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This is a '''list of the most prominent historians of [[History of Canada|Canada]]'''. All have published about Canada, but some have covered other topics as well.

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==A-G==
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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 (historian)|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
*{{ill|Louise Dechêne|fr}}, New France
*[[J. Alphonse Deveau]], Acadian
*[[Lovat Dickson]], 20th century
*[[Gordon Donaldson (journalist)|Gordon Donaldson]], politics
*[[Olive Dickason]], First Nations
*[[William J. Eccles]], New France
*[[Shirley Elliott]], legislative librarian of Nova Scotia
*[[Marie Elwood]], ceramics
*[[John English (Canadian politician)|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 (author)|Charlotte Gray]], popular histories
*[[James H. Gray]], Prairies; politics
*[[Cody Groat]], First Nations
*[[Lionel Groulx]], Quebec
*[[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 (historian)|Keith Matthews]]
*[[Margaret MacMillan]], diplomacy
*[[Allan Marble]], medical history
*[[Christopher McCreery]], orders, decorations, and medals
*[[Ian McKay (historian)|Ian McKay]]
*[[Peter Thomas McGuigan]], Nova Scotia
*[[Phyllis McKie]], maritime history
*[[Margaret Stovel McWilliams]], Manitoba
*[[Jesse Edgar Middleton]], Ontario, Toronto
*[[Christopher Moore (Canadian historian)|Christopher Moore]], popular
*[[Robert Morgan (historian)|Robert Morgan]], Cape Breton history
*[[Adrien-Gabriel Morice]], First Nations
*[[Desmond Morton (historian)|Desmond Morton]], military
*[[W. L. Morton]], West; Manitoba
*[[Hilda Neatby]], Quebec
*[[Peter C. Newman]], 20th-century politics

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*[[Margaret Ormsby]]
*[[Fernand Ouellet]]
*[[Doug Owram|Douglas Owram]]
*[[Erna Paris]]
*[[Talbot Mercer Papineau]]
* [[Francis Parkman]], American historian of New France
*[[Lester B. Pearson]]
*[[Derek Penslar]]
*[[Bob Plamondon]]
*[[Andrew Preston (writer)|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 (producer)|Patrick Watson]]
*[[Fred Williams (journalist)|Frederick George H. Williams]]
*[[George Woodcock]]
*[[Andrew Woolford]], genocide scholar
*[[J. F. C. Wright]]
*[[George MacKinnon Wrong]]
*[[Robert J. Young]]

==By category==
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== See also ==
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{{portal|Canada}}
*[[Historiography of Canada]]
* [[History of Canada]]
* [[List of historians]]
* [[List of Canadian writers]]
* [[The Canadian Centenary Series]]

==Further reading==
{{see|Bibliography of Canadian history}}
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* Artibise, Alan F. J., ed. ''Interdisciplinary Approaches to Canadian Society: A Guide to the Literature.'' (1990). 156 pp.
* Berger, Carl. ''Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900, 2nd edition'' (1986).
* Berger, Carl, ed. ''Contemporary Approaches to Canadian Writing'' (1987).
* Bliss, Michael. "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 26 (Winter 1991–92): 5-17.
* Brandt, Gail Cuthbert. "National Unity and the Politics of Political History," ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 3 (1992): 3-11.
* Dick, Lyle. "A Growing Necessity for Canada: W. L. Morton's Centenary Series and the Forms of National History, 1955-80," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 82, No. 2 (June 2001), 223–252.
* Edwards, Justin D.l and Douglas Ivison. ''Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802087205 Excerpt and text search].
* Gagnon, Serge. ''Quebec and its Historians: 1840 to 1920'' (English ed. 1982; French ed. 1978).
* Gagnon, Serge. ''Quebec and its Historians: The Twentieth Century'' (English ed. 1985).
* Glassford, Larry A. "The Evolution of 'New Political History' in English-Canadian Historiography: From Cliometrics to Cliodiversity." ''American Review of Canadian Studies''. 32#3 (2002). pp 347+. [https://www.questia.com/read/5002519789?title=The%20Evolution%20of%20%22New%20Political%20History%22%20in%20English-Canadian%20Historiography%3a%20From%20Cliometrics%20to%20Cliodiversity Online edition].
* Granatstein, J. L. ''[[Who Killed Canadian History?]]'' (2000).
* Granatstein, J. L. ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present'' (1982).
* Hallowell, Gerald, ed. ''The Oxford Companion to Canadian History'' (2006), online at [[OUP]].
* Kealey, Gregory S. "Class in English-Canadian Historical Writing: Neither Privatizing, Nor Sundering," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 27 (Summer 1992).
* Kealey, Linda, Ruth Pierson, Joan Sangster, and Veronica Strong-Boag. "Teaching Canadian History in the 1990s: Whose 'National' History Are We Lamenting?," ''Journal of Canadian Studies'' 27 (Summer 1992).
* Muise, D. A. ed., ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: i, Beginnings to Confederation'' (1982); historiography.
** Granatstein, Jack, ed. ''A Reader's Guide to Canadian History: Confederation to the Present'' v2 (1982); historiography.
* Osborne, Ken. "'Our History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canadian Schools--Past, Present, and Future," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 81 (September 2000).
* Parr, Joy. "Gender History and Historical Practice," ''The Canadian Historical Review'' 76 (September 1995): 354-376.
* Story, Norah. ''Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature'' (1974).
* Taylor, M. Brook, ed. ''Canadian History: A Reader's Guide''. Vol. 1. Doug Owram, ed. ''Canadian History: A Reader's Guide''. Vol. 2. Toronto: 1994. Historiography.
* Rudin, Ronald. ''Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec'' (1997).
* Schultz, John. ed. ''Writing About Canada: A Handbook for Modern Canadian History'' (1990).
* Strong-Boag, Veronica, Mona Gleason, and Adele Perry. ''Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History'' (2003). [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195417283 Excerpt and text search].
* Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory," ''Journal of the Canadian Historical Association'' 5 (1994): 3-16
* Warkentin, John, ed. ''So Vast and Various: Interpreting Canada’s Regions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (2010); looks at 150 years of writings about Canada's regions.
* Wright, Donald. ''The Professionalization of History in English Canada'' (2005) 280pp. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802039286 Excerpt and text search].
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==External links==
*[https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-historians-from-canada/reference Famous Historians from Canada] - [[Ranker]]
*[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/browse/people/education/historians Browse "Historians"] - [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]
*[https://cha-shc.ca/ Canadian Historical Association]

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