Forty percent larger than its predecessor, this third edition features more than 1700 new entries bringing the total to more than 6000. All entries are integrated into one continuously numbered sequence, and entry numbers are indexed to both previous editions and their supplements.

An introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies, this edition features almost 2000 new entries bringing the total to more than 7429. All entries are integrated into one continuously numbered sequence and entry numbers are cross-referenced and indexed to the previous edition. As well, the annotations, source bibliography, author and title indexes and biographical notes have been expanded and revised. As F. Hedley Auld said in his foreword to the original 1953 edition, Peel's "Bibliography" "pictures kaleidoscopically the occupation and development of a region of great agricultural importance which became in the course of a few decades the new home of a multitude, many of whom had previously been landless people". Ingles and Distad's edition should prove valuable to students and academics interested in the history of the prairie provinces, prairie writers or even the pattern of immigration within Canada itself.