Canada, History, Bibliography

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

Surveys

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• J. Murray Beck. Pendulum of Power; Canada's Federal Elections (1968)
• J.M. Bumsted. The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History; and The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History. : Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel. Canada: A National History. Pearson Education Canada, 2003.
• Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, eds. Foundations: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. and Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History. Pearson Longman, 2004. articles by scholars
• Creighton, Donald; A History of Canada: Dominion of the North 1958, 626 pp online edition, textbook
• Gerald Hallowell, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (2004) 1650 short entries
• Desmond Morton. A Short History of Canada 5th ed (2001)
• Desmond Morton. A Military History of Canada (1999)
• Marsh, James C. ed. The Canadian Encyclopedia 4 vol 1985; also cd-rom editions
• Moogk, Peter. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History (2000)
• Prentice, Alison et al. Canadian Women: a history (1996, 2nd edition)
• Pryke, Kenneth G. and Walter C. Soderlund, eds. Profiles of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003. 3rd edition.
• Rawlyk, G. A. ed .The Canadian Protestant Experience (1994)
• Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford U. Press, 1983. 843 pp.
• Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955) 2 vol online edition
• Pound, Richard W. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

• Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1990. 156 pp.
• Carl Berger. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986)
• Serge Gagnon, Quebec and its Historians: 1840 to 1920 (English ed. 1982; French ed. 1978)
• Serge Gagnon, Quebec and its Historians: The Twentieth Century (English ed. 1985)
• J. L. Granatstein. Who Killed Canadian History? (2000)
• J. L. Granatstein. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
• D. A. Muise, ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation (1982); historiography
  • Jack Granatstein, ed. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present v2 (1982); historiography
• M. Brook Taylor ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 1. Doug Owram, ed. Canadian History: A Reader's Guide. Vol. 2. Toronto: 1994. historiography
• Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec (1997)

to 1763

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Frank W. Brecher. Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 (1998);;
• Dechêne, Louise. Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal (2003)
• Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (1983) online edition
• Greer, Allan The people of New France (1997)
• Innis, Harold A. The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
• Jaenen, Cornelius. Friend and Foe (1976) brief survey of French-Indian relations in the 16th & 17th centuries.
• Lanctot, Gustave. A History of Canada 3 vol Toronto. 1963. Volume One: From its Origins to the Royal Régime, 1663; online,

Volume Two: From the Royal Régime to the Treaty of Utrecht, 1663-1713, online

• Moogk, Peter.; La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History (2000) to 1763 online edition
• Trigger, Bruce. Children of the Aataentsic: a history of the Huron people to 1660 (1976)
• Trudel, Marcel. The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973)

1763-1867

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• J. M. Beck, Joseph Howe (2 vols, Kingston and Montreal, 1962-63), i: Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; ii: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873.
• J. M. S. Careless, Brown of the Globe (2 vols, Toronto, 1959-63), vol 1: The Voice of Upper Canada 1818-1859; vol 2: The Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880.
• J. M. S. Careless, The Union of the Canada: The Growth of Canadian Institutions 1841-1857 (Toronto, 1968).
• D. G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald (2 vols, Toronto, 1952-55), vol 1: The Young Politician; ii, The Old Chieftain.
• Greer, Allan. The patriots and the people: the rebellion of 1837 in rural Lower Canada (1993)
• Loo, Tina. Making law, order, and authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871 (1994)
• Martin, Ged. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67 (1995)
• Martin, Ged (ed.), The Causes of Canadian Confederation (Fredericton, 1990).
• Morton, W. L. The Critical Years: The Union of British North America 1857-1873 (Toronto, 1964). standard survey
• Sweeny, Alastair. George-Etienne Cartier: A Biography (Toronto, 1976).
• Wood, William. The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812, (1915) online edition
• Young, Brian, George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal bourgeois (1981)

1867-1920

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Armstrong, Elizabeth H. The Crisis of Quebec, 1914-1918 (1937)
• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. University of Toronto Press, 1987, textbook
• Brown R. C. Robert Laird Borden: A Biography. 2 vols. (1975, 1980).
• Brown R. C., and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921 A Nation Transformed. McClelland and Stewart, 1974. the standard survey
• Cook, Tim. "Quill and Canon: Writing the Great War in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, 2005 online edition
• Dafoe, J. W. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics (1922) online edition
• Granatstein, Jack, and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977)
• Kaye, Lamb W. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. (1977).
• Morton, Desmond, and J. L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989), the standard survey
• Neatby, H. Blair. Laurier and a Liberal Quebec: A Study in Political Management (1973) online edition
• Roy, Patricia. A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 (University of British Columbia Press, 1989)
• Schull, Joseph. Laurier. The First Canadian (1965)
• Skelton, Oscar Douglas. Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier 2v (1921)
• Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), cultural history; online edition
• Waite, P. B. Canada, 1874-1896 (1971), standard history

1921-1957

• Allen, Ralph; Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910-1945, Doubleday Canada, 1961, 492pp online edition
• Bothwell, Robert, and William Kilbourn. C.D. Howe. Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart, 1979.
• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. and Canada since 1945 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987-1989, college textbook
• Donald Creighton, The Forked Road: Canada, 1939-1957 (1976) standard survey
• R.M. Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1874-1923, (1958)
• Greg Donaghy, ed. Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943-1957 (1998)
• Granatstein, J. L. Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945 (1975)
• J. L. Granatstein, The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967)
• John K. McNaught, A Prophet in Politics (1959), the standard biography of J. S. Woodsworth
• H. Blair Neatby. The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties (1972)
• Neatby, H. Blair. William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924-1932: The Lonely Heights (1963) standard biography
• Neatby, H. Blair William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity (1976) standard biography online edition
• P. Roy, J.L. Granatstein, Masako Iino & Hiroko Takamura, Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese During the Second World War (University of Toronto Press, 1990)
• Stacey, C. P. Arms, Men and Governments: The War Policies of Canada, 1939-1945 (1970) standard survey
• Thompson John H., and Allan Seager. Canada 1922-1939. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985. standard survey

1957-2007

• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada since 1945 2d. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989.
• Butson, Thomas G. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.
• Clarkson, Stephen. Trudeau and Our Times. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990 - 1994. 2 vol.
• Cohen, Andrew, J. L. Granatstein, eds. Trudeau's shadow: the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999.
• Claude Couture and Vivien Bosley. Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Etienne Parent, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Canada ;;(1998)
• Granatstein J. L. Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
• Norman Hillmer, ed., Pearson: The Unlikely Gladiator(1999)
• Desmond Morton, The New Democrats, 1961-1986: The Politics of Change (1986)
• Simpson, Jeffrey. Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1984.
• Denis Smith, Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter and Ross, 1995).
• Donald C. Story and R. Bruce Shepard, eds., The Diefenbaker Legacy: Canadian Politics, Law and Society Since 1957. Canadian Plains Proceedings, No. 30. Regina, Sask.: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1998.

World Affairs

• Molot, Maureen Appel, "Where Do We, Should We, Or Can We Sit? A Review of the Canadian Foreign Policy Literature", International Journal of Canadian Studies (Spring-Fall 1990).
• Nossal Kim Richard. The Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy, 2nd edition. Prentice-Hall 1989
• Stacey C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict, 1921-1948. Vol. 2. U. of Toronto Press, 1981. the standard history

Relations with US

• Bothwell, R. Canada and the United States (1992)
• Cuff, R. D. and Granatstein, J. L. Canadian-American Relations in Wartime: From the Great War to the Cold War. Toronto: Hakkert, 1975. 205 pp.
• J. L. Granatstein. Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996)
• Kohn, Edward P. This Kindred People: Canadian-American Relations and the Anglo-Saxon Idea, 1895-1903 (2005)
• Melnyk, George; Canada and the New American Empire: War and Anti-War University of Calgary Press, 2004, highly critical
• Miller, Ronnie ; Following the Americans to the Persian Gulf: Canada, Australia, and the Development of the New World Order Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994
• Mount, Graeme S. and Edelgard Mahant, An Introduction to Canadian-American Relations (1989)
• Perras, Galen Roger ; Franklin Roosevelt and the Origins of the Canadian-American Security Alliance, 1933-1945: Necessary, but Not Necessary Enough Praeger Publishers, 1998 online edition
• Stairs, Denis, and Gilbert R. Winham, eds. The Politics of Canada's Economic Relationship with the United States' University of Toronto Press, 1985.
• Wilson, Robert R. and David R. Deener; Canada-United States Treaty Relations Duke University Press, 1963

Cold War and UN

• Balawyder, Aloysius. In the Clutches of the Kremlin: Canadian-East European Relations, 1945-1962. Columbia U. Press, 2000. 192 pp.
• Cavell, Richard, ed. Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 216 pp.
• Chapnick, Adam. The Middle Power Project: Canada and the Founding of the United Nations University of British Columbia Press, 2005.
• Clark-Jones, Melissa. A Staple State: Canadian Industrial Resources in Cold War. U. of Toronto Press, 1987. 260 pp.
• Dewitt David and John Kirton. Canada as a Principal Power. Toronto: John Wiley 1983
• Donaghy, Greg, ed. Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943-1957. Ottawa: Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Int. Trade, 1998. 255 pp.
• Eayrs James. In Defence of Canada. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1964- 1983. the standard history
• Escott, Reid. Time of Fear and Hope: The Making of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949. McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
• J. L. Granatstein David Stafford. Spy Wars: Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost (1991)
• Jamie Glazov. Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union 2003
• Holmes John W. The Shaping of Peace: Canada and the Search for World Order, 1943-1957, 2 vols. University of Toronto Press 1979, 1982
• Kirk,John M. and Peter McKenna; Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy University Press of Florida, 1997
• Maloney, Sean M. Canada and UN Peacekeeping: Cold War by Other Means. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell, 2002. 265 pp.
• Matthews Robert O. and Cranford Pratt, eds. Human Rights in Canadian Foreign Policy. McGill-Queen's University Press 1988
• Mount, Graeme S. and Edelgard Mahant, Invisible and Inaudible in Washington: American Policies toward Canada during the Cold War (1999)
• Rochlin, James; Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy towards Latin America University of British Columbia Press, 1994 online edition
• Sharnik, John. Inside the Cold War: An Oral History (1987)
• Smith, Denis. Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the Cold War, 1941-1948. U. of Toronto Press, 1988. 259 pp.
• Stevenson, Brian J. R . Canada, Latin America, and the New Internationalism: A Foreign Policy Analysis, 1968-1990 2000
• Whitaker, Reg and Gary Marcuse. Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957. (1994)
• Whitaker, Reg and Hewitt, Steve. Canada and the Cold War. Lorimer, (2003). 256 pp.

Regional

Quebec, after 1763

• Paul-André Linteau, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert, and Robert Chodos. Quebec: A History 1867-1929 (1983) Quebec Since 1930 (1991), standard 2 vol textbook.
• Manning, Helen Taft; The Revolt of French Canada, 1800-1835: A Chapter of the History of the British Commonwealth (1962) online edition
• McRoberts, Kenneth. Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis. McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
• Saywell, John. ; The Rise of the Parti Québécois 1967-76 (1977) online edition
• Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann. Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec (1982)
• Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955), standard history, 1136pp onlineedition

Ontario

to 1869

• J. M. S. Careless, Brown of the Globe (2 vols, Toronto, 1959-63), vol 1: The Voice of Upper Canada 1818-1859; vol 2: The Statesman of Confederation 1860-1880.
• John Clarke. Land Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada McGill-Queen's University Press (2001) 747pp. *Craig, Gerald M Upper Canada: the formative years 1784-1841 McClelland and Stewart, 1963, the standard history online edition
• Dunham, Eileen Political unrest in Upper Canada 1815-1836 McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
• Errington, Jane The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.
• Edward Grabb, James Curtis, Douglas Baer; "Defining Moments and Recurring Myths: Comparing Canadians and Americans after the American Revolution" The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 37, 2000
• William Kilbourn; The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada (1956) online edition
• Lewis, Frank and Urquhart, M.C. Growth and standard of living in a pioneer economy: Upper Canada 1826-1851 Institute for Economic Research, Queen's University, 1997.
• McCalla, Douglas Planting the province: the economic history of Upper Canada 1784-1870 University of Toronto Press, 1993.
• McNairn, Jeffrey L The capacity to judge: public opinion and deliberative democracy in Upper Canada 1791-1854 University of Toronto Press, 2000.
• J. Edgar Rea. "Rebellion in Upper Canada, 1837" Manitoba Historical Society Transactions Series 3, Number 22, 1965-66 online, historiography
• Carol Wilton. Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850. McGill-Queen's University Press, (2000). 311pp

Maritimes

• J. M. Beck, Joseph Howe (2 vols, Kingston and Montreal, 1962-63), i: Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; ii: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873.

Newfoundland & Labrador

• Joseph Smallwood ed. The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, [1961] rev ed. 1984), 2 vol.
• Bannister, Jerry. The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832. U. of Toronto Press for Osgoode Society, 2003.
• Blake, Raymond B. Canadians at Last: Canada Integrates Newfoundland as a Province. U. of Toronto Press, 1994. 252 pp.
• G.J. Casey and Elizabeth Miller, eds., Tempered Days: A Century of Newfoundland Fiction St. John's: Killick Press, 1996.
• Earle; Karl Mcneil. "Cousins of a Kind: The Newfoundland and Labrador Relationship with the United States" American Review of Canadian Studies Vol: 28. Issue: 4. 1998. pp : 387-411.
• C. R. Fay; Life and Labour in Newfoundland University of Toronto Press, 1956
• Greene, John P. Between Damnation and Starvation: Priests and Merchants in Newfoundland Politics, 1745-1855.McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2000. 340 pp.
• David Hale. "The Newfoundland Lesson," The International Economy. v17#3 (Summer 2003). pp 52+. online edition
• Hiller, J. K. and Harrington, M. F., ed. The Newfoundland National Convention, 1946-1948. 2 vols. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1995. 2021 pp.
• Lawrence Jackson, Newfoundland & Labrador Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd; (1999) ISBN 1-55041-261-2;
• Kealey, Linda, ed. Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1993. 310 pp.
• Long, Gene. Suspended State: Newfoundland Before Canada Breakwater Books Ltd; (1999)
• McCann, Phillip. Schooling in a Fishing Society: Education and Economic Conditions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1836-1986. St. John's: Inst. of Social and Econ. Res., 1994. 277 pp.
• Neary, Peter. . Newfoundland in the North Atlantic world, 1929-1949. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996
• O'Flaherty, Patrick. Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843. St John's: Long Beach, 1999. 284 pp.
• Pope, Peter E. Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. U. of North Carolina Press, 2004. 464 pp.
• Prowse, D.W. A History of Newfoundland. Boulder Publications, Portugal Cove, 2002.
• Wright, Miriam. A Fishery for Modern Times: The State and the Industrialization of the Newfoundland Fishery, 1934-1968. Oxford U. Press, 2001. 176 pp.

Prairies and B.C.

• Barnhart, Gordon L., ed. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 418 pp.
• Calder, Alison and Wardhaugh, Robert, ed. History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies.U. of Manitoba Press, 2005. 310 pp.
• Emery, George. The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2001. 259 pp.
• Friesen, Gerald. The Canadian Prairies: A History (1987, 2nd edition)
• Hodgson, Heather, ed. Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 247 pp.
• Johnson, A. W. Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961. U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 370 pp.
• Keahey, Deborah. Making It Home: Place in Canadian Prairie Literature. U. of Manitoba Press, 1998. 178 pp.
• Laycock, David. Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910 to 1945. U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 369 pp.
• Melnyk, George. The Literary History of Alberta, Vol. 1: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two. U. of Alberta Press, 1998. 240 pp.
• Morton, W. L. Manitoba, a History University of Toronto Press, 1957 online edition
• Wardhaugh, Robert A. Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. U. of Toronto Press, 2000. 328 pp.
• Wardhaugh, Robert A., ed. Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History. U. of Manitoba Press, 2001. 234 pp.
• Warren, Jim and Carlisle, Kathleen, eds. On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan. Regina: Coteau Books, 2005. 344 pp.
• Bill Waiser and John Perret. Saskatchewan: A New History (2005)

Economic, Business and Labour History

• Bliss, Michael. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.
• Bradbury, Bettina. Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
• Craven, Paul, ed., Labouring lives: work and workers in nineteenth-century Ontario (1995)
• Heron, Craig. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Brief History, 1996.
• 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
• Morton, Desmond. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (1999)
• Marr, William L. and Donald Patterson. Canada: An Economic History, 1980.
• Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. A History of the Canadian Economy 3rd ed. (Toronto, 2002)
• Palmer, Bryan D. Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991, 1992
• Taylor, Graham D. and Peter Baskerville. A Concise History of Business in Canada, 1994

Cultural History

• Beattie, Eleanor. The Handbook of Canadian Film. 2nd ed., Toronto: Martin, 1977. 355 pp.
• Blair, Jennifer; Coleman, Daniel; Higginson, Kate; and York, Lorraine, ed. ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production. U. of Alberta Press, 2005. 440 pp.
• Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. U. of Toronto Press, 2002. 491 pp.
• 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.
• 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.
• Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. U. of Toronto Press, 2004. 361 pp.
• New, W. H., ed. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. U. of Toronto Press, 1990. 492 pp.
• Ord, Douglas. The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture. McGill-Queen's U. Press, 2003. 500 pp.
• Perron, Paul. Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France and Québécois Literature. U. of Toronto Press, 2003. 338 pp.
• Simpson-Housley, Paul and Norcliffe, Glen, ed. Few Acres of Snow: Literary and Artistic Images of Canada. Toronto: Dundurn, 1992. 277 pp.
• Stich, K. P., ed. Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian Literature. U. of Ottawa Press, 1988. 176 pp.
• Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. Columbia U. Press., 2004. 444 pp.
• Toye, William, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford U. Press, 1983. 843 pp.
• Weiss, Jonathan, and Jane Moss. French-Canadian Literature (1996)
• Wise, Wyndham, ed. Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. U. of Toronto Press, 2001. 272 pp.
• Woodcock, George. Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1987. 318 pp.

Primary sources

• Blackwell, John D. "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997): 71-84, updated version
• G. P. Browne (ed.), Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
• Crowe, Harry S., Kenneth McNaught, J. H. Stewart Reid, eds. A Source-Book of Canadian History: Selected Documents and Personal Papers. 1964. 485pp online edition
• J.W. Pickersgill and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 online and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 online (University of Toronto Press, 1970). from King's diary
• Riddell, Walter A. ed; Documents on Canadian Foreign Policy, 1917-1939 Oxford University Press, 1962 806 pages of documents
• Statistics Canada. Historical Statistics of Canada. 2d ed., Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983.
• Talman, James J. ed; Basic Documents in Canadian History (1959) 192 pp online edition
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Online sources

• Hayday, Matthew; Pass, Forrest; Fyson, Donald; and Bangarth, Stephanie, ed. H-CANADA: H-Net Discussion Network 2007
• Brune, Nick and Alastair Sweeny. History of Canada Online. Waterloo: Northern Blue Publishing, 2005.
• Marsh, James C. ed. The Canadian Encyclopedia 4 vol 1985; also cd-rom editions (2000 and 2004)
• The CanText text library has primary sources and documents