Canadian History

Discusses crafting a topic statement and research proposal, interpreting source materials, building an argument, choosing precise wording, and revising and editing your work.

Addresses origins of Canada's peoples. Whether a First Nation, founding people, or subsequent arrival, all Canada's peoples are described in 119 individual entries that range from Acadians to Ukrainians, Hyderabadis to Vietnamese covering the origin of the group, the process of migration, arrival and settlement, economic and community life, family and kinship patterns, language and culture, education, religion, politics, intergroup relations, and the dynamics of group maintenance.

Nearly 8000 entries listing books which provide a wide range of information about individual ethnocultural groups. Arranged by subject

Useful for finding topic ideas, this bibliography of printed materials for Canadian history is arranged in chronological order and in by topic. Items have been selected based on their national relevance and include books, articles, manuscripts, and government documents. Topics include primary sources (guides to manuscript and archival collections, collections of printed documents, and government publications) and secondary works. Secondary work topics include agriculture, education, railways, Metis, science, mines, literature, provinces and regions.

Provides a selective, critical guide to the published scholarship in the field of Canadian history.

This annotated bibliography of Canadian history is an excellent tool for formulating topic ideas and getting started on history research. It includes an author index and a subject index for easy searching. In addition, the book is broken down into a wide range of detailed topics including working class labour history, intellectual history, political history, immigration history.

Organized thematically, there are two volumes. Volume 1: Beginnings to Confederation and Volume 2: Confederation to Present which provide a critical authoritative guide to Canadian historical writing. An excellent tool for first and second year students formulating topic ideas and beginning research.

This dictionary is a handy reference to students of Canadian studies, Canadian history, Canadian government, and colonization studies. Includes a bibliography, maps, and appendixes of Canadian government leaders.

It the essential guide to the significant events, issues, institutions, people, and places that have shaped Canadian life from earliest times to the late twentieth century. In more than 1,700 entries, the country's leading historians describe and analyze events in political, military, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history, drawing on the latest scholarship.

The encyclopedia contains more than 4,000 entries and hundreds of photos, maps, tables and charts all on the province of British Columbia.

A bibliography containing over 1000 citations of published documents pertaining to specific areas of British Columbia. The work includes a place index for pinpointing materials on specific regions of the province including Barriere, Douglas Lake, Cumberland, Kamloops, and many others.

Despite its age, this bibliography provides an extensive list of published works that deal with British Columbia between 1774-1848. Included are brief annotations and a general index.

This bibliography cites those Canadian and foreign reference sources that describe Canadian people, institutions, organizations,publications, art, literature, languages, and history.

Handbook to historical research from locating your sources and gathering information, to writing clearly and making proper use of various citation styles to avoid plagiarism.