Bibliography of Canadian history

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

Contents

Scholarly journals focused on Canadian history

Atlases, geography, environment

Surveys (overviews)

Chronicles of Canada series

Republished

Provinces and territories

Cities

Indigenous

Prior to 1763

1763–1867

Primary sources

1867–1920

First World War homefront

Historiography and memory

1921–1957

Overviews

Politics

Great Depression

Second World War

Cold War

Since 1957

Overviews
Specific

Contemporary

Military history

First World War

Official histories

First World War

Second World War

Korea

Economic history

General

Business history

Natural resources, energy, oil, lumber

Labour and working class

Historiography

  • 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 ISBN   0-88862-522-7

Railways

Company histories

Banks

  • Denison, Merrill. Canada's First Bank: A History of the Bank of Montreal. McClelland and Stewart, 1966.
  • McDowall, Duncan. Quick to the Frontier: Canada's Royal Bank. McClelland and Stewart, 1993.
  • 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).

Brewing

  • 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.

Insurance

  • 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.

Trusts

  • Bruce, Harry. A Century at Central Trust: The Story of Its Growth. Nimbus Publishing, 1987.
  • Collard, Edward. A Very Human Story: A Brief History of the Royal Trust Company, Its First 75 Years. Royal Trust, 1975.
  • Merifield, Russell R. From Country Trust to National Trust. National Trust Company, 1988.
  • 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.
  • Webb, John. Yorkshire Trust: A 90 Year History. Yorkshire Trust, 1978.

Petroleum and pipelines

  • 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.

Metals and mining

  • 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.

Pulp, paper, and power

  • 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.
  • McDowall, Dunan. The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Limited, 1899-1945. University of Toronto Press, 1988.
  • 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.

Others

  • 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.
  • Nesbitt Jr., A. R. Deane. Dry Goods and Pickles: The Story of Nesbitt, Thomson. The author, 1989.
  • Sweeny, Alastair. BlackBerry Planet: The Story of Research in Motion and the Little Device that Took the World by Storm. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

Technology

British roles

Education

Sports

Social

Ethnicity and immigration

Religion

Women, gender, family

Historiography and guides to the scholarly literature

Primary sources

Historical statistics

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