A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: 1, Beginnings to Confederation

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

These selective bibliographies consider books, articles, papers, and other items, and are meant to appeal to students, teachers, and the general reader. For ease of access, the bibliographies are written in narrative prose form, explaining why certain materials are good. However, unlike critical evaluative bibliographies, very few of the materials cited receive negative comments, nor are there any “helpful hints” on how the authors might have improved their current materials. The first volume is arranged by six regions, each authored by a different scholar. For example, “Quebec 1760-1867,” by Fernand Ouellet, covers such themes as French-Canadian historiography (and its four schools of “la survivance,” neo-nationalism, socio-economic thought, and Marxist-nationalism); English-Canadian historiography (and its two themes of the Laurentian school and the Liberal school); economics; society; religion; demography; intellectual processes; politics; culture; and constitutional history. Roughly the same divisions occur for the other five areas. The second volume, with its twelve sections, is a revision and retitling of the editors’ Canada Since 1867; A Bibliographic Guide (Hakkert, 1974), with new chapters on urban history, labour history, British Columbia, and the north. Each book has a separate broad subject index (but no index to authors and titles of books).