This is a bibliography of major works on the History of Canada mainly compiled in 2011 from the Canadiana : the national bibliography with arbitrary additions since then.
Scholarly journals focused on Canadian history Acadiensis, covers Atlantic Canada Alberta historySee website American Review of Canadian StudiesSee Website British Columbia HistorySee website Canada's History, Formerly The Beaver (1920–2010) Canadian Historical Review, the major scholarly journal Histoire sociale/Social History, focus on CanadaSee website Labour/Le Travail London Journal of Canadian StudiesAnnual since 1984; see website Manitoba HistorySee website Ontario Historysee website Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française focus on QuebecSee French Wikipedia Saskatchewan History Urban History Review - Revue d'histoire urbaineSee website
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
Provinces and territories
Cities
Indigenous
online
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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
Primary sources
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 Overviews
Specific
Contemporary
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)
Official histories
First World War
Second World War
Korea
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 609–635 in JSTOR