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.

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Irving Abella (1940–2022), Jewish and labour James Murray Beck (1914–2011), Nova Scotia, biographer of Joseph Howe David Bercuson (born 1945), labour, military, politics Pierre Berton (1920–2004), numerous popular histories Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance Conrad Black (born 1944), biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada Ted Byfield (1928–2021), two 12-volume history series on Alberta and Christian civilization Michael Bliss (1941–2017), medical Robert Bothwell (born 1944), 20th century Gerard Bouchard (born 1943), Quebec Mark Bourrie, maritime, media George Williams Brown (1894–1963), editor and textbooks Nick Brune, textbooks J. M. S. Careless (1919–2009), politics Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761), New France Sean Carleton, historian Canadian identity Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes G. Ramsay Cook (1931–2016), politics, biography Terry Copp, World War II Tim Cook (1971–2025), military historian Hugh Cowan (1867–1943), Ontario Donald Creighton (1902–1979), 19c, textbooks Ernest Alexander Cruikshank (1853–1939), military and Ontario, chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board Brian Cuthbertson (1936–2023), Nova Scotia Ken Cuthbertson (born 1951), biographer and author of 20th-century Canadian history Joan Dawson, Nova Scotia Louise Dechêne (1928–2000), New France J. Alphonse Deveau (1917–2004), Acadian Katherine Dewar (1943–2026), women in the World Wars Lovat Dickson (1902–1987), 20th century Gordon Donaldson (1926–2001), politics Olive Dickason (1920–2011), First Nations Gwynne Dyer (born 1943), British-Canadian military historian, author, professor, journalist, broadcaster, and retired naval officer William J. Eccles (1917–1998), New France Shirley Elliott, legislative librarian of Nova Scotia Marie Elwood (1932–2012), ceramics John English (born 1945), politics Judith Fingard, Eastern Canada Elizabeth Frame (1820–1904), Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq Francois Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), Quebec Placide Gaudet (1850–1930), Acadian Andrew Godefroy (born 1972), military W. G. Godfrey, Maritimes George R. D. Goulet, Métis Terry Goulet (born 1934), Métis J. L. Granatstein (born 1939), 20th century, military; politics; historiography Charlotte Gray (born 1948), popular histories James H. Gray (1906–1998), Prairies; politics Cody Groat, First Nations Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec William B. Hamilton (1929–2012), toponymy Kenn Harper (born 1945), Inuit Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history Bruce Hodgins (1931–2019), historian and author Bruce Hutchison (1901–1992), local history, popular history Harold Innis (1894–1952), economic history; communications A. J. B. Johnston Gregory Kealey, labour Gustave Lanctot (1883–1975), New France Fred Landon (1880–1969), Ontario, Upper Canada Laurier LaPierre (1929–2012) Agnes Laut (1871–1936) Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988) Keith Matthews Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), diplomacy Allan Marble, medical history Christopher McCreery, orders, decorations, and medals Ian McKay Peter Thomas McGuigan (1942–2017), Nova Scotia Phyllis McKie (1929–1983), maritime history Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875–1952), Manitoba Jesse Edgar Middleton (1872–1960), Ontario, Toronto Christopher Moore (born 1950), popular Robert Morgan (1938–2011), Cape Breton history Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859–1939), First Nations Desmond Morton (1937–2019), military W. L. Morton (1908–1980), West; Manitoba William D. Naftel (1940–2018), military history Hilda Neatby (1904–1975), Quebec Peter C. Newman (1929–2023), 20th-century politics

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Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996) Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021) Douglas Owram (born 1947) Erna Paris (1938–2022) Talbot Mercer Papineau (1883–1917) Francis Parkman (1823–1893), American historian of New France Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972) Derek Penslar Bob Plamondon (born 1957) Andrew Preston (born 1973) Robie Lewis Reid Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (1911–1998) Paul St. Pierre (1923–2014) Roger Sarty (born 1952) John Saywell (1929–2011) Joseph Schull (1906–1980) Adam Shortt (1859–1931) Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019) C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971) Charles Perry Stacey (1906–1989) George Stanley (1907–2002) Veronica Strong-Boag Alastair Sweeny Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Marcel Trudel (1917–2011) Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1919–2000) Frank Underhill (1889–1971) Mark Sweeten Wade Frederick William Wallace (1886–1958) Patrick Watson (1929–2022) Ruth Holmes Whitehead (1947–2023) Frederick George H. Williams (1863–1944) George Woodcock (1912–1995) Andrew Woolford, genocide scholar J. F. C. Wright George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948) Robert J. Young

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See also

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

Further reading

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.

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