Start with high-confidence pre-confederation canada books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Emperor of the North
James Raffan
Northwest Passage
William Dietrich
Through a Howling Wilderness
Thomas A. Desjardin
Great and Noble Scheme
John Mack Faragher
Dear Canada: Where the River Takes Me
Julie Lawson
A Short History of Canada
Desmond Morton
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery, Second Edition
David C. Woodman
The Captors' Narrative
William Henry Foster
Indians in the Fur Trade
Arthur Ray, Arthur J. Ray
All Canada in the Hands of the British
Douglas R. Cubbison
Hope Restored
Robert L. Dallison
Turning Back the Fenians
A Neighbourly War
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier
Ramsay Cook
Written in the Ruins
Paul Chiasson
He Did Not Conquer
Madelaine Drohan
Bonds of Alliance
Brett Rushforth
Apostles of Empire
Bronwen McShea
Dixie & the Dominion
Adam Mayers
Steal Away Home
Karolyn Smardz Frost
Crosses in the Sky
Mark Bourrie
The Making of Canada
Greg Koabel
