Bibliography of Canadian history

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

Scholarly journals focused on Canadian history[]

Atlases, geography, environment[]

Surveys (Overviews)[]

  • "Home | the Canadian Encyclopedia". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada. Recommended place to start
  • Brune, Nick; Sweeny, Alastair (2005). "History of Canada Online". Waterloo: Northern Blue Publishing. Web listing of Canadian history sources
  • Black, Conrad (2014). Rise to Greatness: The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-1355-3.
  • Beck, J. Murray (1968). Pendulum of Power; Canada's Federal Elections. Prentice-Hall of Canada.
  • Bothwell, Robert (2007). The Penguin History of Canada. Toronto: Penguin Canada. ISBN 978-0-1430-5032-2.
  • Bumsted, J.M. (2014). The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History (fourth ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1954-4636-4.
  • Bumsted, J.M. (2013). The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History (fourth ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1954-4631-9.
  • Conrad, Margaret; Finkel, Alvin (2007). Foundations: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Toronto: Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-3214-9110-7. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Conrad, Margaret; Finkel, Alvin (2007). Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Toronto: Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-3214-9416-0. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Conrad, Margaret; Finkel, Alvin (2012). Canada: A National History (3rd ed.). Toronto: Pearson Education Canada. ISBN 978-0-1329-1787-2.
  • Friesen, Gerald (1987). The Canadian Prairies : a History (2nd ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-6648-0.
  • Gillmor, Don; Turgeon, Pierre (2002). Canada: A People's History. Volume 1. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-3324-7. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Gillmor, Don (2002). Canada: A People's History. Volume 2. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-3336-0. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Gough, Barry M. (2011) [2000]. Historical Dictionary of Canada. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5496-3.
  • Granatstein, J.L. (1997). Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism. HarperCollins Canada. ISBN 978-0-0063-8541-7.
  • Hallowell, Gerald, ed. (2004). The Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1954-1559-9. 1650 short entries
  • Marquis, Thomas Guthrie, ed. (1903). Giants of the Dominion: from Cartier to Laurier. W. E. Scull.
  • Morton, Desmond (2001). A Short History of Canada (5th ed.). McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-6509-5.
  • Morton, Desmond (1999). A Military History of Canada. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-6514-9.
  • Moogk, Peter (2000). La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History. Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8701-3528-6.
  • Owram, Doug, ed. (1994). Canadian History: A Reader's Guide Volume 2: Confederation to the present. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-2801-3.
  • Pound, Richard W. (2006). Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates (3rd ed.). Fitzhenry & Whiteside. ISBN 978-1-5545-5009-8.
  • Prentice, Alison; et al. (1996). Canadian Women: a History (2nd ed.). Harcourt Brace. ISBN 978-0-7747-3293-2.
  • Pryke, Kenneth G.; Soderlund, Walter C., eds. (2003). Profiles of Canada (3rd ed.). Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press. ISBN 978-1-5513-0226-3.
  • Rawlyk, George A., ed. (1994). The Canadian Protestant Experience, 1760 to 1990. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-1132-3.
  • Riendeaum, Roger E. (2007). A brief history of Canada (2nd ed.). Toronto: Infobase. ISBN 978-0-8160-6335-2.
  • Taylor, M. Brook, ed. (1994). Canadian History: A Reader's Guide Volume 1: Beginnings to Confederation. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5016-8.

Chronicles of Canada series[]

Republished

Provinces and territories[]

Cities[]

  • Artibise, Alan (1977). Winnipeg: An Illustrated History. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company. ISBN 9780888621504.
  • Brennan, J. William (1989). Regina: An Illustrated History. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company. ISBN 9781550282504.
  • Errington, Jane (1988). Greater Kingston: Historic Past, Progressive Future. Burlington: Windsor Publications Ltd. ISBN 9780897812580.
  • Fraser, W.B. (1967). Calgary. Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • Glazebrook, George Parkin de Twenebroker (1971). The Story of Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802017918.
  • Gregson, Harry (1977). A History of Victoria, 1842 - 1970. North Vancouver: J.J Douglas Ltd.
  • Jenkins, Kathleen (1966). Montreal: Island City of the St. Lawrence. Doubleday.
  • Levine, Allan (2014). Toronto: A Biography. Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 978-1-77100-022-2.
  • Linteau, Paul-André; McCambridge, Peter (2013). The History of Montréal: The Story of a Great North American City. Baraka Books. ISBN 978-1-926824-77-2.
  • MacGregor, J.G. (1967). Edmonton: A History. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers.
  • Mauro, Joseph (1990). Thunder Bay: A City's Story. Thunder Bay: Joseph Mauro. ISBN 9780969614807.
  • Morrison, Neil F. (1954). Garden Gateway to Canada: One Hundred Years of Windsor and Essex County 1854 - 1954. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
  • Nader, George (1975). Cities of Canada: Theoretical, Historical and Planning Perspectives. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 9780770510299.
  • Nader, George (1976). Cities of Canada. II: Profiles of Fifteen Metropolitan Centres. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 9780770512392.
  • Nicol, Eric (1978). Vancouver. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Ltd.
  • Raddall, Thomas H. (1993). Halifax: Warden of the North. Toronto: Nimbus. ISBN 9781551090603.
  • Roberts, Leslie (1969). Montreal: From Mission Colony to World City. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.
  • Woods, Shirley E. (1980). Ottawa: The Capital of Canada. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Ltd. ISBN 9780385147224.

Indigenous[]

Prior to 1763[]

1763–1867[]

Primary sources[]

1867–1920[]

First World War homefront[]

Historiography and memory[]

  • Cook, Tim (Autumn 2005). "Quill and Canon: Writing the Great War in Canada". American Review of Canadian Studies. 35 (3): 503–530. doi:10.1080/02722010509481381. S2CID 144787489.; historiography
  • Kovacs, Jason F.; Osborne, Brian S. (3 August 2014). "Canada & Newfoundland" (PDF). A Bibliography: The Great War (1914–1918) (Report). Halifax, Nova Scotia: World Heritage Tourism Research Network, Mount Saint Vincent University. pp. 44–57. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2015.; bibliography
  • Vance, Jonathan F. (1997). Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0600-8.; cultural history

1921–1957[]

Overviews[]

Politics[]

Great Depression[]

Second World War[]

Cold War[]

  • Bothwell, Robert. The Big Chill: Canada and the Cold War (Concord: Irwin Publishing, 1998).
  • Campbell, Isabel. Unlikely Diplomats: The Canadian Brigade in Germany, 1951-64 (UBC Press, 2013).
  • Chapnick, Adam. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Forming of the United Nations (UBC Press, 2005).
  • Donaghy, Greg, ed. (1998). Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943–1957 (PDF). Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada. ISBN 978-0-660-60748-1. E2-179/1998.
  • Eayrs, James. In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (U of Toronto Press, 1972).
  • English, John. The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson, Volume II: 1949–1972 (Vintage Books Canada, 1993).
  • Holmes, John W. The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order 1943–1957 (2 vol. U of Toronto Press, 1979–82).
  • Pearson, Geoffrey. Seize the Day: Lester B. Pearson and Crisis Diplomacy (Carleton UP, 1993).
  • Smith, Denis. Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941–1948 (U of Toronto Press, 1988).
  • Teigrob, Robert. Warming up to the Cold War: Canada and the United States' coalition of the willing, from Hiroshima to Korea (U of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • Thompson, John Herd and Stephen J. Randall. Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (University of Georgia Press, 1994).
  • Whitaker, Reginald, and Gary Marcuse. Cold War Canada: The making of a national insecurity state, 1945–1957 (U of Toronto Press, 1994).

Since 1957[]

Overviews
Specific

Contemporary[]

Military history[]

  • Barris, Ted. Deadlock in Korea: Canadians at War, 1950–1953 (Macmillan Canada, 1999).
  • Benedict, Michael, ed. Canada at War (Toronto: Penguin, 1997).
  • Bercuson, David. Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War (U of Toronto Press, 1999).
  • Black, Jeremy (2011). Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519–1871. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35660-4.
  • Buckley, Brian (2000). Canada's early nuclear policy: fate, chance and character. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-2077-6.
  • Clearwater, John (1998), Canadian nuclear weapons: the untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal, Dundurn Press Ltd., ISBN 978-1-55002-299-5
  • Cook, Tim. Clio's warriors: Canadian historians and the writing of the World Wars (Vancouver, 2006)
  • Dickson, Paul Douglas. A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Morton, Desmond (1999). A military history of Canada (4th ed.). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-6514-9.
  • Granatstein, J.L. and Dean F. Oliver. (2010). The Oxford companion to Canadian military history. (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
  • Granatstein, J. L."'What is to be Done?' The Future of Canadian Second World War History" Canadian Military Journal (2011) 11#2. online; historiography
  • Granatstein; J. L. The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (University of Calgary Press, 2005)
  • Granatstein, J. L (2004), Canada's army: waging war and keeping the peace, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-8696-9
  • Granatstein, J.L. and David Bercuson. War and Peacekeeping: From South Africa to the Gulf- Canada's Limited Wars (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1991).
  • Granatstein, J. L. and David Stafford. Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost (Key Porter Books, 1990).
  • Grey, Jeffrey. The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War: An Alliance Study (Manchester UP, 1988).
  • Harris, Stephen. (1988). Canadian Brass: The making of a professional army, 1860–1939 (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press).
  • Horn, Bernd and Stephen Harris, eds. (2001). Warrior chiefs: Perspectives on senior Canadian military leaders. (Toronto: Dundurn Press).
  • Humphries, Mark Osborne, ed. (2008). The selected papers of Sir Arthur Currie: Diaries, letters, and report to the Ministry, (1917–1933. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
  • Kasurak, Peter. A National Force: The Evolution of Canada's Army, 1950–2000 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013)
  • Maloney, Sean. Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means (St. Catherines: Vanwell Publishing, 2002).
  • Maloney, Sean. Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War (Potomac Books, Inc., 2007).
  • Melady, John. Korea: Canada's Forgotten War (Macmillan of Canada, 1983).
  • Meyers, Edward C. Thunder in the Morning Calm: The Royal Canadian Navy in Korea: 1950–1955. (St. Catherines: Vanwell, 1992)
  • Milner, Marc. Canadian military history. (Toronto: Copp Clark Putnam, 1993.)
  • Milner, Marc. Canada's navy: The first century. 2nd edition. (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
  • Morton, Desmond. A Military History of Canada: From Champlain to the Gulf War (McClellan and Stewart Inc., 1992).
  • Morton, Desmond. (1981). Canada and war: A military and political history. Toronto: Butterworths
  • Nicholson, Gerald W. L. The fighting Newfoundlanders: A history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. (2nd ed. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006,).
  • Richter, Andrew (2002), Avoiding Armageddon: Canadian military strategy and nuclear weapons, 1950-63, UBC Press, ISBN 978-0-7748-0888-0
  • Rickard, John. Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939–1943 (2009)
  • Stanley, George F.G. Canada's soldiers: The military history of an unmilitary people. (Toronto: Macmillan, 1974)
  • Tucker, Spencer C.; Arnold, James (2011). The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-697-8.
  • Zuehlke, Mark (2006), Canadian Military Atlas: Four Centuries of Conflict from New France to Kosovo, Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 978-1-55365-209-0

First World War[]

  • Cook, Tim. "'Literary memorials': The Great War regimental histories, 1919–1939," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (2002) 13#1 pp: 167–190.
  • Cook, Tim (December 2004). "The Madman and the Butcher: Sir Sam Hughes, Sir Arthur Currie, and Their War of Reputations". Canadian Historical Review. 85 (4): 693–720. doi:10.3138/CHR.85.4.693.
  • Copp, Terry. (2005). "The military effort, 1914–1918," in: David MacKenzie, ed. Canada and the First World War. (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press), 35-61.
  • Dancocks, Daniel G. (1985). Sir Arthur Currie: A biography. (Toronto: Methuen)
  • Dancocks, Daniel G. (1986). Legacy of Valour: The Canadians at Passchendaele. (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers).
  • Dancocks, Daniel G. (1988). Welcome to Flanders Fields, the first Canadian battle of the Great War: Ypres, 1915. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
  • Duguid, A.F. (1938). Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War, 1914–1919. Vol. 1. (Ottawa: King's Printer.
  • Evans Shaw, Susan. (2011). Canadians at war: A guide to the battlefields of World War I. (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions)
  • Freeman, Bill and Richard Nielson. (1999). Far from home: Canadians in the First World War. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson)
  • Granatstein, J.L. (2004). Hell's corner: An illustrated history of Canada's Great War 1914–1918. Vancouver/(Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre)
  • Gray, David. (2012). "Carrying Canadian troops: The story of RMS Olympic as a First World War troopship," Canadian Military History, Vol. 11(1), 54-70.
  • Hadley, Michael L. and Roger Sarty. (1991). Tin-pots and pirate ships: Canadian naval forces and German sea raiders, 1880–1918. (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press).
  • Haycock, Ronald G. (1986). Sam Hughes: The public career of a controversial Canadian, 1885–1916. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
  • Hayes, Geoffrey, Andrew Iarocci and Mike Bechthold. eds. (2007). Vimy Ridge: A Canadian reassessment. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
  • Humphries, Mark Osborne (2014). "Between Commemoration and History: The Historiography of the Canadian Corps and Military Overseas". Canadian Historical Review. 95 (3): 384–397. doi:10.3138/chr.95.3.384. S2CID 162203521.
  • Hyatt, A.M.J. (1987). General Sir Arthur Currie: A military biography (Toronto. U. of Toronto Press).
  • Iarocci, Andrew, and Mike Bechthold, eds. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian reassessment (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
  • Iarocci, Andrew. (2009). "On the threshold of modernity: Canadian horsepower on the Western Front, 1914–18," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research pp 59–83.
  • Mackenzie, David, ed. Canada and the First World War (2005); 16 specialized essays by scholars
  • Macphail, Andrew. (1925). Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War, 1914–19. The Medical Services, ((Ottawa: King's Printer)
  • Morton, Desmond. (1979). "Junior but sovereign allies': The transformation of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 8#1 pp: 56-67.
  • Morton, Desmond. (1992). Silent battle: Canadian prisoners of war in Germany, 1914–1919. (Toronto: Lester Publishing.
  • Morton, Desmond. (1993). When your number's up: The Canadian soldier in the First World War. (Toronto: Random House of Canada)
  • Morton, Desmond. (2007). A military history of Canada. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.)
  • Morton, Desmond and J.L. Granatstein. (1989). Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914–1919. (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys)
  • Tennyson, Brian Douglas. Canada's Great War, 1914–1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation (2014).
  • Wise, Sydney F. (1980). Canadian Airmen and the First World War (1980 ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802023797. - Total pages: 771 (Also published in French under the title: Les aviateurs canadiens dans la Première Guerre mondiale)

Official histories[]

Economic history[]

General[]

Business history[]

  • Bliss, Michael. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. McClelland and Stewart, (1987).
  • Bordo, Michael D., Angela Redish, and Hugh Rockoff. "Why Didn't Canada Have a Banking Crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or . . .)?" Economic History Review 68#1 (2015): 218–43
  • Fleming, Keith R. Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958. McGill-Queen's U. Press, (1992). 326 pp.
  • Frost, James D. Merchant princes: Halifax's first family of finance, ships, and steel (2003)
  • Klassen, Henry C. A Business History of Alberta (1999) 362 pp.
  • Kottman, Richard N. "Herbert Hoover and the Smoot–Hawley Tariff: Canada, A Case Study", Journal of American History (1975), 62#3 pp 609–635 in JSTOR
  • Laxer, Gordon. Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989).
  • 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
  • McDonald, Judith; O'Brien, Anthony Patrick; Callahan, Colleen. "Trade Wars: Canada's Reaction to the Smoot–Hawley Tariff", Journal of Economic History (1997), 57#4 pp 802–826, in JSTOR
  • Myers, Gustavus (1972), A history of Canadian wealth, Lewis and Samuel online, on the super-rich
  • Naylor, Tom. The History of Canadian Business. 1867–1914 2 vol (1976)
  • 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)
  • Watts, George. The Bank of Canada: Origins and Early History (Carleton University Press, 1993)
  • Williams, Glen. Not for Export: The International Competitiveness of Canadian Manufacturing. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 3rd edition, 1994.

Natural resources, energy, oil, lumber[]

  • Atomic Energy Canada, Limited (1997), Canada enters the nuclear age, McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 978-0-7735-1601-4
  • Desbiens, Caroline. Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec (2014)
  • Doern, G. Bruce; Robert W. Morrison; Arslan Dorman (2001). Canadian nuclear energy policy: changing ideas, institutions, and interests. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-4788-5.
  • Froschauer, Karl. White gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999. excerpt and text search
  • Gillis, Robert Peter. "The Ottawa lumber barons and the conservation movement 1880–1914." Journal of Canadian Studies 9#1 (1974): 14-30. online
  • Le Riche, Timothy. Alberta's Oil Patch - The People, Politics & Companies (2006)
  • Levant, Ezra (2011). Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 9780771046438.
  • Lower, A.R.M. The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest (1938).
  • Steed, Roger G (2007), Nuclear Power in Canada and Beyond, General Store Pub. House, ISBN 978-1-897113-51-6
  • Taylor, Graham D (1985). "Sun Oil Company and Great Canadian Oil Sands Ltd.: The Financing and Management of a 'Pioneer' Enterprise, 1962–1974". Journal of Canadian Studies. 20 (3): 102–121. doi:10.3138/jcs.20.3.102. S2CID 157648082.

Labour and working class[]

  • Abella, Irving M. On strike; six key labour struggles in Canada, 1919–1949 (James, Lewis & Samuel 1974) ISBN 0-88862-057-8
  • 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 0-7735-1280-2
  • Frager, Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias, eds. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870–1939 (2005) online
  • Forsey, Eugene Alfred. Trade unions in Canada, 1812–1902 (1982).
  • Frank, David. J. B. McLachlan: A Biography: The Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners (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[dead link]. (1955)
  • Horowitz, Gad. Canadian Labour in Politics (1968), Covers 1930–1965
  • Jamieson, Stuart. Times of Trouble: Labour Unrest and Industrial Conflict in Canada, 1900–1966 (1968), Detailed coverage of strikes
  • Kealey, Gregory S (1995), Workers and Canadian history, McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN 978-0-7735-1352-5
  • Kealey, Gregory S. Dreaming of what might be: the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900 (1982) excerpt and text search
  • Kealey, Greg. "Writing about Labour" in Schultz, ed. Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Modern Canadian History (1990), pp 145–74
  • Lipton, Charles. The Trade Union Movement in Canada 1827–1959 (1966), a standard history from a Marxist perspective
  • Logan, Harold. Trade Unions in Canada (1948), large amount of factual information
  • MacEwan, Paul. Miners and Steelworkers: Labour in Cape Breton (1976)
  • Morton, Desmond. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (1999)
  • Ogmundson, Richard, and Michael Doyle. "The rise and decline of Canadian Labour/1960 to 2000: Elites, power, ethnicity and gender." Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie (2002): 413-454.
  • Palmer, Bryan D. Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800–1991 (1992)
  • Robin, Martin. Radical Politics and Labour in Canada (1968), left-wing politics 1880–1930

Historiography[]

  • Abella, Irving M. "Labour and working-class history" in * Granatstein and Stevens, eds. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982) pp 114–36.
  • Kealey, Gregory S. "Labour and working-class history in Canada: Prospects in the 1980s." Labour/Le Travail (1981): 67-94.
  • Morton, Desmond. "Some millennial reflections on the state of Canadian labour history." Labour/Le Travail (2000): 11-36. online
  • Palmer, Bryan D. "Working-Class Canada: Recent Historical Writing." Queen's Quarterly 86.4 (1979): 594+
  • 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 0-88862-522-7

Railways[]

  • Andreae, Christopher. Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada (1996)
  • Baskerville, Peter (1979). "On the Rails: Trends in Canadian Railway Historiography". American Review of Canadian Studies. 9 (1): 63–72. doi:10.1080/02722017909480875.
  • Baskerville, Peter (1990). "Hickson, Sir Joseph". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XII (1891–1900) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  • Baskerville, Peter (1981). "Americans in Britain's backyard: the railway era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880". Business History Review. 55 (3): 314–36. doi:10.2307/3114127. JSTOR 3114127.
  • Berton Pierre. The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881–1885 (2001) excerpt and text search, popular history
  • 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. (1989). The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896–1914. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0674-9.
  • 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. (June 1931). "The Canadian National Railway versus the Canadian Pacific: A Comparative Study". The Journal of Political Economy. 39 (3): 369–389. doi:10.1086/254215. JSTOR 1822288. S2CID 154093618.
  • 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) online[dead link]
  • Hofsommer, Don L. Grand Trunk Corporation: Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971–1992. 1995. 227 pp. online
  • Kaye, Lamb W. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (1977).
  • Lavallee, Omer (2005). Narrow Gauge Railways of Canada. Revised by Ronald S. Ritchie (expanded and revised ed.). Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside. ISBN 1-55041-830-0.
  • Leonard, Frank. A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia University of British Columbia Press, 1996
  • Martin, J. Edward (1994). On A Streak of Lightning: Electric Railways in Canada. Studio E. ISBN 978-0920716038.
  • Murray, Tom (2011), Rails Across Canada The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways., Voyageur Pr, ISBN 978-0-7603-4008-0
  • den Otter, A.A. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America University of Toronto Press, 1997.
  • Regehr, Theodore D. (1998). "Hays, Charles Melville". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  • Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway Macmillan of Canada 1976
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  • Stevens, G. History of the Canadian National Railways Macmillan Company 1973
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Technology[]

Political and legal[]

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  • Courtney, John C; David E. Smith. The Oxford handbook of Canadian politics (Oxford University Press, 2010)
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  • Fierlbeck, Katherine. Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History, Broadview Press, 2006
  • Greene, Ian The Charter of Rights (1989), James Lorimer and Company, ISBN 1-55028-185-2
  • Jones, Richard. Community in crisis : French-Canadian nationalism in perspective (McClelland and Stewart, 1967).
  • McKay, Ian. Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History, Between the Lines, 2006.
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  • Morton, Frederick Lee. Law, politics, and the judicial process in Canada (University of Calgary Press, 2002).
  • Schneider, Stephen. Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (Wiley, 2009)

British roles[]

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  • Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire (2011).
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  • Messamore, Barbara Jane. Canada's Governors General, 1847–1878: Biography and Constitutional Evolution (U of Toronto Press, 2006).
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Cultural history, popular culture[]

Education[]

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  • Bruno-Jofré, Rosa. "History of education in Canada: historiographic 'turns' and widening horizons." Paedagogica Historica (2014), 50#6, pp 774–785
  • Burke, Sara Z., and Patrice Milewski, eds. Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education (2012) 24 articles by experts
  • Clark, Lovell. ed The Manitoba School Question: majority rule or minority rights? (1968) historians debate the battle over French language schools
  • Di Mascio, Anthony. The Idea of Popular Schooling in Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education (McGill-Queen's University Press; 2012) 248 pages; building a common system of schooling in the late-18th and early 19th centuries.
  • Gidney, R.D. and W.P.J. Millar. How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900–1940 (2011) 552pp; additional details
  • Harris, Robin S. A history of higher education in Canada, 1663–1960 (1976) in ERIC
  • Shook, Laurence K. Catholic Post-Secondary Education in English-Speaking Canada: A History (University of Toronto Press, 1971).

Sports[]

  • Barclay, James A. Golf in Canada: A History (1992)
  • Bouchier, Nancy. For the love of the game: Amateur sport in small-town Ontario, 1838–1895 (2003)
  • Boyd, Bill. All Roads Lead to Hockey: Reports from Northern Canada to the Mexican Border. (2006). 240 pp
  • Brown, D., 'The Northern Character Theme and Sport in Nineteenth Century Canada', Canadian Journal of History of Sport, 1989, 20(1), 47-56.
  • Burstyn, V. The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and The Culture of Sport. (1999).
  • Charters, David A. The Chequered Past: Sports Car Racing and Rallying in Canada, 1951 - 1991 (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Coakley, Jay and Peter Donnelly, Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies, (2003), 576pp
  • Dauphinais, Paul R., 'A Class Act: French-Canadians in Organized Sport, 1840–1910', International Journal of the History of Sport, 1992 7(3): 432-442.
  • Harper, Stephen (2013), A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey, Simon & Schuster Canada, ISBN 978-1-4767-1653-4
  • Howell, Colin D. Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada (2001).
  • Morrow, Don, and Kevin Wamsley. Sport in Canada: A History. (2nd ed. 2009) 392 pp.
  • Robidoux, Michael A. (2002) "Imagining a Canadian Identity Through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey," Journal of American Folklore, 115/456
  • Podnieks, Andrew (2006), A Canadian Saturday Night: Hockey and the Culture of a Country, Greystone Books, ISBN 978-1-55365-201-4
  • Zawadzki, Edward (2004), The Ultimate Canadian Sports Trivia Book, Volume 2, Dundurn Group, ISBN 978-1-55002-529-3

Social[]

  • Friedland, Martin L. University of Toronto: A History. (2002). 777pp ISBN 978-0-8020-4429-7
  • Humphries, Mark Osborne. The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada (University of Toronto Press; 2013) examines the public-policy impact of the 1918 epidemic, which killed 50,000 Canadians.

Ethnicity and immigration[]

Religion[]

  • Beaman, Lori G. (2006), Religion and Canadian society: traditions, transitions, and innovations, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN 978-1-55130-306-2
  • Beaman, Lori G.; Peter Beyer (2008), Religion and diversity in Canada, Leiden Brill, ISBN 9789004170155
  • Bean, Lydia, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman. "Why doesn't Canada have an American-style Christian right? A comparative framework for analyzing the political effects of evangelical subcultural identity." Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 33.4 (2008): 899-943. online
  • Bramadat, Paul; David Seljak (2009), Religion and Ethnicity in Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 9781442610187
  • Bramadat, Paul; Seljak, David (2008). Christianity and ethnicity in Canada. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802098757.
  • Carrington, Philip. The Anglican Church in Canada: A History (Collins, 1963)
  • Christie, Nancy, and Michael Gauvreau. Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840–1965: A Social History of Religion in Canada (2010), 176pp excerpt and text search
  • Clark, Samuel Delbert. Church and sect in Canada (U of Toronto Press, 1948.
  • Clifford, N. Keith. The Resistance to Church Union in Canada, 1904–1939 (U of British Columbia Press, 1985)
  • Emery, George. Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896–1914 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2001.)
  • Fay, Terence J. A History of Canadian Catholics: Gallicanism, Romanism, and Canadianism (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Fraser, Brian J. The Social Uplifters: Presbyterian Progressives and the Social Gospel in Canada 1875–1915 (Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1988)
  • Gardaz, Michel. "Religious studies in Francophone Canada." Religion 41#1 (2011): 53-70.
  • Gidney, Catherine. Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920–1970 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2004)
  • Grant, John Webster, et al. The Church in the French Era; The Church in the British Era; The Church in the Canadian Era (3 vol. 1972; 1988); general history of Catholicism and Protestantism in Canada
  • Grant, John Webster. Moon of Wintertime: Missionaries and the Indians of Canada in Encounter since 1534 (U of Toronto Press, 1984)
  • Healey, Robynne Rogers. From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community Among Yonge Street Friends, 1801–1850 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2006)
  • Lahey, Raymond J. The First Thousand Years: A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Canada (2002)
  • McGowan, Mark. Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2005)
  • Marshall, David. Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850–1940 (1992).
  • Miedema, Gary. For Canada's sake: Public religion, centennial celebrations, and the re-making of Canada in the 1960s (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2005)
  • Moir, John S. Enduring witness: a history of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (3rd ed. Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1987)
  • Moir, John S. Church and State in Canada, 1627–1867; Basic Documents (McClelland and Stewart, 1967), Primary sources
  • Mol, Hans (1989). "The secularization of Canada". Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion. 1: 197–215.
  • Morice, A G. History of the Catholic Church in Western Canada: From Lake Superior to the Pacific (1659–1895) (1910) online
  • Murphy, Terrence, and Gerald Stortz, eds, Creed and Culture: The Place of English-Speaking Catholics in Canadian Society, 1750 – 1930 (1993), articles by scholars
  • Murphy, Terrence, and Roberto Perin, eds. A Concise History of Christianity in Canada (1996).
  • Noll, Mark A. (1992). A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. ISBN 9780802806512., A wide-ranging general survey.
  • Opp, James William. The Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine, and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880–1930 (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 2005)
  • Perin, Roberto. Rome in Canada: the Vatican and Canadian affairs in the late Victorian age (U of Toronto Press, 1990)
  • Semple, Neil. Lord's Dominion: The History of Canadian Methodism (McGill-Queen's Press-MQUP, 1996)
  • Webster, Thomas. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada (1870) online
  • Wilson, Robert S. "Patterns of Canadian Baptist Life in the Twentieth Century," Baptist History & Heritage (2001) 36# 1/2, pp 27–60. Covers the educational, social, political, missionary, and theological trends; notes that the years 1953–2000 were marked by the union of different Baptist groups.

Women, gender, family[]

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature[]

  • Artibise, Alan F.J., ed. (1990). Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0788-3.
  • Berger, Carl. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900 (2nd ed. 1986), 364pp evaluates the work of most of the leading 20th century historians of Canada.
  • Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987)
  • Bliss, Michael (Winter 1991). "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada". Journal of Canadian Studies. 26 (4): 5–17. doi:10.3138/jcs.26.4.5. S2CID 151721939.
  • Brandt, Gail Cuthbert (1992). "National Unity and the Politics of Political History". Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 3 (1): 3–11. doi:10.7202/031041ar.
  • Buckner, Phillip and John G. Reid, eds. Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory (U of Toronto Press, 2012)
  • Careless, J. M. S. "Canadian Nationalism — Immature or Obsolete?" Report of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association / Rapports annuels de la Société historique du Canada (1954) 33#1 pp: 12–19. online
  • Dick, Lyle (June 2001). "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80". The Canadian Historical Review. 82 (2): 223–252. doi:10.3138/CHR.82.2.223. S2CID 162319085.
  • Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005)
  • Fulford, Robert, David Godfrey, and Abraham Rotstein. Read Canadian: a book about Canadian books (1972) 275pp; topical chapters that comment on the best historical and current studies
  • 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[dead link]." American Review of Canadian Studies. 32#3 (2002).
  • Granatstein, J. L. (1998). Who Killed Canadian History?. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-255759-2.
  • Granatstein, J. L. and Paul Stevens, eds. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
  • Greer, Allan (December 2010). "National, Transnational, and Hypernational Historiographies: New France Meets Early American History". Canadian Historical Review. 91 (4): 695–724. doi:10.3138/chr.91.4.695.
  • Hulan, Renée (2014). Canadian Historical Writing: Reading the Remains. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-39888-8.
  • Kealey, Gregory S. (Summer 1992). "Class in English-Canadian Historical Writing: Neither Privatizing, Nor Sundering". Journal of Canadian Studies. 27 (2): 123–129. doi:10.3138/jcs.27.2.123. ISSN 0021-9495. S2CID 151974372.
  • Kealey, Linda; Pierson, Ruth; Sangster, Joan; Strong-Boag, Veronica (Summer 1992). "Teaching Canadian History in the 1990s: Whose 'National' History Are We Lamenting?". Journal of Canadian Studies. 27 (2): 129–131. doi:10.3138/jcs.27.2.129. ISSN 0021-9495. S2CID 151496673.
  • Muise, D. A. ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation (1982); historiography
  • Granatstein and Stevens, eds. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present v2 (1982); historiography
  • Osborne, Ken (September 2000). "'Our History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canadian Schools--Past, Present, and Future". The Canadian Historical Review. 81 (3): 403–471. doi:10.3138/chr.81.3.403. S2CID 162588531.
  • Parr, Joy (September 1995). "Gender History and Historical Practice". The Canadian Historical Review. 76 (3): 354–376. doi:10.3138/CHR-076-03-03. S2CID 162448329.
  • 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), chapters by experts on politics, economics, ideas, regions, agriculture, business, labor, women, ethnicity and war.
  • Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003)
  • Strong-Boag, Veronica (1994). "Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory". Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 5 (1): 3–17. doi:10.7202/031070ar.
  • 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
  • Wyile, Herb (2007). Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-511-6.

Primary sources[]

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[dead link] (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from Canada and USA
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