List of books about Prime Ministers of Canada

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Busts of Prime Ministers of Canada, 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 written by many authors about the Prime Ministers of Canada

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Overview

• Bruce Hutchison; Mr. Prime Minister 1867–1964, Toronto 1964, Longmans Canada.
• Gordon Donaldson (journalist); The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1993.
• Michael Bliss: Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, 1994.
• George Bowering: Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, 1999.
• Will Ferguson; Bastards & Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present, 1999.
• J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer: Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders, Toronto: HarperCollinsPublishersLtd., 1999, pp. 102 – 113. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.

John A. Macdonald

• Martin, Ged. (2013) John A. Macdonald: Canada's First Prime Minister. Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-45970-651-4
• Rohmer, Richard (2013) Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-45970-985-0
• 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

• William Buckingham, George W. Ross (2005) The Hon. Alexander MacKenzie: His Life and Times University Press of the Pacific 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.

John Abbott

• 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

John Thompson

• J. Castell Hopkins, 1895, Life and Work of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Thompson, Toronto: United Publishing Houses.
• J.P. Heisler, 1955, Sir John Thompson, thesis, University of Toronto.
• John Saywell (editor), 1960, The Canadian Journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893–1898, Champlain Society.
• Bruce Hutchison, 1964, Mr. Prime Minister 1867–1964, Toronto: Longmans Canada.
• Lovell Clark, 1968, A History of the Conservative Administrations, 1891–1896, PhD thesis, University of Toronto.
• Peter Busby Waite, 1985, The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-5659-8.
• Michael Bliss, 1994, Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, Toronto.
• J.L. Granatstein and Norman Hillmer, 1999, Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders, Toronto: HarperCollinsPublishersLtd, A Phyllis Bruce Book, p. 40–42. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.

Mackenzie Bowell

• Betsy Boyce, 2001, The accidental Prime Minister: The biography of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Ameliasburg, ON: Seventh Town Historical Society ISBN 0-969193-55-6

Charles Tupper

• 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

• Grace Stewart, Heather. Sir Wilfrid Laurier: the weakling who stood his ground (2006) ISBN 0-9736406-3-4
• Laurier LaPierre Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Romance of Canada – (1996). ISBN 0-7737-2979-8
• Wilfrid Laurier; quand la politique devient passion (Québec et Montréal, 1986)
• R. T. Clippingdale, Laurier, his life and world (Toronto, 1979)
• H. B. Neatby, Laurier and a Liberal Quebec; a study in political management, ed. R. T. Clippingdale (Toronto, 1973)
• Joseph Schull, Laurier. The First Canadian (1965)
• Oscar Douglas Skelton, Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier 2v (1921; reprinted 1965)
• H. Blair Neatby. Laurier and a Liberal Quebec: A Study in Political Management (1973)
• J. W. Dafoe, Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics (1922)

Robert Borden

• 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

Arthur Meighen

• 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

Biographical

• Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: The Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney (1994), pp. 123–184.
• 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. "King, William Lyon Mackenzie," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs (annual, 1901–1938), full text for 1920 online and downloadable.
• Mackenzie King, W. L. Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Under-Lying Industrial Reconstruction (1918) online edition; also full text online and downloadable.
• The diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, 50,000 pages, typescript; fully searchable.
• Pickersgill, J.W., and Donald F. Forster, The Mackenzie King Record. 4 vols. Vol. 1: 1939–1944 and Vol. 2: 1944–1945 (University of Toronto Press, 1960); and Vol. 3: 1945–1946 online and Vol. 4: 1946–1947 online (University of Toronto Press, 1970). Edited from King's private diary.
• Hou, Charles, and Cynthia Hou, eds. Great Canadian Political Cartoons, 1915 to 1945. (2002). 244pp.
• Canadian Department of External Affairs, Documents on Canadian External Relations (Ottawa: Queen's Printer, 1967–). These cover the period 1909–1960. (Often referred to as DCER.)

Television series

• Brittain, Donald. The King Chronicles, National Film Board, 1988.

R.B. Bennett

Monographs

• Andrew D. Maclean; R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, Toronto, Excelsior Publishing Co., 1935.
• Ernest Watkins; R. B. Bennett: A Biography, 1963.
• J. R. H. Wilbur; The Bennett New Deal: Fraud or Portent, 1968.
• James Henry Grey; R. B. Bennett: The Calgary Years, University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 1991.
• Peter Busby Waite; Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R.B. Bennett, 1870–1947, 1992.
• Christopher McCreery and Arthur Milnes (editors): The Authentic Voice of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, McGill – Queen's University Press, Centre for the Study of Democracy, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55339-275-0. This book is a collection of Bennett's speeches in the British House of Lords from 1941–47.
• Forthcoming major biography by Peter Busby Waite.
• John Boyko; Bennett: The Rebel Who Challenged And Changed A Nation, Toronto, Key Porter Books, 2010, ISBN 1-55470-248-8.

Other works

• Bruce Hutchison; The Incredible Canadian, Toronto 1952, Longmans Canada. This book is mainly concerned with William Lyon Mackenzie King, but also includes substantial material on R. B. Bennett.
• Lord Beaverbrook; Friends, 1959.
• H. Blair Neatby; The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties, 1972 ch 4 on Bennett, pp 51–72 online version.
• C. P. Stacey; Canada and the Age of Conflict, volume 2, 1981.

Louis St. Laurent

• 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

Bibliography

Online sources

• (fee for article)

Lester B. Pearson

• Also published in 2000 by Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-027550-6. OCLC 44545832.
• Also OCLC 463535217 and OCLC 300360332.
• Also ISBN 978-0-00-638563-9.
• Also OCLC 422290909.

Writings

• Also published by Pall Mall Press (1970), ISBN 978-0-269-02736-9, OCLC 611559021.

Pierre Trudeau

• 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 0-77-105417-3
• 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 0888643136
• 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 978-0676975215
• 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 0773513221
• 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 0385197888
• 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)
• Peterson, Roy. Drawn & quartered: the Trudeau years. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1984.
• Radwanski, George. Trudeau. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co., 1978. ISBN 0-8008-7897-3
• 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
• Zink, Lubor J. Trudeaucracy. Toronto: Toronto Sun Publishing Ltd., 1972. 150 pages. OCLC 837009381.

Archival videos of 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

• Winners, Losers, by Patrick Brown (journalist), Rae Murphy, and Robert Chodos, 1976.
• Joe Clark: A Portrait, by David L. Humphreys, Toronto 1978, Deneau and Greenberg Publishers Ltd., ISBN 0-00-216169-9.
• Joe Clark: The Emerging Leader, by Michael Nolan, Toronto 1978, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ISBN 0-88902-436-7.
• 200 Days: Joe Clark in Power, by Warner Troyer, Toronto 1980, Personal Library, Publishers, ISBN 0-920510-05-1.
• Discipline of Power: the Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration, by Jeffrey Simpson, Macmillan of Canada, 1984, ISBN 0-920510-24-8.
• One-Eyed Kings, by Ron Graham, Toronto 1986, Collins Publishers.
• The Insiders: Government, Business, and the Lobbyists, by John Sawatsky, 1987.
• Prime Ministers of Canada, by Jim Lotz, 1987.
• Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition, by John Sawatsky, Toronto 1991, MacFarlane, Walter, and Ross publishers.
• Memoirs, by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Toronto 1993, McClelland & Stewart publishers, ISBN 0-7710-8587-7.
• A Nation Too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada, by Joseph Clark, Toronto 1994, Key Porter Books, ISBN 1-55013-603-8.
• Right Honourable Men: the descent of Canadian politics from Macdonald to Mulroney, by Michael Bliss, 1994.
• The Prime Ministers of Canada, by Gordon Donaldson (journalist), 1997.
• Prime Ministers: Rating Canada's Leaders, by Norman Hillmer and J.L. Granatstein, 1999. ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
• Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, by George Bowering, 1999.
• Bastards and Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present, by Will Ferguson, 1999.
• In My Own Name, by Maureen McTeer, 2003.
• The Secret Mulroney Tapes, edited by Peter C. Newman, 2006.
• Memoirs 1939–1993, by Brian Mulroney, 2007.

John Turner

• Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition, by John Sawatsky, Toronto 1991, McFarlane, Walter, and Ross publishers, ISBN 0-921912-06-4.
• Granatstein, J.L. and Norman Hillmer. Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders, (Toronto: 1999, HarperCollins) ISBN 0-00-200027-X.
• Turner, John. Politics With Purpose, by , 40th anniversary edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008.

Brian Mulroney

• 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.
• Discipline of Power: the Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration, by Jeffrey Simpson, Macmillan of Canada, 1984, ISBN 0-920510-24-8.
• 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.
• Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada, by George Bowering, 1999.
• Bastards and Boneheads: Canada's Glorious Leaders, Past and Present, by Will Ferguson, 1999.
• 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.

Jean Chrétien

• Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power, by Edward Greenspon and Anthony Wilson-Smith, Toronto 1996, Doubleday Canada publishers, ISBN 0-385-25613-2.
• One-Eyed Kings, by Ron Graham, Toronto 1986, Collins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-217749-8.
• Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders by J.L. Granatstein and Normal Hillmer, Toronto, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd., 1999, ISBN 0-00-200027-X.

Academic

Paul Martin

• Martin, Paul (2009). Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics. Emblem Edition. ISBN 978-0771056932; Autobiography
• Donaghy, Greg. (2015) Grit: The Life and Politics of Paul Martin Sr. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015). Pp. 480
• Gray, John (2003). Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition. Key Porter Books. ISBN 978-1552632178.
• Wells, Paul. (2007) Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism (Douglas Gibson Books) 344 pp ISBN 978-0-7710-8855-1
• Wilson-Smith, Anthony; Greenspon, Edward (1996). Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power. Doubleday Canada. ISBN 0-385-25613-2.

Stephen Harper

• Behiels, Michael D. "Stephen Harper's Rise to Power" (PDF) American Review of Canadian Studies Spring 2010, Vol. 40 Issue 1, pp 118–45
• Chantal, Hébert. (2007) French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec Vintage Canada, ISBN 9780676979084
• Cody, Howard. "Minority Government In Canada: The Stephen Harper Experience" American Review of Canadian Studies 2008 38(1): 27–42
• Flanagan, Tom. (2009) Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (2nd ed), ISBN 978-0-7735-3545-9
• Frenette, Yves. "Conscripting Canada’s Past: The Harper Government and the Politics of Memory" Canadian Journal of History (2014) 49#2: 49–65
• Harris, Michael. (2014) Party of One: Stephen Harper And Canada's Radical Makeover, 554 pp. Viking; Second Impression edition. ISBN 978-0-6700-6701-5
• Johnson, William. (2006) Stephen Harper & the Future of Canada (2nd ed) Douglas Gibson, ISBN 0-7710-4350-3
• Mackey, Lloyd. (2005) "The pilgrimage of Stephen Harper" ECW Press ISBN 1-55022-713-0
• Martin, Lawrence. "Harperland: The Politics of Control" Viking Canada (2010). ISBN 978-0-670-06517-2
• Plamondon, Bob. Full Circle: Death and Resurrection in Canadian Conservative Politics (2006), 472 pp., ISBN 978-1-55263-855-2
• Wells, Paul. (2007) "Right Side Up: The Fall of Paul Martin and the Rise of Stephen Harper's New Conservatism" "Douglas Gibson Books" 344 Pages ISBN 978-0-7710-8855-1
• Wells, Paul. (2013) "The Longer I'm Prime Minister. Stephen Harper and Canada 2006-" 'Random House" 448 Pages ISBN 978-0-307-36132-5

Justin Trudeau

• Trudeau, Justin. (2014) "Common Ground" 'HarperCollins Publishers" 352 Pages ISBN 978-1-443-43337-2

See also

• Bibliography of Canada
• Bibliography of Canadian history
• Bibliography of Canadian military history
• Bibliography of Nova Scotia
• Bibliography of Saskatchewan history
• Bibliography of Alberta history
• Bibliography of British Columbia
• Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
• List of books about the War of 1812

External links

• Prime Minister's Official Site
• The Prime Ministers of Canada – The Historica Dominion Institute (Simon Fraser University & Rogers Communications)
• Prime Ministers of Canada – Library of Parliament
• Prime Ministers – Canada History