Common bunt causes yield loss and reduces grain quality in both common and durum wheats in western Canada. Since the most cost-effective method of control is the use of host resistance, this study was conducted to provide information on the genetic control of bunt resistance in three potentially new sources: common wheat cultivar Triple Dirk and spelt wheat cultivars RL5407 and SK0263. The segregating populations from the three crosses Laura/Triple Dirk, Laura/RL5407 and Genesis/SK0263 were evaluated for common bunt resistance in the field for races T1, T13 and L7 and in the greenhouse for race T1. Genetic analysis indicated that Triple Dirk may carry a major gene controlling resistance to each of the bunt races T1, T13 and L7. The spelt wheat RL5407 may carry a major gene for resistance to both races T13 and L7 or genes conditioning resistance to T13 and L7 that are closely linked, and an additional major gene for resistance to race T1. The two major genes carried by RL5407 are believed to be different. SK0263 possibly carried two major genes for resistance to race T1. The disease data in F1 and F2 generations did not show any dominance for bunt resistance to race T1 in any of the three crosses. From crosses involving Triple Dirk, RL5407 and SK0263, selection of breeding lines highly resistant to common bunt can be effective in the progenies due to the nature of non dominance and one- or two-gene controlled resistance. Key words: Wheat, common bunt, Triticum sp., Tilletia sp.