This is a list of the most prominent historians of Canada. All have published about Canada, but some have covered other topics as well.
A-G
edit- 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
- 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
O-Z
edit- 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
editFurther reading
edit- 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.