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• The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
  • Ontario volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Quebec and Maritimes Volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1898), ed. by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canadian Notabilities (Toronto: J.B. Magurn, 1880), by John Charles Dent
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Portrait Gallery (Toronto : J.B. Magurn, 1880-1881), by John Charles Dent
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: page images at canadiana.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Canadian Scene: Sketches, Political and Historical (1927), by Hector Willoughby Charlesworth (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time (Toronto: Rose Pub. Co., 1886), by George Maclean Rose (page images at canadiana.org)
• A Little Book of Canadian Essays (Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1909), by Lawrence J. Burpee
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a Native of Canada Who Was With the Scanyawtauragahroote Indians Eleven Years (Exeter, England: Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, 1800), by Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Celebrated Canadians and Persons Connected With Canada: From the Earliest Period in the History of the Province Down to the Present Time (Montreal: R. Worthington, 1865), by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Laura Secord, and Canadian Reminiscences (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900), by Emma Augusta Currie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tuttle's Popular History of the Dominion of Canada With Art Illustrations From the Earliest Settlement of the British-American Colonies to the Present Time, Together With Portrait Engravings and Biographical Sketches of the Most Distinguished Men of the Nation (Montreal; Boston: Downie; Tuttle & Downie, 1877), by Charles R. Tuttle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (in English and French) (searchable HTML at biographi.ca)

• Bibliotheca Canadensis, or, A Manual of Canadian Literature (1867), by Henry J. Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life (Edmonton: AU Press, c2009), by Graham A. MacDonald (PDF files at AU Press)

• Biographical Dictionary of Well-known British Columbians: With a Historical Sketch (Vancouver: Kerr & Begg, 1890), by John Blaine Kerr (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lives of the Judges of Upper Canada and Ontario: From 1791 to the Present Time (Toronto: Rowsell & Hutchison, 1888), by David Breakenridge Read (page images at canadiana.org)

• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• From Slavery To a Bishopric, or, The Life of Bishop Walter Hawkins of the British Methodist Episcopal Church Canada, by S. J. Celestine Edwards (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• J. C. Boileau Grant: Anatomist Extraordinary (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1993), by Clayton Robinson (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Harold Griffith: The Evolution of Modern Anaesthesia (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, c1992), by Richard Bodman and Deirdre Gillies (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Old Plantation Days (1902), by William Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Autobiography of a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary (Formerly a Roman Catholic): Containing an Account of His Conversion from Romanism and His Reception Into the Wesleyan Ministry; Also, Reminiscences of Nearly Twenty-Five Years' Itinerancy in the North American Provinces, &c. (Montreal: E. Pickup, 1856), by Robert Cooney (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (c2011), by Bert Whyte, ed. by Larry Hannant (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• A Noble Cause Betrayed, But Hope Lives On: Pages from a Political Life, by John Boyd (HTML with commentary at socialisthistory.ca)

• Me: A Book of Remembrance (New York: The Century Co., 1915), by Onoto Watanna (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)

• The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story (c1945), by Nellie L. McClung (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Brock Chisholm: Doctor to the World (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1998), by Allan Irving (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri (c2010), by John Leigh Walters, contrib. by Zarah Petri (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri (c2010), by John Leigh Walters, contrib. by Zarah Petri (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields: The Wartime Contributions of Canada's First Peoples, by Veterans Affairs Canada (HTML at BYU)

• Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Helen Waldstein Wilkes (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)

• Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (c2011), by Bert Whyte, ed. by Larry Hannant (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• On the Indian Trail: Stories of Missionary Work Among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians (New York; Toronto: F.H. Revell, c1897), by Egerton Ryerson Young (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Narrative of a Captivity Among the Mohawk Indians, and a Description of New Netherland in 1642-3 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1856), by Isaac Jogues and John Gilmary Shea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Indian Trail: Stories of Missionary Work Among the Cree and Saulteaux Indians (New York; Toronto: F.H. Revell, c1897), by Egerton Ryerson Young (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never Before Published (New York: De Witt & Davenport, c1855), by Maria Monk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Awful Disclosures, By Maria Monk, of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal : Revised, With an Appendix Containing, Part I. Reception of the First Editions. Part II. Sequel of Her Narrative. Part III. Review of the Case : Also, a Supplement, Giving More Particulars of the Nunnery and Grounds (New York: M. Monk, 1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, Or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, Illustrated With Upwards of Forty Engravings (Manchester, England: Milner and Company, ca.1836), by Maria Monk (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Woman Tenderfoot (Toronto: G.N. Morang, 1900), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1997), by Natalie Riegler (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Mahlon W. Locke: The Foot Doctor (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1991), by Robert Jackson (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• The House of All Sorts (1944), by Emily Carr (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• William Boyd: Silver Tongue and Golden Pen (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1993), by Ian Carr (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Bill Mustard: Surgical Pioneer (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1989), by Marilyn Dunlop (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Dr. Alan Brown: Portrait of a Tyrant (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1995), by Allison Kingsmill (PDF with commentary in Canada)
• Small Patients: The Autobiography of a Children's Doctor (Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, c1959), by Alton Goldbloom (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian Doctor (Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1998), by Dalyce Newby (PDF with commentary in Canada)
• Clarence Hincks: Mental Health Crusader (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1990), by Charles G. Roland (PDF with commentary in Canada)
• Earle P. Scarlett: A Study in Scarlett (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1991), by F. W. Musselwhite (PDF with commentary in Canada)
• Sir Charles Tupper: Fighting Doctor to Father of Confederation (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1999), by T. J. Murray and Janet Murray (PDF with commentary in Canada)
• William Henry Drummond: Poet in Patois (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1994), by J. B. Lyons (PDF with commentary in Canada)

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