Canada's History

2016 Book & Gift Guide

Our annual guide to exciting new Canadian history titles and other great holiday gifts!

Click to read feature titles in Politics, Business and Law.

Politics, Business & Law

Our listings include a variety of books about business, labour, politics and crime.

Women's History Reading List

A selection of the many recent books about women and society plus biographies of some notable Canadian women.

Click to browse our historial fiction features

Featured Titles: Historical Fiction

Our listings highlight intriguing historical novels from publishers across Canada.

Books

A selection of new and recent books about hockey, amateur sports, women athletes and more.

Book Reviews

Toronto: Biography of a City by Allan Levine
Read the review by Bob Rae

First World War

Reading List: A selection of new and recent books about the Great War plus its causes and its consequences for Canada.

Recently released Canadian history titles.

Excerpt from Finding Franklin.

Q&A with Michel Hogue: Metis and the Medici...

A Q&A with Stephen Bown about Knud Rasmusse...

Video: Tim Cook discusses Fight to the Finish.

Who saved the West Coast from the U.S.?

Excerpt from The Writings of David Thompson V2.

The Supreme Court's influence on Canada....

L. Hill: The book behind The Book of Negroes.

Vikings on a Prairie Ocean

Podcast with James Dashuk, award-winning author...

Bomb shelter book a smash!

Author David O'Keefe on the Dieppe tragedy

Novel portrays naval battle for York Factory...

Robin Esrock's Great Canadian Bucket List

2013 Macdonald Prize Recipient: Wi...

Book Launch: Manufacturing Mennonites

WWI historian Tim Cook on Borden and King.

2012 Berton Award winner: the DCB.

2012 Macdonald Prize: Codex Canadensis.

James Laxer on TVO: Tecumseh and Brock.

CCM: A healthy pursuit

Richard Gwyn on Sir John A.

Photos: Art Deco Architecture in Toronto.

Roy MacSkimming on Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

WWI historian Tim Cook on Sir Arthur Currie.

Scott Chantler: Two Generals Interview

Scott Chantler: The Annotated Northwest Passage

Shock Army of the British Empire

The Gender of Breadwinners

Nelle Oosterom: 100 Photos that Changed Canada.

Ian McKay: history of leftists in Canada.

Canadians neglect the past at their peril, says...

A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
by Jessica Van Horssen

Reviewed by Ryan O'Connor

A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
by Bill Waiser

Reviewed by Ray Argyle

The Banker and the Blackfoot: A Memoir of My Grandfather in Chinook Country
by J. Edward Chamberlin

Reviewed by Ray Argyle

Honorary Protestants: The Jewish School Question in Montreal
by David Fraser

Reviewed by Victor Rabinovitch

What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools
by Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation

Reviewed by Dave Obee

Dam Builders: The Natural History of Beavers and Their Ponds
by Michael Runtz

Reviewed by Danielle Chartier

Emily Carr as I Knew Her
by Carol Pearson

Reviewed by Beverley Tallon

My Brother's Keeper: African Canadians and the American Civil War
by Bryan Prince

Reviewed by Tanja Hütter

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