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 (1940âÂÂ2022), Jewish and labour
- James Murray Beck (1914âÂÂ2011), Nova Scotia, biographer of Joseph Howe
- David Bercuson (born 1945), labour, military, politics
- Pierre Berton (1920âÂÂ2004), numerous popular histories
- Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance
- Conrad Black (born 1944), biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada
- Ted Byfield (1928âÂÂ2021), two 12-volume history series on Alberta and Christian civilization
- Michael Bliss (1941âÂÂ2017), medical
- Robert Bothwell (born 1944), 20th century
- Gerard Bouchard (born 1943), Quebec
- Mark Bourrie, maritime, media
- George Williams Brown (1894âÂÂ1963), editor and textbooks
- Nick Brune, textbooks
- J. M. S. Careless (1919âÂÂ2009), politics
- Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682âÂÂ1761), New France
- Sean Carleton, historian Canadian identity
- Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes
- G. Ramsay Cook (1931âÂÂ2016), politics, biography
- Terry Copp, World War II
- Tim Cook (1971âÂÂ2025), military historian
- Hugh Cowan (1867âÂÂ1943), Ontario
- Donald Creighton (1902âÂÂ1979), 19c, textbooks
- Ernest Alexander Cruikshank (1853âÂÂ1939), military and Ontario, chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board
- Brian Cuthbertson (1936âÂÂ2023), Nova Scotia
- Ken Cuthbertson (born 1951), biographer and author of 20th-century Canadian history
- Joan Dawson, Nova Scotia
- (1928âÂÂ2000), New France
- J. Alphonse Deveau (1917âÂÂ2004), Acadian
- Lovat Dickson (1902âÂÂ1987), 20th century
- Gordon Donaldson (1926âÂÂ2001), politics
- Olive Dickason (1920âÂÂ2011), First Nations
- William J. Eccles (1917âÂÂ1998), New France
- Shirley Elliott, legislative librarian of Nova Scotia
- Marie Elwood (1932âÂÂ2012), ceramics
- John English (born 1945), politics
- Judith Fingard, Eastern Canada
- Elizabeth Frame (1820âÂÂ1904), Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq
- Francois Xavier Garneau (1809âÂÂ1866), Quebec
- Placide Gaudet (1850âÂÂ1930), 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 (1906âÂÂ1998), Prairies; politics
- Cody Groat, First Nations
- Lionel Groulx (1878âÂÂ1967), Quebec
- William B. Hamilton (1929âÂÂ2012), toponymy
- Kenn Harper (born 1945), Inuit
- Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history
- Bruce Hodgins (1931âÂÂ2019), historian and author
- Bruce Hutchison (1901âÂÂ1992), local history, popular history
- Harold Innis (1894âÂÂ1952), economic history; communications
- A. J. B. Johnston
- Gregory Kealey, labour
- Gustave Lanctot (1883âÂÂ1975), New France
- Fred Landon (1880âÂÂ1969), Ontario, Upper Canada
- Laurier LaPierre (1929âÂÂ2012)
- Agnes Laut (1871âÂÂ1936)
- Arthur R. M. Lower (1889âÂÂ1988)
- Keith Matthews
- Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), diplomacy
- Allan Marble, medical history
- Christopher McCreery, orders, decorations, and medals
- Ian McKay
- Peter Thomas McGuigan (1942âÂÂ2017), Nova Scotia
- Phyllis McKie (1929âÂÂ1983), maritime history
- Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875âÂÂ1952), Manitoba
- Jesse Edgar Middleton (1872âÂÂ1960), Ontario, Toronto
- Christopher Moore (born 1950), popular
- Robert Morgan (1938âÂÂ2011), Cape Breton history
- Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859âÂÂ1939), First Nations
- Desmond Morton (1937âÂÂ2019), military
- W. L. Morton (1908âÂÂ1980), West; Manitoba
- William D. Naftel (1940âÂÂ2018), military history
- Hilda Neatby (1904âÂÂ1975), Quebec
- Peter C. Newman (1929âÂÂ2023), 20th-century politics
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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 1991âÂÂ92): 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), 223âÂÂ252.
- 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 CanadaâÂÂs 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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