Canada, History, Bibliography

This is a bibliography of major works on the History of Canada.

Surveys

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• J. Murray Beck. Pendulum of Power; Canada's Federal Elections (1968)
• 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)
• 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. The Canadian Encyclopedia 4 vol 1985; also cd-rom editions
• Peter Moogk. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History ;;(2000)
• 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)
• Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford U. Press, 1983. 843 pp.
• Mason Wade, The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955) 2 vol

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

• Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1990. 156 pp.
• Carl Berger. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986)
• Serge Gagnon, Quebec and its Historians: 1840 to 1920 (English ed. 1982; French ed. 1978)
• Serge Gagnon, Quebec and its Historians: The Twentieth Century (English ed. 1985)
• J. L. Granatstein. Who Killed Canadian History? (2000)
• J. L. Granatstein. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
• D. A. Muise, ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation (1982); historiography
  • Jack Granatstein, ed. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present v2 (1982); historiography
• M. Brook Taylor ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 1. Doug Owram, ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 2. Toronto: 1994. historiography
• Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec (1997)

to 1763

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Frank W. Brecher. Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 (1998);;
• Louise Dechêne, Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal (2003)
• W. J. Eccles. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 ;;(1983)
• Allan Greer, The people of New France (1997)
• Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint : Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2005)
• Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
• Cornelius Jaenen, Friend and Foe (1976) brief survey of French-Indian relations in the 16th & 17th centuries.
• Peter Pope, Fish into wine : the Newfoundland plantation in the seventeenth century (2004)
• Bruce Trigger, Children of the Aataentsic : a history of the Huron people to 1660 (1976)
• Bruce Trigger, Natives and newcomers : Canada's "heroic age" reconsidered (1986)
• Marcel Trudel, The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973)

1763-1867

• The 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.
• G. P. Browne (ed.), Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
• Bettina Bradbury, Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
• 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.
• Allan Greer, The patriots and the people : the rebellion of 1837 in rural Lower Canada (1993)
• 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).
• W. L. Morton, The Critical Years: The Union of British North America 1857-1873 (Toronto, 1964).
• Alastair Sweeny, George-Etienne Cartier: A Biography (Toronto, 1976).
• Brian Young, George-Etienne Cartier : Montreal bourgeois (1981)

1867-1920

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987, textbook
• Brown R. C. Robert Laird Borden: A Biography. 2 vols. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, 1980.
• Brown R. C., and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. standard survey
• Lamb W. Kaye. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
• Desmond Morton and J. L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989)
• Patricia Roy, A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989)
• Jonathan F. Vance, Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997) cultural history

1921-1957

• Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn. C.D. Howe. Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart, 1979.
• Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. and Canada since 1945 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987-1989, college textbook
• Donald Creighton, The Forked Road: Canada, 1939-1957 (1976) standard survey
• R.M. Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1874-1923, (1958)
• Greg Donaghy, 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)
• J. L. Granatstein, The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967)
• John K. McNaught, A Prophet in Politics (1959), the standard biography of J. S. Woodsworth
• H. Blair Neatby. 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
• J.W. Pickersgill and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970). excerpts from King's diary
• P. Roy, J.L. Granatstein, Masako Iino & Hiroko Takamura, Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese During the Second World War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)
• Stacey, C. P. Arms, Men and Governments: The War Policies of Canada, 1939-1945 (1970) standard survey
• Thompson John H., and Allan Seager. Canada 1922-1939. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. standard survey
• Robert A. Wardhaugh, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

1957-2007

• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada since 1945 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
• Butson, Thomas G. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
• Clarkson, Stephen. Trudeau and Our Times. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990 - 1994. 2 vol.
• Cohen, Andrew, J. L. Granatstein, eds. Trudeau's shadow: the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999.
• Claude Couture and Vivien Bosley. Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Canada ;;(1998)
• Granatstein J. L. Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
• Norman Hillmer, ed., Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator(1999)
• Desmond Morton, The New Democrats, 1961-1986: The Politics of Change (1986)
• Simpson, Jeffrey. Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1984.
• Denis Smith, Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 1995).
• Donald C. Story 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.

Contemporary

• Blattberg, Charles. 2003. Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2003 (especially chapter 3, "Who We Were").
• Pound, Richard W. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3

Prairies

• Barnhart, Gordon L., ed. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 418 pp.
• Calder, Alison and Wardhaugh, Robert, ed. History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies.U. of Manitoba Press, 2005. 310 pp.
• Emery, George. The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2001. 259 pp.
• Hodgson, Heather, ed. Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 247 pp.
• Johnson, A. W. Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961. U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 370 pp.
• Keahey, Deborah. Making It Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. U. of Manitoba Press, 1998. 178 pp.
• Laycock, David. Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910 to 1945. U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 369 pp.
• Melnyk, George. The Literary History of Alberta, Vol. 1: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two. U. of Alberta Press, 1998. 240 pp.
• Morton
• Wardhaugh, Robert A. Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. U. of Toronto Press, 2000. 328 pp.
• Wardhaugh, Robert A., ed. Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History. U. of Manitoba Press, 2001. 234 pp.
• Warren, Jim and Carlisle, Kathleen, eds. On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan. Regina: Coteau Books, 2005. 344 pp.

Economic History

• Michael Bliss. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
• Craig Heron. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Brief History, 1996.
• 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
• Desmond Morton. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (1999)
• William L. Marr and Donald Patterson. Canada: An Economic History, 1980.
• Kenneth Norrie, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. A History of the Canadian Economy 3rd ed. (Toronto, 2002)
• Bryan D. Palmer. Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991, 1992
• Graham D. Taylor and Peter Baskerville. A Concise History of Business in Canada, 1994

Cultural History

• Beattie, Eleanor. The Handbook of Canadian Film. 2nd ed., Toronto: Martin, 1977. 355 pp.
• Blair, Jennifer; Coleman, Daniel; Higginson, Kate; and York, Lorraine, ed. ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. U. of Alberta Press, 2005. 440 pp.
• 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.
• New, W. H., ed. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 492 pp.
• Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2003. 500 pp.
• Perron, Paul. Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québécois Literature. U. of Toronto Press, 2003. 338 pp.
• Simpson-Housley, Paul and Norcliffe, Glen, ed. Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. Toronto: Dundurn, 1992. 277 pp.
• Stich, K. P., ed. Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian Literature. U. of Ottawa Press, 1988. 176 pp.
• Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. Columbia U. Press., 2004. 444 pp.
• Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford U. Press, 1983. 843 pp.
• Wise, Wyndham, ed. Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. U. of Toronto Press, 2001. 272 pp.
• Woodcock, George. Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1987. 318 pp.

Primary sources

• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
• Thomas Thorner with 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, 2nd ed. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003.
• Statistics Canada. Historical Statistics of Canada. 2d ed., Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983.
• J.W. Pickersgill and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970). excerpts from King's diary
• Alexander Morris. 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.

Online sources

• Hayday, Matthew; Pass, Forrest; Fyson, Donald; and Bangarth, Stephanie, ed. H-CANADA: H-Net Discussion Network 2007

• The CanText text library contains a library of documents divided by time period.