This is a list of the most prominent historians of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. All have published about Canada, but some have covered other topics as well.

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Irving Abella Irving Martin Abella (July 2, 1940 – July 3, 2022) was a Canadian historian who served as a professor at York University from 1968 to 2013. He specialized in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement. Early life Abe ...

, Jewish and labour *

David Bercuson David Jay Bercuson (born 1945) is a Canadian labour, military, and political historian. Career Born on 31 August 1945 in Montreal, Quebec, he attended Sir George Williams University, graduated there in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in hi ...

, labour, military, politics *

Pierre Berton Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wr ...

, numerous popular histories * Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance * Conrad Black, biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada * Michael Bliss, medical *

Robert Bothwell Robert Selkirk Bothwell (born 1944) is a Canadian professor of Canadian history. Bothwell is considered to be the foremost scholar on Canadian Cold War participation, as well as a frequently published author. Life and career Bothwell was bor ...

, 20th century *

Gerard Bouchard Gerard is a masculine forename of Proto-Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constituents put together. In this ca ...

, Quebec * Mark Bourrie, maritime, media * George Williams Brown, editor and textbooks * Nick Brune, textbooks * J. M. S. Careless, politics * Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, New France * Sarah Carter, Prairie History, Gender History * Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes * G. Ramsay Cook, politics, biography *

Terry Copp Terry Copp (born 1938) is a Canadian military historian and Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University and is co-founder and Director of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies since the late 1980s. Copp was born ...

, World War II *

Tim Cook Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since 2011. Cook previously served as the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs ...

military historian * Hugh Cowan, Ontario *

Donald Creighton Donald Grant Creighton (15 July 1902 – 19 December 1979) was a Canadian historian whose major works include ''The Commercial Empire of the St-Lawrence, 1760–1850'' (first published in 1937), a detailed study on the growth of the English merch ...

, 19c, textbooks * Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, military and Ontario, Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board * Ken Cuthbertson, biographer and author of 20th century Canadian history * Louise Dechêne, New France * Lovat Dickson, 20th century *

Gordon Donaldson Gordon Donaldson, (13 April 1913 – 16 March 1993) was a Scottish historian. Life He was born in a tenement at 140 McDonald RoadEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory, 1912 off Leith Walk in northern Edinburgh on 13 April 1913 the so ...

, politics * Olive Dickason, First Nations * William J. Eccles, New France * John English, politics * Francois Xavier Garneau, Quebec * Placide Gaudet, Acadian *

Andrew Godefroy Andrew Godefroy CD, Master of Arts, M.A., Ph.D. is a Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian. Scholarship Andrew Godefroy was born in Montreal, Quebec and attended Concordia University (Quebec), Concordia University wh ...

, military * W. G. Godfrey, Maritimes * George R. D. Goulet, Métis *

Terry Goulet Marie Therese “Terry” Goulet is a Canadian historian who has written and spoken extensively on the subject of the Canadian aboriginal group the Métis. With her husband George who is Métis, Goulet has been an advocate for Métis identity in ...

, Métis * J.L. Granatstein, 20th century, military; politics; historiography * Charlotte Gray, popular histories * James H. Gray, Prairies; politics * Cody Groat, First Nations *

Lionel Groulx Lionel Groulx (; 13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, and Quebec nationalist. Biography Early life and ordination Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, the son of a farmer and lumber ...

, Quebec * Kenn Harper, Inughuit * Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history * Bruce Hodgins, historian and author *

Bruce Hutchison William Bruce Hutchison, (5 June 1901– 14 September 1992) was a Canadian writer and journalist. Born in Prescott, Ontario, Canada, Hutchison was educated in public schools in Victoria, British Columbia. He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid ...

, local history, popular history *

Harold Innis Harold Adams Innis (November 5, 1894 – November 9, 1952) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory, and Canadian economic history. He helped deve ...

, economic history; communications * A.J.B. Johnston * Gregory Kealey, labour *

Fred Landon Fred Landon (November 5, 1880 – August 1, 1969) was a Canadian journalist, historian, librarian, teacher, administrator and specialist in Ontario history. Biography He was born in London, Ontario in 1880 and died there in 1969. He marri ...

, Ontario, Upper Canada * Laurier LaPierre * Agnes Laut *

Arthur R. M. Lower Arthur Reginald Marsden Lower (12 August 1889 – 7 January 1988) was a Canadian historian and "liberal nationalist" interested in Canadian economic history, particularly the forest trade, and in Canada–US relations. He was the most natio ...

* Keith Matthews *

Margaret MacMillan Margaret Olwen MacMillan, (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College, Toronto, and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson Univer ...

, diplomacy * Ian McKay * Peter Thomas McGuigan, Nova Scotia * Phyllis McKie Maritime history *

Margaret Stovel McWilliams Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875–1952) was a Canadian historian. McWilliams was born in Toronto in 1875 where in 1898 she attended the University of Toronto. Later on she became a journalist in Detroit and emigrated to Winnipeg by 1910 where ...

, Manitoba *

Jesse Edgar Middleton Jesse Edgar Middleton (November 3, 1872 – May 27, 1960) was a Canadian journalist, historian and songwriter. Biography Middleton was born in Pilkington, Ontario, the son of Margaret Agar and Rev. Eli Middleton, a Methodist minister. He attend ...

, Ontario, Toronto * Christopher Moore, popular *

Adrien-Gabriel Morice Adrien-Gabriel Morice (27 August 1859 – 21 April 1939) was a missionary priest belonging to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He served as a missionary in Canada, and created a writing system for the Carrier language. Early life Father Morice wa ...

, First Nations * Desmond Morton, military * W. L. Morton, West; Manitoba *

Hilda Neatby Hilda Marion Ada Neatby (February 19, 1904May 14, 1975) was a Canadian historian and educator. Early life and education Hilda Marion Ada Neatby was born on February 19, 1904, in Sutton (then in Surrey), to Andrew Neatby and Ada Fisher. Th ...

, Quebec *

Peter C. Newman Peter Charles Newman (born May 10, 1929) is a Canadian journalist and writer. Life and career Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His parents were Wanda Maria and O ...

, 20th century politics *

Gustave Lanctot Gustave Lanctot , also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, (5 July 1883 – 2 February 1975) was a Canadian historian and archivist. Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A ...

, New France

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Margaret Ormsby Margaret Anchoretta Ormsby (7 June 1909 – 2 November 1996) was a Canadian historian, particularly concerning the history of British Columbia. She was head of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Early life and e ...

* Fernand Ouellet * Douglas Owram *

Erna Paris Erna Paris (6 May 1938 – 3 February 2022) was a Canadian non-fiction author. Biography Paris was born in Toronto to an essentially secular Jewish family. She was the niece of classical pianist Beth Lipkin. After earning a Bachelor of Arts de ...

* Talbot Mercer Papineau *

Francis Parkman Francis Parkman Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of '' The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life'' and his monumental seven-volume '' France and England in North Am ...

, American historian of New France *

Lester B. Pearson Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of ...

Derek Penslar Derek Jonathan Penslar, (born 1958) is an American-Canadian comparative historian with interests in the relationship between modern Israel and diaspora Jewish societies, global nationalist movements, European colonialism, and post-colonial states. ...

Bob Plamondon Bob Plamondon (born December 8, 1957, in Cornwall, Ontario) is a Canadian consultant, independent board member, economist, and author. He has been an independent consultant for over thirty years, a full and part-time professor at three universi ...

Andrew Preston Andrew Woodbury Preston (June 29, 1846 – September 26, 1924) was a prominent American businessman at the turn of the 20th century. Biography Andrew Preston was born in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts on June 29, 1846. He married Frances E. Gut ...

* Robie Lewis Reid * Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson *

Roger Sarty Roger Sarty (born 27 September 1952 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is among Canada's leading historians, specializing in the history of Canada's Navy and coastal defence. Early life and education Sarty was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia befor ...

* J.T. Saywell *

Adam Shortt Adam Shortt (1859–1931) was an economic historian in Ontario. He was the first full-time employed academic in the field at a Canadian university ( Queen's University). Biography Shortt was born in Kilworth, Ontario, on 24 November 1859 to Ge ...

Joseph Schull Joseph Schull, OC (6 February 1906 – 19 May 1980) was a Canadian playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television. Born in Watertown, South Dakota, he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1913. ...

Paul St. Pierre Paul St. Pierre (October 14, 1923 – July 27, 2014) was a journalist and author in British Columbia, Canada. He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Coast Chilcotin from 1968-1972. He was defeated in the 1972 election by New Demo ...

Jean Edward Smith Jean Edward Smith (October 13, 1932 – September 1, 2019) was a biographer and the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor ...

* C.P. Stacey * George F.G. Stanley *

Veronica Strong-Boag Veronica Jane Strong-Boag (born 1947 in Prestwick, Scotland) is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia, where she was Professor of Women's ...

* Alastair Sweeny *

Bruce Trigger Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937 – December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001. Life Born in Preston, Ontario (now part of C ...

Marcel Trudel Marcel Trudel (May 29, 1917 – January 11, 2011) was a Canadian historian, university professor (1947–1982) and author who published more than 40 books on the history of New France. He brought academic rigour to an area that had been ma ...

Pierre Elliot Trudeau Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau ( , ; October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), also referred to by his initials PET, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and ...

Frank Underhill Frank Hawkins Underhill, SM, FRSC (November 26, 1889 – September 16, 1971) was a Canadian journalist, essayist, historian, social critic, and political thinker. Biography Frank Underhill, born in Stouffville, Ontario, was educated at ...

* Mark Sweeten Wade * Frederick William Wallace * Patrick Watson * Frederick George H. Williams *

George Woodcock George Woodcock (; May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel wri ...

* J. F. C. Wright *

George MacKinnon Wrong George MacKinnon Wrong (June 25, 1860 – June 29, 1948) was a Canadian clergyman and historian. Life and career Born at Grovesend in Elgin County, Canada West (now Ontario), he was ordained in the Anglican priesthood in 1883 after attendin ...

* Robert J. Young

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* Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. ''Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature.'' (1990). 156 pp. * Berger, Carl. ''Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition'' (1986) * Berger, Carl, ed. ''Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing'' (1987) * Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 26 (Winter 1991–92): 5-17 * Brandt, Gail Cuthbert. "National Unity and the Politics of Political History," ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 3 (1992): 3-11 * Dick, Lyle. "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 82, No. 2 (June 2001), 223–252. * Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. ''Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities'' (2005
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* 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). pp 347+
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* Granatstein, J. L. ''

Who Killed Canadian History? ''Who Killed Canadian History?'' is a 1998 book by Canadian historian J. L. Granatstein. The book argues that Canadians lack national unity because of their failure to teach their country's history. Granatstein contends that multiculturalism, ...

'' (2000) * Granatstein, J. L. ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present'' (1982) * Hallowell, Gerald, ed. ''The Oxford Companion to Canadian History'' (2006), online at

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* Kealey, Gregory S. "Class in English-Canadian Historical Writing: Neither Privatizing, Nor Sundering," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 27 (Summer 1992): * Kealey, Linda, Ruth Pierson, Joan Sangster, and Veronica Strong-Boag. "Teaching Canadian History in the 1990s: Whose 'National' History Are We Lamenting?," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 27 (Summer 1992): * Muise, D. A. ed., ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation'' (1982); historiography ** Granatstein, Jack, ed. ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present'' v2 (1982); historiography * Osborne, Ken. "'Our History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canadian Schools--Past, Present, and Future," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 81 (September 2000): * Parr, Joy. "Gender History and Historical Practice," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 76 (September 1995): 354-376 * Story, Norah. ''Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature'' (1974) * 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), * Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. ''Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History'' (2003
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* Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory," ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 5 (1994): 3-16 * 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
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