Canada’s History posted its 2024 Summer Reading Guide, an advertising section with “engaging history titles along with other new and recent books from Canadian publishers.” They are:
1. **Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity** – by Dimitry Anastakis
2. **The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman** – by Gerald Friesen
3. **An Accidental History of Canada** – edited by Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey L. Hudson
4. **The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents Who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII** – by Nahlah Ayed
5. **The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade** – by Nancy Marguerite Anderson
6. **Mr. Good-Evening: A Mystery** – by John MacLachlan Gray
7. **Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging** – by Tonya K. Davidson
8. **The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails** – by Matthew R. Anderson
9. **Friends and Enemies: Essays in Canada’s Foreign Relations** – by J.L. Granatstein
10. **Becoming Green Gables: The Diary of Myrtle Webb and Her Famous Farmhouse** – by Alan MacEachern
11. **Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia** – by Mark Bourrie
12. **The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War** – by Kristen den Hartog
13. **Canada and the Korean War: Histories and Legacies of a Cold War Conflict** – edited by Andrew Burtch and Tim Cook
14. **The Riel Problem: Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero** – by Albert Braz
15. **A Church at War: MacKay Presbyterian Church, New Edinburgh, and the First World War** – by Alan Bowker
16. **Wheeling Through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders** – by Albert Koehl
17. **Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750** – by Hilary Doda
18. **The City of Rainbows: A Colourful History of Prince Rupert** – by Blair Mirau
19. **Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park** – Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation with Sabina Trimble and Peter Fortna
20. **Unjust Transition: The Future for Fossil Fuel Workers** – edited by Emily Eaton, Andrew Stevens, and Sean Tucker
21. **Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism** – edited by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby
22. **Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy** – by Yves Engler and Owen Schalk, with poems by Rob Rolfe
23. **Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole** – edited by Dimitry Anastakis, Elizabeth Kirkland, and Don Nerbas
24. **History Has Made Us Friends: Reassessing the Special Relationship between Canada and the United States** – edited by Donals E. Abelson and Stephen Brooks
25. **Paris ’44: The Shame and the Glory** – by Patrick Bishop
26. **Canada and Colonialism: An Unfinished History** – by Jim Reynolds
27. **Canada’s Great War Album: Our Memories of the First World War** – edited by Mark Collin Reid
28. **The Last Logging Show: A Forestry Family at the End of an Era** – by Aaron Williams
29. **Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Britain to Canada, 1860–1935** – by Ruth Lamont, Eloise Moss, and Charlotte Wildman (the one I recommended for purchase by OPL)
30. **Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970** – by Matthew S. Wiseman
31. **Ring Around the Maple: A Sociocultural History of Children and Childhoods in Canada, 19th and 20th Centuries** – by Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland
32. **Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future** – by Blair Stonechild
33. **Untold Tales of Old British Columbia** – by Daniel Marshall
34. **The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood** – by Richard White
35. **Déploiements canadiens-français et métis en Amérique du Nord (18e-20e siècle)** – edited by Yves Frenette, Marc St-Hilaire, and Marie-Ève Harton
36. **To Make a Killing: Arthur Cutten, the Man Who Ruled the Markets** – by Robert Stephens
37. **The Cause of Art: Professionalizing the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador** – by Jeff Webb