List of Canadian historians
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This is a list of the most prominent Canadian
historians.
History of Canada
The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Canada has been inhabited for millennia by distinctive groups of Aboriginal peoples, among whom evolved trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and social hierarchies...
historians.
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- Irving AbellaIrving AbellaIrving Martin Abella, is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in the History of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement...
, Jewish and labour - David BercusonDavid BercusonDavid Jay Bercuson, OC, FRSC is a Canadian labour, military, and political historian.Born in Montreal, he attended Sir George Williams University and graduated from there in 1965 with a BA in History and was awarded the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for the highest standing in history...
, labour, military, politics - Pierre BertonPierre BertonPierre Francis de Marigny Berton, was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist....
, numerous popular histories - Conrad BlackConrad BlackConrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...
, biographer of Duplessis - Michael BlissMichael BlissJohn William Michael Bliss, CM, FRSC is a Canadian historian and award-winning author. Though his early works focused on business and political history, he has written several important medical biographies, including of Sir William Osler...
, medical - Robert BothwellRobert BothwellRobert Bothwell is a professor of Canadian history, and the foremost scholar on Canadian Cold War participation, as well as a frequently published author.-Career:...
, 20th century - Gerard BouchardGérard BouchardGérard Bouchard is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD degree in history from the University...
, Quebec - Mark BourrieMark BourrieMark Bourrie is an award-winning Canadian journalist, best-selling author, historian, and Carleton University lecturer. He is the author of several books, including the best-selling The Fog of War , By Reason of Insanity: The David Michael Krueger Story , Flim Flam , and Many a Midnight Ship...
, maritime, media - George Williams BrownGeorge Williams BrownGeorge Williams Brown PhD, LLD, FRSC , was a Canadian historian and editor. Born on April 3, 1894 in Glencoe, Middlesex County, Ontario and died on October 19, 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario.- Early life and education :...
, editor and textbooks - Nick BruneNick BruneNick Brune, BA , MA , BEd , is a Canadian educator, historian, and author.Born in London, England, he received a Bachelors degree and Masters degree in Honours History and Political Science from the University of Toronto....
, textbooks - J. M. S. Careless, politics
- Pierre Francois Xavier de CharlevoixPierre François Xavier de CharlevoixPierre François Xavier de Charlevoix was a French Jesuit traveller and historian distinguished as the first historian of New France....
, New France - Margaret ConradMargaret ConradMargaret Conrad, is a Canadian historian specializing in the fields of Atlantic Canada and Women's history. She most recently held the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick before retiring in 2009....
, women, maritimes - G. Ramsay Cook, politics, biography
- Terry CoppTerry CoppTerry Copp is a Canadian military historian and Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University and is Director of the Laurier Centre for Military and Strategic Disarmament Studies....
, World War II - Donald CreightonDonald CreightonDonald Grant Creighton, was a noted Canadian historian.-Background:Born in Toronto, the son of Methodist minister, Creighton attended Victoria College, in the University of Toronto, where he received his BA in 1925...
, 19c - Ernest Alexander CruikshankErnest Alexander CruikshankErnest Alexander "E. A." Cruikshank FRSC , was a Canadian Brigadier General, a historian who specialized in military history and the first Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.-Early life:...
, military and Ontario, Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board - Lovat DicksonLovat DicksonLovat Dickson, born Horatio Henry Lovat Dickson was a notable publisher and writer, the first Canadian to have a major publishing role in Britain. He is best known today for his biographies of Grey Owl, Richard Hillary, Radclyffe Hall and H. G. Wells...
, 20th century - Gordon DonaldsonGordon Donaldson (journalist)Archibald Gordon Clark Donaldson was a Scottish-Canadian author and journalist. He appeared on television and also produced television programming.- Early life :...
, politics - Olive Dickason, First Nations
- William J. EcclesWilliam J. EcclesWilliam John Eccles , commonly known as W. J. Eccles, was a historian of Canada.Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, England, his family immigrated to to Canada in the 1920s. He attended college at McGill University and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1953, he joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba...
, New France - John English, politics
- Francois Xavier Garneau, Quebec
- Andrew GodefroyAndrew GodefroyAndrew Godefroy CD, M.A., Ph.D. is a Canadian soldier, scholar, and author noted for his work in strategic studies, technology innovation, biography, and military history.- Scholarship :...
, military - W. G. GodfreyW. G. GodfreyWilliam G. Godfrey was a Canadian historian that specialized in the history of the Maritime Provinces. He received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Waterloo and his Ph.D. from Queen's University. He was department chair at Mount Allison University...
, Maritimes - George R. D. GouletGeorge R. D. GouletGeorge Richard Donald Goulet is a Canadian Métis best-selling author, historian, public speaker, retired lawyer and prostate cancer survivor.-Life:...
, Métis - Terry GouletTerry GouletMarie Therese Veronica "Terry" Goulet, née Boyer de la Giroday is a Canadian best-selling author, historian, Métis scholar, public speaker, wife of George R. D. Goulet and mother of five children including Laura de Jonge. Born in Calgary, Alberta, she studied at the University of Manitoba...
, Métis - J.L. Granatstein, 20th century
- Paul GrossPaul GrossPaul Michael Gross is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in...
- Charlotte GrayCharlotte Gray (author)Charlotte Gray, CM is a Canadian historian and author.Born in Sheffield, England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for Saturday Night and...
- James H. GrayJames H. GrayJames Henry Gray, was a Canadian journalist, historian and author.Born in Whitemouth, Manitoba, he moved to Winnipeg with his parents in 1911. In 1922, he dropped out of public school and went to work at the Winnipeg Grain Exchange as a messenger...
- Lionel GroulxLionel GroulxLionel-Adolphe Groulx was a Roman Catholic priest, historian and Quebec nationalist. -Early life and ordination:Groulx was born at Chenaux, Quebec, Canada, the son of a farmer and lumberjack, and died in Vaudreuil, Quebec. After his seminary training and studies in Europe, he taught at Valleyfield...
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- Kenn HarperKenn HarperKenn Harper is a Canadian grocer in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He writes a regular column in Nunatsiaq News. He was employed at various times as a teacher and development officer and is an entrepreneur. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society...
- Andrew HuntAndrew Hunt (historian)Andrew Emerson Hunt is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the Director of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History.-Life:...
- Bruce HutchisonBruce HutchisonWilliam Bruce Hutchison, was a Canadian author and journalist.Born in Prescott, Ontario, Hutchison was educated in public schools in Victoria, British Columbia. He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa...
- Michael IgnatieffMichael IgnatieffMichael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011...
- Harold InnisHarold InnisHarold Adams Innis was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media, communication theory and Canadian economic history. The affiliated Innis College at the University of Toronto is named for him...
- Benjamin IsittBen IsittDr. Ben Isitt is a Canadian historian and legal scholar with expertise in the relationship between social movements and the state...
- Laurier LaPierreLaurier LaPierreLaurier L. LaPierre, OC is a retired Canadian Senator and former broadcaster, journalist and author. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada....
- Arthur R. M. LowerArthur R. M. LowerArthur Reginald Marsden Lower, CC, FRSC was a noted Canadian historian and "liberal nationalist" interested in Canadian economic history, particularly the forest trade, and in Canadian-U.S. relations....
- Keith Matthews (historian)Keith Matthews (historian)Keith Matthews was a prominent historian of Newfoundland, best known for his Oxford University DPhil thesis "The West of England Newfoundland Fishery" and for a highly influential essay "Fence Building: A Critique of the Historeography of Newfoundland."...
- Margaret MacMillanMargaret MacMillanMargaret Olwen MacMillan, OC is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University...
- Ian McKayIan McKay (historian)Ian McKay is a Canadian historian at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he has taught since 1988. His primary interests are Canadian cultural and political history; the economic and social history of Atlantic Canada, especially Nova Scotia, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and...
- Phyllis McKiePhyllis McKiePhyllis Gertrude McKie, Lady McKie was a Canadian historian and photographer from Montreal who died in 1983. She was born Phyllis Ross but became Phyllis Birks in 1929 upon her marriage to Gerald Walker Birks, a son of the Montreal businessman Henry Birks. Upon her second marriage, in 1956 to the...
Maritime history - William H. McNeillWilliam H. McNeillWilliam Hardy McNeill is an American world historian and author and is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1947.-Biography:...
- Adrien-Gabriel MoriceAdrien-Gabriel MoriceAdrien-Gabriel Morice was a missionary priest belonging to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He served as a missionary in Canada, and created a writing system for the Carrier language.-Early life:...
- Desmond MortonDesmond Morton (historian)Desmond Dillon Paul Morton, OC, FRSC, CD is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations....
- W.L. MortonW.L. MortonWilliam Lewis Morton, OC was a noted Canadian historian who specialized in the development of the Canadian west. He was born in Gladstone, Manitoba. He won a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University where he studied history...
- Hilda NeatbyHilda NeatbyHilda Marion Ada Neatby, was a Canadian historian and educator.Born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Andrew Mossforth Neatby and Ada Deborah Fisher, she received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota...
- Peter C. NewmanPeter C. NewmanPeter Charles Newman, CC, CD is a Canadian journalist and writer.Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His father, Oscar, was a self-made wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, where he was...
- Gustave LanctotGustave LanctotGustave Lanctot, OC, FRSC, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, was a Canadian historian and archivist.Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907. A Rhodes Scholar, he studied political science and history from 1909 to 1911 while at...
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- Margaret OrmsbyMargaret OrmsbyMargaret Anchoretta Ormsby, OBC was a noted Canadian historian, particularly concerning the History of British Columbia. Born in Quesnel, British Columbia, she was raised in the Okanagan Valley. She enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1925, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in...
- Fernand OuelletFernand OuelletNot to be confused with Fernand Ouellette, a Quebecois poet and essayist.Fernand Ouellet, OC, FRSC , a French-Canadian author and educator, was educated at Université Laval and gained a PhD in 1965...
- Douglas OwramDoug OwramDr. Doug Owram is Professor of History and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia Okanagan, a post he assumed on July 1, 2006...
- Erna ParisErna ParisErna Paris is a Canadian non-fiction author born in Toronto, Ontario.After earing a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in Honours Philosophy and English, Paris moved to France for several years, where she continued her studies at the Sorbonne...
- Talbot Mercer PapineauTalbot Mercer PapineauTalbot Mercer Papineau, MC was a lawyer and soldier from Quebec, Canada.Born in Montebello, Quebec, he was the son of Louis-Joseph Papineau . However, Papineau was brought up a Protestant and had American roots. His mother, Caroline Rogers, was born in an influential family from Philadelphia...
- Lester B. PearsonLester B. PearsonLester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis...
- Derek PenslarDerek PenslarDerek Jonathan Penslar is a Canadian historian. He was raised in Los Angeles, attended Stanford University for his first degree, and then took his graduate degrees at the University of California at Berkeley, where his advisors were Richard Webster, Amos Funkenstein and Gerald Feldman...
- Robie Lewis ReidRobie Lewis ReidRobie Lewis Reid , often referred to as Robie Reid, was a noted historian and jurist in British Columbia, Canada. Reid wrote many books and essays on the history of British Columbia, but his special interest was the study of the works of Rudyard Kipling Another special field of interest was thet...
- Stanley Brehaut RyersonStanley Brehaut RyersonStanley Brehaut Ryerson was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist. There is very little information available concerning his parents, but Ryerson was born in 1911, into a well-off middle class family in Toronto...
- Roger SartyRoger SartyRoger Sarty is among Canada's leading historians, specializing in the history of Canada's Navy and coastal defence.-Early life and education:...
- J.T. Saywell
- Joseph SchullJoseph SchullJoseph Schull was a Canadian playwright and historian who wrote more than two dozen books and 200 plays for radio and television....
- Arthur Silver
- Paul St. Pierre
- Jean Edward SmithJean Edward SmithJean Edward Smith, Ph.D is professor at Marshall University and biographer. Currently he is the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto after having served as professor of political economy there for thirty-five years...
- C.P. Stacey
- George F.G. Stanley
- Veronica Strong-BoagVeronica Strong-BoagVeronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D, FRSC is a Canadian historian specializing in the modern history of women and children in Canada. She is currently Professor of Women's History at The University of British Columbia...
- Alastair SweenyAlastair SweenyAlastair Sweeny is a Canadian publisher, historian, and author. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he attended St. Andrew's College, received a Bachelors degree from the Trinity College in the University of Toronto, and a Master of Letters and Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin.Sweeny has...
- Bruce TriggerBruce TriggerBruce Graham Trigger, was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of...
- Marcel Trudel
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- Mark Sweeten WadeMark Sweeten WadeMark Sweeten Wade was a medical doctor and noted historian of early British Columbia history. A doctor at the Kamloops Home for Men in the 1920s, he was able to interview many veterans of the province's early gold rush, including many of the more famous names in the history of the Cariboo Road,...
- Frederick William WallaceFrederick William WallaceFrederick William Wallace was a journalist, photographer, historian and novelist. He was the author of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, a now-classic 1924 book about the last days of the Age of Sail in Maritime Canada...
- Patrick Watson
- George WoodcockGeorge WoodcockGeorge Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet, and published several volumes of travel writing. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature, the first academic journal specifically...
- George Wrong
- Robert J. YoungRobert J. YoungRobert J. Young was a professor of History at the University of Winnipeg from 1967 until 2008. He specializes in 20th century European international politics. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the London School of Economics, Young's doctoral dissertation was written under the...
See also
- History of CanadaHistory of CanadaThe history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Canada has been inhabited for millennia by distinctive groups of Aboriginal peoples, among whom evolved trade networks, spiritual beliefs, and social hierarchies...
- List of historians
- List of Canadian writers
- The Canadian Centenary SeriesThe Canadian Centenary SeriesThe Canadian Centenary Series is a nineteen volume authoritative history of Canada published between 1963 and 1986 as an extended Canadian Centennial project. The collection resulted from the initiative of W. L. Morton and D. G. Creighton....
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 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