Key Reference Sources

Canadian Women's History: A Selective Bibliography

compiled by Mary Bond and Angella Savard
Reference and Information Services, National Library of Canada
August 1995

Armour, Moira. -- Canadian women in history : a chronology. -- Moira Armour and Pat Staton. -- Toronto : Green Dragon Press, c1990. -- [3] leaves, 173 p. -- ISBN 0969195532

Braithwaite, Rella. -- Some black women : profiles of black women in Canada. -- Rella Braithwaite, Tessa Benn-Ireland. -- [Toronto] : Sister Vision, c1993. -- 119 p. : ports. -- ISBN 0920813844

Canadian women : a history. -- Alison Prentice, Paula Bourne, Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Beth Light, Wendy Mitchinson, Naomi Black. -- Toronto : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1988. -- 496 p. : ill. -- ISBN 0774731125

Canadian women of note (C.W.O.N.). -- Compiled by Media Club of Canada, formerly Canadian Women's Press Club. -- [Reprint of 2nd ed.]. -- Toronto : Institute for Social Research, York University, 1994. -- 2 vol. (1108 p.). -- ISBN 1550142356

The clear spirit : twenty Canadian women and their times. -- Edited by Mary Quayle Innis. -- [Toronto] : Published for the Canadian Federation of University Women by the University of Toronto Press, c1966. -- xvi, 304 p., [6] leaves of plates : ports.

Documents in Canadian women's history. -- Toronto : New Hogtown Press, 1980-1990. -- 3 vol. (iv, 245; [iii], 300; 427p.). -- Vol. 1, Pioneer and gentlewomen of British North America, 1713-1867, ISBN 0919940161 (pa.) ; vol. 2, Canadian women on the move, 1867-1920, ISBN 0919940188 (pa.) ; vol. 3, No easy road : women in Canada 1920s to 1960s, ISBN 0919940234 (pa.)

Lamothe, Madeleine. -- Archives des femmes au Québec : guide sommaire. -- Madeleine Lamothe, Ghislaine Fecteau, Pierrette Lalancette. -- [Québec] : Archives nationales du Québec, c1990. -- [xi], 356 p. -- ISBN 2551143438

Light, Beth. -- True daughters of the North : Canadian women's history : an annotated bibliography. -- Beth Light and Veronica Strong-Boag. -- Toronto : OISE Press, 1980. -- v, 210 p. : ill. -- (Bibliography series ; 5). -- ISBN 0774401850

MacEwan, Grant. -- Mighty women : stories of western Canadian pioneers. -- Vancouver/Toronto : Greystone, 1995, c1975. -- 275 p. -- ISBN 1550544160

Merritt, Susan E. -- Her story: women from Canada's past. -- St. Catharines : Vanwell Publishing Limited, c1993. -- 171 p. -- ISBN 1551250004

National Archives of Canada. -- Women's archives guide : manuscript sources for the history of women. -- Joanna Dean and David Fraser. -- Ottawa : National Archives of Canada, c1991. -- v, 110, 118, v p. -- ISBN 0662580745 -- Titre français : Guide des archives sur les femmes : sources manuscrites sur l'histoire des femmes

Native American women : a biographical dictionary. -- Gretchen M. Bataille, editor ; Laurie Lisa, editorial assistant. -- New York : Garland Publishing, 1993. -- xix, 333 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. -- (Garland reference library of the social sciences ; vol. 649) (Biographical dictionaries of minority women ; vol. 1). -- ISBN 0824052676

Pedersen, Diana. -- Changing women, changing history : a bibliography of the history of women in Canada. -- Toronto : Green Dragon Press, [1992]. -- [3], i, 111 p. -- ISBN 0969195575

Quebec women : a history. -- By the Clio Collective, Micheline Dumont ... [et al]. ; translated by Roger Gannon and Rosalind Gill. -- Toronto : Women's Press, c1987. -- 396 p. -- ISBN 0889611017. -- Titre français : L'histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles

Van Kirk, Sylvia. -- "Many tender ties" : women in fur-trade society in western Canada, 1670-1870. -- Winnipeg : Watson & Dwyer Pub., [1980]. -- 303 p. -- ISBN 0920486061

Canadian Women in Music: A Selective Bibliography

compiled by Cheryl Gillard
Music Division, National Library of Canada
August 1995

Albani, Emma. -- Forty years of song. -- London : Mills and Bonn Ltd., [1911]. -- 285 p.

Amtmann, William. -- La musique au Québec, 1600-1875. -- Montréal : Éditions de l'Homme, c1976. -- 420 p. -- ISBN 0775905178

Amtmann, William. -- Music in Canada 1600-1800. -- [Montreal] : Habitex Books, c1975. -- 320 p. -- ISBN 088912020X

Benoît, Réal. -- La Bolduc. -- Montréal : Éditions de l'Homme, c1959. -- 123 p.

Bowers, Jane M. and Urban Bareis. -- "Bibliography on music and gender : women in music". -- World of music. -- 33.2 (1991). -- ISSN 00438774 -- P. 65-103

Caputo, Virginia and Roberta Lamb. -- "Feminist theory and music II : a continuing dialogue : Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York". -- Canadian university music review. - - Vol. 14 (1994). -- ISSN 07100353. -- P. 182-187

Citron, Marcia J. -- Gender and the musical canon. -- Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 1993. -- 307 p. -- ISBN 0521392926 (bd.)

Cohen, Aaron. -- International encyclopedia of women composers. -- 2nd ed., rev. and enl. -- New York : Books and Music, U.S.A., c1987. -- 2 vol., 1151 p. -- ISBN 0961748508 (vol. 1), 0961748516 (vol. 2)

Creighton, Helen. -- The best of Helen Creighton. -- Selected and introduced by Rosemary Bachman. -- Hantsport (N.S.) : Lancelot Press, 1988. -- 143 p. -- ISBN 0889993785

Dixon, Gail. -- "The string quartets of Barbara Pentland". -- Canadian university music review. -- Vol. 11, no. 2 (1991). -- ISSN 07100353. -- P. 94-121

Drinker, Sophie. -- Music and women : the story of women in their relation to music. Washington : Zinger, 1948. -- 323 p. -- ISBN 0892010118

Druckles, Vincent H. and Michael A. Keller. -- "Women and music". -- Music reference and research materials : an annotated bibliography. -- 4th ed., revised. -- New York : Schirmer, 1994. -- 740 p. -- ISBN 0028708229

Eastman, Sheila and Timothy J. McGee. -- Barbara Pentland. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1983. -- 134 p. -- ISBN 0802055621

Edwards, Barry et al. -- "Collecting the lore of maritime folk". -- Fugue. -- Vol. 2, no. 4 (December 1977). -- ISSN 07028393. -- P. 18-19, 27

French, Iris, ed. -- Association of Canadian women composers directory. -- Toronto : Association of Canadian Women Composers, 1987

French, Maida Parlow. -- Kathleen Parlow : a portrait. -- Toronto : Ryerson Press, c1967. -- 167 p.

Gates, Eugene. -- "Where are all the women composers?" -- Canadian music educator. -- Vol. 35, no. 5 (Spring 1994). -- ISSN 00084549 -- P. 17-19

Gillard, Cheryl A. -- "Women musicians in Canada : on the record at the Music Division." -- National Library news. -- Vol. 27, nos. 3-4 (March-April 1995). -- ISSN 00279633. -- P. 11-14. -- Titre français : «Les musiciennes canadiennes gravent leur nom dans l'histoire à la Division de la musique»

Giroux, Robert. -- Le guide de la chanson québécoise. -- Montréal : Triptyque, c1991. -- 179 p. -- ISBN 2890311244

Hambleton, Ronald. -- "Tea with Kathleen Parlow". -- Fugue. -- Vol. 2, no. 6 (February 1978). -- ISSN 07028393. -- P. 12-15

Historical anthology of music by women. -- Edited by James R. Briscoe. -- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1987. -- 402 p. -- ISBN 0253212960 (pa.)

Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. -- Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. -- 2nd ed. -- Metuchen (N.J.) : Scarecrow Press, 1993. -- 2 vol., 1824 p. -- ISBN 0810827697 (set)

Kallmann, Helmut. -- A history of music in Canada, 1534-1914. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1960. -- 311 p. -- ISBN 0802050891, 0802061028

Kallmann, Helmut and Gilles Potvin, eds. -- Encyclopedia of music in Canada. -- 2nd ed. -- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c1992. -- 1524 p. -- ISBN 0802028810. -- Titre français : Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada

Kivi, Linda K. -- Canadian women making music. -- Toronto : Green Dragon Press, 1992. -- 134 p. -- ISBN 0969195583

Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. -- La création musicale des femmes au Québec. -- Montréal : Éditions du remue-ménage, 1991. -- 148 p. -- ISBN 2890911020

LePage, Jane Weimer. -- Women composers, conductors and musicians of the twentieth century : selected bibliographies. -- Metuchen (N.J) : Scarecrow Press, 1980. -- ISBN 0810812983 (vol. 1), 0810815974 (vol. 2), 081082082X (vol. 3)

Lonergan, David. -- La Bolduc : la vie de Mary Travers, 1894-1941. -- Bic (Québec) : Issac-Dion Éditeur, [1992]. -- 212 p.

MacDonald, Cheryl. -- Emma Albani : Victorian diva. -- Toronto : Dundurn Press Ltd., 1984. -- 205 p. -- ISBN 091967075X (bd.), 0919670741 (pa.)

MacMillan, Keith and John Beckwith, eds. -- Contemporary Canadian composers. -- Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1975. -- 248 p. -- ISBN 0195402448

McClary, Susan. -- Feminine endings : music, gender and sexuality. -- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1991. -- 220 p. -- ISBN 0816618984 (bd.), 0816618992 (pa.)

McClary, Susan. -- "Towards a feminist criticism of music". -- Canadian university music review. -- Vol. 10, no. 2 (1990). -- ISSN 07100353. -- P. 9-18

Moogk, Edward B. -- Roll back the years : a history of Canadian recorded sound and its legacy : genesis to 1930. -- Ottawa : National Library of Canada, c1975. -- 443 p. -- Titre français : En remontant les années : l'histoire et l'héritage de l'enregistrement sonore au Canada, des débuts à 1930

Rooney, Frances. -- "The Montreal women's symphony". -- Atlantis. -- Vol. 5, no. 1 (1979). -- ISSN 07027818. -- P. 70-82

Sadie, Julie Ann and Rhian Samuel, eds. -- Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. -- New York : W.W. Norton, 1995. -- 450 p. -- ISBN 0393034879

Sclanders, Ian. -- "She's collecting long lost songs". -- Maclean's. -- Vol. 65, no. 18 (September 1952). -- ISSN 00249262. -- P. 14-15, 54-57

Shepherd, John. -- Music as social text. -- Cambridge (U.K.) : Polity Press, 1991. -- 245 p. -- ISBN 0745608256 (bd.)

Toomey, Kathleen M. -- Musicians in Canada : a bio-bibliographical finding list. -- Edited by Kathleen M. Toomey and Stephen C. Willis. -- Ottawa : Canadian Association of Music Libraries, 1981. -- 185 p. -- ISBN 0969058314 (pa.). -- Titre français : Musiciens au Canada : index bio-bibliographique

Tremblay-Matte, Cécile. -- La chanson écrite au féminin : de Madeleine de Verchères à Mitsou, 1730-1990. -- Laval (Qué.) : Éditions Trois, 1990. -- 391 p. -- ISBN 2920887165

Upton, G.P. -- Woman in music. -- 6th ed. -- Chicago : McClurg, 1899.

Willis, Stephen. -- "Archives of Emma Albani at the National Library of Canada". -- National Library news. -- Vol. 25, no. 12 (December 1993). -- ISSN 00279633. -- P. 13-14. -- Titre français : «Documents archivistiques sur Emma Albani conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada»

Women in music : an anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the present. - - Edited by Carol Nuels-Bates. -- New York : Harper and Row, c1982. -- 351 p. -- ISBN 0060149922 (bd.), 0060909323 (pa.)

Women making music : studies in the social history of women musicians and composers. -- Edited by Jane Bowers and Judith Tick. -- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1986. -- 409 p. --ISBN 0252012046