The best survey of the history of printing in Canada is still Canadian Book of Printing; How Printing came to Canada and the Story of the Graphic Arts, Told Mainly in Pictures (Toronto: Toronto Public Libraries, 1940), which contains a brief history of printing, a history of the press in Canada, and many pictures of printing material and technical details of machinery and type. It was intended as a wide study of the printing art, and can be found in most public libraries.
More detailed historical studies of the press in its earlier stages are: Aegidius Fauteux, The Introduction of Printing into Canada; a Brief History (MontrÄal: Rolland Paper Company, 1930), published in both French and English; and H. Pearson Gundy, The Spread of Printing: Canada (Amsterdam: Van Gendt, 1972). Many of the standard manuals of bibliography have extensive sections on the history and technology of printing. See, for example, Esdaile's Manual of Bibliography, fourth revised edition by Roy Stokes (London: George Allen & Unwin Limited, 1969); Ronald B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (London: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1967); and Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (London: Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1972).
Canadian newspapers can be studied in Wilfred H. Kesterton, A History of Journalism in Canada (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967). For the early printers the best study is Marie Tremaine, A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751-1800 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1952).
Much information about paper, especially in modern manufacture, can be found in From Watershed to Watermark, 7th edition (MontrÄal: Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, 1974), which has a chronological list of events in the history of paper-making with emphasis on Canada.
The publications of The Bibliographical Society of Canada constitute a valuable resource for the study of printing in Canada. The Reprint Series, Facsimile Series, Monograph Series and Papers/Cahiers include such important works as a facsimile of James Evans' Cree Syllabic Hymn Book and H. Pearson Gundy's Book Publishing and Publishers in Canada before 1900.
