Recent Canadian History Books

Canada’s History posted its 2024 Summer Reading Guide, an advertising section with “engaging history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers.” They are:

1. **Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity** – by Dimitry Anastakis
2. **The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman** – by Gerald Friesen
3. **An Accidental History of Canada** – edited by Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey L. Hudson
4. **The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII** – by Nahlah Ayed
5. **The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade** – by Nancy Marguerite Anderson
6. **Mr. Good-Evening: A Mystery** – by John MacLachlan Gray
7. **Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging** – by Tonya K. Davidson
8. **The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails** – by Matthew R. Anderson
9. **Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada’s Foreign Relations** – by J.L. Granatstein
10. **Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse** – by Alan MacEachern
11. **Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia** – by Mark Bourrie
12. **The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War** – by Kristen den Hartog
13. **Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict** – edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook
14. **The Riel Problem: Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero** – by Albert Braz
15. **A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War** – by Alan Bowker
16. **Wheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders** – by Albert Koehl
17. **Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750** – by Hilary Doda
18. **The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prince Rupert** – by Blair Mirau
19. **Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park** – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna
20. **Unjust Transition: The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers** – edited by Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens, and Sean Tucker
21. **Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism** – edited by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby
22. **Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy** – by Yves Engler and Owen Schalk, with poems by Rob Rolfe
23. **Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole** – edited by Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas
24. **History Has Made Us Friends: Reassessing the Special Relationship between Canada and the United States** – edited by Donals E. Abelson and Stephen Brooks
25. **Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory** – by Patrick Bishop
26. **Canada and Colonialism: An Unfinished History** – by Jim Reynolds
27. **Canada’s Great War Album: Our Memories of the First World War** – edited by Mark Collin Reid
28. **The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era** – by Aaron Williams
29. **Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935** – by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss, and Charlotte Wildman (the one I recommended for purchase by OPL)
30. **Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970** – by Matthew S. Wiseman
31. **Ring Around the Maple: A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries** – by Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland
32. **Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future** – by Blair Stonechild
33. **Untold Tales of Old British Columbia** – by Daniel Marshall
34. **The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood** – by Richard White
35. **Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle)** – edited by Yves Frenette, Marc St-Hilaire, and Marie-Ève Harton
36. **To Make a Killing: Arthur Cutten, the Man Who Ruled the Markets** – by Robert Stephens
37. **The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador** – by Jeff Webb

 

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