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Case Study Title (alphabetical)

“Carefully Drawn by Thoreau MacDonald”

“Dreaming of the Millions”: Austin Clarke’s More

"In Kamloops I'll eat your boots": Dennis Lee's Alligator Pie Alligator Pie

“The Queen Bee of the Canadian Book Trade”: Anna Porter and Key Porter Books

“To Dress Our Letters in Such Strong Fancy”: The Indian File Poetry Series

"Yours Aboriginally": Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Authorship in Canada

A Concise History and Video Tour of Coach House Press

Agnes FitzGibbon’s Subscription Books for Canadian Wild Flowers

Al Purdy: Canadian Nationalism and The New Romans

Alan Crawley and Contemporary Verse

Alberto Manguel and Louise Dennys: An Editing Match

An “Artist of standing”: C.W. Jefferys and Historical Illustration in Canada

Archibald Lampman

Barbarian Press: Endgrain Editions

Bliss Carman: A Life in Literary Publishing

Bradley-Garretson Company Limited

Bringing CanLit into the Classroom—Brita Mickleburgh’s Canadian Literature: Two Centuries in Prose

Canada Reads and the Atwood Archives

Cashbook contributions to the biographies of publishers George Maclean Rose and Daniel Rose

Catching Sight of the Battle: Gladys Neale’s Rise to the Top of Educational Publishing (with audio recording)

Censorship in Canada

Chatelaine Magazine

Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited

Coach House Press: Crucible of Electronic Publishing Technology

Copp Clark Company

Copyright and Publishing

Curvd H&Z Press and Avant-Garde/Small Press Publishing in Canada

Deemed “authentic”: Basil H. Johnston

Diane Schoemperlen

Donald Creighton, John Gray, and the Making of Macdonald

Dorothy Livesay and "Call My People Home" (with audio recording)

Douglas Gibson Books and Alice Munro, with Editorial Audio Recordings by Douglas Gibson

Ethel Brant Monture: “A One-Woman Crusade”

Garamond Press

Gardening in the Great White North: Marjorie Harris’s The Canadian Gardener

Grey Owl and His Publishers

Guernica Editions

H. Pearson Gundy, Upper Canada's Publishing Historian

Harvest House

Helen Humphreys’s Toronto Mythologies

Hockey Books and Canadian Culture

How Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook Caught On

Hugh Garner: The “One Man Trade Union” of Publishing (with audio recording)

Hugh Kane: "The Compleat Bookman"

In Canada and Abroad: The Diverse Publishing Career of George Woodcock

Isabella Valancy Crawford

J. Macdonald Oxley’s Record of Literary Achievement

J.W. Bengough: Publisher and Pioneer of Editorial Cartooning in English Canada

Jack McClelland and McClelland & Stewart

Job Printing and a Town Newspaper: The Collingwood Bulletin

L.M. Montgomery and Her Publishers

Locks’ Press, the private press of Fred and Margaret Lock, Kingston, Ontario: A Personal Narrative

Lorne Pierce of the Ryerson Press and Vera Lysenko’s Men in Sheepskin Coats (1947): Resisting the “Red Scare”

Lover of Empire: William Wilfred Campbell

Margaret Atwood, Dennis Lee and the Survival of Canadian Literature

Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed: “Biography with a purpose”

Marian Engel: A Life in Writing

Marius Barbeau and the History of Anthropological and Folklore Publishing

Mazo de la Roche and the Atlantic Monthly Award

Men of the Cloth and the Book: E.J. Pratt and Lorne Pierce

Nellie McClung’s Literary Legacy

New Business: The Impact of Fifth Business on Robertson Davies’ Relationship with his Canadian
Publishers

Nora Keeling: The Life of a Short Story Writer

Privately Published by the Pauline Johnson Trust

Publishers’ Catalogues and a Chariot on Yonge Street: Marketing Canadian Books

Publishing for Children: McClelland & Stewart's Long Legacy

Queen’s Quarterly: Fostering Canadian Cultural Identity

Royalties and the Rails: Pierre Berton’s Railway Books

Ruth Buck and the publication of Edward Ahenakew’s Voices of the Plains Cree

Saturday Night: Canada’s Oldest General Interest Magazine

Sixty Eight Publishers

Stan Bevington: The Making of a Master Printer with Audio Interview

Stephen Leacock and His Canadian Publishers

The Birth of The Ryerson Press Imprint

The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float: Farley Mowat and Jack McClelland

The Business of an Eighteenth-Century Printing Office: The Neilson Paybook

The Canadian ‘Pocket Book,’ 1940-1980

The Censorship of Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners, 1976-1985

The Governor General’s Literary Awards

The Macmillan Company of Canada

The Perilous Trade Collection, with Audio Interviews

The Poet and the Publisher: Duncan Campbell Scott and Lorne Pierce

The Poetic Achievement of Contact Press (1952-1967)

The Prodigious Career of Charles G.D. Roberts

The Prospectus of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec

The Publication of Alistair MacLeod’s The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

The Publishing Industry in Canada: 1918 to the Twenty-First Century

The Rise of the Small Press Movement in Canada

The Story of Canadian Wild Flowers

The Toronto Small Press Book Fair

Translators of Canada: Paul Wilson, Wayne Grady, and David Lobdell

William Arthur Deacon: Reviewing, Advertising, and Publishers

William Kirby and Copyright: The Publication History of The Golden Dog

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