Welcome to the Arctic Blue Books online -- a searchable, World-Wide Web version of Andrew Taylor's unique index to the 19th Century British Parliamentary Papers concerned with the Canadian Arctic. Thanks to a project funded by the Winnipeg Foundation and completed in March 2003 by Julianna Trivers, the Arctic Blue Books have been digitized, so that the index now includes links to each page on which an index term appears.

• Search the index by keyword.
  
  
• Look at the index record by record.
  
  
• New! Look at the Blue Books page by page.
  
  
• Introduction and Acknowledgements.
  
  
• About the index numbering system.
  
  
• "Blue Books and Rat Tails" -- the history of the Arctic Blue Books Index.
  
  
• Andrew Taylor's Preliminary Guide to the Arctic Blue Books and Parliamentary Papers of the Nineteenth Century.
  
  
• Abstracts of the British Parliamentary Papers on Exploration in the Canadian North.

William "Skip" Koolage, Ph.D.
Arctic/Subarctic Research
134 University College
arcticbb@cc.umanitoba.ca

The Index to the Arctic Blue Books by Andrew Taylor (1907-1993), O.C., B.Sc. (CE), M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc was annotated, revised and digitized by the Arctic Blue Books Project, Arctic/Subarctic Research. This group also included Ruth May, MLS; Deborah Woodman, M.A.; Harpa Isfeld, M.A.; William O. Pruitt, Jr., Ph.D; and Michael Angel, Ph.D.

Arctic/Subarctic Research has placed this Index and copies of the Blue Books in Archives and Government Documents, Elizabeth Dafoe Library; The Hudson's Bay Company Archives; and the Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library. The Arctic Blue Books are also available on-line, as of April 2003.

Copyright 1998
Arctic/Subarctic Research
134 University College
University of Manitoba