Each book on this page is a collection
of biographies. To find out which famous Canadians are included,
check the Index.
Some
of the books on this page are written for adults, and
some are for kids.
A
Angus,
Terry. Canadians All 2: Portraits of
our People. Toronto: Methuen, 1979.
Angus, Terry. Canadians All 5: Portraits
of our People. Toronto: Methuen, 1985.
Angus, Terry. Canadians All 6: Portraits
of our People. Toronto: Methuen, 1986.
Angus, Terry. Canadians All: Portraits
of our People. Toronto: Methuen, 1976.
B
Barnes,
Michael. Canadians All 8:
Portraits of our People. Toronto: Gage, 1989.
Berton, Pierre. My Country: the
Remarkable Past .Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
Berton, Pierre. Pierre Berton's Canada:
the Land and the People. North York, Ont : Stoddart, 1999.
Bissell, Claude T., ed. Our Living
Tradition: Seven Canadians (Series 1.) Toronto: University of
Toronto
Press, 1952.
Blatherwick, F.J. 1000 Brave
Canadians: the Canadian Gallantry Awards 1854-1989.
Toronto:
Unitrade Press, 1991.
Boulton, Marsha. The Just a Minute
Omnibus. Toronto: McArthur & Co., 2000.
Brown, Brenna. Prudential's Book of
Canadian Winners and Heroes. Scarborough, Ontario:
Prentice-Hall, 1983.
Buchanan, Alison. Canadians All 7,
Portraits of our People. Toronto : Methuen, 1987.
C
Carpenter, Thomas. Inventors :
Profiles
in Canadian Genius. Camden East, Ont.: Camden House Publishing,
c1990.
Colombo, John Robert. Colombo's Canadian
References. Toronto, N.Y : Oxford University Press, 1976.
Coucill, Irma. Founders & Guardians,
2d ed. Toronto : John Wiley & Sons Canada, 1982.
Cowan, Doris. Canadians All 4: Portraits
of our People. Toronto: Methuen, 1983.
Creative
Canada: a Biographical
Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Creative and Performing Artists.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
D
F
Ford,
Karen and Janet MacLean and Barry
Wansbrough. Great Canadian Lives:
Portraits in Heroism to 1867. Scarborough, Ont : Nelson, 1985.
Forster, Merna. 100 Canadian Heroines:
Famous and Forgotten Faces. Toronto : Dundurn, 2004.
G
Gillmor, Don and Pierre Turgeon. Canada:
A People's History (Vol 1). Toronto: McClelland and Stewart,
2000.
Gillmor, Don and Achille Michaud and
Pierre Turgeon. Canada: A People's
History (Vol 2). Toronto:
McClelland and Stewart, 2001.
Great
Canadians (A Century of
Achievement.) Toronto: Canadian Centennial Publishing
Co./McClelland
and Stewart, 1965.
H
Hacker,
Carlotta. The Book of Canadians:
an Illustrated Guide to Who Did What. Edmonton : Hurtig, 1983.
Hancock, Pat. The Penguin Book of
Canadian Biography for Young Readers: Early Canada. Toronto :
Penguin
Books, 1999.
Hehner, Barbara. The Penguin Book of
Canadian Biography for Young Readers, Vol 2, 1867-1945. Toronto:
Penguin, 2002.
Henry, Lorne J. Canadians: a Book of
Biographies. Toronto : Longmans, Green and Co., 1950.
Hill, Daniel G. The Freedom-Seekers:
Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt, Ontario : Book Society
of Canada
Ltd., 1981.
Horizon
Canada: a New Way to Discover
the History of Canada (10 vols.) Laval, P.Q : Centre for the
Study of
Teaching Canada, 1987.
Horwood, Harold and Ed Butts.
Bandits and Privateers: Canada in the Age of Gunpowder.
Halifax :
Formac, 1988.
J
Johnston, Jean. Wilderness Women:
Canada's Forgotten History. Toronto : Peter Martin Associates
Limited,
1973.
K
Kahn,
Charles. Canadians All 3:
Portraits of our People. Toronto : Methuen, 1979.
Kenney-Wallace, Geraldine A., M C
MacLeod and Ralph G Stanton. In
Celebration of Canadian Scientists : A
Decade of Killam Laureates.
Winnipeg : Charles Babbage Research Centre,
1990.
Kupecek, Linda. Rebel Women:
Achievements Beyond the Ordinary (Amazing Stories). Canmore,
Alberta :
Altitude Publishing, 2003.
L
Livesey, Robert. Footprints in the
Snow:
the Heroes and Heroines of Canada. Mississauga, Ont : Little
Brick
Schoolhouse, 1978.
Lloyd, Tanya. Canadian Girls Who Rocked
the World. Vancouver/Toronto : Whitecap, 2001.
Lonn, George. Faces of Canada. Toronto :
Pitt Publishing Co., 1976.
M
MacEwan, Grant. Mighty Women:
Stories of
Western Canadian Pioneers. Vancouver/Toronto : Greystone, 1995.
Mackay, Claire. First Folks and Vile
Voyageurs. Markham, Ont : Scholastic Canada, 2001.
Mays, John Bentley. Arrivals: Stories
from the History of Ontario. Toronto: Penguin, 2002.
McDougall, Robert L., ed. Canada's Past
and Present: A Dialogue (Our Living Tradition, series 5.)
Toronto :
University of Toronto, 1965.
McDougall, Robert L., ed. Our Living
Tradition (Series 2 and 3). Toronto : University of Toronto
Press, 1959.
McDougall, Robert L., ed. Our Living
Tradition (Series 4 ). Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
1962.
McLeod, Carol. Legendary Canadian Women:
Studies of Famous Canadian Women. Hantsport, N.S : Lancelot
Press, 1983.
McRae, Earl. The Victors and the
Vanquished. Toronto : Amberley House, 1980.
Merritt, Susan E. Her Story: Women from
Canada's Past. St Catharine's, Ont : Vanwell, 1993.
P
Pathfinders:
Canadian Tributes (Canada
Heirloom Series, Volume IV.) Mississauga, Ont : Heirloom Publishing,
1994. Also
available on-line.
Peacock, Shane. Unusual Heroes: Canada's
Prime Minsiters and Fathers of Confederation. Toronto : Puffin
Canada,
2002.
R
Rawlinson, H
Graham and J.L
Granatstein. The Canadian 100:
the 100 Most Influential Canadians of the 20th
Century. Toronto : Little Brown &
Co., 1997.
Roberts, Charles
G.D. A Standard Dicitonary of Canadian
Biography: the Canadian Who Was Who. (2 vols.) Toronto:
Trans-Canada Press,
1934- .
S
Stafford, Ellen,
ed. Flamboyant
Canadians. Toronto : Baxter Publishing Co., 1964.
Stanbridge,
Joanne. Famous Dead
Canadians. Toronto : Scholastic, 2003 and Famous Dead Canadians 2. Toronto :
Scholastic, 2006.
T
Tracey, Lindalee. A
Scattering of Seeds: the Creation of
Canada. Toronto : McArthur & Co., 1999.
Trottier, Maxine. Canadian
Greats.
Toronto : Scholastic, 2004.
Trottier, Maxine. Canadian
Inventors.
Toronto: Scholastic, 2004.
Trottier, Maxine. Canadian
Pioneers.
Toronto: Scholastic. 2003.
Trottier, Maxine. Canadian
Stars.
Toronto : Scholastic, 2004.
V
Visionaries: Canadian Triumphs. (Canada
Heirloom Series, Volume VI).
Mississauga, Ont. : Heirloom Publishing, 1998. Also available
on-line.
W
Wallace, W.
Stewart. The Macmillan Dictionary of
Canadian Biography. 4th ed. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1978.
Watson, Patrick. The
Canadians: Biographies of a Nation.
(Omnibus Edition--Volumes 1, 2 and 3). Toronto
: McArthur & Company, 2003.
Wayfarers:
Canadian Achievers.
(Canada
Heirloom Series, Volume V. )
Mississauga, Ont. : Heirloom Publishing, 1996. Also available
on-line.
Wood, Herbert Fairlie. Forgotten
Canadians. Toronto : Longmans, 1963.
Woodcock, George. 100
Great Canadians.
Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers, 1980.
Woodcock, George. Faces from History:
Canadian Profiles and
Portraits. Edmonton : Hurtig Publishers, 1978.
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