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Acadiensis ''Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region'' (fr: ''Acadiensis: Revue d'histoire de la région Atlantique'') is a semi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of Atlantic Canada. The current editors-in-chief are ...
'', covers Atlantic Canada * ''Alberta history'' * ''American Review of Canadian Studies'' * '' British Columbia History'' * ''
Canada's History ''Canada's History'' () is the official magazine of Canada's National History Society. It is published six times a year and aims to foster greater popular interest in Canadian history. Founded as ''The Beaver'' in 1920 by the Hudson's Bay Co ...
'', Formerly ''The Beaver'' (1920–2010) * ''
Canadian Historical Review The ''Canadian Historical Review'' (''CHR'') is a scholarly journal in Canada, founded in 1920 and published by the University of Toronto Press.
'', the major scholarly journal * ''Histoire sociale/Social History'', focus on Canada * ''
Labour/Le Travail ''Labour/Le Travail'' is an academic journal which publishes articles on the labour movement in Canada, sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social inte ...
'' * ''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''Se
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Atlases, geography, environment

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Surveys (overviews)

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


Chronicles of Canada series

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Provinces and territories


Cities

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Indigenous

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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
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* * * * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Primary sources

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1867–1920

* * * * * the standard survey * * Influential scholarly biography * * * * * * * * - * * * * * * 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

* * * * - * * * standard biography * * A primary source *


Great Depression

* - * * well-written popular history * Primary sources * * * * describes life in Winnipeg during the depression * includes recollections of the 1930s * sociological study * * * 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
* * * * * 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

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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'')


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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
'' 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 609–63
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 Samue
online
on the super-rich * Naylor, Tom. ''The History of Canadian Business. 1867–1914'' 2 vol (1976) * Porter, John.
Concentration of Economic Power and the Economic Elite in Canada
" ''The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science,'' Vol. 22, No. 2 (May, 1956), pp. 199–220 * Roberts, David.
In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis
'' Wayne State U. Press, 2006. 320 pp. * Santink, Joy L. ''Timothy Eaton and the Rise of His Department Store.'' U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 319 pp. * Taylor, Graham D. and Peter Baskerville. ''A Concise History of Business in Canada'' (1994) * Watts, George. ''The Bank of Canada: Origins and Early History'' (Carleton University Press, 1993) * Williams, Glen. ''Not for Export: The International Competitiveness of Canadian Manufacturing''. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 3rd edition, 1994.


Natural resources, energy, oil, lumber

* * Desbiens, Caroline. ''Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec'' (2014) * * Froschauer, Karl. '' White gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada''. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999
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* 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). * *


Labour and working class

* Abella, Irving M.
On strike; six key labour struggles in Canada, 1919–1949
' (James, Lewis & Samuel 1974) * 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 * 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
.'' (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
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* 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


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
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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
* 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
'' (1985) * Willson, Beckles.
The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal
'' 1915.


Technology


Political and legal

* Argyle, Ray. ''Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before'' (2011
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ch 5 * Auger, Michel; Edwards, Peter (2004),
The encyclopedia of Canadian organized crime: from Captain Kidd to Mom Boucher
', Marks & Spencer * 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, * 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. ; 2010 ed. . * Druick, Zoë. Aspa Kotsopoulos (2008)
Programming reality: perspectives on English-Canadian television
', Wilfrid Laurier University Press * 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, * 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
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* 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 * 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. 162–17
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)
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. * * 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
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* 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
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* 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.


Women, gender, family

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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



* The '
CanText text library
'' contains a library of documents divided by time period.

* Blackwell, John D.

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); an
Vol. 3: 1945–1946
an
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.

* Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds.
Public Opinion, 1935–1946
'' (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from Canada and USA *


See also

*
Historiography of Canada The historiography of Canada deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed, and debated the history of Canada. It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of thos ...
* Bibliography of Canada ** Outline of Canada#Bibliographies *
Bibliography of Canadian military history This is a bibliography of works on the military history of Canada. Overviews * * * historiography * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ;Official accounts – National Defence and the Canadian Forces * * * * * Also aCanada.ca* ...
**
List of books about the War of 1812 The War of 1812 bibliography is a selective, annotated bibliography using APA style citations of the many books related to the War of 1812. There are thousands of books and articles written about this topic. Only the most useful are presented. Ov ...
**
List of conflicts in Canada List of conflicts in Canada is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, skirmishes, major terrorist attacks, riots and other related items that have occurred in the country of Canada's current geographical area. A complete list of terror ...
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Bibliography of Canadian provinces and territories This is a bibliography of works on the Provinces and territories of Canada. Provinces and territories Alberta * * * * * * British Columbia * * * * * * * * * * Manitoba * Friesen, Gerald; Potyondi, Barry. A Guide to the Study ...
* Bibliography of science and technology in Canada *
Bibliography of Nova Scotia This is a bibliography of major works on Nova Scotia. Bibliography Surveys * Beck, J. Murray. ''The Government of Nova Scotia'' University of Toronto Press, 1957, the standard history * Choyce, Lesley. ''Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. A Living ...
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Bibliography of Saskatchewan history The following is a bibliography of Saskatchewan history. Surveys and reference ''Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan'' (2006)from U. of Regina Canadian Plains Research Center, (2005); 1071pp in print edition; article by experts on a very wide range of to ...
*
Bibliography of Alberta history The following is a bibliography of Alberta history. Surveys and reference * , a short encyclopedia * a very good starting point * scholarly biographies of every important person who died by 1930 * * * * primary sources * , standard survey ...
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Bibliography of British Columbia This is a short bibliography of major works on the History of British Columbia. Surveys * Barman, Jean. ''The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia'' U. of Toronto Press, 1991. 430pp * Francis, Daniel, ed. ''Encyclopedia of British ...
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Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...
* Lists of books * List of bibliographies * List of books about prime ministers of Canada


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