Bibliography of Canadian history

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

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

* 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)

Primary sources

* [http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/blackwell.html "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.
* The [http://canadawiki.org/index.php/CanText_Electronic_Library CanText text library] contains a library of documents divided by time period.

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.
* Froschauer, Karl. "White gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada". Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.
* Laxer, Gordon. "Open for Business : The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada". Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1989.
* Desmond Morton. "Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement" (1999)
* William L. Marr and Donald Patterson. "Canada: An Economic History", 1980.
* Naylor, R. Tom. "The History of Canadian Business 1867-1914". Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.
* Kenneth Norrie, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. "A History of the Canadian Economy" 4th ed. (Toronto, 2008)
* 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
* Williams, Glen. "Not for Export : Toward a Political Economy of Canada’s Arrested Industrialization ". Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.

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

urveys

* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ "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)
* Robert Bothwell. "The Penguin History Of Canada". Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006.
* Brune, Nick and Alastair Sweeny. [http://canadachannel.ca 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. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/"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)
* Mason Wade, "The French Canadians, 1760-1945" (1955) 2 vol

to 1763

* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ "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)
* George M. Wrong, "The Conquest of New France" (1910)
* George M. Wrong, "The Fall of Canada" (1914)
* George M. Wrong, "The Rise and Fall of New France" (1928)

1763-1867

* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ "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), [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=16321334 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), [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8107465 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-Étienne Cartier: A Biography" (Toronto, 1976).
* Robin W. Winks, "The Civil War years : Canada and the United States" (Baltimore, 1960; 4th ed. Montreal, 1998).
* George M. Wrong, "Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire" (1935)
* Brian Young, "George-Étienne Cartier : Montreal bourgeois" (1981)

1867-1920

* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ "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)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=54443997 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)
* [http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/coldwar-en.asp 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)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=64401314 Neatby, H. Blair. "William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights" (1963)] standard biography
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=42440063 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.

1957-2006

* 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.
* 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.
* 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", [http://www.fitzhenry.ca/ Fitzhenry & Whiteside] , 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3