Bibliography for HIST 382: Canada

 

This bibliography is compiled for the use of students in Professor Tom Isern's course in the history of Canada, taught at North Dakota State University.  An "SU" designation means we have the book in the NDSU library; a "TI" designation means I have it in mine; a "TC" means it's in one of the other Tri-College libraries; an “ILL” means you’ll have to get the book by inter-library loan.

 

Abel, Kerry

Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History

Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1993

 

TC

Adney, Tappan

The Klondike Stampede

Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1994

 

SU

Anderson, Kay J.

Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980

Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1995

 

TC

Atwood, Margaret

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Toronto: Anansi, 1972

 Margaret Atwood Society.

TC

Beal, Bob and Rod MacLeod

Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994

Sound, readable narrative history of the rebellion.

ILL

Bercuson, David

Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations and the General Strike

Rev. Ed., Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1990

 

ILL

Berger, Carl

The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 1867-1914

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1970

 

SU

Berger, Carl

The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900

Toronto: Oxford U. Press, 1976. 2d Ed., Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1986

 

TC

Berton, Pierre

My Times: Living with History, 1947-1995

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1995

Berton, veteran print and TV journalist, became Canada’s best-known popular historian.  Perusal of the titles at right will show that he is concerned with subjects and themes that loom large in the historical identity of Canada.  Writer’s Union page on Pierre Berton.

ILL

Berton, Pierre

The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970

SU

Berton, Pierre

The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1871-1881

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971

ILL

Berton, Pierre

Why We Act Like Canadians: A Personal Exploration of Our National Character

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982. Penguin paperback, 1987

ILL

Bishop, Morris

Champlain: The Life of Fortitude

New York: A.A. Knopf, 1948. Reprint, New York: Octagon, 1979

 

TC

Bliss, Michael

Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business

Toronto: Macmillan, 1987

 

TC

Boissery, Beverley

A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason, Trials, and Transportation to New South Wales of the Lower Canadian Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion

Toronto: Dundern Press, 1995

Background to the 1838 rebellion; good detail and analysis of the trials of those accused of treason; and follow-up on the 56 rebels transported to New South Wales.

TI

Bothwell, Robert

Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories

Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1995

A compilation of interviews done for a radio series, combining the observations of scholars with remarks from participants in the constitutional issues of the day.

SU

Bouchard, Lucien

On the Record

Trans. by Dominique Clift,  Toronto: Stoddart, 1994

A political autobiography in which Bouchard explains how he came to be a separatist. The climax of the book is his break with Mulroney and the Conservatives; a rationale for separatism follows.  See Le Bloc Québécois.

TI

Brebner, J. Bartlet

Canada: A Modern History

Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1960

 

SU

Brebner, John Bartlet

North Atlantic Triangle: The Interplay of Canada, the United States and Great Britain

New York: Russell & Russell, 1945; reprint, 1945

 

TC

Breen, David H.

The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874-1924

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1983

A solid history of ranching in the Canadian west, which was not just a matter of American intrusion, but a development of British and eastern Canadian enterprise. Details leasing system, society of ranching, coming of homesteaders, hard winter of 1907, and "dark years" of 1905-1911.

SU

Brown, Robert Craig, and Ramsay Cook

Canada, 1896-1921: A Nation Transformed

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974

 

SU

Buckley, Helen

From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces

Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1993

 

TC

Buckner, Philip A. and John G. Reid

The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1994

 

ILL

Burley, Edith

Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879

Oxford U. Press Canada, 1997

 

SU

Burnet, Jean and Howard Palmer

"Coming Canadians": An Introduction to a History of Canada's Peoples

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988

 

ILL

Burt, Alfred LeRoy

A Short History of Canada for Americans

Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1944

 

SU

Butler, W.F.

The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1872;  13th Ed., 1889

A classic travel narrative concerned mainly with the Prairies.  Excerpts here.

ILL

Campbell, Maria

Halfbreed

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973

 

SU

Canadian History: A Reader's Guide

2 vols., Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1994

Vol. 1, "Beginnings to Confederation," ed. by M. Brook Taylor; Vol. 2, "Confederation to the Present," ed. by Doug Owram.

ILL

Careless, J.M.S.

The Union of the Canadas: The Growth of Canadian Institutions, 1841-1857

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967

 

ILL

Carroll, Francis M.

A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842

Buffalo: U. of Toronto Press, 2000

 

SU

Carter, Sarah

Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy

Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1990

 

SU

Choquette, Robert

Language and Religion: A History of English-French Conflict in Ontario

Ottawa: U. of Ottawa Press, 1975

 

TC

Cohen, Andrew

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007

An extended essay on that old chestnut, the national identity. Cohen wishes Canadians would pay more attention to their heritage as the basis for a constructive national pride, but does not favor whitewashing for the sake of image. His is a reflective approach that regards the national character as still a work in progress.

TI

Cook, Ramsay

Canada and the French-Canadian Question

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1966

 

TC

Cook, Ramsay

Canada, Quebec, and the Uses of Nationalism

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986

 

TC

Copp, J. Terry

The Anatomy of Poverty: The Condition of the Working Class in Montreal, 1897-1929

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974

 

ILL

Corbett, Edward M.

Quebec Confronts Canada

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967

 

SU

Craig, Gerald M.

Upper Canada: The Formative Years, 1784-1841

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963

 

TC

Creighton, Donald

Dominion of the North: A History of Canada

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1944

 

SU

Creighton, Donald

The Forked Road: Canada, 1939-1957

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976

 

SU

Creighton, Donald

John A. Macdonald

2 vols., The Young Politician, Toronto: Macmillian of Canada, 1952; The Old Chieftain, Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1955

 

TI

Danysk, Cecilia

Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995

A sound work that concludes that farm workers and farmers shared common aspirations during the settlement era, but with farm consolidation and mechanization, class distinctions increased.

ILL

Dickason, Olive Patricia

Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times

Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1992

 

SU

Dickinson, John A., and Brian Young

A Short History of Quebec

Copp Clark Pitman, 1993; 2nd Ed., Montreal: McGill-Queen’s U. Press, 2000

 

SU

Doran, Charles F.

Why Canadian Unity Matters and Why Americans Care: Cultural Pluralism at Risk

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2001

 

SU

Dunmore, John

Storms and Dreams: Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman

Stroud: Nonsuch, 2005

Solid biography of the explorer who circumnavigated the globe in 1766-69.  In 1856-60 he served in the war with Britain in Canada.  That is not the emphasis of the book, but it is covered, and the work overall may be appealing to those with an interest in French exploration and empire.

SU

Eccles, William John

Canada under Louis XIV, 1663-1701

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964

 

SU

Eccles, William John

The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. Rev. Ed., Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico Press, 1974

 

SU

English, John

The Decline of Politics: The Conservatives and the Party System, 1901-1920

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1977

 

ILL

Ens, Adolf

Subjects or Citizens?: The Mennonite Experience in Canada, 1870-1925

Ottawa: Ottawa U. Press, 1994

 

SU

Ens, Gerhard J.

Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century

Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1996

Second text for HIST 382 Canada.

SU

Errington, Elizabeth Jane

Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840

Montreal: McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1995