Brown, Craig, ed.The Illustrated History of Canada. Rev ed. Key Porter, 2003. Illustrated social and political history of Canada made up of contributions by well-known Canadian historians.
Cook, Ramsay; Frances Halpenny; and Jean Hamelin, eds.Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press, 1966-1998. Dictionary of noteworthy Canadians covers more than 900 years of Canadian history.
Eayrs, James.In Defence of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1965-1983. Military history, specifically the alliances with Western European countries.
Gentilcore, R. Louis, and others, eds.Historical Atlas of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1987-1993. The movement of people and resources, from Canada's prehistory to the 20th century.
Gillmor, Don, and Pierre Turgeon.Canada: A People's History. McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Focuses on the words of witnesses to Canadian history.
Kealey, Gregory S.Workers and Canadian History. McGill-Queens University Press, 1995. Collection of 12 essays on Canadian labour history by a noted labour historian.
Mollins, Carl, ed.Canada's Century. Key Porter, 1999. More than 300 photographs from Maclean's, Canada's national magazine, illuminate a century of Canadian history (1905 to 1999).
Morton, Desmond.A Military History of Canada. Rev. ed. McClelland & Stewar, 2000. Surveys Canada's involvement in war.
Morton, William Lewis, and Donald Grant Creighton, eds.The Canadian Centenary Series. McClelland & Stewart, 1963-1986. Launched to commemorate Canada's 1967 centennial, this multi-volume series is a definitive work on periods of Canadian history and a useful source in understanding the complexity of Canada's federal system.
Young, Robert Andrew.The Struggle for Quebec. McGill-Queens University Press, 1999. A study that clarifies the complexities of Québec's place in Canada.
Gentilcore, R. Louis, and others, eds.Historical Atlas of Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1987-1993. The movement of people and resources, from Canada's prehistory through the 20th century.
Gillmor, Don, and Pierre Turgeon.Canada: A People's History. McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Focuses on the words of witnesses to Canadian history.
Halsey, David.Magnetic North: A Trek across Canada. Sierra Club, 1990. The story of two adventurers who traversed Canada's 7,500 kilometers (4,700 miles) by foot, canoe, and sleigh.
Hay, Elizabeth.Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York. New Star, 1993. This journal of a Canadian living in New York explores Canadian identity and the meaning of home.
Magocsi, Paul Robert.Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. University of Toronto Press, 1999. A reference book with 119 entries that explores Canada's multicultural society.
Marsh, James H., ed.The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig, 1988. Extensive reference work with information on all things Canadian.
Mollins, Carl, ed.Canada's Century. Key Porter, 1999. More than 300 photographs from Maclean's, Canada's national magazine, illuminate a century of Canadian history (1905 to 1999).
Mosher, Howard Frank.North Country: A Personal Journal through the Borderland. Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Differences between American and Canadian culture illuminated by a six-week journey of criss-crossing the U.S.-Canadian border.
Finckenstein, Maria von and others, eds.Celebrating Inuit Art 1945-1970. Key Porter, 2000. Lavishly illustrated compendium of the art of Canada's northern aboriginals.
Hill, Charles C.The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation. McClelland & Stewart, 1995. Catalog of an exhibition on this influential group of landscape painters.
Reid, Dennis.A Concise History of Canadian Painting. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 1988. General survey from 1665 to 1965, with biographical information, anecdotes.
Rhodes, Richard.A First Book of Canadian Art. Owl, 2001. Provides an introduction to Canadian art. For younger readers.
New, W. H., ed.A History of Canadian Literature. New Amsterdam Books, McGill-Queens University Press, 1993. 2001. From the Jesuit Relations to Margaret Atwood, this is a valuable introduction to Canada's diverse literature.
Toye, William, and Eugene Benson, eds.The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Rev. ed. Oxford University Press, 2001. Reference work with over 1,100 profiles of major Canadian writers, poets, and literary scholars.
Leckie, Robert.A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars. Wiley, 2000. A strong and colorful narrative charts the long, savage conflict between England and France in their quest for supremacy in pre-Revolutionary North America.
Steele, Ian Kenneth.Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the 'Massacre'. Oxford University Press, 1990. This fascinating revision of the massacre at Fort William Henry challenges the stereotype of the murdering savage.
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