![]() ![]() ![]() A great deal of important material is also to be found in Canadian and other periodicals. The reader may also find it profitable in many cases to consult the publications of the American Historical Association, and the State Historical Societies of New York, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Much important material, bearing on, or supplementary to, the topics treated in the several volumes of the Makers of Canada will be found in the foregoing publications. Unfortunately, no general index is available for the publications of the Canadian Institute, which cover a very wide and important field nor for those of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, the Ontario Historical Society, the Nova Scotia Historical Society, and various other Canadian institutions of a similar character. Wurtële's Index to the Transactions and other Publications of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1829-1891, furnishes a guide to the material issued by this oldest of Canadian learned societies. A key to the Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada is found in two General Indexes, one covering the years 1863-1884, and the other the years 1885-1906. ![]() For volumes subsequent to 1906, the individual indexes should be consulted. The Society has published in a separate volume a very full General Index to its Proceedings and Transactions, 1882-1906, compiled by Dr. First among these sources probably should rank the publications of the Royal Society of Canada. It will be sufficient to make a general reference here to some of the more important sources of information on the many topics covered in this volume. Nor, except in special cases, has any attempt been made to include articles or papers in periodicals or in the publications of learned societies. A complete bibliography in each case would obviously be neither possible nor desirable. In the preparation of the bibliographical references, the object has been to include only those works that have a direct and vital bearing on the subject. For convenience of reference, it has been deemed preferable to group the manuscript sources under general headings, and print the list as a separate section in the volume. The Calendars published by the Archives in the Annual Reports should also be consulted by the student. The letter refers to the series, and the number to the volume. ![]() The sources indicated here are drawn principally from the series designated A, B, C, F, Q, M. It is not possible in the present work to do more than indicate the principal documents, as there are fifteen thousand volumes of manuscript in the Archives bearing on Canadian history. The collection of documents most convenient for this purpose is to be found in the Dominion Archives. To satisfy further the desire of those who, after reading the foregoing volumes, find it profitable to investigate more fully certain lines of inquiry suggested by the narratives, it has been thought advisable to add a list of manuscript sources from which new material may be gleaned. The whole has been thrown into one alphabetical arrangement, and it constitutes, to a large extent, a dictionary of Canadian history. References have been added, wherever necessary, to the principal sources which the student may consult for further information. This additional information includes biographical sketches of the characters mentioned in each volume similar sketches of prominent Canadians who for one reason or another do not appear in any of the twenty volumes and brief descriptions of wars, battles, treaties, and political and other events having a vital bearing on the history of Canada. This Supplement is designed to supply a double need: it furnishes an analytical index to the entire series of twenty volumes and it affords a great deal of additional information, bearing on the subject-matter of these volumes, but which from its very nature it was impossible to incorporate in the text. LIBRARIAN OF THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY, OTTAWA Illustrated Chart of Canadian History THE MAKERS OF CANADA INDEX AND DICTIONARY ![]()
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