Margery Fee (Editor, Introduction) — Harbour Publishing, 2020. — 496 p. "The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied", writes Jean Barman, "and it is up to each of us to act as best we can". The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable contribution toward this laudable goal. With a wide range of source...
Biblioasis, 2019. — 320 p. Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c. 1636-1710) is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as "an eager hustler with no known scruples". Kidnapped by Mohawk warriors at the age of fifteen, Radisson assimilated and was adopted by a...
Doubleday Canada, 2020. — 496 p. The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling. The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for...
Michigan State University Press, 2019. — 482 p. Mémoires of Michilimackinac offers corrected, unabridged, and properly annotated and edited transcriptions and translations of three important documents related to the French presence and French–Native American relations in the Great Lakes region before 1715. The Relation du sieur De lamotte Cadillac; d’Aigremont’s Mémoire of...
UBC Press, 1996. — 234 p. Prophecy of the Swan covers twenty-nine years in the history of the Peace River valley in northeastern British Columbia. A vivid portrayal of life in some of the most isolated fur trade posts, it describes the intense competition between the North West and the Hudson's Bay companies, the individuals who were involved in exploration and commerce, and,...
Natural Heritage, 2007. — 224 p. New Brunswicks enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened, the flow of emigrants increased, creating distinctive Scottish communities along the provinces major timber bays and river frontages. While Scots relied on the timber trade for economic sustenance, their...
Museum Restoration Service, Historical Arms Series No. 18, 1984. — 40 pgs. This is the work of a curator rather than an historian, so military material culture and organization is favored over tactical or biographical details. This booklet covers the uniforms, weapons, garrisons, artillery, militia, and everyday life of the French colonial soldier before and during the 18th...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 456 p. At the Ocean’s Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia’s colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous societies to the French and British empires,...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 1954. — 489 p. There have been many histories of Canada, and some of them have been truly fine, but it seemed to a group of writers, all of whom were Canadians or of Canadian stock, who met a few years ago, that the time had come for something different. We all felt the need for a version which would neglect none of the essential factors but would...
McClelland & Stewart, 2016. — 422 p. Gerald M. Craig's history, first published fifty years ago, is still considered one of the best depictions of Upper Canada ever written. Beginning in the early 1770s, Craig evocatively recounts the region's development from a "few scattered pioneer settlements" to an advanced society in the early 1840s. In these years, Ontario as we know it...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years’ War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and events in America and...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and events in America and...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years’ War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and events in America and...
Goose Lane Editions, 2012. — 180 p. When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With Great Britain locked in battle with...
Formac Publishing Company, 2020. — 144 p. Among the Loyalists who were transported to the shores of New Brunswick by the British after their defeat by revolutionary Americans were several hundred African Americans. Like their counterparts who went to what is now Nova Scotia, among this group were formerly enslaved men, women and children who had been granted their freedom in...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 320 p. Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people. Overturning the tendency...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 657 p. Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada is a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the exercise of state military power and its effects on ordinary people. Overturning the tendency...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 295 p. In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad framework of revolution in...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. — 295 p. In Idea of Liberty in Canada during the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, 1776-1838, Michel Ducharme shows that Canadian intellectual and political history between the American Revolution and the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-38 can be better understood by considering it in relation to the broad framework of revolution in...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 568 p. George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is a critical edition of Nelson's daily journals, supplemented with exciting anecdotes from his...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. — 568 p. George Nelson (1786-1859) was a clerk for the North West Company whose unusually detailed and personal writings provide a compelling portrait of the people engaged in the golden age of the Canadian fur trade. Friends, Foes, and Furs is a critical edition of Nelson's daily journals, supplemented with exciting anecdotes from his...
University of New Mexico Press, 1983. — 238 p. This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication....
McClelland and Stewart, 2016. — 276 p. Volume III of the Canadian Centenary Series Now available as e-books for the first time, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is left untold, each volume is complete in itself. The...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. — 592 p. In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial...
Simon & Schuster, 2008. — 864 p. In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years. Champlain’s Dream reveals, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of a remarkable man: a leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world riven by...
Simon & Schuster, 2008. — 864 p. In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years. Champlain’s Dream reveals, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of a remarkable man: a leader who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world riven by...
Irwin Law, 2018. — 392 p. In the middle of night on 29 December 1837, Canadian militia commanded by a Royal Navy officer crossed the Niagara River to the United States and sank the Caroline, a steamboat being used by insurgents tied to the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada. That incident, and the diplomatic understanding that settled it, have become shorthand in international law...
Translated from "L'Histoire du Canada" of F. X. Garneau, Esq., and accompanied with illustrative notes by Andrew Bell. In two volumes. Vol.1. Second edition – revised. Published by John Lovell. Montreal, 1862. Garneau’s Histoire du Canada (1845–48), predominantly a political and military account of early Quebec, includes tales of pioneering men and women and descriptions of the...
Dundurn, 1980. — 400 p. King’s Men is the story of the Loyalist regiments who became the soldier founders of the Province of Ontario, the Loyal Colonials who joined the Provincial Corps of the British Army, Canadian Command, during the American revolution. Mythology on the United Empire Loyalists who founded two Canadian provinces is ingrained. We often envisage loyal families...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 286 p. Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion. The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in...
Lexington Books, 2022. — 190 p. In 1837, a small group of rebels proclaimed the short-lived Republic of Canada. Between then and the Act of Confederation of 1867, colonial Canadians tried to imagine the future of their communities in North America. The choice between monarchy and republicanism shaped both colonial self-images and images of the United States; it also drove the...
University of British Columbia Press, 1980. — 215 p. Why was the Northwest Coast of North America the last portion of the world's temperate zones to be brought within the orbit of emerging European-based empires? I attempt to answer this question in this volume. Separated from eastern North America by the immense Rocky Mountain cordillera and from the Atlantic Ocean by long,...
University of British Columbia Press, 1992. — 280 p. The Canadian northwest coast, home to aboriginal peoples for thousands of years, became a player in British imperialism when Captain James Cook arrived at Nootka Sound in 1778. Cook's discovery of the sea-otter population along the coast initiated the maritime fur trade, which, in turn, led to feverish competition involving...
Harbour Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough. Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of...
Harbour Publishing, 2021. — 288 p. A fascinating account that links early maritime history, Indigenous land rights, and modern environmental advocacy in the Clayoquot Sound region by award-winning author and historian Barry Gough. Centred on Meares Island, located near Tofino on Vancouver Island’s west coast, Possessing Meares Island weaves a unique history out of the mists of...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 432 p. Louis Riel (1844-1885) was an iconic figure in Canadian history best known for his roles in the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the Northwest Resistance of 1885. A political leader of the Métis people of the Canadian Prairies, Riel is often portrayed as a rebel. Reconstructing his experiences in the Northwest, Quebec, and the worlds...
Laval, Province of Quebec: Dev-Sco Publications, 1966. - 98 pgs. Title varies: on the spine The Fighting Frasers , on the cover 78th Fighting Frasers , on the frontispiece The Old 78th Regiment , and on the title page 78th Fighting Frasers in Canada. A Short History of the Old 78th Regiment or Fraser's Highlanders 1757-1763 . This book is connected with an effort to recreate a...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. — 455 p. Irish revolutionary nationalism, initially dedicated to insurgency, quickly descended into less conventional violence. How successive British governments responded to this challenge and the extent of their respect for essential freedoms are the subject of The Fenian Problem.
Dundurn Press, 2013. — 264 p. Until now the story of this trail, its beginnings, its purpose, and its significant place in Ontario’s history, has been poorly defined. The story of Scugog Carrying Place, the ancient aboriginal trails connecting Lake Ontario with Lakes Scugog and Simcoe and the Kawartha lakes is a multifaceted one. In tracing its documented history from the 1790s...
Doubleday, 2019. — 384 p. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it...
Doubleday, 2019. — 384 p. Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it...
Goose Lane Editions, 2015. — 288 p. Is it possible to reach back in time and solve an unsolved murder, more than 170 years after it was committed? Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. - the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia - was shot to death by his...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 320 p. As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths...
Dundurn Press, 2004. — 180 p. A navigator and cartographer, Samuel de Champlain’s passion was for America, which he struggled to explore and have recognized. He still dreamed of reaching India, with its spices and its many riches, by continuing further to the West. But the land called New France – a harsh land from India – was his greatest love. He defended it fiercely to those...
McClelland and Stewart, 2016. — 320 p. Now available as e-books for the first time and with the addition of a new introduction by Dean Oliver of the Museum of Canadian History, the Canadian Centenary Series is a comprehensive nineteen-volume history of the peoples and lands which form Canada. Although the series is designed as a unified whole so that no part of the story is...
McClelland and Stewart, 2011. — 255 p. In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States. As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face of settlement there. Their arrival would...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. — 644 p. As Bruce Trigger explains in his preface, Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was the first history in which native peoples appeared as genuine actors in human dramas - mainly tragedies - instead of as part of the flora and fauna in the background. By stressing the interconnections between the grand events of the conquest and...
McClelland and Stewart, 2016. — 300 p. In this perceptive history of Quebec before it was divided into Upper and Lower Canada, Professor Hilda Neatby scrutinizes the response of the British Parliament to the duty of devising a sympathetic, fair, and workable system of law and government. The author examines how successive governors administered the Proclamation of 1763 and the...
Ontario Genealogical Society, 2012. — 224 p. Not only professional soldiers but also citizens serving as militiamen participated in the War of 1812. The militia’s contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don’t know how many Upper Canadian militia men died defending their home. York’s Sacrifice profiles 39 men who lost their lives...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. — 264 p. When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar gardens through the Saint Lawrence...
University of Toronto Press, 2001. — 320 p. "On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial filters, Perry designs a case study of...
University of Toronto Press, 2004. — 368 p. The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident in...
I.B. Tauris, 2010. — 320 p. The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the great merchant companies. Granted sole trading rights to a huge part what is now Canada they were coerced in the mid nineteenth century to set up a colonial administration on Vancouver Island to protect British interests at a time of growing expansionism from America to the south and possible threats from a...
University of Alberta Press, 2020. — 424 p. In Masters and Servants, Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company's interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a "household" with its attendant norms of duty and loyalty. The household system produced a...
University of Alberta Press, 2020. — 424 p. In Masters and Servants , Scott P. Stephen reveals startling truths about Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) workers. Rather than dedicating themselves body and soul to the Company's interests, these men were hired like domestic servants, joining a "household" with its attendant norms of duty and loyalty. The household system produced a...
Septentrion, 2004. — 400 p. Pour célébrer leur 15e anniversaire, les éditions du Septentrion, en collaboration avec le Conseil Général de la Charente-Maritime, réservent une surprise de taille aux amateurs d'histoire et de beaux livres : un ouvrage prestigieux sur le fondateur de l'Amérique française, Samuel de Champlain. Dans un volume grand format, en couleurs, sous une...
Penguin Canada, 2011. — 192 p. In this groundbreaking narrative, historian, investigative journalist and filmmaker Peter Vronsky uncovers the hidden history of the Battle of Ridgeway and explores its significance to Canada’s nation-building myths and traditions. On June 1, 1866, more than 1,000 Fenian insurgents invaded Canada across the Niagara River from Buffalo, N.Y. The...
University of Toronto Press, 2001. — 352 p. In 1497, explorers from the confident world of Renaissance Europe sailed, under Captain Giovanni Caboto, into what are now Canadian waters. This significant encounter brought into contact two worlds equally ignorant of each other and set in motion a number of events that culminated in the birth of a new nation. The Renaissance,...
Revised edition — University of Regina Press, 2014. — 525 p. This book is an epic account of the 1870s, a decade that saw unprecedented changes come to the Great Plains of North America: famine, fire and pestilence, the disappearance of the buffalo, the last stand of the Sioux and the Metis, the Boundary Survey and the "March West" of the North-West Mounted Police, men like...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2005. — 567 с.
В книге, написанной на основе зарубежных архивных материалов, а также широкого круга опубликованных источников и научной литературы, рассматривается англо-французское соперничество в Северной Америке в XVII — начале XVIII в. Особое внимание уделяется внешнеполитическому и дипломатическому аспектам борьбы двух держав,...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петербургского университета, 2005. — 567 с.
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В книге, написанной на основе зарубежных архивных материалов, а также широкого круга опубликованных источников и научной литературы, рассматривается англо-французское соперничество в Северной Америке в XVII — начале XVIII в. Особое внимание уделяется внешнеполитическому и дипломатическому аспектам...
2004. — 129 с. Представленные в этой работе переводы источников извлечены из многотомного собрания ежегодных хроник, повествующих о событиях, происходивших в Новой Франции с начала XVII по вторую половину XVIII веков. Хроники написаны иезуитскими миссионерами и известны под названием «Реляции иезуитов» (Thwaites R.G. ed. The Jesuit Relations and allied documents. Travels and...
Монография. — Челябинск: Энциклопедия, 2013. — 160 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91274-197-5. Монография посвящена политической истории Канады II половины XVIII в. В центре внимания находятся проблемы сосуществования двух этнических сообществ: английского и французского, в контексте завоевания и смены политической системы. В работе анализируется политика британской колониальной...
Монография. — Челябинск: Энциклопедия, 2013. — 160 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91274-197-5. Монография посвящена политической истории Канады II половины XVIII в. В центре внимания находятся проблемы сосуществования двух этнических сообществ: английского и французского, в контексте завоевания и смены политической системы. В работе анализируется политика британской колониальной...
М.: Наука, 1978. - 384 с.
Книга, являющаяся первым в советской научной литературе исследованием по новой истории Канады, посвящена узловым вопросам исторического развития этой страны в период английского колониального господства. На основе использования широкого круга источников, в том числе архивных, в работе рассматриваются предпосылки, основные этапы, движущие силы, формы и...
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