BIBLIOGRAPHY (66 books)
Spirit, Ethos, Values (SEV)
Atwood, Margaret, Survival, a thematic guide to Canadian Literature, House of Anansi 1972, reissued 2004, 2012,
Cloutier, Eugène, No Passport, A discovery of Canada, Toronto, Oxford University Press 1968
Das, Satya, The Best Country, Why Canada will Lead the Future, Cambridge Strategies Inc., Edmonton 2002
Dowbiggin, Bruce, The Meaning of Puck, How Hockey Explains Modern Canada, Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto 2008
Ronald, George, ed., In Search of Canada especially opening essay “My Own Dear Land” by Robert Choquette, Reader’s Digest 1971
Matthews, Rupert O, CANADA (north/west/east), Coombe Books 1987
MacLennan, Hugh, The Colour of Canada, A journey across Canada in words and pictures, The Canadian, Illustrated Library, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1967
Monk, Lorraine, Canada with Love/Canada avec amour, 1 July 1982, to mark the patriation of the Constitution of Canada and the 115th anniversary of Confederation, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto
Patterson, Heather, I Am Canada, North Winds Press, a division of Scholastic Canada, Toronto 2006
Saul, John Ralston, A Fair Country, Telling Truths about Canada, Penguin Canada, Toronto, 2008
Individual Travel Experiences
Allen, Tom, Rolling Home, A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir, 2001, Penguin, Toronto
Geddes, Gary, Sailing Home: A Journey through time place and memory, 2010 Harper Collins
Art and photography
Enns, Maureen and Hinz, Roy Works Mountain Galleries at the Fairmont, Jasper 2005
Hallendy, Norman, INUKSUIT, silent messengers of the Arctic, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver / Toronto 2000
Kraulis, J.A., The Canadian Landscape/Le paysage canadien, Firefly Books, Richmond Hill, Ont. (photography) 2004
Kurelek, William, Kurrelek’s Canada, Pagurian Press, Toronto 1978
Kurelek, William The Last of the Arctic, Pagurian, Toronto 1976
Newlands, Anne, Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings, (presents 164 of Canada’s best known artists from across the country, spanning a period from the 17th century to the beginning of the 21st. 2007, Firefly Books, Richmond Hill, Ont.
Silcox, David P., The Group of Seven and Tom Thompson, 2003, Firefly Books, Richmond Hill Ont.
Stewart, Hilary, Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast, 1979, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto
Anecdote, Biography, Individuals and their opinions
Collard, Edgar A., Canadian Yesterdays, 45 remarkable anecdontes by a former editor of the Montreal Gazette. 1963 Longmans Canada Limited. Includes Lady Macdonald’s ride through the Rockies on the cowcatcher of a CP locomotive, Napoleon’s interest in staging a return to power—from Canada!, Sir John A’s British double and 42 others most Canadians, including historians, have never heard of.
MacEwan, Grant, Fifty Mighty Men, (Lacombe, Palliser, Potts, Crowfoot, Maskipitoon and 45 others) Western Producer Prairie Books 1982
MacEwan, Grant, … and mighty women too, stories of notable western Canadian women, (Marie-Anne Lagimodière, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Pauline Johnson, “Granny” Victoria Callihoo, Emily Murphy, Anahareo, Emily Carr & 25 others), Western Producer … Books 1975
Morton, Desmond/Weinfield, Morton, ed., Who Speaks for Canada?, words that shape a country, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1998
The land, including conservation, and people(s) – by regions
Berton, Pierre, The Arctic Grail, the quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole 1818-1909, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1988
Berton, Pierre, The Promised Land, Settling the West 1896-1914, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1984
Hugh Durnford, ed., Heritage of Canada, Our Storied Past—and Where to Find It, (591 heritage sites) Reader’s Digest, Montreal 1978
Fraser, Esther, The Canadian Rockies Early travels and explorations, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton 1969
Hern, Frances, Arctic Explorers, In Search of the Northwest Passage, Altitude Publishing, Canmore 2007
MacEwan, Grant, Entrusted to my care (essays on conservation including “Resources are Not unlimited,” “Multiple Use of Forest Lands,” The North American Campaign Begins,” “Bird Troubles Near Home,” “Give-and-Take in Soil Fertility,” “The Coming Struggle for Water,” “The Air we Breathe” “Sockeye Secrets” and 35 more
Mowat, Farley, Canada North, The Canadian Illustrated Library, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967
Tanner, Ogden, The Canadians The Old West, 1977, Time Life Books, Alexandria, Va.
Window(s) in Time, also Laments, Exposées and other issues
Beck, J. M., Pendulum of Power, Canada’s federal elections, esp. last chapter “Twenty-Eighth General Election (June 25, 1969) the first election contested by P. E. Trudeau as Leader of the Liberal Party (“His image has everything”), Prentice-Hall, Scarborough 1968
Bercuson, David Jay, ed., Canada and the Burden of Unity, especially Editor’s Introduction, “Canada’s Burden of Unity,” Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, 1977
Callwood, June, Portrait of Canada, Doubleday, New York, 1981
This is a portrait that not only shows the warts; it embellishes them:
The account ends with Québec‘s 1981 referendum. It spurs us identify what’s happened since—First Nations’ higher profile, effects of the Charter in a perspective that encompasses our regions.
Canadian Historical Readings #7, Minorities, Schools, and Politics, essays by DG Creighton, WL Morton, Ramsay Cook, Manoly Lupul, Marilyn Barber, Margaret Prang, University of Toronto Press 1969
Chafe, JW, Canada Your Country, Ryerson Press, Toronto 1950 This school text came out the year Canadian citizenship was passed in law. The future was imagined in large scale development; pollution was not yet seen as an issue.
Simply written, with clarity that usually avoids bigotry and sets out the claims/issues of French and English settlers, European and North American interests, with balance.
(First Nations do not receive the attention they deserve: a challenge to be faced in discussion. In its strengths and omissions this is a quick survey of Canada’s evolution from Europeans’ arrival until the multicultural society.)
Finnigan, Bryan and Gonick, Cy, Making It: The Canadian Dream, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1972
Fraser, Blair, The Search for Identity, Canada: Postwar to Present [1945-1967], Volume Six of the Canadian History Series conceived by Thomas B. Costain, Doubleday Canada, Toronto 1967
Gostick, Ron, Canada Its Glorious Potential … and things I didn’t learn in school…, Wanda Gostick, Flesherton, Ontario 2002
Hurtig, Mel, The Truth about Canada … things all Canadians should know about our country, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 2008
Ignatieff, Michael, The Rights Revolution, CBC Massey Lectures, House of Anansi Press 2000
Kilgour, David, Uneasy Patriots Western Canadians in Confederation, Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton 1988
Mercer, Rich, A Nation Worth Ranting About, Rick Mercer report from across Canada, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2002
Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Canada One Hundred 1967-1967, Year Book: a snapshot in the year of the centenary of Confederation
Nordegg, Martin, “The Possibilities of Canada are Truly Great,” Memoirs 1906-1924, ed. TD Regehr, MacMillan, Toronto 1971
Richler, Mordecai, Oh Canada! Oh Quebec” requiem for a divided country, 1992, Penguin Books, Toronto
Statistics Canada, Sylvia Ostry, Chief Statistician, Canada 1975, published under authority of the Minister of Industry/Trade/Commerce
Thomsen, Volker, Canada Enroute to Prosperity, Epic Press, Belleville, Ontario 2004
Facts and Figures
John Fisher, The Complete Cross-Canada Quiz & Game Book, by Mr. Canada, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1978
Kearney, Mark & Ray, Randy, The Great Canadian Trivia Book, A collection of Compelling Curiosities from Alouette to Zed, Houslow Press, Toronto, 1996
Robins, John D. ed., A Pocketful of CANADA, Collins, Toronto 1948
Segal, Hugh, The Right Balance, Canada’s Conservative Tradition, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 2011
Major Surveys and source books
Black, Conrad, Rise to Greatness: the History of Canada from the Vikings to the Present, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 2014
Careless, J.M.S., and Brown, R. Craig, The Canadians (1867-1967), Toronto, MacMillan of Canada 1967
Coyne, Deborah & Valpy, Michael, To Match a Dream, a practical guide to Canada’s constitution, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1998
Hallowell, Gerald, ed., The Oxford Campion to Canadian History, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ont. (encyclo – reference) 2004
Lunn, Janet, and Moore, Christopher, The Story of Canada, Key Porter Books 1996
Canada—This Land, These People, A Reader’s Digest Collection (a compendium of RD articles from 1936-1967) Montreal 1968
Reid, JH Stewart, McNaught, Kenneth and Crowe, Harry S, A source-book of Canadian history – selected documents and personal papers,, revised edition, Longmans, Toronto 1964
Transport & Communications
Berton, Pierre, The National Dream and The Last Spike (combined and abridged edition), McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1974
Raible, Chris, The Power of the Press, The story of early Canadian Printers and Publishers, James Lorimer & Company, Toronto 2007
Stewart, Sandy, From Coast to Coast, A personal history or radio in Canada, CBC Enterprises, Toronto 1985
World View and Canada seen from Afar
Gordon, J. King, ed., Canada’s Role as a Middle Power, papers given at the Banff Conference on World Development, August 1965, The Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA), Toronto
Moon, Robert, I found Canada Abroad, Ryerson Press, Toronto 1957
Pearson, Lester B., Diplomacy in the Nuclear Age including “The Four Faces of Peace” Nobel Peace Prize lecture, S.J. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited, Toronto, 1959