Bibliography of Canadian history

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)
• Robert Bothwell. The Penguin History Of Canada. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006.
• Brune, Nick and Alastair Sweeny. History of Canada Online. Waterloo: Northern Blue Publishing, 2005.
• J.M. Bumsted. The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History; and The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel. Canada: A National History. Toronto: 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. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2004. articles by scholars
• Gerald Friesen The Canadian prairies : a history (1987, 2nd edition)
• 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)
• J. L. Granatstein. Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996)
• James C. Marsh, ed. The Canadian Encyclopedia 4 vol 1985; also cd-rom editions
• Peter Moogk. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada a Cultural History ;;(2000)
• Alison Prentice et al. Canadian Women: a history (1996, 2nd edition)
• Kenneth G. Pryke and Walter C. Soderlund, eds. Profiles of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003. 3rd edition.
• G. A. Rawlyk, ed .The Canadian Protestant Experience (1994)
• Mason Wade, The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955) 2 vol

to 1763

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Allan Greer, The People of New France (1997)
• Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint : Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (2005)
• Axtell, James, ed. The Indian Peoples of Eastern America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, (1981)
• Axtell, James. The European and The Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. New York : Oxford University Press, (1981)
• Baugh, Timothy G. & Jonathon E. Ericson, eds. Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North Amercia. New York: Plenum Press, (1994)
• Beardy, Flora & Robert Coutts. Voices From Hudson Bay: Cree Stories From York Factory. Montreal: McGill University Press, (1996)
• Bruce Trigger, Children of the Aataentsic : a history of the Huron people to 1660 (1976)
• Bruce Trigger, Natives and newcomers : Canada's "heroic age" reconsidered (1986)
• Clark, Ella Elizabeth. Indian Legends of Canada. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1960)
• Cornelius Jaenen, Friend and Foe (1976) brief survey of French-Indian relations in the 16th & 17th centuries.
• Conrad, Margaret & Alvin Finkel & Cornelius Jaenen. History of the Canadian Peoples: Beginnings to (1867) Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, (1993)
• Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips Method and Theory in American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press.(1957)ISBN 978-0-226-89888-9.
• George M. Wrong, The Conquest of New France (1910)
• George M. Wrong, The Fall of Canada (1914)
• George M. Wrong, The Rise and Fall of New France (1928)
• Gordon Gibson A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective - Promote the Individual (2009) ISBN 0889752436
• Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
• Marcel Trudel, The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973)
• Peter Pope, Fish into wine : the Newfoundland plantation in the seventeenth century (2004)
• Smith, Donald B. & Edward S. Rogers eds. Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives On The First Nations. Toronto: Dundurn Press Limited, (1994)
• Stanley, G.F.G. The Birth of Western Canada: A History of the Riel Rebellions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1936)
• Taylor, John Leonard. Treaty Research Report: Treaty Four. Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, (1985)
• Trigger, Bruce. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's Heroic Age Reconsidered. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, (1985)
• Ives, John W. A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory. Boulder CO.: Westview Press, (1990)
• Kehoe, Alice. Hunters of the Buried Years: The Prehistory of the Prairie Provinces. (1962)
• Friesen, Gerald. The Canadian Prairies: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1993).
• Frank W. Brecher. Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 (1998);;
• Louise Dechêne, Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal (2003)
• W. J. Eccles. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 ;;(1983)
• Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870. Winnipeg: Watson Swayer Publishing Ltd, (1980)
• Wallis & Wallis. The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1995)
• Thomas Flanagan First Nations? : Second Thoughts - 2nd ed. (2008) ISBN 0773534431
• Morton, Desmond. A Short History of Canada 5th ed (2001) ISBN 7215019683

1763-1867

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Jerry Bannister, The rule of the admirals : law, custom, and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 (2003)
• J. M. Beck, Joseph Howe (2 vols, Kingston and Montreal, 1962-63), i: Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; ii: The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873.
• G. P. Browne (ed.), Documents on the Confederation of British North America (1969).
• Bettina Bradbury, Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
• 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).
• Paul Craven, editor, Labouring lives : work and workers in nineteenth-century Ontario (1995)
• D. G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald (2 vols, Toronto, 1952-55), vol 1: The Young Politician; ii, The Old Chieftain.
• Allan Greer, The patriots and the people : the rebellion of 1837 in rural Lower Canada (1993)
• Tina Loo, Making law, order, and authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871 (1994)
• Ged Martin. Britain and the Origins of Canadian Confederation, 1837-67 ;;(1995)
• Ged Martin (ed.), The Causes of Canadian Confederation (Fredericton, 1990).
• W. L. Morton, The Critical Years: The Union of British North America 1857-1873 (Toronto, 1964).
• Alastair Sweeny, George-Étienne Cartier: A Biography (Toronto, 1976).
• Robin W. Winks, The Civil War years : Canada and the United States (Baltimore, 1960; 4th ed. Montreal, 1998).
• George M. Wrong, Canada and the American Revolution: The Disruption of the First British Empire (1935)
• Brian Young, George-Étienne Cartier : Montreal bourgeois (1981)

1867-1920

• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography(1966-2006), thousands of scholarly biographies of those who died by 1930
• Bothwell, Robert, Ian Drummond, and John English. Canada 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987, textbook
• Brown R. C. Robert Laird Borden: A Biography. 2 vols. Toronto: Macmillan, 1975, 1980.
• Brown R. C., and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. standard survey
• Lamb W. Kaye. History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. New York: Macmillan, 1977.
• Desmond Morton and J. L. Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989)
• Patricia Roy, A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989)
• Jonathan F. Vance, Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997) cultural history

1921-1957

• Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn. C.D. Howe. Toronto: Mcclelland and Stewart, 1979.
• Robert Bothwell, 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)
• Mary-Ellen Kelm, Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-1950 (1999)
• 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
• J.W. Pickersgill and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970). excerpts from King's diary
• P. Roy, J.L. Granatstein, Masako Iino & Hiroko Takamura, Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese During the Second World War (Toronto: 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
• Robert A. Wardhaugh, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

1957-2006

• 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.
• Clarkson, Stephen. Canada and the Reagan Challenge: Crisis and Adjustment, 1981-85. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1985.
• Clarkson, Stephen. Uncle Sam and Us: Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State. Toronto; Washington : University of Toronto Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002.
• 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.

Contemporary

• Blattberg, Charles. 2003. Shall We Dance? A Patriotic Politics for Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2003 (especially chapter 3, "Who We Were").
• Pound, Richard W. Fitzhenry & Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2004. ISBN 1-55041-171-3

Economic history

• Innis, Harold. A., and A. R. M. Lower; Select Documents in Canadian Economic History, 1783-1885 University of Toronto Press, 1933 online edition, primary sources
• Baldwin, John R., and Petr Hanel. Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy: Canadian Industry and International Implications (2007) excerpt and text search
• Bliss, Michael. Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business. McClelland and Stewart, (1987).
• Burton, F. W. "Wheat in Canadian History," The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1937), pp. 210-217 in JSTOR
• Fleming, Keith R. Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911-1958. McGill-Queen's U. Press, (1992). 326 pp.
• Glazebrook, G. P. de T. A History of Transportation in Canada (1938)
• 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
• Mackintosh, W.A. "The Laurentian Plateau in Canadian Economic Development," Economic Geography, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Oct., 1926), pp. 537-549 in JSTOR
• Marr, William L. and Donald Patterson. Canada: An Economic History, 1980.
• Naylor, Tom. The History of Canadian Business. 1867-1914 2 vol (1976)
• Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram, and J.C. Herbert Emery. A History of the Canadian Economy 4th ed. (2007)
• 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 in JSTOR
• 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
• Williams, Glen. Not for Export : Toward a Political Economy of Canada’s Arrested Industrialization . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
• Young, John H. "Comparative Economic Development: Canada and the United States," The American Economic Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, (May, 1955), pp. 80-93 in JSTOR

Labour

• 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)
• Frager, Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939 (2005) excerpt and text search
• Froschauer, Karl. White gold: Hydroelectric Power in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.
• Haddow, Rodney, and Thomas Klassen. Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective (2006) excerpt and text search
• 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 online edition from Questia
• Kealey, Gregory S. Dreaming of what might be: the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 (1982) online at ACLS e-books
• Laxer, Gordon. Open for Business : The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Morton, Desmond. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (1999) excerpt and text search
• Palmer, Bryan D. Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991, 1992

Railways

• Andreae, Christopher. Lines of Country: An Atlas of Railway and Waterway History in Canada (1996)
• Baskerville, Peter. "Hickson, Sir Joseph," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Baskerville, Peter. "Americans in Britain’s backyard: the railway era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880," Business History Review 55 (1981): 314–36 in JSTOR
• 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
• Eagle, J. A. The Canadian Pacific Railway and the Development of Western Canada, 1896-1914. McGill-Queen's University Press 1989
• Fleming, R. B. The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 University of British Columbia Press, 1991 online at Questia
• Fournier, Leslie T. Railway Nationalization in Canada: The Problem of the Canadian National Railways (1937)
• Fournier, Leslie T. "The Canadian National Railway versus the Canadian Pacific: A Comparative Study," The Journal of Political Economy Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jun., 1931), pp. 369-389 in JSTOR
• 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 edition from Questia
• Hofsommer, Don L. Grand Trunk Corporation: Canadian National Railways in the United States, 1971-1992. 1995. 227 pp.
• 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 online edition from Questia
• den Otter, A.A. The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• Regehr, Theodore D. "Hays, Charles M." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway Macmillan of Canada 1976
• Stevens, G. History of the Canadian National Railways Macmillan Company 1973
• Underwood, Jay. Built for War: Canada's Intercolonial Railway, (2006) excerpt and text search
• Weaver, R. Kent. The Politics of Industrial Change: Railway Policy in North America (1985) online edition from Questia
• Willson, Beckles. The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal 1915. online edition from Questia

Political thought

• Katherine Fierlbeck, Political Thought in Canada: An Intellectual History, Broadview Press, 2006
• Ian McKay, Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada's Left History, Between the Lines, 2006

Cultural history, popular culture

• Ainslie, Patricia, and Mary-Beth Laviolette. Alberta Art and Artists: An Overview (2007)
• 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. (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.
• Robidoux, Michael A. "Imagining a Canadian Identity Through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey," Journal of American Folklore, 115/456 (2002): pp. 209-225.
• 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.
• Morrow, Don, and Kevin Wamsley. Sport in Canada: A History. (2005) 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-541996-2 [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=219611151340448 online review from H-CANADA[
• Weiss, Jonathan, and Jane Moss. French-Canadian Literature (1996)
• Wise, Wyndham, ed. Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. (2001). 272 pp.
• Woodcock, George. Northern Spring: The Flowering of Canadian Literature. (1987). 318 pp.

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

• 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)
• 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.

Women, gender, family

• Bradbury, Bettina. Working families: Age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal (1993)
• Cohen, Marjorie Griffin. Women's Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. (1988). 258 pp.
• Forestell, Nancy M., Kathryn M. McPherson, and Cecilia Louise Morgan, eds. Gendered Pasts: Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada. (2003) 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-8020-8690-7 online review from H-CANADA
• Frager, Ruth A., and Carmela K. Patrias. Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939 (2005) excerpt and text search
• Gleason, Mona, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History. (5th ed. 2006) 407 pp.; 24 essays by scholars ISBN 978-0-19-542350-1 online review from H-CANADA; also excerpt and text search
• Halpern, Monda. And on that Farm He Had a Wife: Ontario Farm Women and Feminism, 1900-1970. (2001). 234 pp. online review from H-CANADA
• Hammill, Faye. Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. 245 pp.
• Kechnie, Margaret C. Organizing Rural Women: the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1910. (2003). 194 pp.
• Moss, Mark. Manliness and Militarism: Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War. (2001). 216 pp.
• Noël, Françoise. Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870. (2003) 384pp
  • Noël, Françoise. Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years (2009)
• Parr, Joy, ed. A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980. (1996). 335 pp.
• Prentice, Alison et al. Canadian Women: a history (1996, 2nd edition)
• Smith, Judith E. Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960. (2004). 444 pp.
• Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003) excerpt and text search

Primary sources

• Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
• Thomas Thorner with 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, 2nd ed. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003.
• Statistics Canada. Historical Statistics of Canada. 2d ed., Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983.
• J.W. Pickersgill and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939-1944 and Vol. 2: 1944-1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945-1946 and Vol. 4: 1946-1947 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970). excerpts from King's diary
• Alexander Morris. 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.
• The CanText text library contains a library of documents divided by time period.