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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

  • ''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 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'' 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

  • 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



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. 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



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  • ''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.



1957-2006

  • 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'', Fitzhenry & Whiteside , 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3