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


==Surveys==
==Surveys==
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* Kenneth G. Pryke and Walter C. Soderlund, eds. ''Profiles of Canada.'' Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003. 3rd 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)
* 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
* 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)


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* Robert A. Wardhaugh, ''Mackenzie King and the Prairie West''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.
* Robert A. Wardhaugh, ''Mackenzie King and the Prairie West''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.


==1957-2006==
==1957-2007==
* Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. ''Canada since 1945'' 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
* 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.
* Butson, Thomas G. ''Pierre Elliott Trudeau''. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
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*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").
*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
*Pound, Richard W. ''Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates'', [http://www.fitzhenry.ca/ 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==
* [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.
==Online sources==
* [http://www.h-net.org/~canada/ Hayday, Matthew; Pass, Forrest; Fyson, Donald; and Bangarth, Stephanie, ed.  H-CANADA: H-Net Discussion Network 2007] 
* The '''[http://canadawiki.org/index.php/CanText_Electronic_Library CanText text library]''' contains a library of documents divided by time period.


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Revision as of 13:51, 15 April 2007

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.
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