These books offer a general overview of Canadian history, all in a friendly, readable style, and are also good reference books to keep on your shelves.
This useful introduction to Canadian history covers the political, economic and social history of Canada. A history professor at the University of Manitoba, Jack Bumsted provides perspective on individual Canadians, from early settlers to politicians, in this broad narrative of Canadian history. Trade paperback.
More than 14,000 entries provide a chronology of Canadian history, beginning with the geological formation of the land itself. The collection of facts, dates, people and events make this volume a handy reference book on Canadian history and fascinating reading as well. Edited by Richard Pound. Trade paperback.
A thousand years of Canadian maps gathered from archives and libraries around the world tell the history of Canada. A great resource to add perspective to understanding Canadian history. Paperback.
If you've always thought that debates on the Canadian constitution are excruciatingly dull, Christopher Moore may change your mind with this well-paced, entertaining and interesting history on the politicians, issues, conflicts and drama that went into Canadian Confederation. Trade paperback.
From the beginning of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the company hired photographers to track its progress. This book takes a selection of 150 of the more than 800,000 historic photos in the Canadian Pacific Railway Archives, and shows changes and events in Canadian history from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Trade paperback.
Author James H. Gray captures the misery and unrest of the Great Depression in the Canadian West. A reporter for the
Winnipeg Free Press at the time, James Gray experienced the relief lines and riots and provides a first-hand account of those terrible years in Canadian history. Trade paperback.
Subtitled "150 years of Private Canadian Correspondence," this collection of letters from Canadians, both well-known and not, provides a form of oral history of Canada. This book adds a personal connection to our past and breathes life into Canadian history. Hardcover.
