List of Canadian historians
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, Jewish and labour
- James Murray Beck, Nova Scotia, biographer of Joseph Howe
- David Bercuson, labour, military, politics
- Pierre Berton, numerous popular histories
- Carol Bishop-Gwyn, dance
- Conrad Black, biographer of Duplessis; history of Canada
- Ted Byfield, two 12-volume history series on Alberta and Christian civilization
- Michael Bliss, medical
- Robert Bothwell, 20th century
- Gerard Bouchard, Quebec
- Mark Bourrie, maritime, media
- George Williams Brown, editor and textbooks
- Nick Brune, textbooks
- J. M. S. Careless, politics
- Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, New France
- Sean Carleton, historian Canadian identity
- Margaret Conrad, women, maritimes
- G. Ramsay Cook, politics, biography
- Terry Copp, World War II
- Tim Cook, military historian
- Hugh Cowan, Ontario
- Donald Creighton, 19c, textbooks
- Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, military and Ontario, chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board
- Brian Cuthbertson, Nova Scotia
- Ken Cuthbertson, biographer and author of 20th-century Canadian history
- Joan Dawson, Nova Scotia
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- J. Alphonse Deveau, Acadian
- Lovat Dickson, 20th century
- Gordon Donaldson, politics
- Olive Dickason, First Nations
- William J. Eccles, New France
- Shirley Elliott, legislative librarian of Nova Scotia
- Marie Elwood, ceramics
- John English, politics
- Judith Fingard, Eastern Canada
- Elizabeth Frame, Nova Scotia and the Mi'kmaq
- Francois Xavier Garneau, Quebec
- Placide Gaudet, Acadian
- Andrew Godefroy, military
- W. G. Godfrey, Maritimes
- George R. D. Goulet, Métis
- Terry Goulet, Métis
- J.L. Granatstein, 20th century, military; politics; historiography
- Charlotte Gray, popular histories
- James H. Gray, Prairies; politics
- Cody Groat, First Nations
- Lionel Groulx, Quebec
- William B. Hamilton, toponymy
- Kenn Harper, Inuit
- Craig Heron, labour and social history, public history
- Bruce Hodgins, historian and author
- Bruce Hutchison, local history, popular history
- Harold Innis, economic history; communications
- A.J.B. Johnston
- Gregory Kealey, labour
- Gustave Lanctot, New France
- Fred Landon, Ontario, Upper Canada
- Laurier LaPierre
- Agnes Laut
- Arthur R. M. Lower
- Keith Matthews
- Margaret MacMillan, diplomacy
- Allan Marble, medical history
- Christopher McCreery, orders, decorations, and medals
- Ian McKay
- Peter Thomas McGuigan, Nova Scotia
- Phyllis McKie, maritime history
- Margaret Stovel McWilliams, Manitoba
- Jesse Edgar Middleton, Ontario, Toronto
- Christopher Moore, popular
- Robert Morgan, Cape Breton history
- Adrien-Gabriel Morice, First Nations
- Desmond Morton, military
- W. L. Morton, West; Manitoba
- Hilda Neatby, Quebec
- Peter C. Newman, 20th-century politics
O-Z
- Margaret Ormsby
- Fernand Ouellet
- Douglas Owram
- Erna Paris
- Talbot Mercer Papineau
- Francis Parkman, American historian of New France
- Lester B. Pearson
- Derek Penslar
- Bob Plamondon
- Andrew Preston
- Robie Lewis Reid
- Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson
- Roger Sarty
- J.T. Saywell
- Adam Shortt
- Joseph Schull
- Paul St. Pierre
- Jean Edward Smith
- C.P. Stacey
- George F.G. Stanley
- Veronica Strong-Boag
- Alastair Sweeny
- Bruce Trigger
- Marcel Trudel
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- Frank Underhill
- Mark Sweeten Wade
- Frederick William Wallace
- Patrick Watson
- Frederick George H. Williams
- George Woodcock
- Andrew Woolford, genocide scholar
- J. F. C. Wright
- George MacKinnon Wrong
- Robert J. Young
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