukrainian, and other languages. 

Originally hosted online through the University of Alberta Library, the Peel collection is in the process of being migrated to the Internet Archive platform. The new Peel website will provide context about the collection and tools to help find materials during the migration, while the full-text items will be hosted on the Internet Archive. Advantages of migrating items to the Internet Archive include the ability to easily zoom in and other viewing features, a flipbook for an easier reading experience and you can now download high-resolution files yourself. 

The Peel’s Prairie Provinces Collection is another noteworthy addition of digitized materials to the Internet Archive University of Alberta Library Internet Archive collection, following the additions of the William C. Wonders Map Collection, the Wiedrick Collection Alberta Schools Historical Textbooks and the University of Alberta historic theses and dissertations.

If you have any questions or comments about the new Peel’s Prairie Provinces website, please don’t hesitate to contact us at digitization@ualberta.ca.