Resources

General

About Canada (Canada Site)
http://www.canada.gc.ca/canadiana/cdaind_e.html

About Government (Canada Site)
http://www.canada.gc.ca/howgoc/howind_e.html

Bliss, Michael. Right Honourable Men: the Descent of Canadian Politics from Macdonald to Mulroney. Toronto: HarperCollins, c1994. 336 p.

Bowering, George. Egotists and Autocrats: the Prime Ministers of Canada. Toronto: Viking, 1999. 558 p.

Canada's Parliament: Democracy in Action (Library of Parliament)
www.parl.gc.ca/information
/library/idb/democracy/democracy-e.htm

Canadian Confederation (National Library of Canada)
www.collectionscanada.ca/confederation/e-1867.htm

Canadian Parliamentary Trivia (Library of Parliament)
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information
/about/people/key/18-e.htm

Canadians in the World: History of Canada's International Relations (SchoolNet / Dept. of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
www.canschool.org/relation/history/menu-e.asp

Coucill, Irma. Founders & Guardians: 74 Portraits by Irma Coucill with Biographies. 2nd ed. Toronto: J. Wiley & Sons Canada, c1982. 164 p.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online www.biographi.ca/EN/index.html

Donaldson, Gordon. The Prime Ministers of Canada. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, c1994. 380 p.

----------. The Prime Ministers of Canada: Macdonald to Chrétien, 1867-1995. [2nd ed.] Stratford, Ont.: Thomas Martin Publishers, 1995, c1993. 43 p. Also issued in French: Les premiers ministres du Canada: de Macdonald à Chrétien.

Graham, Ron. One-Eyed Kings: Promise & Illusion in Canadian Politics. Toronto: Collins, 1986. 441 p.

Granatstein, J.L. Prime Ministers: Ranking Canada's Leaders. Toronto: HarperCollins, c1999. 233 p.

Hancock, Pat. The Kids Book of Canadian Prime Ministers. Toronto: Kids Can Press, c1998.

How Canadians Govern Themselves (Library of Parliament)
www.parl.gc.ca/information
/library/idb/forsey/how-e.htm

Hutchison, Bruce. Macdonald to Pearson: the Prime Ministers of Canada. Don Mills, Ont.: Longmans, 1967. 233 p.

MacCombie, John. P.M. : the Prime Ministers of Canada / updated by J. Noel. Richmond Hill, Ont.: Scholastic-TAB, 1976, c1972.

National Program for the Grave Sites of Canadian Prime Ministers (Parks Canada)
http://pc.gc.ca/pm/english
/gravesites_e.htm

Ondaatje, Christopher. The Prime Ministers of Canada: Macdonald to Mulroney, 1867-1985. Toronto: Pagurian Press, c1985. 206 p.

The Prime Ministers of Canada = Les premiers ministres du Canada. [S.l.) : J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada), c1974. Paintings of Canada's Prime Ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Pierre Elliott Trudeau with brief biographical sketches on the reverse of each print.

Prime Ministers (speeches)
www.canadahistory.com/sections/politics/politics.htm

Wilbur, J. R. H. Canadian Prime Ministers: the First Hundred Years. Fredericton, N.B.: Brunswick Press, c1967. 23 p.

Individual Prime Ministers

Confederation -- World War I Era

• John A. Macdonald
• Alexander Mackenzie
• John Joseph Caldwell Abott
• John Sparrow David Thompson
• Mackenzie Bowell
• Charles Tupper
• Wilfrid Laurier
• Robert Laird Borden

Post World War I -- World War II Era

• Arthur Meighen
• William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Richard Bedford Bennett

Post World War II

• Louis Stephen St. Laurent
• John George Diefenbaker
• Lester Bowles Pearson
• Pierre Elliott Trudeau
• Charles Joseph Clark
• John Napier Turner
• Martin Brian Mulroney
• A. Kim Campbell
• Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien