This is a list of the most prominent historians of Canada. All have published about Canada, but some have covered other topics as well.

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  • Irving Abella (1940–2022), Jewish and labour
  • James Murray Beck (1914–2011), Nova Scotia, biographer of Joseph Howe
  • David Bercuson (born 1945), labour, military, politics
  • Pierre Berton (1920–2004), numerous popular histories
  • Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance
  • Conrad Black (born 1944), biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada
  • Ted Byfield (1928–2021), two 12-volume history series on Alberta and Christian civilization
  • Michael Bliss (1941–2017), medical
  • Robert Bothwell (born 1944), 20th century
  • Gerard Bouchard (born 1943), Quebec
  • Mark Bourrie, maritime, media
  • George Williams Brown (1894–1963), editor and textbooks
  • Nick Brune, textbooks
  • J. M. S. Careless (1919–2009), politics
  • Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761), New France
  • Sean Carleton, historian Canadian identity
  • Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes
  • G. Ramsay Cook (1931–2016), politics, biography
  • Terry Copp, World War II
  • Tim Cook (1971–2025), military historian
  • Hugh Cowan (1867–1943), Ontario
  • Donald Creighton (1902–1979), 19c, textbooks
  • Ernest Alexander Cruikshank (1853–1939), military and Ontario, chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board
  • Brian Cuthbertson (1936–2023), Nova Scotia
  • Ken Cuthbertson (born 1951), biographer and author of 20th-century Canadian history
  • Joan Dawson, Nova Scotia
  • (1928–2000), New France
  • J. Alphonse Deveau (1917–2004), Acadian
  • Katherine Dewar (1943–2026), women in the World Wars
  • Lovat Dickson (1902–1987), 20th century
  • Gordon Donaldson (1926–2001), politics
  • Olive Dickason (1920–2011), First Nations
  • William J. Eccles (1917–1998), New France
  • Shirley Elliott, legislative librarian of Nova Scotia
  • Marie Elwood (1932–2012), ceramics
  • John English (born 1945), politics
  • Judith Fingard, Eastern Canada
  • Elizabeth Frame (1820–1904), Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq
  • Francois Xavier Garneau (1809–1866), Quebec
  • Placide Gaudet (1850–1930), Acadian
  • Andrew Godefroy (born 1972), military
  • W. G. Godfrey, Maritimes
  • George R. D. Goulet, Métis
  • Terry Goulet (born 1934), Métis
  • J. L. Granatstein (born 1939), 20th century, military; politics; historiography
  • Charlotte Gray (born 1948), popular histories
  • James H. Gray (1906–1998), Prairies; politics
  • Cody Groat, First Nations
  • Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
  • William B. Hamilton (1929–2012), toponymy
  • Kenn Harper (born 1945), Inuit
  • Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history
  • Bruce Hodgins (1931–2019), historian and author
  • Bruce Hutchison (1901–1992), local history, popular history
  • Harold Innis (1894–1952), economic history; communications
  • A. J. B. Johnston
  • Gregory Kealey, labour
  • Gustave Lanctot (1883–1975), New France
  • Fred Landon (1880–1969), Ontario, Upper Canada
  • Laurier LaPierre (1929–2012)
  • Agnes Laut (1871–1936)
  • Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988)
  • Keith Matthews
  • Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), diplomacy
  • Allan Marble, medical history
  • Christopher McCreery, orders, decorations, and medals
  • Ian McKay
  • Peter Thomas McGuigan (1942–2017), Nova Scotia
  • Phyllis McKie (1929–1983), maritime history
  • Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875–1952), Manitoba
  • Jesse Edgar Middleton (1872–1960), Ontario, Toronto
  • Christopher Moore (born 1950), popular
  • Robert Morgan (1938–2011), Cape Breton history
  • Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859–1939), First Nations
  • Desmond Morton (1937–2019), military
  • W. L. Morton (1908–1980), West; Manitoba
  • William D. Naftel (1940–2018), military history
  • Hilda Neatby (1904–1975), Quebec
  • Peter C. Newman (1929–2023), 20th-century politics

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  • Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996)
  • Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021)
  • Douglas Owram (born 1947)
  • Erna Paris (1938–2022)
  • Talbot Mercer Papineau (1883–1917)
  • Francis Parkman (1823–1893), American historian of New France
  • Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972)
  • Derek Penslar
  • Bob Plamondon (born 1957)
  • Andrew Preston (born 1973)
  • Robie Lewis Reid
  • Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (1911–1998)
  • Paul St. Pierre (1923–2014)
  • Roger Sarty (born 1952)
  • John Saywell (1929–2011)
  • Joseph Schull (1906–1980)
  • Adam Shortt (1859–1931)
  • Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019)
  • C.H.J. Snider (1879-1971)
  • Charles Perry Stacey (1906–1989)
  • George Stanley (1907–2002)
  • Veronica Strong-Boag
  • Alastair Sweeny
  • Bruce Trigger (1937–2006)
  • Marcel Trudel (1917–2011)
  • Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1919–2000)
  • Frank Underhill (1889–1971)
  • Mark Sweeten Wade
  • Frederick William Wallace (1886–1958)
  • Patrick Watson (1929–2022)
  • Ruth Holmes Whitehead (1947–2023)
  • Frederick George H. Williams (1863–1944)
  • George Woodcock (1912–1995)
  • Andrew Woolford, genocide scholar
  • J. F. C. Wright
  • George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948)
  • Robert J. Young

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See also

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  • Historiography of Canada
  • History of Canada
  • List of historians
  • Lists of Canadian writers
  • The Canadian Centenary Series

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.
  • Famous Historians from Canada - Ranker
  • Browse "Historians" - The Canadian Encyclopedia
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