# 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.

## A-G

* Irving Abella, Jewish and labour
* 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
* Ken Cuthbertson, biographer and author of 20th century Canadian history
* Louise Dechêne, New France
* Lovat Dickson, 20th century
* Gordon Donaldson, politics
* Olive Dickason, First Nations
* William J. Eccles, New France
* John English, politics
* 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
* Kenn Harper, Inughuit
* 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
* Fred Landon, Ontario, Upper Canada
* Laurier LaPierre
* Agnes Laut
* Arthur R. M. Lower
* Keith Matthews
* Margaret MacMillan, diplomacy
* Ian McKay
* Peter Thomas McGuigan, Nova Scotia
* Phyllis McKie Maritime history
* Margaret Stovel McWilliams, Manitoba
* Jesse Edgar Middleton, Ontario, Toronto
* Christopher Moore, popular
* Adrien-Gabriel Morice, First Nations
* Desmond Morton, military
* W. L. Morton, West; Manitoba
* Hilda Neatby, Quebec
* Peter C. Newman, 20th century politics
* Gustave Lanctot, New France

## 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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