General Links
The Prime Ministers of Canada
http://www.primeministers.ca/index.php
Celebrating Women’s Achievements
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/12/index-e.html
Heroes of Yore and Lore : Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/2/6/index-e.html
Other Biographies of Interest
The following is a partial list of other biographies that
might be of interest to students taking this course:
Beck, Joseph Howe (2 vols.)
Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times
of Sir Joseph Flavelle, bart.
Bliss, Banting: A Biography [Frederick Banting]
Bliss, William Osler: A Life in Medicine
Bothwell and Kilburn, C.D. Howe: A Biography
Bowen, Innocence Is Not Enough: The Life and Death of Herbert
Norman
Brown, Robert Laird Borden: A Biography (2 vols.)
Cahill, John Turner
Careless, Brown of the Globe (2 vols.)
Christian, George Grant: A Biography
Clarkson and McCall. Trudeau and Our Times (2 vols.)
Creighton, Harold Adams Innis: Portrait of a Scholar
Crowley, Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality
DeMont, Citizens Irving: K.C. Irving and His Legacy, The
Story of Canada’s Wealthiest Family
Djwa, The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott
Dobbin, The One-and-a-Half Men: The Story of Jim Brady
& Malcolm Norris, Metis Patriots of the 20th Century
English, Shadow of Heaven: The Biography of Lester B. Pearson
v.1
English, The Worldly Years: The Life of Lester Pearson,
v.2: 1949-1972
Esberey, Knight of the Holy Spirit: A Study of W.L. Mackenzie
King
Fisher, Duff Pattullo of British Columbia
Flanagan, Louis “David” Riel: Prophet of the
New World
Fleming, The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie,
1849-1923
Foster, Meeting of Generals [Harry Foster and Kurt
Meyer]
Francis, Frank Underhill: Intellectual Provocateur
Goodwill and Sleman, John Tootoosis
Graham, Arthur Meighen: A Biography (2 vols.)
Granatstein, The Generals
Granatstein, A Man of Influence: Norman A. Robertson and
Canadian Statecraft
Granatstein, The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins,
1935-1957
Gray, R.B. Bennett: The Calgary Years
Gwyn, The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians
Gwyn, Smallwood
Hall, Clifford Sifton (2 vols.)
Harper, Krieghoff
Haycock, Sam Hughes: The Public Career of a Controversial
Canadian, 1885-1916
Horton, Laurendeau
Hutchinson, The Incredible Canadian: A Candid Portrait
of Mackenzie King
Hyatt, General Sir Arthur Currie: A Military Biography
Knight and Koizumi, A Man of Our Times: The Life-History
of a Japanese-Canadian Fisherman
Lacasse, Joseph-Armand Bombardier: An Inventer’s
Dream Come True
McFarlane, Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and
the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
McNaught, A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth
Marchand, Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
Mardiros, William Irvine: The Life of a Prairie Radical
Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Biography of Samuel Bronfman
Mellen, The Group of Seven
Newman, Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World
Newman, The Establishment Man: A Portrait of Power
Nolan, Walter J. Blackburn: A Man For All Media
Prang, N.W. Rowell: Ontario Nationalist
Rohmer, E.P. Taylor: The Biography of Edward Plunket Taylor
Roy, For Most Conspicuous Bravery: A Biography of Major
General George R. Pearkes
Sawatsky, Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition
Saywell, “Just Call Me Mitch”: The Life of
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Smith, Gentle Patriot: A Political Biography of Walter
Gordon
Smith, Rogue Tory [John G. Diefenbaker]
Swettenham, McNaughton (3 vols.) [General Andrew McNaughton]
Thomson, Alexander Mackenzie: True Grit
Thomson, Louis St. Laurent: Canadian
Van Die, An Evangelical Mind: Nathanael Burwash and the
Methodist Tradition in Canada
Vastel, Bourassa [Robert Bourassa]
Waiser, The Field Naturalist: John Macoun, the Geological
Survey, and Natural Science
Waite, The Man From Halifax: Sir John Thompson
Ward and Smith, Jimmy Gardiner: Relentless Liberal
Wilbur, H.H. Stevens, 1878-1973
Woodcock, Gabriel Dumont
Young, George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal Bourgeois
