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  • Avery, Donald H., The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology During the Second World War, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1998. 
  • Babaian, Sharon, Radio Communication in Canada: A Historical and Technological Survey, Transformation Series 1, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Ball, Norman R., Mind, Heart, and Vision: Professional Engineering in Canada 1887 to 1987, National Museum of Science and Technology/Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1987. 
  • Ball, Norman R. ed., Building Canada: A History of Public Works, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Barris, Theodore, Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1977. 
  • Berger, Carl, Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1983. 
  • Bliss, Michael, Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1987. 
  • Bothwell, Robert, Nucleus: The History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Brown, J.J., Ideas in Exile, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Bryden, John, Deadly Allies: Canada’s Secret War 1937–1947, McClelland & stewart, Toronto, 1989. 
  • Chisholm, Barbara, ed., Castles of the North: Canada’s Grand Hotels, Lynx Images Inc., Toronto, 2001. 
  • Collins, Robert, A Voice from Afar: The History of Telecommunications in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. 
  • Dewalt, Bryan, Building a Digital Network in Canada: Data Communications and Digital Telephony, 1959–1990, Transformation Series 2, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Dewalt, Bryan, Technology and Canadian Printing: A History from Lead Type to Lasers, Transformation Series 3, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1995. 
  • Eggleston, Wilfred, National Research in Canada: The NRC 1916–1966, Clarke Irwin, Toronto, 1978. 
  • Faucher, Philippe, Grands projets et innovations technologiques au Canada, Les presses de l’universite de Montréal, Montreal, 1999. 
  • Germain, Georges-Hebert, Le Genie Québécois: Histoire d’une conquete, Ordre des ingenieurs du Québec/Libre Expression, Montreal, 1995. 
  • Guillet, Edwin C., The Story of Canadian Roads, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Harry, J., Smith, G., Lessard, Gilles, Forestry Resources Research in Canada, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa 1971. 
  • Hopps, John A., Passing Pulses: The Pacemaker and Medical Engineering: A Canadian Story, Publishing Plus Limited, Ottawa, 1995. 
  • Knowles Middleton, W.E., Radar Development in Canada: The Radio Branch of the National Research Council of Canada, 1939–1946, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 1981. 
  • Koppel, Ted, Powering the Future: the Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World, John Wiley & Sons, Etobicoke, 1999. 
  • Lowther, William, Arms and the Man: Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq and the Supergun, Doubleday Canada Limites, Toronto, 1991. 
  • MacDermot, H.E., One Hundred Years of Medicine in Canada 1867–1967, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Macpherson, Burgess, The Ships of Canada’s Naval Forces 1910–1985, Collins, Toronto, 1981. 
  • McDonnell, The History of Canadian Railroads, New Burlington Books, London, 1985. 
  • McGrath, T.M., History of Canadian Airports, Lugus Publications, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Madger, Ted, Canada’s Hollywood: The Canadian State and Feature Films, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1993. 
  • Maginley, Collin, The Ships of Canada’s Marine Services, Vanwell, St. Catharines, 2001. 
  • Mayer, Roy, Inventing Canada: One Hundred Years of Innovation, Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 1997. 
  • Mayer, Roy, Scientific Canadian: Invention and Innovation from Canada’s national Research Council, Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 1999. 
  • Milberry, Larry, Aviation in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1979. 
  • Millard, J. Rodney, The Master Spirit of the Age: Canadian Engineers and the Politics of Professionalism 1887–1922, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Morton, Desmond, A Military History of Canada, Hurtig, Edmonton, 1990. 
  • Mouat, Jeremy, Metal Mining in Canada, 1840 −1950, Transformation Series 9, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 2000. 
  • Muise, McIntosh, Coal Mining in Canada: A Historical and Comparative Overview, Transformation Series 5, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1996. 
  • Robertson, Heather, Driving Force, The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1995. 
  • Silversides, C.Ross, Broadaxe to Flying Shear: the Mechanization of Forest Harvesting East of the Rockies, Transformation Series 6, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1997. 
  • Smallman, B.N., et al., Agriculture Science in Canada, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1970. 
  • Stewart, R.W., Dickie, L.M., Ad Mare: Canada Looks to the Sea—A Study on Marine Science and Technology, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa 1971. 
  • Süsskind, Charles. “technology.” Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. 2008. Grolier Online. 23 Oct. 2008 [1] 
  • Taylor, Baskerville, A Concise Business History of Canada, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1994. 
  • Thomson, Don W., Men and Mericians Volumes 1,2,3, Information Canada, Ottawa, 1966. 
  • Thomson, Malcolm, M., The Beginning of the Long Dash: A History of Timekeeping in Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1978. 
  • Tremblay, Robert, Histoire des outils manuels au Canada de 1828 a 1960, Transformation Series 10, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 2001. 
  • Warrington, Newbold, Chemical Canada: Past and Present, The Chemical Institute of Canada, Ottawa, 1970. 
  • Weir, E. Austin, The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1965. 
  • Westman, A.E.R., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: A Survey of Research and Development in Canada, The Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1969. 
  • Wilson, Andrew, Background to Invention, Science Council of Canada, 1970. 
  • Wilson, Andrew, Research Councils in the Provinces: A Canadian Resource, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1971. 
  • Wilson, Garth, A History of Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture in Canada, Transformation Series 4, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1994. 
  • Williams, Michael, Massey-Ferguson Tractors, Blandford Press, London, 1987. 
  • Wright, J.W., A History of the Native Peoples of Canada: Volumes I(2001) & II(1999), Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa. 
  • Zeller, Suzanne, Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1987. 
  • Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi, ed., Despite All Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science, Vehicle Press, Montreal, 1990. 
  • Anstey, T.Branch Agriculture Canada, Historical Series No. 27, 1986. 
  • Avery, Donald H., The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology During the Second World War, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1998. 
  • Babaian, Sharon, Radio Communication in Canada: A Historical and Technological Survey, Transformation Series 1, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Babbitt, J.D. ed., Science in Canada: Selections from the Speeches of Dr. E.W.R. Steacie, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1965. 
  • Ball, Norman R., Mind, Heart, and Vision: Professional Engineering in Canada 1887 to 1987, National Museum of Science and Technology/Museums of Canada, Ottawa, 1987. 
  • Ball, Norman R. ed., Building Canada: A History of Public Works, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Barris, Theodore, Fire Canoe: Prairie Steamboat Days Revisited, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1977. 
  • Berger, Carl, Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1983. 
  • Bothwell, Robert, Nucleus: The History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Brown, J.J., Ideas in Exile, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Bryden, John, Deadly Allies: Canada’s Secret War 1937 – 1947, McClelland & stewart, Toronto, 1989. 
  • Chapman, J.H., et al., Upper Atmosphere and Space Programmes in Canada, Science Secretariat, Ottawa, 1967. 
  • Collins, Robert, A Voice from Afar: The History of Telecommunications in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. 
  • Dewalt, Bryan, Building a Digital Network in Canada: Data Communications and Digital Telephony, 1959-1990, Transformation Series 2, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Dewalt, Bryan, Technology and Canadian Printing: A History from Lead Type to Lasers, Transformation Series 3, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1995. 
  • Eggleston, Wilfred, National Research in Canada: The NRC 1916 – 1966, Clarke Irwin, Toronto, 1978. 
  • Faucher, Philippe, Grands projets et innovations technologiques au Canada, Les presses de l’université de Montréal, Montreal, 1999. 
  • Germain, Georges-Hebert, Le Génie Québécois: Histoire d’une conquête, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec/Libre Expression, Montreal, 1995. 
  • Guillet, Edwin C., The Story of Canadian Roads, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Harry, J., Smith, G., Lessard, Gilles, Forestry Resources Research in Canada, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa 1971. 
  • Hopps, John A., Passing Pulses: The Pacemaker and Medical Engineering: A Canadian Story, Publishing Plus Limited, Ottawa, 1995. 
  • Knowles Middleton, W.E., Radar Development in Canada: The Radio Branch of the National Research Council of Canada, 1939-1946, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 1981. 
  • Koppel, Ted, Powering the Future: the Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World, John Wiley & Sons, Etobicoke, 1999. 
  • Lowther, William, Arms and the Man: Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq and the Supergun, Doubleday Canada Limites, Toronto, 1991. 
  • MacDermot, H.E., One Hundred Years of Medicine in Canada 1867-1967, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1967. 
  • Macpherson, Burgess, The Ships of Canada’s Naval Forces 1910-1985, Collins, Toronto, 1981. 
  • McDonnell, The History of Canadian Railroads, New Burlington Books, London, 1985. 
  • McGrath, T.M., History of Canadian Airports, Lugus Publications, Ottawa, 1992. 
  • Madger, Ted, Canada’s Hollywood: The Canadian State and Feature Films, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1993. 
  • Maginley, Collin, The Ships of Canada’s Marine Services, Vanwell, St. Catharines, 2001. 
  • Mayer, Roy, Inventing Canada: One Hundred Years of Innovation, Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 1997. 
  • Mayer, Roy, Scientific Canadian: Invention and Innovation from Canada’s national Research Council, Raincoast Books, Vancouver, 1999. 
  • Milberry, Larry, Aviation in Canada, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto, 1979. 
  • Millard, J. Rodney, The Master Spirit of the Age: Canadian Engineers and the Politics of Professionalism 1887 – 1922, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988. 
  • Morton, Desmond, A Military History of Canada, Hurtig, Edmonton, 1990. 
  • Mouat, Jeremy, Metal Mining in Canada, 1840–1950, Transformation Series 9, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 2000. 
  • Muise, McIntosh, Coal Mining in Canada: A Historical and Comparative Overview, Transformation Series 5, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1996. 
  • OECD, Reviews of National Science Policy: Canada, OECD Publications, Paris, 1969. 
  • Robertson, Heather, Driving Force, The McLaughlin Family and the Age of the Car, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1995. 
  • Silversides, C.Ross, Broadaxe to Flying Shear: the Mechanization of Forest Harvesting East of the Rockies, Transformation Series 6, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1997. 
  • Smallman, B.N., et al., Agriculture Science in Canada, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1970. 
  • Stewart, R.W., Dickie, L.M., Ad Mare: Canada Looks to the Sea – A Study on Marine Science and Technology, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa 1971. 
  • Taylor, Baskerville, A Concise Business History of Canada, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1994. 
  • Thomson, Malcolm, M., The Beginning of the Long Dash: A History of Timekeeping in Canada, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1978. 
  • Tremblay, Robert, Histoire des outils manuels au Canada de 1828 a 1960, Transformation Series 10, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 2001. 
  • Warrington, Newbold, Chemical Canada: Past and Present, The Chemical Institute of Canada, Ottawa, 1970. 
  • Weir, E. Austin, The Struggle for National Broadcasting in Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1965. 
  • Westman, A.E.R., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: A Survey of Research and Development in Canada, The Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1969. 
  • Wilson, Andrew, Background to Invention, Science Council of Canada, 1970. 
  • Wilson, Andrew, Research Councils in the Provinces: A Canadian Resource, Science Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1971. 
  • Wilson, Garth, A History of Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture in Canada, Transformation Series 4, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1994. 
  • Williams, Michael, Massey-Ferguson Tractors, Blandford Press, London, 1987. 
  • Zeller, Suzanne, Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1987. 
  • Metals and Men, LeBourdais, McClelland & Stewart 1957
  • Transit Progress Denied-Ontario Hydro’s Radial Electric Railway Scheme, D.R. Spencer, Railfare DC Books 2012 
  • Ontario’s Grand River Valley Electric Railways, John Mills, Railfare DC Books 2010 
  • Fortunes in the Ground Cobalt, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake, Michael Barnes, Boston Mills Press, 1986.
  • Steam Into  Wilderness-Ontario Northland Railway 1902-1962, Albert Tucker, Fitzhenery & Whiteside 1978 
  • Canadian National Railways, Volumes 1 and 2, G.R. Stevens, Clark Irwin, 1960 Sawlogs on Steel Rails, George McKnight, Friesen Printers, 1997
  • The industrial transformation of subarctic Canada Liza Piper; foreword by Graeme Wynn. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009. 
  • “An Impartial Umpire”: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900-1911. Paul Craven. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.  
  • The Winnipeg general strike: class, ethnicity and class formation in Canada. Donald Molnar. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989.
  • The IWA in Canada [electronic resource] : the life and times of an industrial union. Andrew Neufeld and Andrew Parnaby; foreword by Mark Leier. Vancouver: IWA Canada/New Star Books, 2000. 
  • The Rise of Industrial Unionism in Canada: A History of the CIO /Don Taylor and Bradley Dow. Kingston, ON: Industrial Relations Centre, Queen’s University, 1988.
  • Working-class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991. Bryan D. Palmer. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992. 2nd ed. 
  • Industrial Sunset: the Making of North America’s Rust belt, 1969-1984, Steven High. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 
  • Trade unions in Canada 1812-1902. Eugene Forsey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. 
  • At the Wilderness Edge: the Rise of the Antidevelopment Movement on Canada’s West Coast. J. I. Little. Montreal; Kingston; London; Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. 
  • Montreal: the History of a North American City. Edited by Dany Fougères and Roderick MacLeod. Histoire de Montréal et de sa région. English. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017-2018. 
  • Labouring Canada : class, gender, and race in Canadian working-class history. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer & Joan Sangster. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Working-class experience : rethinking the history of Canadian labour, 1800-1991. Bryan D. Palmer. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, c1992. 2nd ed. 
  • Statistics Canada, Historical Statistics of Canada, 2nd ed., ed. F. H. Leacy (Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1983): A78-93.
  • Statistics Canada, Census of Canada, 1931, vol.1, Table 13 (Ottawa: 1932).
  • Max Foran with Edward Cavell, Calgary: An Illustrated History (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1978), 70.
  • L.D. McCann, “The Mercantile-Industrial Transition in the Metals Towns of Pictou Country, 1857-1931,” in Cities and Urbanization: Canadian Historical Perspectives, ed. Gilbert A. Stelter (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1990): 88-9.
  • Peter G. Goheen, “Currents of Change in Toronto, 1850-1900,” in The Canadian City: Essays in Urban History, eds. Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979): 63.
  • Bryan D. Palmer, Working-Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991, 2nd ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992), 115.
  • John Douglas Belshaw, Becoming British Columbia: A Population History (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009), 180. 
  • Peter DeLottinville, “Trouble in the Hives of Industry: The Cotton Industry comes to Milltown, New Brunswick, 1879-1892,” in Labour and Working-Class History in Canada: A Reader, eds. David Frank and Gregory S. Kealey (St. John’s: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1995): 131. 
  • Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society, trans. John Wilkinson (New York: Random House, 1964).
  • Wright, J.W., A History of the Native Peoples of Canada: Volumes I(2001) and II(1999), Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa.
  • Wilson, Garth, A History of Shipbuilding and Naval Architecture in Canada, Transformation Series 4, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1994.
  • Guillet, Edwin C., The Story of Canadian Roads, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1967.
  • Bliss, Michael, Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1987, p. 111.
  • McDonnell, The History of Canadian Railroads, New Burlington Books, London, 1985.
  • Warrington, Newbold, Chemical Canada: Past and Present, The Chemical Institute of Canada, Ottawa, 1970.
  • Ball, Norman R. ed., Building Canada: A History of Public Works, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1988.
  • Muise, McIntosh, Coal Mining in Canada: A Historical and Comparative Overview, Transformation Series 5, National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, 1996.

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