Special Collection: The Makers of Canada

This is a series of books designed to present a history of Canada through a study of its major figures. The original series, published by Morang & Co., Toronto, contained 20 volumes which appeared between 1903 and 1908; additional volumes were added in 1911 and 1916. In 1926, the Oxford University Press republished the series in a smaller number of volumes. Thus the later editions contained volumes that had been restructured, combined or rewritten. Consequently the numbering of the volumes and their contents is inconsistent with the earlier edition. The publication history is summarized in the Canadian Encyclopedia.

The following list is organised alphabetically by the surname of the subject(s) of the different volumes.

Baldwin-Lafontaine-Hincks

Baldwin-Lafontaine-Hincks, Responsible Government
By Stephen Leacock
Morang ed. Volume 8, published 1907
A history of the two governments of the United Province of Canada formed by Robert Baldwin (1804-1858), and Louis-Philippe La Fontaine (1807-1864), which, with the support of Sir Francis Hincks (1807-1885) encouraged the evolution of Canada from a military colony to a representative democracy.

General Brock

George Brown

Sir Georges É. Cartier

Papineau, Cartier
By Alfred D. DeCelles
Oxford ed. Volume 5 (New and Revised, Part 2, second half of book), published 1926
Papineau’s political career as leader of the early 19th Century Quebec nationalists. Cartier’s political career from the uprising of 1837 to Confederation.

Samuel de Champlain

Lord Dorchester

Sir James Douglas

Lord Elgin

Lord Elgin
By Sir John George Bourinot
Morang ed. Volume 16, published 1903
During Lord Elgin's tenure as Governor-General of Canada (1847-1854) he implemented many of the changes recommended in Lord Durham's Report, thereby healing some of the wounds of the 1837 rebellions and enabling the development of responsible government in the newly formed country.

Count Frontenac

Count Frontenac
By William D. Le Sueur
Morang ed. Volume 3, published 1909
His rôle as governor general of New France, twice between 1672 and 1698, in established New France.

Sir Frederick Haldimand

Joseph Howe

Bishop Laval

Sir John A. Macdonald

Mackenzie-Selkirk-Simpson

William Lyon Mackenzie

Louis Joseph Papineau

Papineau, Cartier
By Alfred D. DeCelles
Oxford ed. Volume 5 (New and Revised, Part 2, first half of book), published 1926
Papineau’s political career as leader of the early 19th Century Quebec nationalists. Cartier’s political career from the uprising of 1837 to Confederation.

Egerton Ryerson

John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe
By Duncan Campbell Scott
Morang ed. Volume 7, published 1909
The first lieutenant-governor of the new British colony of Upper Canada.

Lord Sydenham

Wilmot

Tilley

Wolfe-Montcalm

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