List of Canadian historians

This is a list of the most prominent historians of Canada . All have published about Canada, but some have covered other topics as well.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

A-G

• Irving Abella, Jewish and labour
• David Bercuson, labour, military, politics
• Pierre Berton, numerous popular histories
• Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance
• Conrad Black, biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada
• Ted Byfield, two 12-volume history series on Alberta and Christian civilization
• Michael Bliss, medical
• Robert Bothwell, 20th century
• Gerard Bouchard, Quebec
• Mark Bourrie, maritime, media
• George Williams Brown, editor and textbooks
• Nick Brune, textbooks
• J. M. S. Careless, politics
• Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, New France
• Sean Carleton, historian Canadian identity
• Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes
• G. Ramsay Cook, politics, biography
• Terry Copp, World War II
• Tim Cook military historian
• Hugh Cowan, Ontario
• Donald Creighton, 19c, textbooks
• Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, military and Ontario, Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board
• Ken Cuthbertson, biographer and author of 20th century Canadian history
• Louise Dechêne, New France
• Lovat Dickson, 20th century
• Gordon Donaldson, politics
• Olive Dickason, First Nations
• William J. Eccles, New France
• John English, politics
• Francois Xavier Garneau, Quebec
• Placide Gaudet, Acadian
• Andrew Godefroy, military
• W. G. Godfrey, Maritimes
• George R. D. Goulet, Métis
• Terry Goulet, Métis
• J.L. Granatstein, 20th century, military; politics; historiography
• Charlotte Gray, popular histories
• James H. Gray, Prairies; politics
• Cody Groat, First Nations
• Lionel Groulx, Quebec
• Kenn Harper, Inughuit
• Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history
• Bruce Hodgins, historian and author
• Bruce Hutchison, local history, popular history
• Harold Innis, economic history; communications
• A.J.B. Johnston
• Gregory Kealey, labour
• Fred Landon, Ontario, Upper Canada
• Laurier LaPierre
• Agnes Laut
• Arthur R. M. Lower
• Keith Matthews
• Margaret MacMillan, diplomacy
• Ian McKay
• Peter Thomas McGuigan, Nova Scotia
• Phyllis McKie Maritime history
• Margaret Stovel McWilliams, Manitoba
• Jesse Edgar Middleton, Ontario, Toronto
• Christopher Moore, popular
• Adrien-Gabriel Morice, First Nations
• Desmond Morton, military
• W. L. Morton, West; Manitoba
• Hilda Neatby, Quebec
• Peter C. Newman, 20th century politics
• Gustave Lanctot, New France

O-Z

• Margaret Ormsby
• Fernand Ouellet
• Douglas Owram
• Erna Paris
• Talbot Mercer Papineau
• Francis Parkman, American historian of New France
• Lester B. Pearson
• Derek Penslar
• Bob Plamondon
• Andrew Preston
• Robie Lewis Reid
• Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson
• Roger Sarty
• J.T. Saywell
• Adam Shortt
• Joseph Schull
• Paul St. Pierre
• Jean Edward Smith
• C.P. Stacey
• George F.G. Stanley
• Veronica Strong-Boag
• Alastair Sweeny
• Bruce Trigger
• Marcel Trudel
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau
• Frank Underhill
• Mark Sweeten Wade
• Frederick William Wallace
• Patrick Watson
• Frederick George H. Williams
• George Woodcock
• Andrew Woolford, genocide scholar
• J. F. C. Wright
• George MacKinnon Wrong
• Robert J. Young

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See also

• Canada portal

• Historiography of Canada
• History of Canada
• List of historians
• List of Canadian writers
• The Canadian Centenary Series

Further reading

Further information: Bibliography of Canadian history

• Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature. (1990). 156 pp.
• Berger, Carl. Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (1986)
• Berger, Carl, ed. Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing (1987)
• Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (Winter 1991–92): 5-17
• Brandt, Gail Cuthbert. "National Unity and the Politics of Political History," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 3 (1992): 3-11
• Dick, Lyle. "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80," The Canadian Historical Review 82, No. 2 (June 2001), 223–252.
• Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities (2005) excerpt and text search
• 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). pp 347+. online edition
• Granatstein, J. L. Who Killed Canadian History? (2000)
• Granatstein, J. L. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present (1982)
• Hallowell, Gerald, ed. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (2006), online at OUP
• Kealey, Gregory S. "Class in English-Canadian Historical Writing: Neither Privatizing, Nor Sundering," Journal of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1992):
• Kealey, Linda, Ruth Pierson, Joan Sangster, and Veronica Strong-Boag. "Teaching Canadian History in the 1990s: Whose 'National' History Are We Lamenting?," Journal of Canadian Studies 27 (Summer 1992):
• Muise, D. A. ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation (1982); historiography
  • Granatstein, Jack, ed. A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present v2 (1982); historiography
• Osborne, Ken. "'Our History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canadian Schools--Past, Present, and Future," The Canadian Historical Review 81 (September 2000):
• Parr, Joy. "Gender History and Historical Practice," The Canadian Historical Review 76 (September 1995): 354-376
• Story, Norah. Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature (1974)
• 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),
• Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History (2003) excerpt and text search
• Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5 (1994): 3-16
• 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 excerpt and text search

External links

• Famous Historians from Canada - Ranker
• Browse "Historians" - The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Canadian Historical Association