General studies of these fifty years include R. C. Brown and Ramsay Cook, Canada 1896-1921: A Nation Transformed (1974); John Thompson and Allen Seager, Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord (1985); and J. L. Granatstein, Canada’s War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-1945 (1975).
Political biographies include Joseph SchuU, Laurier: The First Canadian (1965); Robert Craig Brown, Robert Laird Borden (1975 and 1980); and McGregor Dawson and H. Blair Neatby, William Lyon Mackenzie King (1958,1963 and 1976). Less important but no less interesting figures include Kenneth McNaught, A Prophet in Politics: A biography ofj. S. Woodsworth (1959); John T. Saywell, “Just call me Mitch”: The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn (1991); and Conrad Black, Render unto Caesar: the life and legacy of Maurice Duplessis {1998). Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle (1978) and David Frank, J. B. McLachlan: a biography (1999) portray a major businessman and a radical labour leader. Mary Hallett, Firing the Heather: The Life and Times of Nellie McClung (1993) and Hdene Pelletier-Baillargeon Marie Gerin-Lajoie (1985) set out the careers of social reformers and women’s rights activists. Robert Rumilly, Henri Bourassa (1953) and Ramsay Cook, The Politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free Press (1963) deal with the lives of influential journalists. Maria Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography (1979) and Michael Bliss, Banting: A Biography (1984) present lives in the arts and medical science.
Northern Enterprise (1987) by Michael Bliss summarizes business development. Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles, Monopoly’s Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930 (1886) and Christopher Armstrong, Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms (1997) examine public utilities and the stock market. Vernon C. Fowke, The National Policy and the Wheat Economy (1957); Ronald Rees, New and Naked Land: Making the Prairies Home (1988); and James Gray, Men Against the Dessert (1967) and The Winter Years (1966) tell the story of western agriculture. H. V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941 (1974) and Janet Foster, Working for Wildlife (197 S) and L’eologisme retrouve (1994) describe aspects of resource policy and the early conservation movement.
Studies of working class history include Robert Babcock, Gompers in Canada (1974); Craig Heron, Working in Steel (1988); David Bercuson, Confrontation at Winnipeg (1974); Irving Abella, Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour (1973); Joy Parr, The Gender of Bread Winners (1986); Terry Copp, The Anatomy of Poverty: The Condition of the Working Class in Montreal, 1897-1929 (1974); and Michael Piva, The Condition of the Working Class in Toronto, 1900—1921 (1979).
Examples of immigration and ethnic history are Joy Parr, Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 (1980); Howard Palmer, Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta (1982); Peter Ward, White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policies toward Orientals in British Columbia (1978); John Zucchi, Italians in Toronto (1990); France Swripa, Wedded to the Cause: Ukrainian Women and Ethnic Identity (1993); George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, The Doukhobors (1977); and Gerald Tulchinsky’s two volumes on Canadian Jewish history. Taking Root (1992) and Branching Out (1998).
Catherine L. Cleverdon, The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada (1950) and Veronica Strong-Boag, The New Day Recalled (1988) examine the suffrage and post-suffrage history of women. Ruth Pearson, “They’re Still Women After All” (1986) discusses women in World War II. Marty Danylewycz, Taking the Veil (1987) and Andree Levesque, Making and Breaking the Rules (1994) consider women in Quebec.
Social reform is the subject of Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators (1984) and Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, A Full Orbed Christianity (1996). James Gray, Red Lights on the Prairies (1971) and Booze (1972); W. L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada (1950); Ernest Forbes, Maritime Rights (1979); and David Laycock, Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910-1945 (1990) describe regional protest movements.
The history of Native people is surveyed in Olive Dickason, Canada’s First Nations (1992) and J. R. Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens (1989). J. Brian Titley, A Narrow Vision (1986); Sarah Carter, Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy (1990); Helen Buckley, From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare (1993); and J. R. Miller, Shingwauk’s Vision (1996) critically examine government policy.
C. P. Stacey, Canada in the Age of Conflict, 2 vols. (1977 and 1984) surveys foreign policy. Carl Berger, The Sense of Power (1970) and H. V. Nelles, The Art of Nation Building (1999) explore Canada’s relations with the British Empire. John H. Thompson and Stephen Randall, Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies (1994) surveys Canadian-American relations. The world wars are treated in Desmond Morton, Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War, 1914-1919 (1989) and J. L. Granatstein, A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians in the Second World War, 1939-1945 (1989). Secret Agent: The Pickersgill Letters (1978), edited by George H. Ford, is the tragic story of one young man’s war.
Denis Reid, Concise History of Canadian Painting (1973) surveys visual art. A. J. M. Smith, ed.. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (1960) prints a selection of French and English poetry. Some of the best works of fiction are Sara Jeannette Duncan, The Imperialist (1904); Stephen Leacock, The Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich (1914); Ringuet, Trente Arpents (1938); Sinclair Ross, As For Me and My House (1941); Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947); W. O. Mitchell, Who Has Seen the Wind (1947); John Marlyn, Under the Ribs of Death (1957); Colin McDougall, The Execution (1958); Roch Carrier, La Guerre, Yes Sir! (1968); and P. B. Heibert, Sarah Binks (1947).
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