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of major works on the History of Canada

History of Canada

The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Canada has been inhabited for millennia by distinctive groups of Aboriginal peoples, among whom evolved trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and social hierarchies...

Canada

Matthews, Geoffrey J. (1993) Historical Atlas of Canada: Addressing the twentieth century, 1891-1961. University of Toronto Press ISBN 0802024955

Surveys (Overviews)

J. Murray Beck. Pendulum of Power; Canada's Federal Elections (1968)
Robert Bothwell. The Penguin History Of Canada. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006.
Brune, Nick and Alastair Sweeny. History of Canada Online. Waterloo: Northern Blue Publishing, 2005.
J.M. Bumsted. The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History; and The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel. Canada: A National History. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2003.
Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, eds. Foundations: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. and Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2004. articles by scholars
Gerald Friesen The Canadian prairies : a history (1987, 2nd edition)
Gough, Barry M.
Barry M. Gough
Barry Morton Gough is a Canadian maritime and naval historian. In more than a dozen books, and several hundred articles and reviews, he has worked to recast and reaffirm the imperial foundations of Canadian history...

Historical Dictionary of Canada. (2000) 304 pp.
Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (2004) 1650 short entries
Desmond Morton. A Short History of Canada 5th ed (2001)
Desmond Morton. A Military History of Canada (1999)
J. L. Granatstein. Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996)
James C. Marsh, ed. Canadian Encyclopedia 4 vol 1985; also cd-ROM editions
Peter Moogk. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History ;;(2000)
Pound, Richard W. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3
Alison Prentice et al. Canadian Women: a history (1996, 2nd edition)
Kenneth G. Pryke and Walter C. Soderlund, eds. Profiles of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003. 3rd edition.
G. A. Rawlyk, ed .The Canadian Protestant Experience (1994)
Turgeon, Pierre (2002), Canada: A People's History, Volume 1, Marks & Spencer ISBN 0771033249
Wrong, George M. H. H. Langton (1914) The Chronicles of Canada: Volume II - The Rise of New France Fireship Press (2009), ISBN 1934757454
Wrong, George M. H. H. Langton (1914) The Chronicles of Canada: Volume VIII - The Growth of Nationality Fireship Press ISBN 1934757519
Wrong, George M. H. H. Langton (1914) The Chronicles of Canada: Volume VI - Pioneers of the North and West Fireship Press ISBN 1934757497
Wrong, George M. H. H. Langton (1914) The Chronicles of Canada: Volume VII - The Struggle for Political Freedom Fireship Press ISBN 1934757500

to 1763

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966–2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
Aeacock, Stephen (2009), The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, Dodo Press ISBN 1409949303
Brecher, Frank W. Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 (1998)
Coates, Colin M. The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec (2000) 231 pp.
Conrad, Margaret & Alvin Finkel & Cornelius Jaenen. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to (1867) (1993)
Crowley, Terence Allan, (1994) The essentials of Canadian history : pre-colonization to 1867, the beginning of a nation, Research and Education Association ISBN 0878919163
Dale, Ronald J., The Fall of New France: How the French Lost a North American Empire, 1754-1763 2004, James Lorimer and Company, Ltd., Toronto.
Dechêne, Louise Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal (2003)
Eccles, W. J.
William J. Eccles
William John Eccles , commonly known as W. J. Eccles, was a historian of Canada.Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, his family immigrated to to Canada in the 1920s. He attended college at McGill University and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1953, he joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba...

The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (1983)
Eccles, W. J.
William J. Eccles
William John Eccles , commonly known as W. J. Eccles, was a historian of Canada.Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, his family immigrated to to Canada in the 1920s. He attended college at McGill University and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1953, he joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba...

Essays on New France (1988)
Gagnon, Serge. Quebec and Its Historians, 1840-1920. (1982). 161 pp.
Greer, Allan. The People of New France (1997)
Havard, Gilles, and Cécile Vidal, "Making New France New Again: French historians rediscover their American past," Common-Place (July 2007) v 7 #4
Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
Lanctot, Gustave. A History of Canada 3 vol Toronto. 1963. Volume One: From its Origins to the Royal Régime, 1663; online, Volume Two: From the Royal Régime to the Treaty of Utrecht, 1663-1713, online
Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.
Plank, Geoffrey. An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia. (2001) 239 pp.
Pope, Peter. Fish into wine : the Newfoundland plantation in the seventeenth century (2004)
Trudel, Marcel. The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973)
Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870. Winnipeg: Watson Swayer Publishing Ltd, (1980)
Wrong, Charles (1918) The Conquest of New France: A Chronicle of the Colonia Wars, Hayes Barton Press ISBN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1763-1867

Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966–2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
Jerry Bannister, The rule of the admirals : law, custom, and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 (2003)
J. M. Beck, Joseph Howe (2 vols, Kingston and Montreal, 1962–63), i: Conservative Reformer 1804-1848 - ii: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873.
Greenwood, Frank Murray, (2002). Canadian State Trials. Volume 2: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839, Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, . ISBN 0-8020-3748-8
Greer, Allan (1993). The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-6930-4
G. P. Browne (ed.), Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
J.M. Bumsted, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History (2003)
J. M. S. Careless, Brown of the Globe (2 vols, Toronto, 1959–63), vol 1: The Voice of Upper Canada 1818-1859; vol 2: The Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880.
J. M. S. Careless, The Union of the Canada: The Growth of Canadian Institutions 1841-1857 (Toronto, 1968).
Paul Craven, editor, Labouring lives : work and workers in nineteenth-century Ontario (1995)
D. G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald (2 vols, Toronto, 1952–55), vol 1: The Young Politician; ii, The Old Chieftain.
Tina Loo, Making law, order, and authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871 (1994)
Ged Martin. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67 ;;(1995)
Ged Martin (ed.), The Causes of Canadian Confederation (Fredericton, 1990).
Marquis, Greg. In Armageddon's Shadow: The Civil War and Canada's Maritime Provinces. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998
Robin W. Winks, The Civil War years : Canada and the United States (Baltimore, 1960; 4th ed. Montreal, 1998).
Brian Young, George-Étienne Cartier : Montreal bourgeois (1981)
George M. Wrong, Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire (1935)
W. L. Morton, The Critical Years: The Union of British North America 1857-1873 (Toronto, 1964).
Wrong, George M. (1968). Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

1867-1920

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966–2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
Armstrong, Elizabeth H. The Crisis of Quebec, 1914-1918 (1937)
Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. University of Toronto Press, 1987, textbook
Brown R. C. Robert Laird Borden: A Biography. 2 vols. (1975, 1980).
Brown R. C., and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921 A Nation Transformed. (1974). the standard survey
Cook, Tim. "Quill and Canon: Writing the Great War in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, 2005
Craats, Rennay (2000), The 1910s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990681
Dafoe, J. W. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics (1922)
Dickson, Paul Douglas. A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (2007)
English, John. The Decline of Politics: The Conservatives and the Party System 1901-20 (1993)
Friesen, Gerald. The Canadian Prairies: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1993).
Granatstein, Jack, and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977)
Hou, Charles, and Cynthia Hou, eds. Great Canadian Political Cartoons, 1820-1914. (1997).
MacKenzie, David, ed. Canada and the First World War (2005) 16 essays by leading scholars
Morton, Desmond, and J. L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989), the standard survey
Neatby, H. Blair. Laurier and a Liberal Quebec: A Study in Political Management (1973)
Roberts, Barbara Ann (1988). Whence they came: deportation from Canada, 1900-1935, University of Ottawa Press ISBN 0776601636
Roy, Patricia. A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989)
Skelton, Oscar Douglas. Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier 2v (1921)
Salomons, Elizabeth (2000), The 1900s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990703
Stanley, G.F.G. The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1936)
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), cultural history;
Waite, P. B. Canada, 1874-1896 (1971), standard history

1921-1957

Overviews

Baldwin, Douglas (2000), The 1920s in Canada, Weigl Educational Publishers ISBN 1896990665
Baldwin, Douglas (2000), The 1930s in Canada, Weigl Educational Publishers ISBN 1896990649
Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. and Canada since 1945 (2d. ed. 1987-1989), college textbook
Craats, Rennay (2000), The 1940s in Canada, Weigl Educational Publishers ISBN 1896990622
Hacker, Carlotta (2000), The 1950s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990606

Specific

Allen, Ralph; Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910–1945, (1961), 492pp
Berton, Pierre (2001), The Great Depression: 1929-1939, Anchor Canada ISBN 0385658435
Bouchery, Jean. Canadian Soldier in World War II: From D-Day to VE-Day (2007)
Copp, Terry. Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945 (2006)
Dawson, R.M. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1874-1923, (1958)
Donaghy, Greg, ed. Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943-1957 (1998)
Granatstein, J. L. Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945 (1975)
Granatstein, J. L. The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967)
McNaught, John K. A Prophet in Politics (1959), the standard biography of J. S. Woodsworth
Neatby, H. Blair. The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties (1972)
Neatby, H. Blair. William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights (1963)] standard biography
Neatby, H. Blair William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity (1976)] standard biography
Nakano, Takeo Ujo (1983), Within the barbed wire fence : a Japanese man's account of his internment in Canada, Goodread Biographies, ISBN 0887801021
Pierson, Ruth Roach. They're still women after all': the Second World War and Canadian Womanhood (1986)
Roy, P., J.L. Granatstein, Masako Iino & Hiroko Takamura, Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese During the Second World War (1990)
Stacey, C. P. Arms, Men and Governments: The War Policies of Canada, 1939-1945 (1970) standard survey
Robertson, Gordon (2000) Memoirs of a very civil servant: Mackenzie King to Pierre Trudeau, University of Toronto Press ISBN 080204445X
Robert A. Wardhaugh, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Since 1957

Overviews

Bothwell, Robert; Ian Drummond (1989), Canada since 1945 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
Craats, Rennay (2000), The 1970s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990428
Hacker, Carlotta (2000), The 1950s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990606
Palmer, Bryan D. (2009). Canada's 1960s: the ironies of identity in a rebellious era, University of Toronto Press ISBN 9780802099549
Seidlitz, Lauri (2000), Canada Through the Decades: 1990's, Weigl Educational ISBN 189699038X
Shipton, Rosemary (2000), The 1960s in Canada, Weigl Educational ISBN 1896990444

Specific

Butson, Thomas G. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (1986).
Clarkson, Stephen. Trudeau and Our Times. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990 - 1994. 2 vol.
Clarkson, Stephen. Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis and Adjustment, 1981-85. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1985.
Clarkson, Stephen. Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State. Toronto; Washington : University of Toronto Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002.
Clearwater, John (1998), Canadian nuclear weapons: the untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal, Dundurn Press ISBN 1550022997
Cohen, Andrew, J. L. Granatstein, eds. Trudeau's shadow: the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999.
Couture, Claude, and Vivien Bosley. Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Canada (1998)
Eglin, Peter, Stephen Hester (2003). The Montreal massacre: a story of membership categorization analysis, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ISBN 0889204225
Hillmer, Norman ed. Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator(1999)
Igartua, Jose E. The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-1971. (2007) 285 pp., ISBN 978-0-7748-1088-3.
Morton, Desmond. The New Democrats, 1961-1986: The Politics of Change (1986)
Simpson, Jeffrey. Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration. (1984).
Smith, Denis. Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker (1995).
Story, Donald C., and R. Bruce Shepard, eds., The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957. Canadian Plains Proceedings, No. 30. Regina, Sask.: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1998.
Tetley, William. (2006) The October Crisis, 1970 : An Insiders View McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0-7735-3118-1
Vaisey, G. Douglas (1980)The Labour Companion: A Bibliography Of Canadian Labour History Based On Materials Printed From 1950 To 1975, James Lorimer & Company ISBN 0888625227

Contemporary

Behiels, Michael D. "Stephen Harper's Rise to Power: Will His 'New' Conservative Party Become Canada's “Natural Governing Party” of the Twenty-First Century?" American Review of Canadian Studies Spring 2010, Vol. 40 Issue 1, EBSCO
Blattberg, Charles. 2003. Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada.(2003)
Cody, Howard. "Minority Government In Canada: The Stephen Harper Experience," American Review of Canadian Studies 2008 38(1): 27-42 in EBSCO
Flanagan, Tom. Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (2nd ed. 2009) 369 pp., ISBN 978-0-773-53545-9
Hébert, Chantal. French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec (2007)
Johnson, William. Stephen Harper & the Future of Canada (2nd ed. 2006) 494pp
Malcolmson, Patrick, and Richard Myers. The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada (4th ed. 2009)
Plamondon, Bob. Full Circle: Death and Resurrection in Canadian Conservative Politics (2006), 472 pp., ISBN 978-1-552-63855-2
Sweeny, Alastair. Black Bonanza: Canada's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future (2010)
Wells, Paul. Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism (2007)

Economic history

List of Economic Surveys of Canada 1961-present - by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Baldwin, John R., and Petr Hanel. Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy: Canadian Industry and International Implications (2007)
Bliss, Michael. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. McClelland and Stewart, (1987).
Burton, F. W. "Wheat in Canadian History," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1937), pp. 210–217
Fleming, Keith R. Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911-1958. McGill-Queen's U. Press, (1992). 326 pp.
Glazebrook, G. P. de T. A History of Transportation in Canada (1938)
Innis, Harold. A., and A. R. M. Lower; Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885 University of Toronto Press, 1933 , primary sources
Klassen, Henry C. A Business History of Alberta (1999) 362 pp.
Lingenfelter, Richard E., ed. The Mining West: A Bibliography & Guide to the History & Literature of Mining in the American & Canadian West. 2 vol Scarecrow, 2003. 1550 pp
Mackintosh, W.A. "The Laurentian Plateau in Canadian Economic Development," Economic Geography, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1926), pp. 537–549
Marr, William L. and Donald Patterson. Canada: An Economic History, 1980.
Myers, Gustavus (1972), A history of Canadian wealth, Lewis and Samue
Naylor, Tom. The History of Canadian Business. 1867-1914 2 vol (1976)
Neill, Robin (1991) A history of Canadian economic thought, Routledge
Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. A History of the Canadian Economy 4th ed. (2007)
Porter, John. "Concentration of Economic Power and the Economic Elite in Canada," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. 22, No. 2 (May, 1956), pp. 199–220
Roberts, David. In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis. Wayne State U. Press, 2006. 320 pp.
Santink, Joy L. Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store. U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 319 pp.
Taylor, Graham D. and Peter Baskerville. A Concise History of Business in Canada, 1994
Williams, Glen. Not for Export : The International Competitiveness of Canadian Manufacturing. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 3rd edition, 1994.
Young, John H. "Comparative Economic Development: Canada and the United States," The American Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, (May, 1955), pp. 80–93

Labour

Abella, Irving M.(1974) On strike; six key labour struggles in Canada, 1919-1949, James, Lewis & Samuel ISBN 0888620578
Babcock, Robert H. Gompers in Canada: a study in American continentalism before the First World War (1974) online at ACLS e-books
Bradbury, Bettina. Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
Craig Heron. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Brief History, 1996.
Craven, Paul, ed., Labouring lives: work and workers in nineteenth-century Ontario (1995)
Davis, Angela E. (1995) Art and work : a social history of labour in the Canadian graphic arts industry to the 1940s McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0773512802
Frager, Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939 (2005)
Froschauer, Karl. White gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.
Haddow, Rodney, and Thomas Klassen. Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective (2006)
Heron, Craig. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Brief History, (1996).
Hertel; D. W. History of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees: Its Birth and Growth, 1887-1955. 1955
Kealey, Gregory S. Dreaming of what might be: the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 (1982)
Laxer, Gordon. Open for Business : The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Morton, Desmond. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (1999)
Palmer, Bryan D. Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991, 1992

Railways

Andreae, Christopher. Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada (1996)
Baskerville, Peter. "Hickson, Sir Joseph," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Baskerville, Peter. "Americans in Britain’s backyard: the railway era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880," Business History Review 55 (1981): 314–36
Brown, Ron. The Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More (1998) an illustrated history of railway stations in Canada
Currie, A. W. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1957. 556 pp, the standard history
Eagle, J. A. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989
Fleming, R. B. The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991
Fournier, Leslie T. Railway Nationalization in Canada: The Problem of the Canadian National Railways (1937)
Fournier, Leslie T. "The Canadian National Railway versus the Canadian Pacific: A Comparative Study," The Journal of Political Economy Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jun., 1931), pp. 369–389 in JSTOR
Freeman, Kenneth D. et al. The Growth and Performance of the Canadian Transcontinental Railways 1956-1981 (1987)
Hertel; D. W. History of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees: Its Birth and Growth, 1887-1955. 1955
Hofsommer, Don L. Grand Trunk Corporation: Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971-1992. 1995. 227 pp.
Kaye, Lamb W. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (1977).
Leonard, Frank. A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia University of British Columbia Press, 1996
den Otter, A.A. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Regehr, Theodore D. "Hays, Charles M." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway Macmillan of Canada 1976
Stevens, G. History of the Canadian National Railways Macmillan Company 1973
Underwood, Jay. Built for War: Canada's Intercolonial Railway, (2006)
Weaver, R. Kent. The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America (1985)
Willson, Beckles. The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal 1915.

Political thought

Katherine Fierlbeck, Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History, Broadview Press, 2006
Ian McKay, Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History, Between the Lines, 2006

Cultural history, popular culture

Auger, Michel; Edwards, Peter (2004), The encyclopedia of Canadian organized crime: from Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher, Marks & Spencer ISBN 0771030444
Blair, Jennifer; (2005) ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. U. of Alberta Press
Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. U. of Toronto Press, 2002. 491 pp.
Feldman, Seth and Nelson, Joyce, ed. Canadian Film Reader. Toronto: Martin, 1977. 405 pp.
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp, 1992. 260 pp.
Hammill, Faye. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. 245 pp.
Keith, W. J. Canadian Literature in English. London: Longman, 1985. 287 pp.
Lerner, Loren R. and Williamson, Mary F., eds. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature = Art et Architecture au Canada: Bibliographie et Guide de la Documentation U. of Toronto Press, 1991. 998 pp.
MacDonald, Mary Lu. Literature and Society in the Canadas, 1817-1850. Mellen, 1992. 360 pp.
Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 361 pp.
Morris,Peter (1978). Embattled shadows: a history of Canadian cinema, 1895-1939, McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 0773503226
New, W. H., ed. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. (1990). 492 pp.
Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. (2003). 500 pp.
Perron, Paul. Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québécois Literature. (2003). 338 pp.
Robidoux, Michael A. (2002) "Imagining a Canadian Identity Through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey," Journal of American Folklore, 115/456
Simpson-Housley, Paul and Norcliffe, Glen, ed. Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. (1992). 277 pp.
Stich, K. P., ed. Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian Literature. (1988). 176 pp.
Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. (2004). 444 pp.
Thom, Ian, and Alan Elder. A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia 1945-1960 (2004)
Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. (1983). 843 pp.
Morrow, Don, and Kevin Wamsley. Sport in Canada: A History. (2005) 328 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-541996-2
Weiss, Jonathan, and Jane Moss. French-Canadian Literature (1996)
Wise, Wyndham, ed. Essential guide to Canadian film. 2001

Social, ethnicity, religion, and population

Akenson, Donald H. The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984)
Bloemraad, Irene. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (2006)
Druick, Zoë. Aspa Kotsopoulos (2008)Programming reality: perspectives on English-Canadian television, Wilfrid Laurier University Press ISBN 9781554580101
Fay, Terence J. A History of Canadian Catholics. (2002). 392 pp., ISBN 978-0-7735-2313-5.
Friedland, Martin L. The University of Toronto: A History. (2002). 777pp ISBN 978-0-8020-4429-7
Grekul, Lisa. Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada's Ukrainians (2005)
Grenke, Arthur. The German Community in Winnipeg 1872 to 1919 (1991)
Hoerder, Dirk. Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada. (2000) 416 pp.
Iacovetta, Franca, Paula Draper, and Robert A. Ventresca. A Nation of Immigrants: Readings in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s (1998)
Kelley, Ninette, and Michael J. Trebilcock. The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy (1998)
Kukushkin, Vadim. From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada (2007)
McDougall, Duncan M. "Immigration into Canada, 1851-1920," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1961), pp. 162–175
McKay, Ian. "Tartanism Triumphant. The Construction of Scottishness in Nova Scotia, 1933-1954." Acadiensis 21, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 5-47.
Magocsi, Paul R. ed. Encyclopedia of Canadas Peoples (1999), detailed guides to all groups
Makabe, Tomoko. The Canadian Sansei (1998), 3rd generation of Japanese descent
Marshall, David. Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850-1940 (1992).
Messamore, Barbara, ed. Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America (2004) 300pp; essays by scholars
Murphy, Terrence, and Roberto Perin, eds. A Concise History of Christianity in Canada (1996).
Petryshyn, Jaroslav. Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians (1985)
Pivato, Joseph. The Anthology Of Italian-Canadian Writing (1998)
Riedel, Walter. The Old world and the new: Literary perspectives of German-speaking Canadians (1984)
Roy, Patricia. A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 (1989)
Schryer, Frans J. The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity. (1998). 458 pp. focus is post WW2
Swyripa, Frances. Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press, 2010) 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-88755-720-0
Wagner, Jonathan. A History Of Migration From Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 (2005)

Women, gender, family

Bradbury, Bettina. Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
Bullen, John. "Orphans, Idiots, Lunatics, and Historians: Recent Approaches to the History of Child Welfare in Canada," Histoire Sociale: Social History, May 1985, Vol. 18 Issue 35, pp 133–145
Cohen, Marjorie Griffin. Women's Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. (1988). 258 pp.
Forestell, Nancy M., Kathryn M. McPherson, and Cecilia Louise Morgan, eds. Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada. (2003) 370 pp., ISBN 978-0-8020-8690-7
Frager, Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939 (2005)
Gleason, Mona, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History. (5th ed. 2006) 407 pp.; 24 essays by scholars ISBN 978-0-19-542350-1
Hall, M. Ann (2002), The girl and the game : a history of women's sport in Canada, Broadview Press ISBN 155111268X
Halpern, Monda. And on that Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970. (2001).
Hammill, Faye. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
Kelsey, Marion (1997), Victory harvest: diary of a Canadian in the Women's Land Army, 1940-1944, McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0773516638
Kechnie, Margaret C. Organizing Rural Women: the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1910. (2003).
Moss, Mark. Manliness and Militarism: Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War. (2001). 216 pp.
Noël, Françoise. Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870. (2003) 384pp
- Noël, Françoise. Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years (2009)
Parr, Joy, ed. A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980. (1996). 335 pp.
Prentice, Alison et al.. Canadian Women: a history (1996, 2nd edition)
Rains, Olga (2006), Voices of the left behind : Project Roots and the Canadian war children of World War II, Dundurn Group ISBN 1550025856
Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. (2004). 444 pp.
Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003)

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

See also List of Canadian historians
Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. (1990). 156 pp.
Berger, Carl. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986)
Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987)
Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (Winter 1991-92): 5-17
Brandt, Gail Cuthbert. "National Unity and the Politics of Political History," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 3 (1992): 3-11
Dick, Lyle. "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80," The Canadian Historical Review 82, No. 2 (June 2001), 223-252.
Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005)
Gagnon, Serge. Quebec and its Historians: 1840 to 1920 (English ed. 1982; French ed. 1978)
Gagnon, Serge. Quebec and its Historians: The Twentieth Century (English ed. 1985)
Glassford, Larry A. "The Evolution of 'New Political History' in English-Canadian Historiography: From Cliometrics to Cliodiversity." American Review of Canadian Studies. 32#3 (2002).
Granatstein, J. L. Who Killed Canadian History? (2000)
Granatstein, J. L. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
Kealey, Gregory S. "Class in English-Canadian Historical Writing: Neither Privatizing, Nor Sundering," Journal of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1992):
Kealey, Linda, Ruth Pierson, Joan Sangster, and Veronica Strong-Boag. "Teaching Canadian History in the 1990s: Whose 'National' History Are We Lamenting?," Journal of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1992):
Muise, D. A. ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation (1982); historiography
- Granatstein, Jack, ed. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present v2 (1982); historiography
Osborne, Ken. "'Our History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canadian Schools--Past, Present, and Future," The Canadian Historical Review 81 (September 2000):
Parr, Joy. "Gender History and Historical Practice," The Canadian Historical Review 76 (September 1995): 354-376
Taylor, M. Brook, ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 1. Doug Owram, ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 2. Toronto: 1994. historiography
Rudin, Ronald. Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec (1997)
Schultz, John. ed. Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Modern Canadian History (1990),
Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003)
Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5 (1994): 3-16
Warkentin, John, ed. So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada’s Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2010); looks at 150 years of writings about Canada’s regions.
Wright, Donald. The Professionalization of History in English Canada (2005) 280pp

Primary sources

Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
The CanText text library contains a library of documents divided by time period.
Canada: Literature and History 347 e-books
Blackwell, John D. "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84,
Browne, G. P., ed. Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
Crowe, Harry S., Kenneth McNaught, J. H. Stewart Reid, eds. A Source-Book of Canadian History: Selected Documents and Personal Papers. 1964. 485pp
Morris, Alexander. 1880. The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories: including the negotiations on which they were based, and other information relating thereto. Belfords, Clarke, and Co. Reprint: Prospero Books, Toronto, 2000.
Pickersgill, J.W., and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 (University of Toronto Press, 1970). from King's diary
Riddell, Walter A. ed; Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy, 1917-1939 Oxford University Press, 1962 806 pages of documents
Talman, James J. ed; Basic Documents in Canadian History (1959)
Thorner, Thomas, and Thor Frohn-Nielsen, eds. "A Few Acres of Snow": Documents in Pre-Confederation Canadian History, and "A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt": Documents on Post-Confederation Canadian History (3rd ed. (2010).

Historical statistics

Statistics Canada. Historical Statistics of Canada. 2d ed., Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983.
Canada Year Book (CYB) annual 1867-1967
Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935-1946 (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from Canada and USA

External links

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