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The Prairie History Room is a specialized collection of non-circulating community history and genealogical materials focusing on the history and peoples of the Northern Great Plains (Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) from pre-settlement times to present day. The room is located at the Central branch of the Regina Public Library.
The Prairie History Room includes:
- Census records
- Directories and phone books
- Vital records
- Immigration, passenger, and border entry records
- Local history resources
- Maps, atlases, and place names
- Indigenous and Métis genealogy
RPL web archive collection
The purpose of our Web Archive collection is to preserve and provide access to web materials that document under-represented and historically significant groups in the city of Regina and the province of Saskatchewan. The complete listings can be found on our Archive-it landing page.
Our collection includes:
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The Prairie History Room has a specialized collection of resources that do not circulate. Due to the fragile c...
No. Due to workload and time commitment, Prairie History Room staff members are unable to photocopy the materi...
The Prairie History Room has the complete run of the Leader-Post newspaper, as well as its predecessor, The Mo...
In the early 1990s, the Library made the difficult decision to donate their photographic collection to the Sas...
No. Most communities only published a small number of their local history books. To purchase your own copy, tr...
The Prairie History Room staff maintains a brief list of Certified Saskatchewan Record Searchers with consider...
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