Bibliography and sources for Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours

Articles on Canadian English

Let’s start with books and articles that mention Canadian spelling.

• Avis, Walter S. (1973). “The English language in Canada.” In Sebeok, Thomas A., ed., Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 10, Linguistics in North America
• Avis, Walter S. (1983). “Canadian English in its North American context.” Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 28(1)
• Bundock, Krysten, and Stacie Smith (2007). “Don’t be bamboozled – it’s still the same language! An analysis of the English in the early Canadian press.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 6. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Crystal, David (2003). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (especially p. 340)
• Dressman, Michael R. (2005). “Canadian English: Notions of nationality and language.” College Quarterly, Winter 2005, 8(1)
• Frambach, Ashley, and Emily Hazlett (2007). “Defending Canadianism: The threat of American culture to the Canadian linguistic identity.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 6. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Henighan, Stephen (2007). “Bad spellers.” In Geist and in A Report on the Afterlife of Culture (Biblioasis, 2008)
• Herd, Jonathon (2000). “Investigation into prescriptive variation in Canadian English spelling: A study of four newspaper style books.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 1. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Homaidan, Diala (2000). “Canada’s bi-modal spelling tradition: Choosing between American and British spelling variants.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 1. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Lilles, Jaan (2000). “The myth of Canadian English.” English Today, April 2000, 16(2)
• Lougheed, W.C. (1986) In search of the standard in Canadian English. Queen’s University: Strathy Language Unit Occasional Papers Nº 1
• McFadden, Kelly (2001). “Canadian English on the World Wide Web.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 2. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Pelhe, Stephanie (2003). “The ‘Corrupt Dialect’: Spelling and Pronunciation in Canadian English”
• Prasad, Sandeep (2000). “Canadian nationalism, anti-American sentiment, and use of Canadian spelling and pronunciation variants.” In E. Gold and J. McAlpine, eds., Strathy Undergraduate Working Papers on Canadian English Volume 1. Queen’s University, Strathy Modern Language Unit
• Pratt, T.K. (2003). “The hobgoblin of Canadian English spelling.” In Clarke, Sandra, ed. (1993), Focus on Canada. Varieties of English Around the World series, G11
• Turner, Barbara E. (1989). “Rewriting the three Rs… in Canajun.” Toronto Star, 1989.01.28, pp. M14–15

Now for books and articles that discuss Canadian pronunciation, word choices, or any issue other than orthography.

• Chambers, J.K. (1993). “ ‘Lawless and vulgar innovations’: Victorian views of Canadian English.” In Clarke, Sandra, ed. (1993), Focus on Canada. Varieties of English Around the World series, G11
• Clarke, Sandra, ed. (1993) Focus on Canada. Varieties of English Around the World series, G11
• Dean, Christopher (1963). “Is there a distinctive literary Canadian English?” American Speech, December 1963, 38(4), pp. 278–282
• Jurcic, Dane (2003). “From one Canuck to another Canuck: I stand on guard for thee”
• McArthur, Tom (1992). The Oxford Companion to the English Language, pp. 179–183
• Richler, Howard (2006). Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English. Véhicule Press
• Smith, Russell (2007). “Our strange fetish for British speech.” Globe and Mail, 2007.12.13, p. R1

Reference books

• Canadian A to Z of Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation by Katherine Barber, Robert Pontisso
• Canadian English: Origins and Structures by J.K. Chambers
• Canadian Oxford Dictionary
• Canadian Oxford Dictionary of Current English
• Collins Canadian Essential English Dictionary & Thesaurus
• A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Walter S. Avis, ed.
• Editing Canadian English by the Editors’ Association of Canada
• Get Ahead in Spelling by Robert Allen, John Seely (variant titles: One Step Ahead: Spelling and Spelling)
• Guide to Canadian English Usage by Margery Fee, Janice McAlpine (also 1997 edition)
• Only in Canada[,] You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language by Katherine Barber
• Speaking Canadian English by Mark M. Orkin
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum et al.

Blogs canvassed

One entrant in each category of the 2007 Canadian Blog Awards.

1. Audio Circus
2. Blue Like You
3. Canadian Deals Blog
4. Canadian Silver Bug
5. Daveberta
6. A Difference
7. Dutchblitz
8. Eastern Blot
9. Elizabeth McClung
10. Frog and Toad Are Still Friends
11. From a Cadet to a Soldier
12. Glenda Watson Hyatt
13. Jordon Cooper
14. Joy of Sox
15. Knitknut
16. Maple Syrup and Poutine
17. Meg Fowler
18. Miguel Morrison
19. Nag on the Lake
20. One Old Green Bus
21. Slap Upside the Head
22. Spacing Wire
23. Steve Janke
24. We Move to Canada
25. Write About Here

Periodicals canvassed

1. C (1987; 2007)
2. Canadian Architect (1987; 2004–2007)
3. Canadian Historical Review (2007)
4. Canadian Journal of Linguistics (1987; 2007)
5. Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (1987; 2007)
6. CMAJ, né Canadian Medical Association Journal (1987; 2007)
7. Journal of Canadian Studies (2007)
8. Queen’s Quarterly (1987; 2007)

Literary works canvassed

Note: Full bibliographic citations available on request (specifically, year, publisher, and edition, if applicable).

Giller Prize winners

1. Atwood, Margaret, Oryx & Crake
2. Baldwin Singh, Shauna, The Tiger Claw
3. Barfoot, Joan, Luck
4. Bemrose, John, The Island Walkers
5. Bergen, David, The Time In Between
6. Choy, Wayson, All That Matters
7. Clarke, Austin, The Polished Hoe
8. Gaston, Bill, Mount Appetite
9. Gibb, Camilla, Sweetness in the Belly
10. Gould, John, Killer: 55 Fictions
11. Hage, Rawi, De Niro’s Game
12. Holdstock, Pauline, Beyond Measure
13. Johnston, Wayne, The Navigator of New York
14. Lam, Vincent, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
15. MacDonald, Anne-Marie, Where the Crow Flies
16. Moore, Lisa, Open
17. Munro, Alice, Runaway
18. Quarrington, Paul, Galveston
19. Quiviger, Pascale, The Perfect Circle
20. Shields, Carol, Unless
21. Toews, Miriam, A Complicated Kindness
22. Vassanji, M.G., The In-Between World of Vikram Lal

Governor General’s Literary Award winners

1. Dallaire, Roméo, Shake Hands with the Devil
2. Ignatieff, Michael, The Russian Album
3. Krizanc, John, Prague
4. MacIvor, Daniel, I Still Love You
5. MacMillan, Margaret, Paris 1919
6. Mighton, John, Half-Life
7. Murphy, Colleen, The December Man
8. Nikiforuk, Andrew, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil
9. Panych, Morris, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
10. Roy, Gabrielle, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
11. Thiessen, Vern, Einstein’s Gift
12. Vaillant, John, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

Toronto Literary Awards winners

1. Backhouse, Constance, and Nancy L. Backhouse, The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice
2. Bazzana, Kevin, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
3. Bell, Douglas, Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and an Accident
4. Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy, Down to This
5. Carlson, Keith Thor, A Stó:ilō Coast Salish Historical Atlas
6. Hayes, Derek, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
7. Herzog, Fred, Vancouver Photographs
8. James, Geoffrey, Toronto
9. Smith, Ed, From the Ashes of My Dreams

Other literary awards

Books that won or were shortlisted for the stated awards.

1. Akler, Howard, The City Man (Toronto Book Awards 2006)
2. Clark, Joan, An Audience of Chairs (2006 Bennington Gate Fiction Award)
3. Dalton, Mary, Merrybegot (Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
4. Duncan, Dorothy, Canadians at Table: Food, Fellowship, and Folklore: A Culinary History of Canada (Canadian Culinary Book Awards 2007)
5. Kavanagh, Ed, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney (Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
6. Lucas, Fiona, Hearth and Home: Women and the Art of Open-Hearth Cooking (Canadian Culinary Book Awards 2007)
7. Merril, Judith, and Poll-Weary, Emily, Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril (Toronto Book Awards 2003)
8. Redhill, Michael, Consolation (Toronto Book Awards 2007)
9. Rendell, Susan, In the Chambers of the Sea (Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
10. Scott, Chic, Powder Pioneers: Ski Stories from the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains (Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006)
11. Steffler, John, Helix (Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
12. Vij, Vikram, Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine (Canadian Culinary Book Awards 2007)

NSCAD Press books

Books from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Press.

1. Gale, Peggy, Artists Talk: 1969–1977
2. Soucy, Donald, and Pearse, Harold, The First Hundred Years: A History of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

Coach House Press books

1. Kiyōoka, Roy, Pear Tree Pomes
2. Laferrière, Dany, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
3. Thesen, Sharon, The Beginning of the Long Dash

Porcupine’s Quill books

1. Page, P.K., Up on the Roof
2. Urquhart, Jane, Storm Glass

University of Toronto Press books

1. Bakvis, Herman, Federalism and the role of the state
2. Beare, Margaret E., and Tonita Murray, Police and Government Relations: Who’s Calling the Shots?
3. Bureau of Architecture and Urbanism, Toronto Modern: Architecture: 1945–1965
4. Campbell, H.C., One Hundred Books Since 1471: An Exhibition of Fine Printing from the Collections of the Toronto Public Library
5. Drummond, Ian M., Progress Without Planning: The Economic History of Ontario from Confederation to the Second World War
6. Muirhead, Bruce, Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957–1973
7. Titchkosky, Tanya, Reading and Writing Disability Differently: The Textured Life of Embodiment

Books by specific authors

By Douglas Coupland

1. All Families Are Psychotic
2. City of Glass
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. Girlfriend in a Coma
5. The Gum Thief
6. Hey[,] Nostradamus!
7. JPod (sic; unlike the title of the ensuing CBC Television series, it isn’t jPod)
8. Life After God (also the theatrical adaptation by Michael Lewis MacLennan)
9. Miss Wyoming
10. Polaroids from the Dead
11. Shampoo Planet
12. Terry

By William Gibson

1. All Tomorrow’s Parties
2. Burning Chrome
3. Count Zero
4. Idoru
5. Mona Lisa Overdrive
6. Neuromancer
7. Pattern Recognition
8. Spook Country
9. Virtual Light

By Russell Smith

1. How Insensitive
2. Muriella Pent
3. Noise
4. The Princess and the Whisk Heads
5. Young Men

By former prime ministers

1. Campbell, Kim, Making Government Work for Canada; The Sayings of Chairman Kim
2. Chrétien, Jean, Straight from the Heart
3. Mulroney, Brian, Where I Stand
4. Trudeau, Pierre, “A Mess That Deserves a Big No”

By ultra-nationalist Canadian writers

1. Barlow, Maude, Blue Covenant; Barlow and Selin Shannon, Women and Arms Control in Canada
2. Cameron, Stevie, Blue Trust; Ottawa Inside Out; The Picton File
3. McQuaig, Linda, All You Can Eat; Behind Closed Doors; Holding the Bully’s Coat; It’s the Crude, Dude

Dictionaries

1. Corbeil, Jean-Claude, French/English Visual Dictionary
2. Falk, L., The English Language in Nova Scotia
3. Isajlovic, Renata, Québécois–English English–Québécois Dictionary & Phrasebook
4. Pratt, T.K., PEI Sayings
5. Scargill, M.H., Modern Canadian English Usage
6. Summers, Elspeth, and Holmes, Andrew, Collins Canadian English Dictionary & Thesaurus
7. Waugh, Earle H., Alberta Elders’ Cree Dictionary
8. Wolvengrey, Arok, Cree Words

Style guides

1. Buckley, P., CP Stylebook: A Guide for Writers and Editors
2. Canadian Press Stylebook
3. McFarlane, J.A., Globe and Mail Style Book
4. Ministry of Supply and Services, The Canadian Style

Other sources

1. Orkin, Mary, Canajan, Eh?
2. Slaght, Margaret, Talking Canadian (CBC Newsworld, 2004)

Incidental references

• The sentence “Hence the paradox of computer spellcheckers: The people who need them the most get the worst results” (from “The Coquitlam effect”) owes a debt to Unicode Explained (O’Reilly, 2006), in which author Jukka K. Korpela wrote “The paradox of language markup: It’s easy when it’s not needed.”

• Diane Francis essentially cast her vote in favour of economic integration with the U.S. (going so far as to use the word amero) in Who Owns Canada Now: Old Money, New Money and the Future of Canadian Business (HarperCollins, 2008).

• Katherine Barber and Oxford University Press’s wide-ranging reading habits were documented by her own company and by other writers. Ian Brown mentioned her reading the Canadian Tire catalogue in “Vocabulary: Are we losing our lexicon?,” Globe and Mail, 2007.06.16. (Oxford University Press Canada reiterated that claim on its Web site.) OUP’s reading of “logging magazines” et al. comes from Francine Kopun’s “Oxford dictionary recognizes Austin Powers,” Toronto Star, 2007.12.14.

• The New Oxford American Dictionary named podcast word of the year in a press release entitled, perhaps reasonably, “‘Podcast’ Is the Word of the Year” (approximately 2005.12.13; it didn’t include a date).

• The quotation from the CBC (using a mixture of British and American spellings) comes from a PDF entitled “Call for Comments on the Scope of a Future Proceeding on Canadian Broadcasting in New Media: Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008-44: Comments of CBC/Radio-Canada,” 2008.07.11.

Population counts

Canadian population data derive from Statistics Canada. The number of speakers of English in Canada is given in “Population by mother tongue and age groups, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories – 20% sample data” (2007.12.03) as follows:

• English: 17,882,775
• English and French: 98,625
• English and a third language: 240,005
• English, French, and a third language: 10,790

Those numbers total 18,232,195.

The Office for National Statistics in the U.K. estimated “the resident population of the UK was 60,975,000.” The U.S. Census Bureau stated “the 2007 population estimate for the United States is 301,621,157.”

Posted: 2009.02.13 15:53