Welcome to the Primary Source Documents Library for Canada: A National History, Second Edition by Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel. Selected by Kristin Burnett, each of these documents gives you a window into a period of Canadian history. Choose a part from the list below to access a list of all the relevant primary source documents.

Part I      Beginnings (Chapters 1-3)
Part II     France in America, 1663-1763 (Chapters 4-7)
Part III    British North America, 1763-1821 (Chapters 8-10)
Part IV    Maturing Colonial Societies, 1815-1867 (Chapters 11-14)
Part V     Inventing Canada, 1867-1914 (Chapters 15-18)
Part VI    The Transitional Years, 1914-1945 (Chapters 19-22)
Part VII   Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975 (Chapters 23-25)
Part VIII  Post-Modern Canada (Chapters 26-28)