Resource Centre


The Resource Centre is an excellent resource for our visitors. It houses more than 25,000 pieces of trade literature and 3000 books dating from the mid-1800s to the present. Along with our vintage material, visitors can take a look at over 50 current subscriptions. You can sponsor a subscription. Collectively, the Resource Centre offers visitors the largest publicly accessible collection of motor vehicle, aviation, agricultural and industrial trade publication literature in Canada. Our compilation continues to expand through the generous contributions of hundreds of donors.
Our collection features information on automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, tractors, plows, threshing machines, steam traction engines, fire-fighting equipment, road construction machinery and much more. Among these are:
 
  • books
  • magazines and    newsletters
  • journals
  • newspapers
  • service manuals 
  • parts manuals 
  • owner's manuals
  • price lists
  • advertisement and     subject files
  • research reports
  • audio-visual materials   

 

Interested in making a donation?                      
  Want to request some information?  refctr.ram@gov.ab.ca  The Resource Centre staff are experienced and knowledgeable. Every year they answer thousands of questions and supply information to people all over the world. They provide duplication services for a minor fee and orientation tours to individuals and special interest groups. They are also available for quick references and retrieval. Though this is a non-lending facility, our curator will consider inter-library loans on a case by case basis.  

Our Resource Centre and its staff have received international recognition. Most notably, the Society of Automotive Historians presented the James J. Bradley Distinguished Service Award to us in order to recognize excellence in preserving historic materials relating to motor vehicles.

Darren Wiberg, Head, Restoration Services of the Reynolds-Alberta Museum, accepts the prestigious James J. Bradley Distinguished Service Award from Sinclair Powell (left), President of the Society of Automotive Historians and Richard P. Scharchburg (right), Vice President Elect of the Society of Automotive Historians at the Society's 30th Annual Awards Banquet in Hershey, Pennsylvania on October 8, 1999.