Reference Works on Canadiana
A curated list of price guides, bibliographies, and collectors' guides relating to Canadian books and imprints. Most of these titles are out of print — search ABEBooks or Biblio for used copies. Prices listed in older guides will be outdated, but the bibliographic information remains useful.
Amtmann, Bernard — Contributions to a Short-Title Catalogue of Canadiana
1971
Amtmann, Bernard — Montreal Book Auction Records: Canadiana, Americana, Arctica, Books & Pamphlets, Autographs
The complete set covers 1967 to 1982. The prices are badly outdated but these records are still widely used by dealers and collectors for bibliographic reference.
Boyle, Gertrude M. and Colbeck, Marjorie — A Bibliography of Canadiana: First Supplement. Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada
1959
Brundin, Robert — Price Guide to Books on Canada and the Canadian Arctic
Caswell, Edward S. — Canadian Singers and Their Songs
Profiles a number of Canadian poets from around the turn of the century. Each profile contains a facsimile of a handwritten and autographed poem, making it useful as an identification guide to signatures. Poets covered include Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, William Henry Drummond, E. Pauline Johnson, Archibald Lampman, Charles Mair, John McCrae, L.M. Montgomery, Marjorie Pickthall, Charles G.D. Roberts, and Duncan C. Scott.
Colombo, John Robert, Richardson, Michael, Bell, John, and Amprimoz, Alexander L. — CDN SF & F: A Bibliography of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
1979
Annotated checklist of approximately 600 titles in both English and French.
Cooke, O.A. — The Canadian Military Experience 1867–1995: A Bibliography
3rd edition, 1997. Canadian Government Publishing.
Gauvin, Daniel — Guide canadien du livre rare
Gnarowski, Michael — A Concise Bibliography of English-Canadian Literature
1973. 127 pages.
Small but genuinely useful for older Canadian fiction.
Hand, Richard A. — A Bookman's Guide to the Indians of the Americas: A Compilation of over 10,000 Catalogue Entries with Prices and Annotations
Ingles, Ernie, Adshead, Gordon R., and Ingles, Ernest Boyce — Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies
1997. University of Toronto Press. 1,178 pages.
Lecker, Robert and David, Jack — The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors
G.K. Hall. Multiple volumes in the series.
Peel, Bruce Braden — A Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces to 1953 with Biographical Index
1956, revised 1973.
Spencer, Loraine and Holland, Susan — Northern Ontario: A Bibliography
1968.
Staton, Frances M. and Tremaine, Marie — A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada
Tremaine, Marie — A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints 1751–1800
1952.
Villeneuve, Michel — Laurentiana: Guide du collectionneur de livres québécois
1998.
A price guide to books on Quebec.
Watters, Reginald Eyre — A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials, 1628–1960
Whale, G.J. Kim — Hudson's Bay to Haro Strait: Books on Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest: A Collectors' Guide
1998.
The first and only comprehensive description and price guide to approximately 1,800 of the most important and collectible books on Western Canada, the Arctic, and the North Pacific. Covers the fur trade, gold rushes, early voyages and settlement, Indigenous peoples, and more. Thoroughly indexed.