Nicola's Canadian History Reading List

World As We Knew It Courtesy of Nicola M.

Read Your Way Through Canadian History with Children's Literature Chronological History Reading List
Native Indians Inuit Vikings Early Exploration Acadia New France Fur Trade 7 Years War United Empire Loyalists Life In The 1700's War of 1812 Underground Railroad Rebellion 0f 1837 Western Exploration Opening of The West Settling of The West 1866- Fenian Uprising Reil Rebellion Arctic Exploration BC Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush Life In The 1800's WWI The Depression (1930's) Life In The 1900's - Pre WWII WWII Government Post WWII - Modern History Narrative Text That Cover Range of History Miscellaneous	A message from Nicola: Hopefully this listing will help you while you study Canadian History. This was continually a work in progress for me and I added to it as I found appropriate books. The Grades suggested are for Reading Levels only. I would also like to thank my friends on the SLCanada E-Mail Loop for their wonderful suggestions.

NATIVE INDIANS

The Chippewa Indians Rice Gatherers of the Great Lakes	Sonia Bleeker	Gr. 3+
Eagle Mask	James Houston	Gr. 3+
A Horse for Running Buffalo	Madeline Freeman	Gr. 5+
I am an Indian	Kent Gooderham
Indian Captive	Lois Lenski	Gr. 4+
Many Beavers: The Story of a Cree Indian Boy	Henry Sinclair Drago	Gr. 3+
Mouse Woman and the Mischief-Makers	Christie Harris	Gr. 5+
The Native Peoples	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
Nkwala	Edith Lambert Sharp	Gr. 4+
O Children of the Wind and Pines	Laura Nelson Baker
Once More Upon a Totem	Christie Harris	Gr. 5+
People of the Trail (How the Northern Forest Indians Lived)	Robin & Jillian Ridington
Raven's Cry	Christie Harris	Gr. 5+
Sacred Feathers	Smith	Gr. 9+
The Sea Hunter Indians of the Northwest Coast	Sonia Bleeker	Gr. 3+
Sweetgrass	Jan Hudson	Gr. 5+
Tales the Totems Tell	Hugh Weatherby	Gr. 4+
Thunder in the Mountains	Hilda Mary Hooke	Gr. 3+
Totem Tipi and Tumpline: Stories of Canadian Indians	Olive Fisher & Clare Tyner	Gr. 4+
The Whale People	R. Haig Brown	Gr. 5+
White Mist	Barbara Smucker	Gr. 4+
White Slaves of the Nootkas	John R. Jewitt	Gr. 5+

INUIT

The Adventures of Oolakuk	Robert A. Ruttan
Akavak	James Houston	Gr. 3+
The Eskimo: Arctic Hunters and Trappers	Sonia Bleeker	Gr. 3+
The First Book of Eskimos	Benjamin Brewster
Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones	Bonnie Shemie	Gr. 3+
Igloo Killinek	Kenneth C. Butler
Tikta'liktak	James Houston	Gr. 3+
The White Archer	James Houston	Gr. 3+
Wolf Run: A Caribou Eskimo Tale	James Houston	Gr. 5+

VIKINGS

A Door To the North	Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Dream Carvers	Joan Clark	Gr. 9+
Lief Erikson The Lucky	Malcolm C. Jenson	Gr. 3+
Lief Eriksson-First Voyager to America	Katherine B. Shippen	Gr. 4+
Lief the Lucky	Ingri & Edgar D'Aulaire	Gr. 3+
Leif the Lucky, Discoverer of America	Erick Berry	Gr. 2-6
Snori and the Strangers	Nathaniel Benchley	Gr. 1-3
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow	Allen French	Gr. 5+
Viking Adventure	Clyde Robert Bulla	Gr. 2+
The Vikings	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
The Vikings	Elizabeth Janeway	Gr. 3+

EARLY EXPLORATION

And Tomorrow The Stars: The Story of John Cabot	Kay Hill
Bay of the North - The Story of Pierre Radisson	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Captured By the Mohawks	Sterling North	Gr. 4+
Cartier, Finder of the St. Lawrence	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence	Esther Averill	Gr. 4+
Champlain, Father of New France	Cecile Pepin Edwards	Gr. 3+
Champlain of the St. Lawrence	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
A Dog Came, Too: A True Story	Ainslee Manson	Gr. 1-3
The First Canadian	C.T. Ritchie	Gr. 5+
The French Explorers in America	Walter Buehr
Fur and Gold	Roderick Haig-Brown
Henry Hudson	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Henry Hudson, Captain of Icebound Seas	Carl Carmer	Gr. 2-6
He Went with Champlain	Louise Andrews Kent	Gr. 4+
John and Sebastian Cabot	Henry Ira Kurtz
John Cabot and his Son Sebastian	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
John Cabot & Son	David Goodnough
Man From St. Malo	Robert D. Ferguson	Gr. 5+
Mutiny in the Bay	R.S. Lambert	Gr. 5+
The Pathfinders of North America	Edwin Guillet	Gr. 4+
Redcoat Sailor	R.S. Lambert	Gr. 5+
River of Canada	Thomas Bredin
Runner of the Woods	C.T. Ritchie	Gr. 5+

ACADIA

The Dangerous Cove	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
Escape from Grand Pre	Frances C. Thompson	Gr. 2-4
Evangeline and the Acadians	Robert Tallant	Gr. 3+
The Hand of Robin Squires	Joan Clark	Gr. 5+
A Land Divided	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
Prisoner in Louisbourg	Zillah & Colin Macdonald	Gr. 5+
A Proper Acadian	M.A. Downie & G. Rawlyk	Gr. 3+
Secret Under the Whirlpool	Elaine Breault Hammond	Gr. 5+
Streets of Gold	George Rawlyk	Gr. 2-4

NEW FRANCE

Anna and the Indians	Nan Shipley
Father Gabriel's Cloak	Beulah Garland Swayze	Gr. 2-4
Frontenac and the Iroquois	Fred Swayze	Gr. 5+
Frontenac of New France	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Journey into Danger	Theodora Herapath	Gr. 5+
The King's Daughter	Suzanne Martel	Gr. 5+
The King's Loon	Mary Alice Downie	Gr. 3+
The Last Ship	Mary Alice Downie	Gr. 2-4
Madeleine Takes Command	Ethel C. Brill	Gr. 4+
New France	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
Pioneer Settlers of New France	Joan Anderson	Gr. 3+
Quest for the Golden Gannett	Dorothy P. Barnhouse	Gr. 4+
Raiders of the Mohawk	Orlo Miller	Gr. 5+
The Sky Caribou	Mary Hamilton	Gr. 2-4
Soldier Girl	Richard A. Boning	Gr. 3+
The St. Lawrence: Seaway of North America	Anne Terry White	Gr. 3+
Time Traveler Book of New France	Morris Wernick	Gr. 3+
Tonty and the Iron Hand	Fred Swayze	Gr. 5+
The Wapiti	Monique Corriveau	Gr. 5+

FUR TRADE

Adventures from the Bay	Clifford Wilson	Gr. 5+
The Fur Traders	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
Fur Trader	Robert D. Ferguson	Gr. 5+
Fur Trader of the North	Roanld Syme	Gr. 3+
Hudson's Bay Company	Richard Morenus
The Last Fort	Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Nor'Westers	Marjorie Wilkins Campbell	Gr. 5+
With Pipe, Paddle and Song	Elizabeth Yates

7 YEARS WAR
(or as the Americans call it "THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR"

Battle For the Rock	Joseph Schull	Gr. 5+
Battle in the Wilderness	Konrad Kellen
Calico Captive	Elizabeth George Speare	Gr. 5+
Drummer Boy For Montcalm	Wilma Pitchford Hays	Gr. 3+
The Gold-Laced Coat	Helen Fuller Orton	Gr. 4+
Pontiac: Mighty Ottawa Chief	Virginia F. Voight	Gr. 2-6
With Wolfe in Quebec: The Winning of a Continent	G.A. Henty	Gr. 6+

UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

Beginning Again, Further Adventures of a Loyalist Family	Mary Beacock Fryer	Gr. 5+
Charlotte	Janet Lunn	Gr. 2+
Drums of Niagara	Eric Acland	Gr. 5+
Escape, Adventures of a Loyalist Family	Mary Beacock Fryer	Gr. 5+
Flight	Constance Crook	Gr. 4+
A Hollow Tree	Janet Lunn	Gr. 4+
Honor Bound	Mary Alice Downie	Gr. 3+
The Loyal Refugees	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
Meyer's Creek	Constance Crook	Gr. 4+
On Loyalist Trails	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+

LIFE IN THE 1700'S

Medicine Maid - The Life Story of a Canadian Pioneer

E.L. Hoople

WAR OF 1812

1812: Jeremy and the General	John Ibbotson	Gr. 6+
The Battle of Lake Erie	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
Canada Under Siege	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Capture of Detroit	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Death of Isaac Brock	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Death of Tecumseh	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Defenders	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
Fire Ship	Marianne Brandis	Gr. 4+
General Brock and Niagara Falls	Samuel Hopkins Adams	Gr. 3+
The Good Soldier	D.J. Goodspeed	Gr. 5+
Laura's Choice	Constance Crook	Gr. 4+
The Other Elizabeth	Karleen Bradford	Gr. 3+
Revenge of the Tribes	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Rowboat War	Fred Swayze	Gr. 5+
The Soldier's Son	Terry Leeder	Gr. 3+
Son of the Hounds	Robert Sutherland	Gr. 6+
The Story of the War of 1812	Colonel Red Reeder	Gr. 4+
Tecumseh	Luella Bruce Creighton	Gr. 5+
Treason at York	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Adventure at the Mill	Barbara & Heather Bramwell	Gr. 2-4
Brady	Jean Fritz	Gr. 4+
Dark of the Moon	Barbara Haworth-Attard	Gr. 5+
The House of Good Spirits	Donn Kushner	Gr. 7+
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad	Ellen Levine	Gr. 3+
The Last Safe House	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 3+
North Winds Blow Free	Elizabeth Howard	Gr. 6+
Underground to Canada - Lesson Plan	Barbara Smucker	Gr. 5+

REBELLION OF 1837

The Boy with an R in his Hand	James Reaney	Gr. 4+
Bright to the Wanderer	Bruce Lancaster	Gr. 9+
A Question of Loyalty - Lesson Plan	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 4+
Rebel on the Trail	Lynn Cook	Gr. 4+
Rebel Run	D. Harold Turner	Gr. 5+
Rebels Ride at Night	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
The Stone Cottage Mystery	Joyce Boyle	Gr. 5+

WESTERN EXPLORATION

Alexander Mackenzie, Canadian Explorer	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Buckskin Brigadier	Edward McCourt	Gr. 5+
Captain of the Discovery	Roderick Haig-Brown	Gr. 5+
The Farthest Shores	Roderick Haig-Brown
From Sea to Sea: Alexander Mackenzie
The Map-Maker	Kerry Wood	Gr. 5+
The Savage River: Seventy-One Days With Simon Fraser	Marjorie Wilkins Campbell	Gr. 5+
Tales and Trails of Western Canada	Nell Macvicar & Irene Craig	Gr. 4+
Vancouver, Explorer of the Pacific Coast	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+

OPENING OF THE WEST (RCMP & THE RAILROAD)

Buckskin Colonist	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
Bugles in the Hills	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
The Force Carries On	T. Morris Longstreth	Gr. 5+
The Men in Sheepskin Coats	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
A Prairie Nightmare	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Queen's Cowboy	Kerry Wood	Gr. 5+
The Railway Pathfinders	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Railways	Robert Livesey & A.G. Smith	Gr. 4+
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police	Richard L. Neuberger	Gr. 4+
The Scarlet Force	T. Morris Longstreth	Gr. 5+
Steel Across the Plains	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+

SETTLING OF THE WEST

The Blonde Voyageur	Nan Shipley	Gr. 7+
The Bold Heart	Josephine Phelan	Gr. 5+
The Buffalo Hunt	Donald and Eleanor Swainson	Gr. 2-4
Charles Bowen: Paul Bunyan of the Canadian West	W. Phillip Keller	Gr. 7+
The Doll	Cora Taylor	Gr. 5+
The Great Chief	Kerry Wood	Gr. 5+
Ian of Red River	Ragnhildur Guttormsson	Gr. 5+
Ida and the Wool Smugglers	Sue Ann Alderson	Gr. 1-3
Pettranella	Betty Waterton	Picture Book
Pioneer Girl	Maryanne Caswell	Gr. 4+
Red River Adventure	J. W. Chalmers	Gr. 5+
Storm Child	Brenda Bellingham	Gr. 4+
Tell Me, Grandmother	Lyn Hancock	Gr. 5+
Westward Ho! 1903	Barbara Villy Cormack	Gr. 6+
When Calls the Heart	Janette Oke	Gr. 6+

1866- FENIAN UPRISING

Spy in the Shadows	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 5+
The Stone Orchard	Susan E. Merrit	Gr. 4+

REIL REBELLION

Flaming Prairies	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
On the Trail of Long Tom	W.T. Cutt	Gr. 7+
Perilous Prairie	Dickson Reynolds
Revolt in the West	Edward McCourt	Gr. 5+
Soldier Boys	David Richards	Gr. 6+
A Very Small Rebellion	Jan Truss	Gr. 5+

ARCTIC EXPLORATION

Across Frozen Seas	Jon Wilson	Gr. 4+
Arctic Assignment	SGT. F.S. Farrar	Gr. 5+
Coppermine Journey	Farley Mowat	Gr. 6+
Dr. Kane of the Arctic Seas	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
Jane Franklin's Obsession	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Link Between the Oceans	Leslie H. Neatby
Mystery in the Frozen Lands	Martyn Godfrey	Gr. 5+
On Foot to the Arctic	Ronald Syme	Gr. 3+
Parry of the Arctic	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
Trapped in the Arctic	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The True North	T.C. Farley	Gr. 5+

BC GOLD RUSH

Cariboo Runaway	Frances Duncan	Gr. 4+
The Golden Rose	DAYLE CAMPBELL GAETZ	Gr. 5+
The Man with the Yellow Eyes	Catherine Anthony Clark	Gr. 3+
Quest in the Cariboo	John F. Hayes	Gr. 5+
West to the Cariboo	Lorrie McLaughlin	Gr. 2-4

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH

Before the Gold Rush	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Bite of the Gold Bug	Barthe DeClements	Gr. 3+
Bonanza Gold	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
City of Gold	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Cremation of Sam McGee	Robert W. Service	Gr. 5+
The Golden Trail	Pierre Berton	Gr. 5+
Gold-Fever Trail	Monica Hughes	Gr. 5+
Kings of the Klondike	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
The Klondike Stampede	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
Martha Black, Gold Rush Pioneer	Carol Martin
Stampede North	Ruth Franchere	Gr. 5+
Trails of '98	Pierre Berton	Gr. 4+
When Men Panned Gold in the Klondike	Edward C. Janes	Gr. 3+
Yukon River: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike	Peter Lourie	Gr. 3+

LIFE IN THE 1800'S

Alexander Graham Bell, An Inventive Life	Elizabeth MacLeod	Gr. 3+
Alexander Graham Bell, Man of Sound	Elizabeth Rider Montgomery	Gr. 2-6
All About Niagara Falls	Linda Granfield	Gr. 3+
The Back Woods of Canada	Catherine Parr Trail	Gr. 7+
The Belonging Place	Jean Little	Gr. 3+
Beyond the Waterfall	Elaine Breault Hammond	Gr. 5+
Canal Boy	Marion Greene	Gr. 5+
Danger in the Coves	Frances C. Thompson	Gr. 2-4
Danger on the Tracks	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
Death Over Montreal	Geoffrey Bilson	Gr. 4+
Eleanore's Diary	Caroline Parry	Gr. 5+
Eliza's Best Wednesday	Catherine Lalonde	Gr. 2+
First Lady of Upper Canada	Florence McLaughlin	Gr. 5+
First Spring on the Grand Banks	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
Forgotten Canadians	Herbert Fairlie Wood
Glengarry School Days - Lesson Plan	Ralph Connor	Gr. 7+
Harbour Thieves	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
Hester's Summer	Gordon Cooper	Gr. 5+
Lamplighter	Bernice Thurman Hunter	Gr. 3+
The Last Voyage of the Scotian	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush	Susannah Moodie	Gr. 7+
The Mennonite Canadians	Joanne Flint
Pioneer Crafts	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 3+
A Pioneer Story: Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 3+
A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of the Harvest Celebration	Barbara Greenwood	Gr. 3+
The Pioneer Years	Barry Broadfoot	Gr. 8+
Prairie Fire!	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
The Quarter-Pie Window	Marianne Brandis	Gr. 6+
Red Paddles	Isabel M. Reekie	Gr. 5+
River Race	Tony German	Gr. 5+
The Root Cellar	Janet Lunn	Gr. 5+
Roughing It in the Bush	Susannah Moodie	Gr. 7+
The Secret of Willow Castle	Lyn Cook
Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt	Barbara Smucker	Gr. 2+
Selina and the Shoo-Fly Pie	Barbara Smucker	Gr. 2+
Shantymen of Cache Lake	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
The Sign of the Scales	Marianne Brandis	Gr. 6+
The Talking Wire	O.J. Stevenson	Gr. 4+
The Time of the Wolf	Thomas A. MacDonald	Gr. 4+
The Tinderbox	Marianne Brandis	Gr. 6+
The Tin-Lined Trunk	Mary Hamilton	Gr. 4+
Tom Penny	Tony German	Gr. 5+
Tom Penny and the Grand Canal	Tony German	Gr. 5+
Trail of Fire	B. J. Bayle	Gr. 4+
The Tramp Room	Nancy-Lou Patterson
Trouble at Lachine Mill	Bill Freeman	Gr. 4+
The Value of Self-Discipline: The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Anne Donnegan Johnson	Gr. 2-4
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada	Anna Brownell Jameson	Gr. 7+
Within a Painted Past	Hazel J. Hutchins	Gr. 5+
The Yellow Flag	Susanne McSweeney	Gr. 2-4

WW I

Days of Terror	Barbara Smucker	Gr. 4+
The Halifax Disaster	Ernest Fraser Robinson	Gr. 5+
In Flanders Fields	Linda Granfield	Gr. 3+
Knights of the Air	John Norman Harris	Gr. 5+
Rilla of Ingleside	L.M. Montgomery	Gr. 5+

THE DEPRESSION (1930'S)

As for Me and My House	Sinclair Ross	Gr. 9+
A Bird in the House	Margaret Laurence	Gr. 9+
Breakaway	Paul Yee	Gr. 7+
Butter Down the Well: Reflections of a Canadian Childhood	Robert Collins	Gr. 7+
From Anna	Jean Little	Gr. 4+
Kaarina and the Sugar Bag Vest	Irma McDonough Milnes	Gr. 3+
Margy	Margaret Smith	Gr. 4+
The Stone Angel	Margaret Laurence	Gr. 9+
Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression	Barry Broadfoot	Gr. 8+
That Scatterbrain Booky With Love From Booky As Ever, Booky	Bernice Thurman Hunter	Gr. 4+
Who Has Seen the Wind	W.O. Mitchell	Gr. 6+

LIFE IN THE 1900'S - PRE WWII

Amy's Promise	Bernice Thurman Hunter	Gr. 4+
The Auction	Jan Andrews	Picture Book
Belle's Journey	Marilynn Reynolds	Picture Book
Cache Lake Country: Life in the North Woods	John J. Rowlands
Emily Carr's Woo	Constance Horne	Gr. 3+
Frederick G. Banting: The Discoverer of Insulin	I.E. Levine	Gr. 5+
Goodbye Sarah	Geoffrey Bilson	Gr. 4+
Grass Beyond The Mountains	Richmond P. Hobson Jr
His Banner Over Me	Jean Little	Gr. 4+
Home Child	Barbara Haworth-Attard	Gr. 4+
Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story	Jim McGugan	Gr. 4+
Klee Wyck	Emily Carr	Gr. 7+
Mrs. Mike	Nancy & Benedict Freedman	Gr. 7+
Nellie L.	Constance Crook	Gr. 4+
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	Richmond P. Hobson Jr
Pit Pony	Joyce Barkhouse	Gr. 3+
A Place For Magaret Margaret in the Middle Margaret on Her Way	Bernice Thurman Hinter	Gr. 4+
Promise Song	Linda Holeman
The Rancher Takes a Wife	Richmond P. Hobson Jr
They Called Her Mrs. Doc	Janette Oke	Gr. 6+
Thistle Creek	Nell Hanna	Gr. 6+
Ticket to Curlew	Celia Barker Lottridge	Gr. 4+
Trapped by Coal	Constance Horne	Gr. 3+
Where the High Winds Blow	Bruce D. Campbell	Gr. 6+
Where the Saints Have Trod	Judith St. John	Gr. 5+
The White Stone in the Castle Wall	Sheldon Oberman	Picture Book
The Wooden People	Myra Paperny	Gr. 4+
any titles	L.M. Montgomery	Gr. 6+
Wilderness Man: The Amzing True Story of Grey Owl	Lovat Dickson	Gr. 7+

WW II

Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice	Janet McNaughton	Gr. 7+
A Child in Prison Camp	Takashima	Gr. 4+
Explosion at Dawson Creek	Elaine Breault Hammond	Gr. 5+
Hawk and Stretch	Bernice Thurman Hunter	Gr. 4+
High Flight: A Story of World War II	Linda Granfield
Hockeybat Harris	Geoffrey Bilson	Gr. 5+
Just Like New	Ainslie Manson & Karen Reczuch	Gr. 1-3
Listen to the Singing	Jean Little	Gr. 4+
Naomi's Road	Joy Kogawa	Gr. 4+
The Old Brown Suitcase: A Teenager's Story of War and Peace	Lillian Boraks-Nemetz	Gr. 6+
One More Border:The True Story of One Family's Escape from War-torn Europe	Shelly Tanaka	Gr. 4+
Ships of the Great Days	Joseph Schull	Gr. 5+
Six War Years	Barry Broadfoot	Gr. 8+
The Sky Is Falling Looking at the Moon The Lights Go On Again	Kit Pearson	GR. 4+
Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame	Barry Broadfoot	Gr. 8+

GOVERNMENT

Canada Votes: How We Elect Our Government	Linda Granfield
The Kids Book of Candian Prime Ministers from MacDonald to Chretien	Pat Hancock	Gr. 3+
Parliament, Canada's Democracy and How it Works	Maureen McTeer
Sandy Mackenzie, Why Look So Glum? poems on each prime minister from MacDonald to Clark

POST WWII - MODERN HISTORY

A Hill for Looking	Martha Brooks	Gr. 5+
The Night Hazel Came to Town	John Ibbitson	Gr. 7+
One Proud Summer	Marsha Hewitt & Claire Mackay	Gr. 6+
Pegeen and the Pilgrim	Lyn Cook	Gr. 4+
The Railroader	Bernice Thurman Hunter	Gr. 4+
Terry Fox: His Story	Leslie Scrivener	Gr. 6+
The Treasure of the Long Sault	Monica Hughes	Gr. 6+
The Value of Facing a Challenge: The Story of Terry Fox	Anne Donnegan Johnson	Gr. 2-4
The Value of Tenacity: The Story of Maurice Richard	Anne Donnegan Johnson	Gr. 2-4

NARRATIVE TEXTS THAT COVER WHOLE RANGE OF CANADIAN HISTORY

Canada A Country by Consent	CD ROM	All Ages
Canada and Her Story	Mary Graham Bonner
The Canadian Story	May McNeer & Lynd Ward	Gr. 3+
Famous Canadian Stories	George E. Tait	Gr. 5+
Finding New Homes in Canada	Edwin C. Guillet & Jessie E. McEwen	Gr. 3+
The Great Adventure	Donalda Dickie	Gr. 4+
Great Canadian Lives: Portraits in Heroism to 1867	Karen Ford	Gr. 3+
Larger than Life	Janet Lunn	Gr. 4+
My First History of Canada	Donalda Dickie	Gr. 4+
O Canada!	Isabel Barclay	Gr. 3+
One Dominion	George E. Tait
Pages from Canada's Story	Donalda Dickie	Gr. 4+
A Picture Gallery of Canadian History (3 Vols.)	C. W. Jeffreys	All Ages
A Picture History of Canada	Clarke Hutton	Gr. 3+
The Story of Canada	Janet Lunn	Gr. 5+
The Story of Canada	George W. Brown	Gr. 5+
Young Canada	Anne Merriman Peck

MISCELLANEOUS

The All Canadian Trivia Junior Board Game		Gr. 4+
Brain Quest Canada	Linda Granfield & Pat Hancock	Gr. 4+
Canada: Portraits of Faith	Michael Clarke	Gr. 6+
Canada's Maple Leaf: The Story of Our Flag	Owens & Yealland	Gr. 3+
Forts of Canada	Owens & Yealland	Gr. 3+
Her Story: Women From Canada's Past	Susan E. Merritt	Gr. 6+
Her Story II:Women From Canada's Past	Susan E. Merritt	Gr. 6+

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Read Your Way Through Canadian History with Children's Literature

Chronological History Reading List

NATIVE INDIANS

INUIT

VIKINGS

EARLY EXPLORATION

ACADIA

NEW FRANCE

FUR TRADE

7 YEARS WAR(or as the Americans call it "THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR"

UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

LIFE IN THE 1700'S

WAR OF 1812

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

REBELLION OF 1837

WESTERN EXPLORATION

OPENING OF THE WEST (RCMP & THE RAILROAD)

SETTLING OF THE WEST

1866- FENIAN UPRISING

REIL REBELLION

ARCTIC EXPLORATION

BC GOLD RUSH

KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH

LIFE IN THE 1800'S

WW I

THE DEPRESSION (1930'S)

LIFE IN THE 1900'S - PRE WWII

WW II

GOVERNMENT

POST WWII - MODERN HISTORY

NARRATIVE TEXTS THAT COVER WHOLE RANGE OF CANADIAN HISTORY

MISCELLANEOUS

7 YEARS WAR
(or as the Americans call it "THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR"