This is a bibliography of works on Ontario.
General Bishop, Olga B., et s\al. eds. Bibliography of Ontario History 1867-1967 (2 vols. University of Toronto Press, 1980). The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (1966–2006): thousands of scholarly biographies of notables who died by 1930 Canadian Encyclopedia (2008): reliable detailed encyclopedia, online free Celebrating One Thousand Years of Ontario's History: Proceedings of the Celebrating One Thousand Years of Ontario's History Symposium, April 14, 15, and 16, 2000. Ontario Historical Society, 2000. 343 pp.
Baskerville, Peter A. Sites of Power: A Concise History of Ontario. Oxford University Press, 2005. 296 pp. (first edition was Ontario: Image, Identity and Power, 2002). online review Beaulieu, Michel S. and Chris Southcott. North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 2010. ISBN 9781552774694
Chambers, Lori, and Edgar-Andre Montigny, eds. Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader (2000): articles by scholars Hall, Roger; Westfall, William; and MacDowell, Laurel Sefton, eds. Patterns of the Past: Interpreting Ontario's History. Dundurn Press, 1988. 406 pp. Mays, John Bentley. Arrivals: Stories from the History of Ontario. Penguin Books Canada, 2002. 418 pp. Ruth Arndt (Spence). "Prohibition in Canada: A Memorial to Francis Stephens Spence. Ed. F. S. Spence". Ontario Branch of the Dominion Alliance for the Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic (1919), 105–138, 381–400. Examines the temperance movement and political platforms towards prohibition. Malcolm Bird. Bird, Malcolm G. "Alberta's and Ontario's Liquor Boards: Why such Divergent Outcomes?" Canadian Public Administration 53.4 (2010): 509-530. A case study between Ontario and Alberta regarding privatization of liquor.
Morris Fish. "The Effect of Alcohol on the Canadian Constitution ...Seriously." McGill Law Journal. 57.1 09; 2011: 189+. The author focuses on prohibition as a vital event that lead courts to be modernized. Gerald Hallowell. Prohibition in Ontario, 1919–1923. Love Printing Service, 1972: 3–18, 150–152. Mainly focuses on the election platforms of prohibition and was critical of the E.C Drury government. Murray Johnston. E.C. Drury: Agrarian Idealist. University of Toronto Press, 1986: 1–4, 158–160, 196, 200–202. A biography of E.C Drury Premier of Ontario 1919–1923. Dan Malleck. Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927–44. UBC Press, 2012: xv–xvi, 240–245. A book that analyzes the creation of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Dan Malleck. "An Innovation from Across the Line: The American Drinker and Liquor Regulation in Two Ontario Border Communities, 1927–1944." Journal of Canadian Studies 41.1 (2007): 151–171. End of Prohibition in Ontario created a challenge for the relationship between the United States and Canada. Peter Nesbitt. G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario Tory. University of Toronto Press, 1977, 138–139, 158–60, 277–279. A biography of G. Howard Ferguson Premier of Ontario 1923–1930. Christina Blizzard. Right Turn: How the Tories Took Ontario Dundurn Press, 1995. Monica Gattinger and Diane St Pierre. "The 'Neoliberal Turn' in Provincial Cultural Policy and Administration in Québec and Ontario: The Emergence of'Quasi-Neoliberal' Approaches." Canadian Journal of Communication. 35: 2 (June 29, 2010) Roger Keil. "'Common–Sense' Neoliberalism: Progressive Conservative Urbanism in Toronto, Canada." Antipode. 34: 3 (2002): 578–601. Sharon Anne Jaeger. From Control to Customer Service: Government Control of Liquor in Ontario, 1927–1972. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2000. Examination of post-Prohibition alcohol policy in Ontario, and the inconsistent and often contradictory roles of the government's two alcohol-related organs, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) and the Liquor License Board of Ontario (LLBO). Explores impact of social movements and popular opinion upon legislative decision-making, as well as industry lobbying and broader social context. Argues that Ontario's incrementalist approach to policy-making was often challenged by the need for rapid change in alcohol policy, and examines the government's attempts to construct hasty compromises. Posits that the continued existence of the LCBO past the time when it was a large contributor to net general revenue indicates not only its importance as a patronage tool and means to appease powerful alcohol producers, but also represents a reflection of government's enduring belief that the restriction of market forces is permissible if it protects society. Lukin Robinson. "The Ontario Election and After." Monthly Review 47.9 (1996): 19. An analysis, from the perspective of a socialist, of the 1995 general election in Ontario and its impact on the economy and government. Focuses on the NDP's failings as an effective government leading to its downfall and the Conservative's victory. Critical of the approach to which the NDP and Liberals handled the election, and the Conservatives sweeping changes to social programs in pursuit of reducing provincial deficit. Maeve Quaid. Workfare: Why Good Social Policy Ideas Go Bad. University of Toronto Press, 2002. An historical and comparative study of workfare as a social policy idea in the 1980s and 1990s. Sid Noel. Essays on Governing Ontario: Revolution at Queen's Park. James Lorimer & Company, 1997. A collection of essays and empirical studies examining the Ontario election in 1995. Discusses a variety of factors contributing to the Conservative victory including TV advertising campaigns, electoral behaviour, a change in Ontario's political culture, and economic and political history. Notes the appeal of fiscal accountability and platforms that cover a variety of areas of policy. Bob Hebdon and Peter Warrian. "Coercive Bargaining: Public Sector Restructuring Under the Ontario Social Contract, 1993–1996." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 52.2 (1999): 196–212. An empirical study of the 1993 NDP government's Social Contract Act mandating spending reductions. Focuses on the approach to restructuring that the Social Contract takes paying particular attention to unionization and collective bargaining and cooperativeness between labour and management. Concludes by arguing that optimal restructuring outcomes were achieved when the collective concerns of workers were heard. Further states that majority of local unions and managers were able to find compromise under the Social Contract Act which was not the case when compared to Conservative restructuring causing prolonged strikes. Robert Drummond. "The Provincial Perspectives: Ontario." Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1995. Edited by David Leyton-Brown. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. An overview of the 1995 general election in Ontario and record of the Speech from the Throne as well as the first session of the 36th Ontario provincial parliament. Focuses on establishing the facts rather than an in depth analysis of the election; determines that the major issues of the election were welfare, tax and spending cuts, and employment equity. Notes that Conservative victory due to a platform with promises (unlike the NDP), no half measures (unlike the Liberals), the poor performance of the NDP incumbent government, a shrewd advertisement campaign, votes from Reform supporters, and NDP and Liberals attacking one another rather than the Conservatives. Concludes with a record of the new government quickly fulfilling its campaign promises allowing it continued major public support and the introduction of an omnibus bill proposing amendments to approximately 40 statutes. Such amendments included allowing the government to close hospitals, direct doctors to practice in certain areas, and facilitate the merger of municipal governments.
Cartography
Geography and environment
Brown, Ron,Top 100 Unusual Things to See in Ontario (2007) excerpt and text search
Freeman, Neil B. The Politics of Power: Ontario Hydro and its Government, 1906–1995 (1996)
MacPherson, Allen. Ontario Provincial Parks Trail Guide (2005) briefly describes the 325 interpretive and hiking trails found in 86 operating Ontario Provincial Parks excerpt and text search
Nelles, H. V. The Politics of Development: Forests Mines & Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849–1941 (2005) O'Connor, Ryan. The First Green Wave: Pollution Probe and the Origins of Environmental Activism in Ontario. (2015)
Winfield, Mark S. Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario (University of British Columbia Press, 2012) 296 pages; environmental policies since 1945
Indigenous peoples
Economy
Agriculture and agricultural products
Labour, trades, and unions
Manufacturing
Transport
Governance and public policy Education Barber, Marilyn. "The Ontario Bilingual Schools Issue: Sources of Conflict," Canadian Historical Review, (1966) 47$3 pp 227–248 Bedard, George, and Stephen Lawion. "The struggle for power and control: shifting policy-making models and the Harris agenda for education in Ontario." Canadian Public Administration. 43.3 (2000): 241–269. This article provides a theoretical explanation of the models that Ontario public education policy has followed throughout the history of its development. Despite changes in centralization over the years, the article notes that under Harris and his Common Sense Revolution, the education policy system reached unprecedented levels of politicization and centralization. The "administrative agency" model is touted as the traditional model for the public education system. In this context, an examination of the Common Sense Revolution model will help to show whether or not it was a break from the political and policy tradition. The article also provides elucidation on the difference between the neo-conservative and neo-liberal ideological approaches. It concludes that educational policy-making has changed dramatically; although perhaps not solely because of the Common Sense Revolution. Croteau, Jean-Philippe. "History of Education in French-Speaking Ontario: A Historiographic Review." Canadian Issues (2014): 23-30 online
Gidney, R.D. "From Hope to Harris: The Reshaping of Ontario Schools." University of Toronto Press, 1999. This book chronicles the Ontario education system from the mid-century royal commission, chaired by Justice John Andre Hope that set the post-war educational landscape, to the changes presented by the Harris government at the end of the century. Gidney presents these two points as his beginning and conclusion while describing all the educational developments in between these two eras of drastic change. Gidney uses this period to present and explain three motifs of focus: governance, educational finance, and curriculum. Rather than focusing on specific issues such as separate school funding and French language schooling, he attempts to explain such issues through the aforementioned overarching general themes that he argues are crucial to understanding the Ontario education system and its intricacies.