Bibliography of Canadian history

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

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).

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. *

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) 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

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

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
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.

Denison, Merrill. Canada's First Bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal. McClelland and Stewart, 1966. 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).

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.

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.

Collard, Edward. A Very Human Story: A Brief History of the Royal Trust Company, Its First 75 Years. Royal Trust, 1975. 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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. Sweeny, Alastair. BlackBerry Planet: The Story of Research in Motion and the Little Device that Took the World by Storm. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

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.

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

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).

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.

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) 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)

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