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Busts of prime ministers of Canada and provincial premiers, displayed at the Provincial Museum (predecessor to the Royal Ontario Museum) at the Toronto Normal School. Photograph appeared in the Toronto World illustrated section, February 19, 1911

The following is a list of books, articles, and videos about the prime ministers of Canada.

Overview

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  • Hutchison, Bruce (1964). Mr. Prime Minister, 1867-1964. Don Mills, Ontario: Longmans Canada.
  • Lotz, Jim (1986), Prime Ministers of Canada, Bison Books, ISBN 0-86124-377-3
  • Bliss, Michael (1994). Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney. Toronto: HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-00-638062-7.
  • Donaldson, Gordon (1994). The Prime Ministers of Canada. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited. ISBN 0-385-25454-7.
  • Bowering, George (1999). Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada. Toronto: Viking. ISBN 0-670-88081-7.
  • Ferguson, Will (1999). Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre. ISBN 1-55054-737-2.
  • Granatstein, J.L.; Hillmer, Norman (1999). Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
  • Coucill, Irma (2005). Canada's Prime Ministers, Governors General and Fathers of Confederation. Pembroke Publishers. ISBN 1-55138-185-0.
  • Dutil, Patrice (2017). Prime Ministerial Power in Canada: Its Origins under Macdonald, Laurier and Borden. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-3473-5.\
  • Lewis, Robert. (2018) Power, Prime Ministers and the Press. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
  • Schlee, Gary. (2018) Unknown and Unforgettable: A Guide to Canada's Prime Ministers. Toronto: Shorelawn Publishing.
  • Stewart, J.D.M. (2018) Being Prime Minister. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
  • Dutil, Patrice (ed.) (2023) Statesmen, Strategists and Diplomats. Canada's Prime Ministers and the Making of Foreign Policy. University of British Columbia Press.
  • Blake, Raymond B. (2024) Canada's Prime Ministers and the Shaping of National Identity. University of British Columbia Press.
  • Stewart, J.D.M. (2025) The Prime Ministers. Sutherland House

John A. Macdonald

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  • Dutil, Patrice. (2025) Ballots and Brawls: The 1867 Canadian General Election. UBC Press, forthcoming.
  • Dutil, Patrice. (2024) Sir John A. Macdonald: The Apocalyptic Year of 1885. Sutherland House. (forthcoming)
  • Boyer, M. Raoul. (2022) John A. Macdonald: Canada's First Prime Minister. Yesterday Today Publishing. ISBN 978-0991855841
  • Laxer, James (2016) Staking Claims to a Continent: John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America. Anansi Press ISBN 978-1-77089-430-3
  • Patrice Dutil and Roger Hall (2014) John A. Macdonald at 200: New Reflections and Legacies. Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-4597-2459-4
  • Martin, Ged. (2013) John A. Macdonald: Canada's First Prime Minister. Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-4597-0651-4
  • Rohmer, Richard (2013) Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-4597-0985-0
  • Gwyn, Richard (2011) Nation Maker Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times Vol. 2. Random House. ISBN 0-307-35644-2
  • Gwyn, Richard (2008) John A: The Man Who Made Us Vol 1. Vintage Canada. ISBN 0-679-31476-8
  • Johnson, J.K. and Waite, P.B. (2007) "Sir John Alexander Macdonald," in Canada's Prime Ministers, Macdonald to Trudeau: Portraits from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-9173-3
  • Patricia Phenix (2007) Private Demons: The Tragic Personal Life of John A. Macdonald McClelland & Stewart ISBN 0-7710-7045-4
  • George R. Parkin (2007) Sir John A. MacDonald: The Makers of Canada (1908) Kessinger Publishing ISBN 0-548-78347-0
  • Sletcher, Michael. (2004) "Sir John A. Macdonald," in James Eli Adams, and Tom and Sara Pendergast, eds., Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. 4 vols., Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference. ISBN 0-7172-5860-2
  • Peter B Waite(2000) John a MacDonald: Revised Fitzhenry & Whiteside ISBN 1-55041-479-8
  • Estate of Donald Creighton (1998) John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician. The Old Chieftain University of Toronto Press ISBN 0-8020-7164-3
  • Swainson, Donald. (1989) Sir John A. Macdonald: The Man and the Politician. Kingston, ON: Quarry Press. ISBN 0-919627-29-3
  • Cynthia M. Smith, Jack McLeod (1989)Sir John A. : an anecdotal life of John A. Macdonald Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-540681-8
  • McSherry, James. (1984) The invisible lady: Sir John A. Macdonald's first wife. In Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 1 pp. 91–97.
  • Waite, P. B. (1976) + (1999) John A. Macdonald. Don Mills, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited.
  • Waite, P. B. (1975) Macdonald: His Life and World. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. ISBN 0-07-082301-4.
  • Johnson, J.K. (1969) Affectionately Yours: The Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald and His Family. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7705-1017-5
  • Guillet, Edwin C, (1967) You'll Never Die, John A!. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.
  • Wallace, W. Stewart. (1924) Sir John Macdonald. Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.
  • Pope, Joseph (1921) Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald: selections from the correspondence of Sir John Alexander Macdonald. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Pope, Joseph. (1915) The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion. Toronto: Brook & Co.
  • Pope, Joseph. (1894) Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of The Dominion of Canada, Vols. 1&2. Ottawa: J. Durie & Son.
  • Collins, Joseph Edmund. (1883) Life and times of the Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald: Premier of the Dominion of Canada

Alexander Mackenzie

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  • William Buckingham, George W. Ross (2005) The Hon. Alexander MacKenzie: His Life and Times University Press of the Pacific: (Reprint of 1892 edition) ISBN 1-4102-2381-7
  • W. H. Heick, "Mackenzie and Macdonald: federal politics and politicians in Canada, 1873–1878" (phd thesis, Duke Univ., Durham, N.C., 1966)
  • G. E. Briggs, "Edward Blake – Alexander Mackenzie: rivals for power?" (ma thesis, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., 1965).
  • G. F. Henderson, "Alexander Mackenzie and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1871–1878" (ma thesis, Queen's Univ., Kingston, 1964)
  • Dale C. Thomson (1960) Alexander Mackenzie, Clear Grit Macmillan of Canada
  • T. A. Burke, "Mackenzie and his cabinet, 1873–1878," CHR, 41 (1960): 128–48.
  • William Buckingham, George William Ross "The Honourable Alexander Mackenzie: His Life and Times". 1892. Toronto: Rose Publishing Company Limited, 678 pages
  • Sir George W. Ross "Getting into Parliament and After", 1913. Toronto: William Briggs, 343 pages
  • T.G. Marquis "Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier", 1903. Toronto: John C. Winston and Co., 570 pages
  • John Charles Dent "The Canadian Portrait Gallery". Vol. 1 1880. Toronto John B. Magurn

John Abbott

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  • Elisabeth L. Abbott, 1997, The Reluctant P.M.: Notes on the Life of Sir John Abbott, Canada's Third Prime Minister, Sainte Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Abbott ISBN 0-921370-09-1
  • Michael Hill, 2022. The Lost Prime Ministers. Toronto: Dundurn Press. Covers Abbott, Thompson, Bowell and Tupper.
  • Pieter L. van Ewijk, 2020, "POWER BROKER; Canada's 3rd Prime Minister, John J.C. Abbott", Coaldale, Alberta: PvE Publishing ISBN 978-1-77-530971-0

John Thompson

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Mackenzie Bowell

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  • Betsy Boyce, 2001, The accidental Prime Minister: The biography of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Ameliasburg, ON: Seventh Town Historical Society ISBN 0-9691935-5-6
  • Ted Glenn, 2022. A Very Canadian Coup. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
  • Barry K. Wilson, 2021. Sir Mackenzie Bowell: A Prime Minister Forgotten by History. Loose Cannon Press.

Charles Tupper

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  • Joseph Howe, Hon. Mr. Howe's Speech on Dr. Tupper's Railway Resolution. House of assembly. Monday, 9 April 1860. (1860)
  • Joseph Howe, Speech of the Honorable Provincial Secretary, In reply to Doctor Tupper, On the Subject of Retrenchment. Wednesday, March 25 (1863)
  • Charles Tupper, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon: In Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled "Confederation Considered in Relation to the Interests of the Empire" (1866)
  • Charles Tupper, Letter from the Hon. Dr. Tupper, C.B., to the Hon. James McDonald, M.P.P. (1872)
  • The Pacific Railway: Speeches Delivered by Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, K.C.M.G., Minister of Railways and Canals, Hon. H.L. Langevin, C.B., Minister of Public Works, J.B. Plumbs, Esq., M.P., (Niagara), Thomas White, Esq., M.P., (Cardwell), During the Debate in the House of Commons, Session 1880 (1880)
  • Charles Tupper, Le chemin de fer canadien du Pacifique: discours. Exposé complet de la question. (1880)
  • Charles Tupper, Official Report of the Speech Delivered by Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, K.C.M.G., C.B., Minister of Raillways [sic] and Canals, On the Canadian Pacific Railway (1882)
  • Charles Thibault, Biography of Sir Charles Tupper, Minister of Railway ... High Commissioner of Canada to England (1883)
  • Charles Tupper, Unrestricted Reciprocity; Speech ... Delivered in the House of Commons, on Monday, March 19, 1888 (1888)
  • Charles Tupper, Preferential Trade Relations Between Great Britain and Her Colonies: An Address Delivered before the Montreal Board of Trade, January 20, 1896 (1896)
  • Charles Tupper, Speech on the Remedial Bill, Ottawa, 18 March 1896. (1896)
  • Henry J. Morgan, Ad Multos Annos: A Tribute to Sir Charles Tupper on His Political Birthday, 1900 (1900)
  • E. M. Saunders, Three Premiers of Nova Scotia: The Hon. J. W. Johnstone, The Hon. Joseph Howe, The Hon. Charles Tupper (1909)
  • Charles Tupper, Political Reminiscences of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., ed. W. A. Harkin (1914)
  • The Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., K.C.M.G., ed. E. M. Saunders, 2 vols. (1916)
  • J. W. Longley, Sir Charles Tupper (1916)
  • Supplement to the Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., G.C.M.G., ed. C. H. Tupper (1926)
  • W. M. Whitelaw, The Maritimes and Canada Before Confederation (1934)
  • H. G. Skilling, Canadian Representation Abroad: From Agency to Embassy (1945)
  • A. W. MacIntosh, "The Career of Sir Charles Tupper in Canada, 1864–1900", Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto (1960)
  • G. R. Stevens, Canadian National Railways, 2 vols. (1960–62)
  • D. H. Tait, "The Role of Charles Tupper in Nova Scotian Politics, 1855–1870", M.A. thesis, Dalhousie University (1962)
  • J. M. Robinson, "A Canadian at the Court of Queen Victoria: The High Commissionership, 1880–1895", M.A. thesis, University of Calgary (1967)
  • L. C. Clark, "A History of the Conservative Administrations, 1891 to 1896", Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto (1968)
  • Ian Wilson, "Fleming and Tupper: The Fall of the Siamese Twins, 1880", in Character and Circumstance: Essays in Honour of Donald Grant Creighton, ed. J. S. Moir (1970)
  • P. B. Waite, The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864–1867: Politics, Newspapers, and the Union of British North America (1971)
  • P. B. Waite, Canada, 1874–1896: Arduous Destiny (1971)
  • D. A. Muise, "Elections and Constituencies: Federal Politics in Nova Scotia, 1867–1878", Ph.D. thesis, University of Western Ontario (1971)
  • K. M. McLaughlin, "Race, Religion and Politics: The Election of 1896 in Canada", Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto (1974)
  • Robert Page, "Tupper's Last Hurrah: The Years as Opposition Leader, 1896–1900" in The West and the Nation: Essays in Honour of W. L. Morton, ed. Carl Berger and Ramsay Cook (1976)
  • H. C. Cameron, "Nova Scotians in the Federal Cabinet, 1867–1878", M.A. thesis, Queen's University (1976)
  • W. K. Lamb, History of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1977)
  • K. G. Pryke, Nova Scotia and Confederation, 1864–74 (1979)
  • R. P. Langhout, "Developing Nova Scotia: Railways and Public Accounts, 1849–1867," Acadiensis 14.2 (1984–85)
  • Vincent Durant, War Horse of Cumberland: The Life and Times of Sir Charles Tupper (1985)
  • Ben Forster, A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825–1879 (1986)
  • R. P. Langhout, "Public Enterprise: An Analysis of Public Finance in the Maritime Colonies During the Period of Responsible Government", Ph.D. thesis, University of New Brunswick (1989)
  • Ben Forster, "The 1870s: Political Integration" in The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation, ed. E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise (1993)
  • I. P. A. Buckner, "The 1860s: An End and a Beginning" in The Atlantic Region to Confederation, ed. P. A. Buckner and John Reid (1994)
  • Jock Murray and Janet Murray, Sir Charles Tupper: Fighting Doctor to Father of Confederation (1998)
  • J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer, Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders (1999)
  • Johanna Bertin, Sir Charles Tupper: The Bully for Any Great Cause (2006)

Wilfrid Laurier

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Robert Borden

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  • Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie Canada 1911: The Decisive Election that Shaped the Country (2011) ISBN 978-1-55488-947-1
  • Patrice Dutil and David MacKenzie Embattled Nation: Canada's Wartime Election of 1917 (2017) ISBN 978-1-4597-3726-6
  • John English. Borden: his life and world (Toronto, 1977)
  • English, John. The decline of politics: the Conservatives and the party system, 1901–20 (Toronto, 1977)
  • Brown, Robert Craig. Robert Laird Borden: A Biography (1975)
  • Macquarrie, Heath. Robert Borden and the Election of 1911. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, 1959, Vol. 25 Issue 3, pp 271–286 in JSTOR
  • Cook, Tim. Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012.

Arthur Meighen

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  • Graham, Roger (1960–1965). Arthur Meighen: a biography, 3 volumes. Clarke, Irwin.
  • Granatstein, J.L. and Hillmer, Norman. Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders. HarperCollinsPublishersLtd., 1999. P. 75-82. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
  • Meighen, Arthur. Unrevised and Unrepented II: Debating Speeches and Others by the Right Honourable Arthur Meighen (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011), Edited by Arthur Milnes; this is an expanded version of Arthur Meighen, Unrevised and Unrepented: Debating Speeches and Others by the Right Honourable Arthur Meighen (1949)
  • Oversea Addresses, June – July 1921 by Arthur Meighen at archive.org

William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Biographical
  • Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney (1994), pp. 123–184.
  • Cook, Tim. Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada's World Wars. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2012.
  • Courtney, John C. "Prime Ministerial Character: An Examination of Mackenzie King's Political Leadership," Canadian Journal of Political Science Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1976), pp. 77–100 in JSTOR.
  • Dawson, R.M. William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1874–1923, (1958) online edition.
  • English, John, and J.O. Stubbs, eds. Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate, (1977), 257pp; 11 essays by scholars.
  • Esberey, Joy E. Knight of the Holy Spirit: A Study of William Lyon Mackenzie King. (1980). 245 pp. a psychobiography stressing his spirituality.
  • Ferns, Henry, Bernard Ostry, and John Meisel. The Age of Mackenzie King (1976), 396pp; scholarly biography to 1919; excerpt and text search.
  • Granatstein, J.L. "King, (William Lyon) Mackenzie (1874–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online ed, Jan 2011 accessed 12 Sept 2011
  • Granatstein, J.L. Mackenzie King: His Life and World, (1977).
  • Hutchison, Bruce. The Incredible Canadian. 1952, a controversial popular book.
  • Levine, Allan. King: William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Life Guided By the Hand of Destiny (2011), 515pp; [1].
  • McGregor, F.A. The Fall & Rise of Mackenzie King, 1911–1919 (1962) online edition.
  • Neatby, H. Blair (2016). "King, William Lyon Mackenzie". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XVII (1941–1950) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  • Neatby, H. Blair. William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1924–1932: The Lonely Heights (1963) standard biography, online edition.
  • Neatby, H. Blair. William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932–1939: the Prism of Unity (1976) standard biography online edition.
  • Stacey, C.P. A Very Double Life: The Private World of Mackenzie King (1985) excerpt and text search.
  • Thompson, Neville. The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King and the Friendships that won WWII. Toronto: Sutherland House, 2021.
  • Wagner, Anton. The Spiritualist Prime Minister: Mackenzie King and the New Revelation. Guildford, Surrey: White Crow Books, 2024. ISBN 978-1-78677-264-0
  • Wagner, Anton. The Spiritualist Prime Minister: Mackenzie King and His Mediums. Guildford, Surrey: White Crow Books, 2024. ISBN 978-1-78677-266-4
  • Wardhaugh, Robert A. "A Marriage of Convenience? Mackenzie King and Prince Albert Constituency," Prairie Forum 1996 21(2): 177–199. He represented the safe Saskatchewan district 1926–45; his goal was to disarm the Progressives.
  • Whitaker, Reginald. "Political Thought and Political Action in Mackenzie King." Journal of Canadian Studies 1978–1979 13(4): 40–60. ISSN 0021-9495.
Scholarly studies
  • Allen, Ralph. Ordeal by Fire: Canada, 1910–1945, (1961), 492pp online edition.
  • Betcherman, Lita-Rose. Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant. (2002). 435 pp.
  • Cuff, R.D. and Granatstein, J.L. Canadian-American Relations in Wartime: From the Great War to the Cold War. (1975). 205 pp.
  • Donaghy, Greg, ed. Canada and the Early Cold War, 1943–1957 (1998) online edition.
  • Dummitt, Christopher. Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
  • Dziuban, Stanley W. Military Relations between the United States and Canada, 1939–1945 (1959) online edition.
  • Eayrs James. In Defence of Canada. 5 vols. 1964–1983. the standard history of defense policy.
  • Esberey, J.B. "Personality and Politics: A New Look at the King-Byng Dispute," Canadian Journal of Political Science vol 6 no. 1 (March 1973), 37–55.
  • Granatstein, J. L. Canada's War: The politics of the Mackenzie King government, 1939–1945 (1975)
  • Granatstein, J.L. Conscription in the Second World War, 1939–1945;: A study in political management (1969).
  • Granatstein, J.L. and Norman Hillmer. Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders, 1999, pp. 83–101.
  • Macfarlane, John. "Double Vision: Ernest Lapointe, Mackenzie King and the Quebec Voice in Canadian Foreign Policy, 1935–1939," Journal of Canadian Studies 1999 34(1): 93–111; argues Lapointe guided the more imperialist Mackenzie King through three explosive situations: the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, the Munich crisis of 1938, and the formulation of Ottawa's 'no-neutrality-no-conscription' pact in 1939.
  • Mackenzie, David. King and Chaos. (1935 election) University of British Columbia Press, 2023.
  • MacLaren, Roy. Mackenzie King in the age of the Dictators. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
  • Messamore, Barbara. Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election. UBC Press, 2025. (forthcoming)
  • Neatby, H. Blair. The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties (1972) online edition.
  • Stacey, C. P. Arms, Men and Governments: The War Policies of Canada, 1939–1945 (1970).
  • Stacey, C. P. Canada and the Age of Conflict: Volume 2: 1921–1948; the Mackenzie King Era, University of Toronto Press 1981, ISBN 0-8020-2397-5.
  • Teigrob, Robert. Five Days in Hitler's Germany: Mackenzie King's Mission to Avert a Second World War, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.
  • Thompson, John H., and Allan Seager. Canada 1922–1939. (1985). standard scholarly survey. (Part of The Canadian Centenary Series.)
  • Whitaker, Reginald. The Government Party: Organizing and Financing the Liberal Party of Canada, 1930–1958 (1977).
Primary sources
Television series

R.B. Bennett

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Monographs
Other works

Louis St. Laurent

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  • Patrice Dutil (ed.); The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent: Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada, University of British Columbia Press, 2020 ISBN 9780774864022.
  • J. W. Pickersgill, My years with Louis St-Laurent: a political memoir (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1975)
  • D. C. Thomson, Louis St. Laurent: Canadian (Toronto, 1967)

John Diefenbaker

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Bibliography
Online sources

Lester B. Pearson

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Writings

Pierre Trudeau

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  • Aivalis, Christo. The Constant Liberal: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour and the Canadian Social Democratic Left. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018.
  • Bergeron, Gérard. Notre miroir à deux faces: Trudeau-Lévesque. Montreal: Québec/Amérique, c1985. ISBN 2-89037-239-1
  • Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: the descent of Canadian politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, 1994.
  • Bothwell, Robert and Granatstein, J.L. Pirouette : Pierre Trudeau and Canadian foreign policy, 1990. ISBN 0-8020-5780-2
  • Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: the Prime Ministers of Canada, 1999.
  • Burelle, André. Pierre Elliott Trudeau: l'intellectuel et le politique, Montréal: Fides, 2005, 480 pages. ISBN 2-7621-2669-X
  • Butler, Rick, Jean-Guy Carrier, eds. The Trudeau decade. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1979.
  • Butson, Thomas G. Pierre Elliott Trudeau. New York: Chelsea House, c1986. ISBN 0-87754-445-X
  • Clarkson, Stephen; McCall, Christina. Trudeau and our times. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1990–c1994. 2 v. ISBN 0-7710-5414-9 ISBN 0-7710-5417-3
  • Cohen, Andrew, J. L. Granatstein, eds. Trudeau's Shadow: the life and legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 1999.
  • Couture, Claude. Paddling with the Current: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Étienne Parent, liberalism and nationalism in Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, c1998. Issued also in French: La loyauté d'un laïc. ISBN 1-4175-9306-7 ISBN 0-88864-313-6
  • Donaldson, Gordon (journalist). The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1997.
  • English, John. Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919–1968 (2006); Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume Two: 1968–2000 (2009); Knopf Canada, ISBN 0-676-97521-6 ISBN 978-0-676-97521-5
  • Griffiths, Linda. Maggie & Pierre: a fantasy of love, politics and the media: a play. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1980. ISBN 0-88922-182-0
  • Gwyn, Richard. The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1980. ISBN 0-7710-3732-5
  • Hillmer, Norman and Granatstein, J.L. Prime Ministers: Rating Canada's Leaders, 1999. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
  • Laforest, Guy. Trudeau and the end of a Canadian dream. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995. ISBN 0-7735-1300-0 ISBN 0-7735-1322-1
  • Litt, Paul. Trudeaumania. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016.
  • Lotz, Jim. Prime Ministers of Canada, 1987.
  • McDonald, Kenneth. His pride, our fall: recovering from the Trudeau revolution. Toronto: Key Porter Books, c1995. ISBN 1-55013-714-X
  • McIlroy, Thad, ed. A Rose is a rose: a tribute to Pierre Elliott Trudeau in cartoons and quotas. Toronto: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 0-385-19787-X ISBN 0-385-19788-8
  • Mills, Allen. Citizen Trudeau: An Intellectual Biography, 1944-1965. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Nemni, Max and Nemni, Monique. Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919–1944. Toronto: Douglas Gibson Books, 2006. ISBN 0-7710-6749-6 (Based on private papers and diaries of Pierre Trudeau which he gave the authors in 1995)
  • Nemni, Max and Nemni, Monique. Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2011.
  • Nemni, Max, Nemni, Monique, and Milne, David. Trudeau as Statesman, 1965-2000. Toronto; Dundurn Press, 2025.
  • Peterson, Roy. Drawn & quartered: the Trudeau years. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1984.
  • Plamondon, Bob. The Truth About Trudeau. Ottawa: Great River Media, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9868242-1-0
  • Radwanski, George. Trudeau. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1978. ISBN 0-8008-7897-3
  • Raymaker, Darryl. Trudeau's Tango: Alberta Meets Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-1972. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2017.
  • Ricci, Nino. Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau (2009)
  • Sawatsky, John. The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists, 1987.
  • Simpson, Jeffrey. Discipline of power: the Conservative interlude and the Liberal restoration. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1984. ISBN 0-920510-24-8
  • Stewart, Walter. Shrug: Trudeau in power. Toronto: New Press, 1971. ISBN 0-88770-081-0
  • Southam, Nancy. Pierre, McClelland & Stewart, September 19, 2006, 408 pages ISBN 978-0-7710-8168-2
  • Simard, François-Xavier. Le vrai visage de Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Montréal: Les Intouchables, April 19, 2006 ISBN 2-89549-217-4
  • Vastel, Michel. The outsider: the life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, c1990. 266 pages. Translation of: Trudeau, le Québécois. ISBN 0-7715-9100-4
  • Walters, Eric. Voyageur, Toronto: Penguin Groups 2008
  • Wright, Robert. Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2007.
  • Wright, Robert. Trudeaumania: The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Toronto; Harper Collins, 2016.
  • Zink, Lubor J. Trudeaucracy. Toronto: Toronto Sun Publishing Ltd., 1972. 150 pages. OCLC 837009381.
Archival videos of Trudeau
Videos about Trudeau
Works by Trudeau
  • Memoirs. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1993. ISBN 0-7710-8588-5
  • Towards a just society: the Trudeau years, with Thomas S. Axworthy, (eds.) Markham, Ont.: Viking, 1990.
  • The Canadian Way: Shaping Canada's Foreign Policy 1968–1984, with Ivan Head
  • Two innocents in Red China. (Deux innocents en Chine rouge), with Jacques Hébert 1960.
  • Against the Current: Selected Writings, 1939–1996. (À contre-courant: textes choisis, 1939–1996). Gerard Pelletier (ed)
  • The Essential Trudeau. Ron Graham, (ed.) Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1998. ISBN 0-7710-8591-5
  • The asbestos strike. (Grève de l'amiante), translated by James Boake 1974
  • Pierre Trudeau Speaks Out on Meech Lake. Donald J. Johnston, (ed). Toronto: General Paperbacks, 1990. ISBN 0-7736-7244-3
  • Approaches to politics. Introd. by Ramsay Cook. Prefatory note by Jacques Hébert. Translated by I. M. Owen. from the French Cheminements de la politique. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-19-540176-X
  • Underwater Man, with Joe MacInnis. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975. ISBN 0-396-07142-2
  • Federalism and the French Canadians. Introd. by John T. Saywell. 1968
  • Conversation with Canadians. Foreword by Ivan L. Head. Toronto, Buffalo: University of Toronto Press 1972. ISBN 0-8020-1888-2
  • The best of Trudeau. Toronto: Modern Canadian Library. 1972 ISBN 0-919364-08-X
  • Lifting the shadow of war. C. David Crenna, editor. Edmonton: Hurtig, c1987. ISBN 0-88830-300-9
  • Human rights, federalism and minorities. (Les droits de l'homme, le fédéralisme et les minorités), with Allan Gotlieb and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs

Joe Clark

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John Turner

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Brian Mulroney

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  • Blake, Raymond B. ed. Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney (McGill-Queen's University Press), 2007. 456pp; ISBN 978-0-7735-3214-4
  • Winners, Losers, by Patrick Brown (journalist), Rae Murphy, and Robert Chodos, 1976.
  • Where I Stand, by Brian Mulroney, 1983.
  • Brian Mulroney: The Boy from Baie Comeau, by Nick Auf der Maur, Rae Murphy, and Robert Chodos, 1984.
  • Mulroney: The Making of the Prime Minister, by L. Ian MacDonald, 1984.
  • The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists, by John Sawatsky, 1987.
  • Prime Ministers of Canada, by Jim Lotz, 1987.
  • Selling Out: Four Years of the Mulroney Government, by Eric Hamovitch, Rae Murphy, and Robert Chodos, 1988.
  • Friends in high places: politics and patronage in the Mulroney government, by Claire Hoy, 1989.
  • Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition, by John Sawatsky, 1991.
  • Right Honourable Men: the Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, by Michael Bliss, 1994.
  • On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years, by Stevie Cameron, 1994.
  • The Prime Ministers of Canada, by Gordon Donaldson (journalist), 1997.
  • Presumed Guilty: Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair, and the Government of Canada, by William Kaplan, 1998.
  • Prime Ministers: Rating Canada's Leaders, by Norman Hillmer and J.L. Granatstein, 1999. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
  • The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal, by Stevie Cameron and Harvey Cashore, 2001.
  • A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron, and the Public Trust, by William Kaplan, 2004.
  • The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister, by Peter C. Newman, 2005.
  • Memoirs: 1939-1993 by Brian Mulroney, 2007.
  • Master of Persuasion: Brian Mulroney's Global Legacy, by Fen Osler Hampson, 2018.

Kim Campbell

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Jean Chrétien

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Academic

Paul Martin

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Stephen Harper

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Works by Harper
  • Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption. 2018. ISBN 978-0771038624
  • A Great Game: The Forgotten Leafs & the Rise of Professional Hockey. 2013. ISBN 978-1476716534

Justin Trudeau

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  • Trudeau, Justin. (2014) Common Ground. HarperCollins Publishers, 352 Pages. ISBN 978-1-4434-3337-2
  • Ivison, John. (2019) Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister. Signal, 368 Pages. ISBN 978-0771048951
  • Lukacs, Martin. (2019) The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent. Black Rose Books, 295 Pages. ISBN 9781551647487
  • Maher, Stephen. (2024) The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau. Simon and Schuster.
  • Raj, Althia. (2013) Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story. Huffington Post Canada (eBook). Archive
  • Wells, Paul. (2024) Justin Trudeau on the Ropes: Governing in Troubled Times Sutherland House.
  • Wherry, Aaron. (2019) Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power. HarperCollins Publishers, 368 Pages. ISBN 978-1443458276

Videos about Trudeau

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  • God Save Justin Trudeau (2014). Dir. Guylaine Maroist, Eric Ruel. Documentary about the boxing match between Trudeau and Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau.[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ God Save Justin Trudeau 2014 documentary at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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