Bibliography of Canadian provinces and territories

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This is a bibliography of works on the Provinces and territories of Canada.

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Provinces and territories

Alberta

Main article: Bibliography of Alberta history

British Columbia

Further information: Bibliography of British Columbia

Manitoba

• Friesen, Gerald; Potyondi, Barry. A Guide to the Study of Manitoba Local History. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press; 1981 (ISBN 0-88755-121-1)
• Hébert, Raymond M. Manitoba's French-Language Crisis: A Cautionary Tale. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2004 (ISBN 0-7735-2790-7)

New Brunswick

Further information: Bibliography of New Brunswick

• McNutt, W.S. New Brunswick: A history: 1784-1867 MacMillan, 1963 (still the standard history). 496 pp.
• MacFarlane, William G. New Brunswick Bibliography: The books and writers of the province. Saint John, 1895.

Nova Scotia

Further information: Bibliography of Nova Scotia

• Griffiths, Naomi. E. S. From Migrant to Acadian, 1604-1755: A North American Border People. Montreal and Kingston, McGill / Queen's University Press, 2004.
• Grenier, John. The Far Reaches of Empire. War in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. (ISBN 9780806138763)
• John G. Reid. The 'Conquest' of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, an Aboriginal Constructions University of Toronto Press. 2004 ISBN 0-8020-3755-0

Ontario

Main article: History of Ontario § Bibliography

• Craig, Gerald M Upper Canada: the formative years 1784-1841 McClelland and Stewart, 1963, the standard history online edition
• Craven, Paul, ed. Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 1995)
• Dunham, Eileen Political unrest in Upper Canada 1815-1836 McClelland and Stewart, 1963.
• Errington, Jane The Lion, the Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987.
• Drummond, Ian M. Progress Without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War (1987)
• Schull, Joseph. Ontario since 1867 (1978) 400pp; general survey emphasizing politics
• Whitcomb, Dr. Ed. A Short History of Ontario. (Ottawa. From Sea To Sea Enterprises, 2006) ISBN 0-9694667-6-5. 79 pp.
• , general survey emphasizing politics

Prince Edward Island

• Whitcomb, Dr. Ed. A Short History of Prince Edward Island Ottawa. From Sea To Sea Enterprises, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9865967-1-1. 56 pp.

Saskatchewan

Further information: Bibliography of Saskatchewan history

• Bennett, John W. and Kohl, Seena B. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915. University of Nebraska Press, 1995. 311 pp.
• Lipset, Seymour M. Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology. University of California Press, 1950.

Northwest Territories

• Ecosystem Classification Group, and Northwest Territories. Ecological Regions of the Northwest Territories Taiga Plains.

Nunavut

• Alia, Valerie. (2007) Names and Nunavut Culture and Identity in Arctic Canada. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 1-84545-165-1
• Henderson, Ailsa. (2007) Nunavut: Rethinking Political Culture. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 0-7748-1423-3
• Kulchyski, Peter Keith. (2005) Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 0-88755-178-5

History by region

Atlantic

Main articles: History of Newfoundland and Labrador § Bibliography, and Bibliography of Nova Scotia

• Beck, J. Murray. The Government of Nova Scotia (1957), a standard history
• Beck, J. Murray. Politics of Nova Scotia. vol 2: 1896-1988. (1985) 438 pp
• Cadigan, Sean T. Newfoundland and Labrador: A History U. of Toronto Press, 2009. Standard scholarly history
• Choyce, Lesley. Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. A Living History. (1996). 305 pp.
• Faragher, John Mack. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland(2005), 562 p.
• Fay, C. R.; Life and Labour in Newfoundland University of Toronto Press, 1956
• Gwyn, Julian. Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870(1998) 291 pp.
• Harris, Leslie. Newfoundland and Labrador: A Brief History (1968)
• MacKay; R. A. Newfoundland; Economic, Diplomatic, and Strategic Studies Oxford University Press, (1946)
• Rowe, Frederick. History of Newfoundland and Labrador (1980).
• Smallwood, Joseph, ed. The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (2nd ed. 1984), 2 vol.; also cd-rom edition
• Whitelaw, William Menzies; The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation (1934) online

Prairies and BC

Main article: Bibliography of Alberta history

Main article: Bibliography of British Columbia

Main article: Bibliography of Saskatchewan history

• Archer, John H. Saskatchewan: A History. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1980. 422 pp.
• Barman, Jean. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia U. of Toronto Press, 1991. 430pp
• Barnhart, Gordon L., ed. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 418 pp.
• Bocking, D. H., ed. Pages from the Past: Essays on Saskatchewan History. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1979. 299 pp.
• Boswell, Randy. Province with a Heart: Celebrating 100 Years in Saskatchewan (2005) 224pp, popular history excerpts and text search
• Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (2006) from U. of Regina Canadian Plains Research Center, (2005); 1071pp in print edition; article by experts on a very wide range of topics
• Francis, Daniel, ed. Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour, 2000. 806 pp.
• Friesen, Gerald. The Canadian Prairies: A History (2nd ed. 1987)
• Griffin, Harold. Radical Roots: The Shaping of British Columbia. Vancouver: Commonwealth Fund, 1999.
• Heritage Community Foundation. Alberta Online Encyclopedia, online 2009, a short encyclopedia
• Johnston, Hugh, ed. The Pacific Province: A History of British Columbia. (Douglas & McIntyre, 1996). 352 pp.
• Loewen, Royden. "On the Margin or in the Lead: Canadian Prairie Historiography," Agricultural History 73, no. 1 (Winter 1999): 27-45. in JSTOR
• MacGregor, James A. A History of Alberta. Edmonton, Alta.: Hurtig, 1972. 335 pp.
• McGillivray, Brett. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes in Transition (U. of British Columbia Press, 2000). 235pp
• Ormsby, Margaret A. British Columbia: A History (Macmillan, 1958) online edition
• Palmer, Howard. Alberta: A New History (1999), standard survey by leading historian
• Pitsula, James M. "Disparate Duo" Beaver 2005 85(4): 14-24, a comparison of Saskatchewan with Alberta, Fulltext in EBSCO
• Porter, Jene M., ed. Perspectives of Saskatchewan (University of Manitoba Press, 2009.) Pp. 377, 18 essays by scholars in several disciplines
• Richards, J. Howard and K.I. Fung, eds. Atlas of Saskatchewan (1969)
• Waiser, Bill. Saskatchewan: A New History (2005), 563 pp. a major scholarly survey
• Wardhaugh, Robert A., ed. Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History. (2001). 234 pp.
• Woodcock, George. British Columbia: A History of the Province. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. 288 pp.

Primary sources

• Owram, Douglas R., ed. The Formation of Alberta: A Documentary History. Calgary: Hist. Soc. of Alberta, 1979. 403 pp. primary sources

See also

• Bibliography of Canada
• Bibliography of Canadian history
• Bibliography of Canadian military history
• Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies
• List of Canada-related topics by provinces and territories
• List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
• List of Canadian provinces and territories by gross domestic product
• Territorial evolution of Canada

External links

• Canadiana: The National Bibliography of Canada - Library and Archives Canada