Bibliography of Canadian history

Template:Short description Template:History of Canada This is a bibliography of major works on the History of Canada.

Scholarly journals focused on Canadian history

• Acadiensis, covers Atlantic Canada
• Alberta history
• American Review of Canadian Studies
• British Columbia History
• Canada's History, Formerly The Beaver (1920–2010)
• Canadian Historical Review, the major scholarly journal
• Histoire sociale/Social History, focus on Canada
• Labour/Le Travail
• London Journal of Canadian Studies
• Manitoba History
• Ontario History
• Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française focus on Quebec
• Saskatchewan History
• Urban History Review - Revue d'histoire urbaine

Atlases, geography, environment

• Historiography
• on human uses and control of fires

Surveys (overviews)

• Recommended place to start
• Web listing of Canadian history sources
• 1650 short entries

Chronicles of Canada series

• also at Archive.org

Republished

Indigenous

• online Template:Webarchive
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Prior to 1763

• thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Bannister, Jerry. "Atlantic Canada in an Atlantic World? Northeastern North America in the Long 18th Century." Acadiensis 43.2 (2014) online.
• University textbook
• Marshall, Bill, ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005)

1763–1867

• , thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• influential scholarly biography

1867–1920

• the standard survey
• Influential scholarly biography
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• standard history

First World War homefront

• First World War
• 16 essays by leading scholars
• Millman, Brock. Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914–1919 (University of Toronto Press, 2016).
• looks at farmers near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec

Historiography and memory

• ; historiography
• ; bibliography
• ; cultural history

1921–1957

Overviews

• Creighton, Donald. The Forked Road: Canada 1939–1957 (McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1976), general survey.
• standard scholarly survey

Politics

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• standard biography
• A primary source

Great Depression

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• well-written popular history
• Primary sources
• describes life in Winnipeg during the depression
• includes recollections of the 1930s
• sociological study
• Template:Cite thesis DAI 2003 63(7): 2644-2645-A. DANQ70191 Fulltext in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• standard economic history; has data on public and private investment in the major sectors of the economy
• with articles on Aberhart, George McCullagh, Pattullo and the Reconstruction Party.

Second World War

• Granatstein; J. L. The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (University of Calgary Press, 2005) online
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• standard survey
• collection of more than 140,000 newspaper clippings

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).
• 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

Military history

• Granatstein, J.L. and Dean F. Oliver. (2010). The Oxford companion to Canadian military history. (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
• 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. 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,).
• 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)

First World War

• 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).
• 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).
• - Total pages: 771 (Also published in French under the title: Les aviateurs canadiens dans la Première Guerre mondiale)

Economic history

General

• List of Economic Surveys of Canada 1961-present - by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Baldwin, John R., and Petr Hanel. Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy: Canadian Industry and International Implications (2007)
• Berton, Pierre. The Great Depression: 1929–1939 (1990) is a popular account
• Burton, F. W. "Wheat in Canadian History," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1937), pp. 210–217
• Glazebrook, G. P. de T. A History of Transportation in Canada (1938)
• Innis, Harold. A., and A. R. M. Lower; Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783–1885 Template:Webarchive University of Toronto Press, 1933, primary sources
• Mackintosh, W.A. "The Laurentian Plateau in Canadian Economic Development," Economic Geography, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1926), pp. 537–549
• Marr, William L. and Donald Patterson. Canada: An Economic History, 1980.
• Neill, Robin (1991) A history of Canadian economic thought, Routledge
• Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. A History of the Canadian Economy 4th ed. (2007)
• Russell, Peter A. Farming in the Nineteenth Century (2012), 400pp; covers Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba
• Sandwell, R. W. "Notes toward a history of rural Canada, 1870-1940." in Social Transformation in Rural Canada: Community, Cultures, and Collective Action (2013): 21–42.

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)
• Neufeld, Edward Peter. The Financial System of Canada: Its Growth and Development. Macmillan of Canada, 1972.
• 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

• Desbiens, Caroline. Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec (2014)
• Foster, Peter. The Blue-Eyed Sheiks: The Canadian Oil Establishment. Collins, 1979.
• 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)
• Lower, A.R.M. The North American Assault on the Canadian Forest (1938).
• Nelles, H. V. The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941. Archon Books, 1974.
• Pratt, Larry. The Tar Sands: Syncrude and the Politics of Oil. Hurtig, 1976.
• Sweeny, Alastair. Black Bonanza: Alberta's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.*

Labour and working class

• Abella, Irving M. On strike; six key labour struggles in Canada, 1919–1949 (James, Lewis & Samuel 1974) Template:ISBN
• 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 Template:ISBN
• 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 Template:Webarchive. (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. 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 Template:ISBN

Railways

• Andreae, Christopher. Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada (1996)
• 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
• 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)
• 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 Template:Webarchive
• 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).
• Leonard, Frank. A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia University of British Columbia Press, 1996
• den Otter, A.A. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway Macmillan of Canada 1976
• Stevens, G. History of the Canadian National Railways Macmillan Company 1973
• Weaver, R. Kent. The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America Template:Webarchive (1985)
• Willson, Beckles. The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal Template:Webarchive 1915.

Company histories

Banks

• Denison, Merrill. Canada's First Bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal. McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
• McDowall, Duncan. Quick to the Frontier: Canada's Royal Bank. McClelland and Stewart, 1993.
• Schull, Joseph. 100 Years of Banking in Canada: A History of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Copp Clark, 1958.
• Schull, Joseph and J. Douglas Gibson. The Scotiabank Story: A History the Bank of Nova Scotia, 1832-1982. Macmillan, 1982.
• Skelton, Oscar. The Dominion Bank, 1871-1921: Fifty Years of Banking Service. The Dominion Bank, 1922.
• Various authors. A History of the Canadian Bank of Commerce (vol. 1-3); A History of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (vol. 4-5).

Brewing

• Bellamy, Matthew. Brewed in the North: A History of Labatt's. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
• Denison, Merrill. The Barley and the Stream: The Molson Story. McClelland and Stewart, 1955.
• Shea, Albert. Vision in Action: The Story of Canadian Breweries Limited from 1930 to 1955. Canadian Breweries, 1955.

Insurance

• Bennett, Richard. A House of Quality It Has Ever Been: History of the Great-West Life Assurance Company. Great West Life, 1992.
• Campbell, James, and Edward Tufts. The Story of the London Life Insurance Company. London Life, 1966.
• Cruickshank, W. H. Our First 75 Years: Crown Life Insurance Company, 1900-1975. Crown Life Insurance, 1976.
• Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. The First Sixty Years, 1887-1947: A History of the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company. Manufacturers Life, 1947.
• McQueen, Rod. Who Killed Confederation Life? The Inside Story. McClelland and Stewart, 1996.
• Schull, Joseph. The Century of the Sun: The First Hundred Years of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Macmillan, 1972.
• Tyrwhitt, Janice. Small Things Grow Great: The First 150 Years of the Canada Life Assurance Company. Canada Life, 1996.

Trusts

• Bruce, Harry. A Century at Central Trust: The Story of Its Growth. Nimbus Publishing, 1987.
• Collard, Edward. A Very Human Story: A Brief History of the Royal Trust Company, Its First 75 Years. Royal Trust, 1975.
• Merifield, Russell R. From Country Trust to National Trust. National Trust Company, 1988.
• Smith, Philip. The Trust-Builders: The Remarkable Rise of Canada Trust. Macmillan, 1989.
• Skodyn, Basil (ed.). The Permanent Story, 1855-1980. Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation, 1980.
• Stevens, George. The Canada Permanent Story, 1855-1955. Canada Permanent Mortgage, 1955.
• Webb, John. Yorkshire Trust: A 90 Year History. Yorkshire Trust, 1978.

Petroleum and pipelines

• Consumers Gas Company. A Tradition of Service: The Story of Consumers Gas. Consumers Gas Company, 1993.
• Foster, Peter. From Rigs to Riches: The Story of Bow Valley Industries. Bow Valley Industries, 1985.
• Gray, Earle. Wildcatters: The Story of Pacific Petroleums and Westcoast Transmission. McClelland and Stewart, 1982.
• Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company. The New Company at 50: 1926-1976. Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, 1976.
• Kilbourn, William. Pipeline: TransCanada and the Great Debate, a History of Business and Politics. Clarke Irwin, 1970.
• Lauriston, Victor. Blue Flame of Service: A History of the Union Gas Company and the Natural Gas Industry in Southwestern Ontario. Union Gas Company, 1961.
• Lyon, Jim. Dome: The Rise and Fall of the House that Jack Built. Macmillan, 1983.
• Magladry, Ray. Shell in Canada: The Path of Growth, 1911-1986. Shell Canada Limited, 1986.
• McKenzie-Brown, Peter. The Richness of Discovery: Amoco's First 50 Years in Canada, 1948-1998. Amoco Canada Petroleum, 1998.
• PanCanadian Petroleum. Railways to Resources: The Evolution of PanCanadian Petroleum. PanCanadian Petroleum Limited, 1966.
• Penner, David. The Story of Ranger Oil. GRP Enterprises, 2004.
• Smith, Philip. The Treasure-Seekers: The Men Who Built Home Oil. Macmillan, 1978.
• Taylor, Graham. Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880. University of Calgary Press, 2019.

Metals and mining

• Campbell, Duncan. Global Mission: The Story of Alcan. Alcan Aluminium, 1990.
• Girdwood, Charles P.; Jones, Lawrence F.; Lonn, George. The Big Dome: Over Seventy Years of Gold Mining in Canada. Cybergraphics Company, 1983.
• Kilbourn, William. The Elements Combined: A History of the Steel Company of Canada. Clarke, Irwin, 1960.
• McDowell, Duncan. Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956. University of Toronto Press, 1984.
• Row, William. The Illustrated History of Kerr Addison Gold Mines Limited, Kerr Addison Mines Limited and Subsidiaries. Kerr Addison Mines Limited, 1984.
• Thompson, John F. and Norman Beasley. For the Years to Come: A Story of International Nickel of Canada. Putnam, 1960.

Pulp, paper, and power

• Boothman, Barry. Corporate Cataclysm: Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912-1946. University of Toronto Press, 2020.
• Denison, Merrill. The People's Power: The History of Ontario Hydro. McClelland and Stewart, 1960.
• McDowall, Dunan. The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899-1945. University of Toronto Press, 1988.
• Smith, Philip. Brinco: The Story of Churchill Falls. McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
• White, Clinton. Power for a Province: A History of Saskatchewan Power. Canadian Plains Research Center, 1976.

Others

• Ashley, Charles. The First Twenty-Five Years: A Study of Trans-Canada Air Lines. Macmillan, 1963.
• Collard, Edward. Passage to the Sea: The Story of Canada Steamship Lines. Doubleday, 1991.
• Denison, Merrill. Harvest Triumphant: The Story of Massey-Harris. McClelland and Stewart, 1949.
• MacKay, Donald. Empire of Wood: The MacMillan Bloedel Story. Douglas and McIntyre, 1982.
• Nesbitt Jr., A. R. Deane. Dry Goods and Pickles: The Story of Nesbitt, Thomson. The author, 1989.
• Sweeny, Alastair. BlackBerry Planet: The Story of Research in Motion and the Little Device that Took the World by Storm. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Political and legal

• Argyle, Ray. Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before (2011) excerpt and text search, ch 5
• Auger, Michel; Edwards, Peter (2004), The encyclopedia of Canadian organized crime: from Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher, Marks & Spencer Template:ISBN
• Cook, Ramsay, ed. French-Canadian Nationalism; An Anthology (Macmillan of Canada, 1969).
• Courtney, John C; David E. Smith. The Oxford handbook of Canadian politics (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Craik, Neil et al., eds. Public Law: Cases, materials, and commentary (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2006).
• Dyck, Rand. Canadian Politics, Concise Fifth Edition (Cengage Learning, 2011)
• Fierlbeck, Katherine. Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History, Broadview Press, 2006
• Greene, Ian The Charter of Rights (1989), James Lorimer and Company, Template:ISBN
• 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.
• Mann, Susan. Action Française: French Canadian nationalism in the twenties (University of Toronto Press, 1975).
• Monet, Jacques. The Last Cannon Shot; A Study of French-Canadian Nationalism, 1837–1850 (University of Toronto Press, 1969).
• 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

• Buckner, Phillip Alfred. The transition to responsible government: British policy in British North America, 1815–1850 (1985).
• Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire (2011).
• Kaufman, Will, and Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, eds. Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 vol 2005), 1157pp; encyclopedic coverage.
• Lyon, Peter. Britain and Canada: Survey of a Changing Relationship (1976)
• Martin, Ged. "Attacking the Durham Myth: Seventeen Years On." Journal of Canadian Studies 25.1 (1990): 39–59.
• Martin, Ged. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67 (2001).
• Messamore, Barbara Jane. Canada's Governors General, 1847–1878: Biography and Constitutional Evolution (U of Toronto Press, 2006).
• Smith, Andrew. "Patriotism, self-interest and the ‘Empire effect’: Britishness and British decisions to invest in Canada, 1867–1914." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 41.1 (2013): 59–80.

Cultural history, popular culture

• Blair, Jennifer; (2005) ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. U. of Alberta Press
• Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. U. of Toronto Press, 2002. 491 pp.
• 2001 ed. Template:ISBN; 2010 ed. Template:ISBN.
• Druick, Zoë. Aspa Kotsopoulos (2008)Programming reality: perspectives on English-Canadian television, Wilfrid Laurier University Press Template:ISBN
• 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.
• Kesterton, W.H. A History of Journalism in Canada (1979)
• 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.
• Marshall, Bill, ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005)
• Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 361 pp.
• Morris,Peter (1978). Embattled shadows: a history of Canadian cinema, 1895–1939, McGill-Queen's University Press, Template:ISBN
• New, W. H., ed. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. (1990). 492 pp.
• Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. (2003). 500 pp.
• Perron, Paul. Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québécois Literature. (2003). 338 pp.
• Simpson-Housley, Paul and Norcliffe, Glen, ed. Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. (1992). 277 pp.
• Stich, K. P., ed. Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian Literature. (1988). 176 pp.
• Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940–1960. (2004). 444 pp.
• Thom, Ian, and Alan Elder. A Modern Life: Art and Design in British Columbia 1945–1960 (2004)
• Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. (1983). 843 pp.
• Weiss, Jonathan, and Jane Moss. French-Canadian Literature (1996)
• Wise, Wyndham, ed. Essential guide to Canadian film. 2001

Education

• Axelrod, Paul. The Promise of Schooling: Education in Canada, 1800–1914 (1997)
• 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.
• 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

Social

• Friedland, Martin L. University of Toronto: A History. (2002). 777pp Template:ISBN
• 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

• Akenson, Donald H. The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984)
• Bloemraad, Irene. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (2006)
• Campey, Lucille H. Ignored But Not Forgotten: Canada's English Immigrants (Dundurn, 2014)
• Campey, Lucille H. After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773–1852 (Dundurn, 2007)
• Campey, Lucille H. Les Écossais: The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763–1855 (Dundurn, 2006)
• Campey, Lucille H. With Axe and Bible: The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick, 1784–1874 (Dundurn, 2007)
• Campey, Lucille H. Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada (2010)
• Campey, Lucille H. Seeking a Better Future: The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec (2012)
• Grekul, Lisa. Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada's Ukrainians (2005)
• Grenke, Arthur. The German Community in Winnipeg 1872 to 1919 (1991)
• Hoerder, Dirk. Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada. (2000) 416 pp.
• Iacovetta, Franca, Paula Draper, and Robert A. Ventresca. A Nation of Immigrants: Readings in Canadian History, 1840s–1960s (1998)
• Kelley, Ninette, and Michael J. Trebilcock. The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy (1998)
• Kukushkin, Vadim. From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada (2007)
• McDougall, Duncan M. "Immigration into Canada, 1851–1920," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1961), pp. 162–175 in JSTOR
• McKay, Ian. "Tartanism Triumphant. The Construction of Scottishness in Nova Scotia, 1933–1954." Acadiensis 21, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 5-47.
• Magocsi, Paul R. ed. Encyclopedia of Canadas Peoples (1999), detailed guides to all groups
• Makabe, Tomoko. The Canadian Sansei (1998), 3rd generation of Japanese descent
• Messamore, Barbara, ed. Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America (2004) 300pp; essays by scholars
• Petryshyn, Jaroslav. Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukrainians (1985)
• Pivato, Joseph. The Anthology Of Italian-Canadian Writing (1998)
• Poy, Vivienne, ed. Passage to Promise Land: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women to Canada (2013) Template:ISBN Table of Contents
• Ramirez, Bruno. On the move: French-Canadian and Italian migrants in the North Atlantic economy 1860–1914 (1991). French-Canadians moving to New England & Italians to Montreal
• Riedel, Walter. The Old world and the new: Literary perspectives of German-speaking Canadians (1984)
• Roy, Patricia. A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858–1914 (1989)
• Schryer, Frans J. The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity. (1998). 458 pp. focus is post WW2
• Swyripa, Frances. Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies (University of Manitoba Press, 2010) 296 pp. Template:ISBN
• Wagner, Jonathan. A History Of Migration From Germany to Canada, 1850–1939 (2005)

Religion

• 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
• 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
• 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).
• , 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.

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

• 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)
• 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
• 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." American Review of Canadian Studies. 32#3 (2002).
• Granatstein, J. L. and Paul Stevens, eds. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
• 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
• 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)
• 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

Primary sources

• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
• The CanText text library Template:Webarchive contains a library of documents divided by time period.
• Canada: Literature and History 347 e-books
• Blackwell, John D. "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84,
• Browne, G. P., ed. Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
• ; 707pp
• Morris, Alexander. 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.
• Pickersgill, J.W., and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939–1944 and Vol. 2: 1944–1945 (University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945–1946 and Vol. 4: 1946–1947(University of Toronto Press, 1970). from King's diary
• 485pp; short excerpts from primary sources covering 200 major topics
• Riddell, Walter A. ed; Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy, 1917–1939 (Oxford University Press, 1962) 806pp
• Talman, James J. ed; Basic Documents in Canadian History (1959)
• Thorner, Thomas, and 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 (3rd ed. (2010).

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 Template:Webarchive (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from Canada and USA

See also

• Historiography of Canada
• Bibliography of Canada
  • Outline of Canada#Bibliographies
• Bibliography of Canadian military history
  • List of books about the War of 1812
• Bibliography of Canadian provinces and territories
• Bibliography of science and technology in Canada
• Bibliography of Nova Scotia
• Bibliography of Saskatchewan history
• Bibliography of Alberta history
• Bibliography of British Columbia
• Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
• Lists of books
• List of bibliographies
• List of books about prime ministers of Canada

External links

• Events of National Historic Significance
• National Historic Sites of Canada
• Canadiana: The National Bibliography of Canada
• CBC Archives - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Canadian History & Knowledge – Association for Canadian Studies