Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

A digital collection of works in English and French published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early twentieth century.

The collection includes colonial, provincial and federal government publications, Jesuit relations texts, and an English Canadian literature collection with over 800 works of drama, poetry and fiction, biography and exploration written before 1900.

It also contains early dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines published up to 1930.

Full-text digitized works printed in British North America and the United Kingdom between 1473 and 1700. Books about Canada mainly consist of exploration narratives and missionary accounts.

Full-text digitized works printed in Great Britain in the eighteenth century, encompassing an early historical stage of Canadian writing.

Twenty-seven diaries and other types of writing from Susanna Moodie, Letitia MacTavish Hargrave, Catherine Parr Traill, and others.

Includes a range of digitized primary source materials, including historical maps, books, and assorted ephemera (postcards, advertisements, flyers, and tickets).

The anthology includes important writings by canonical and non-canonical Canadian authors, published since the sixteenth century to 1920.

Essays, prefaces, and editorials published between 1823 and 1926 in a variety of works including the major literary periodicals of the time.

Among the authors are Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Daniel Wilson, Goldwin Smith, G. Mercer Adam, Pelham Edgar, J.D. Robins, J.D. Logan, and Charles Mair.

A collection of first-person accounts of women’s experiences of Canada, representing a multitude of Canadian regions, national origins, and social classes. Includes writings by Anna Brownell Jameson, Catharine Parr Traill, Emily Carr as well as lesser known names.

The chronological arrangement of approximately 865 titles and editions in this comprehensive bibliography of printed works published in Great Britain to 1763 (the Treaty of Paris) includes books, pamphlets, maps, broadsides, and broadsheets which concern in some way any part of the present area of Canada.

Each entry includes a bibliographic description, a statement of format, pertinent references to other catalogs or bibliographies, notes about the work, and locations of known copies in Canadian libraries.

A bibliography of books, handbills, pamphlets and other printed materials published in the provinces of Canada, compiled by Marie Tremaine, a prominent Canadian bibliographer.

In 1999, book-history scholars Patricia Fleming and Sandra Alston published a supplement to the bibliography.

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Corrects the original publication by Tremaine and includes new content new with updated scholarship. An analytical bibliography of previously unrecorded eighteenth-century Canadian imprints and a source for the study of early print culture in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Ontario.

Z1365 T7 1999
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Provides a list of all the important primary and secondary sources of this period including: general reference guides; literary histories and criticisms; anthologies; major and minor authors; literature of exploration, travel and description, and selected nineteenth-century journals.

This bibliographical study presents 152 women-authored English-language texts relating to Canada that were published from 1728 to 1859, including the works of Frances Brooke, Anna Jameson, Susanna Moodie, and Catherine Parr Traill.

Included are monographas that appeared before 1860, and personal life-writings (letters, diaries, travel journals) written before 1860 that were published later.

A collection of critical essays, which are organized by genres and topics in Canadian children’s fiction and nonfiction: oral tradition, Inuit and Indigenous legends, early Canadian children’s books, folktales, fantasy, historical fiction, the realistic animal story, history and biography, poetry and plays, illustration and design, picture books and picture storybooks.

Each essay traces the development of the genre or subject and is accompanied by a list of books, published up to the mid-1970s. Second edition.

The Biography provides authoritative biographical information about significant figures of Canada’s past who died between the years 1000 and 1930, or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

There are detailed articles on Canada’s major historical figures, and short articles on minor personages who have hitherto found no place in reference works or general histories.

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Studies the effects of a post-Confederation nationalism on literary endeavour in Canada.

PR9180.2 .C37 1990
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French and English writers who flourished between the seventeenth century and the 1980s are covered in the bio-critical resource. Writers came from all walks of life including explorers, missionaries, civil servants, travel writers, lawyers and journalists.

PR9180.2 .C38 1990
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Includes biographical and publication information for more than 470 women who lived in Canada or wrote about Canada, and authored an English-language book or pamphlet of fiction or poetry that was published before 1940.

A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature, including exploration and travel writing.

PR9184.3 .C34 2017
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A complete history of Canadian writing from its beginnings, including the literature of settlement and the history of Canadian publishing and the literary marketplace in the second half of the nineteenth century.

PR9184.6 .C26 2009
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Provides an historical background to the beginnings of Canadian literature and the emergence of a Canadian nationality.

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A collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English by renowned experts in early Canadian literary studies, including D.M.R. Bentley, Mary Jane Edwards, and Carole Gerson.

Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected texts, and proposing new approaches to canonical authors.

PR9184.3 .H65 2014
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Examines the writings of Haudenosaunee leaders John Norton and John Brant and Anishinabeg authors Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Peter Jones, and George Copway, as well as European figures John Beverley Robinson, John Strachan, Anna Brownell Jameson, and Sir Francis Bond Head.

Hutchings argues that, despite their cultural differences, many factors connected these writers, including shared literary interests, cross-Atlantic journeys, metropolitan experiences, mutual acquaintance, and engagement in ongoing dialogue over Indigenous territory and governance.

PR9185.2 .H88 2020
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Explores English and Canadian fiction and nonfiction and the manner in which they describe early Canadian settlement. Writers examined in the book include Frederick Marryat, John Mackie, Elisabeth Strickland, Agnes Strickland, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, and F.M. Delafosse.

Historical examination of women’s engagement with multiple aspects of print over some two hundred years in Canada, from the settlers who wrote diaries and letters to the New Women who argued for ballots and equal rights.

PR9188 .G47 2010
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Six women writers from six different periods and how they portray Canadian women authors: Frances Brooke, Susanna Moodie, Sara Jeannette Duncan; L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, and Carol Shields.

Explores how Samuel Hearne’s account of the Bloody Falls massacre has shaped the ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.

E99 .E7 C2177 2015
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