Selected Bibliography of the Saskatchewan NDP

The Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, and its predecessors, have received a great deal of attention from historians. The purpose of this bibliography is to provide an outline what as been written on the Party and on Saskatchewan politics since the inception of the CCF. The bibliography does not attempt to chronicle the literature of every policy initiative advocated or implemented by the party but to give the reader an overall sense of the party's general history.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

Core works:

These books and articles are a must read for anyone who is interested in the party or who wants the best possible overview in the shortest amount of time.

Gruending, Dennis. Promises to Keep: A Political Biography of Allan Blakeney. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1990.

Hoffman, George. "Co-operative Commonwealth Federation" Saskatchewan Encyclopedia. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2005.

Lipset, Seymour M. Agrarian Socialism: Expanded and Revised Ed. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.

McLeod, Thomas and McLeod, Ian. Tommy Douglas: The Road to Jerusalem. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1987.

Morton Desmond. The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1986.

Praud, Jocelyne and McQuarrie, Sarah. "The Saskatchewan CCF-NDP from the Regina Manifesto to the Romanow Years." In Howard Leeson ed. Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2001.

Quiring, Brett "New Democratic Party" Saskatchewan Encyclopedia. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2005.

Whitehorn, Alan. "An Analysis of the Historiography of the CCF-NDP: The Protest Movement Becalmed Tradition," In J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985.

Young, Walter. The Anatomy of a Party: the National CCF 1932-61. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

Overview of Saskatchewan Politics

Archer, John. Saskatchewan: A History. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1980.

Barnhart, Gordon ed. Saskatchewan Premiers of the Twentieth Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004.

Eager, Evelyn. The Saskatchewan Government: Politics and Pragmatism, Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1980.

Leeson, Howard. Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2001.

Quiring, Brett ed. Lives Past and Present: Saskatchewan Politics. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004.

Smith, David. Prairie Liberalism: The Liberal Party in Saskatchewan 1905-1971. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.

Smith, David. The Regional Decline of a National Party: Liberal on the Prairies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.

Waiser, Bill. Saskatchewan: A New History. Calgary: Fifth House Books, 2005.

Warren, Jim and Carlisle, Kathleen. On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan. Regina: Coteau Books, 2005.

Ward, Norman and Spafford, Duff ed. Politics in Saskatchewan. Toronto: Longmans Canada Limited, 1968.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

Early Influences

Allen, Richard. "The Social Gospel and the Reform Tradition in Canada, 1890-1928." Canadian Historical Review Vol. 49. 1968. 381-399.

Allen, Richard. The Social Passion: Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-1928. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1971.

Endicott, Stephen. Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle of '31. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Horn, Michiel. The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada 1930-1942. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Irvine, William. The Farmers in Politics. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1920.

Kerr, Donald C. ed. Western Canadian Politics: The Radical Tradition, Edmonton: NeWest Institute for Western Canadian Studies, 1981.

Kunttila, Murray. "That Man Partridge," E.A. Partridge, his Thoughts and Times" Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1994.

Laycock, David. Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies 1910-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.

Mardiros, Anthony. William Irvine: The Life of a Prairie Radical. Toronto: Lorimer, 1979.

McCormack, A. Ross. Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Westrern Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977.

Melnyk, George ed. Riel to Reform: a History of Protest in Western Canada. Saskatoon: Firth House Publishers, 1992.

Morton, W.L. The Progressive Party in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950.

Owram, Doug. The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.

Owram, Doug. Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West 1856-1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Rennie, Bradford James. The Rise of Agrarian Democracy: The United Farmers and Farm Women of Alberta 1909-1921. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Richards, John. "Populism: A Qualified Defence." Studies in Political Economy, (Spring 1981), 5-27.

Sharp, Paul F. The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1997.

Smith, David. "A Comparison of Prairie Political Developments in Saskatchewan and Alberta," Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. IV, No. 1 (Feb 1969) 17-27.

Spafford, Duff. ""The Left Wing" 1921-1931," in Norman Ward and Duff Spafford eds. Politics in Saskatchewan. Toronto: Longmans Canada Limited, 1968.

Thomas, Lewis. The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories 2nd Ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978.

Thomas, Lewis. "Milton Campbell, Independent Progressive" in Carl Beger ed. The West and the Nation. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.

Waiser, Bill. All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot. Calgary: Fifth House, 2003.

Wiseman, Nelson. "The Pattern of Prairie Politics," Queens Quarterly, (Summer 1981), 295-315.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

From Founding to Government

Andrews, Ken. "'Progressive' Counterparts of the CCF: Social Credit and the Conservative Party in Saskatchewan, 1935-1938" Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 1982), 58-75.

Falconer, Kenneth. "Tommy Douglas, 1930-1944: A Case Study of Leadership and Social Structure." Unpublished MA thesis, 1978

Hodsman, Roy. "Saskatchewan Catholics' Reaction to the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, 1932-1944." Unpublished MA Thesis University of Regina, 1990.

Hoffman, George. "The Saskatchewan Farmer-Labor Party, 1932-1934: How Radical Was it at its Origin?" Saskatchewan History Vol. 28, No 2 (Spr 1975) 52-65.

Hoffman, George. "The Entry of the United Farmers of Canada, Saskatchewan Section into Politics: A Reassessment." Saskatchewan History, Vol. 30, No 2 (Aut. 1977) 99-109.

Hoffman, George. "The 1934 Saskatchewan Election Campaign" Saskatchewan History, Vol. 36, No 2 (Spr 1983) 42-59.

Hoffman, George. "The New Party and Old Issues: The Saskatchewan Farmer-Labour Party and the Ethnic Vote, 1934." Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 14 No 2 (1982), 1-20.

Kambeitz, Teresita. "Relations Between the Catholic Church and the CCF in Saskatchewan, 1930-1950." Study Sessions: Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Vol. 46 (1979), 49-69.

Kerr, Donald and Hanson, Stan. "Pacifism and the Saskatchewan CCF at the Outbreak of World War II," Prairie Forum. (Fall 1998), 211-225.

King, Carlyle. "A Beginning in Politics: Saskatoon CCF 1938-1943." Saskatchewan History, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Aut 1983), 102-114.

Lipset, Seymour M. Agrarian Socialism: Expanded and Revised Ed. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.

McCrorie, James. "The CCF and the Tradition of Agrarian Radicalism" in Kerr, Donald. Western Canadian Politics:
The Radical Tradition. Edmonton: Newest Institute for Western Canadian Studies, 1981.

Sinclair, Peter. "The Saskatchewan CCF: Ascent to Power and the Decline of Socialism." Canadian Historical Review. Vol. 54, No. 4 (December 1973), 419-433.

Steininger, Friedrich. "George H. Williams: Agrarian Socialist" Unpublished M.A. Thesis University of Regina, 1976.

Stewart, Walter. M.J.: The Life and Times of M.J. Coldwell. Toronto: Stoddart, 2000.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

Douglas and Lloyd Government

Allan, Robert. "A Populist in Municipal and Provincial Politics: John Wesley Corman." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Regina, 2004.
 
Baron, F. L. Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997.

Brownstone, M. "The Douglas-Lloyd Governments: Innovation and Bureaucratic Response," in Laurier, LaPierre et al. Essays on the Left: Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas. Toronto: McClelland, 1971.

Cadbury, George. "Planning in Saskatchewan," in Laurier, LaPierre et al. Essays on the Left: Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas. Toronto: McClelland, 1971.

Dyck, Betty. Running to Beat Hell: A Biography of Sandy Nicholson. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1988.

Engelman, Fredrick. "Membership and Participation in Policy Making in the CCF" Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science. Nol. XXII No. 2 (May 1956) 166-167.

Fenwick, C. Marie. ""Building the Future in a Steady but Measured Pace": The Respectable Feminism of Marjorie Cooper," Saskatchewan History, No. 1, Vol. 54 (Spring 2002), 18-34.

Higginbotham, Chris. Off the Record: the CCF in Saskatchewan. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968.

Johnson, A.W. Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of Saskatchewan, 1944-1961. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Koester, C.B. The Measure of the Man: Selected Speeches of Woodrow Stanley Lloyd. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1976.

Lamour, Jean. "The Douglas Government's Changing Emphasis on Public, Private and Co-operative Development in Saskatchewan, 1944-1961," in J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985.

Lindsay, Robert A. "Cooperation and Conflict: The CCF and the Canadian Congress of Labour in Saskatchewan, 1944-1956." Unpublished MA Thesis University Saskatchewan, 1987.

Lloyd, Diane. Woodrow: A Biography of W.S. Lloyd. Regina: Woodrow Lloyd Memorial Fund, 1979.

MacPherson, Ian. "The CCF and the Co-operative Movement in the Douglas Years: An Uneasy Alliance," in J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985.

McLeod, Thomas and McLeod, Ian. Tommy Douglas: The Road to Jerusalem. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1987.

Pitsula, James. "The Saskatchewan CCF Government and Treaty Indians, 1944-1964." Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 75, No. 1 (1994), 21-45.

Pitsula, James. "The CCF Government in Saskatchewan and Social Aid, 1944-1964," in J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985.

Quiring, David M. CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan: battling parish priests, bootleggers, and fur sharks. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004.

Quiring, Brett. "The Social and Political Philosophy of Woodrow S. Lloyd." Saskatchewan History, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2004) 5-20.

Shackleton, Doris French. Tommy Douglas. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975.
 
Taylor, Georgina. ""The Women ... Shall Help Lead the Way": Saskatchewan CCF-NDP Women Candidates in Provincial and Federal Elections, 1934-1965," in J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985
 
Taylor, Georgina. "Equals and Partners? An Examination of How Saskatchewan Women Reconciled Their Political Activities for the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation with the Traditional Roles for Women." Unpublished MA thesis University of Saskatchewan, 1984.

Thomas, Lewis. "The CCF Victory in Saskatchewan, 1944." Saskatchewan History Vol. 34, No. 1 (1981) 1-16.

Tyre, Robert. Douglas in Saskatchewan: The Story of a Socialist Experiment. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1962

Whelan, Ed and Pemrose. "Run it by Jack" Tommy Douglas' First Attorney General J.W Corman. Regina: Self published, 2002.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

CCF/NDP and Healthcare

Adams, Duane. "The White Horse and the Black Horse Race: Saskatchewan Health Reform in the 1990s" in Howard Leeson ed. Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2001.

Badgley, David and Wolfe, Samuel. Doctors Strike: Medical Care and Conflict in Saskatchewan. Toronto: Macmillian, 1967.

Briens, Allan. "The 1960 Saskatchewan Provincial Election." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Regina, 2004.

Brownsey, Keith. "Policy, Bureaucracy and Personality: Woodrow Lloyd and the Introduction of Medicare in Saskatchewan." Prairie Forum, No. 2 (1998), 197-210.

Gouldner, Janet. "The Doctors' Strike: Changes and Resistance to Change in Saskatchewan" in Seymour Lipset. Agrarian Socialism: Expanded and Revised Ed. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.

Houston, C. Stuart. Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Lead the Way. Montreal: Queen's-McGill University Press, 2002.

Krueger, Cynthia. "Prairie Protest: The Medicare Conflict in Saskatchewan" in Seymour Lipset. Agrarian Socialism: Expanded and Revised Ed. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971.

McLeod, Jack. "Health, Wealth and Politics," In Laurier, LaPierre et al. Essays on the Left: Essays in Honour of T.C. Douglas. Toronto: McClelland, 1971.

Mombourquette, Duane. "A Government and Health Care: The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan 1944-1964" Unpublished M.A. Thesis University of Regina, 1990.

Mombourquette, Duane. ""An Inalienable Right" The CCF and Rapid Health Care Reform, 1944-1948." Saskatchewan History, Vol. 43, No 3. 1991, 101-116.

Tollefson, E.A. Bitter Medicine: The Saskatchewan Medicare Feud. Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1964.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 

 

Blakeney and Romanow Governments

Benjamin, Les and Warren, John. Rolling in the Grass Roots. Ottawa: Self-Published, 1997.

Blakeney, Allan and Borins, Sandford. Political Management in Canada: 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Borsch, Peter. "The Rise and Decline of the Saskatchewan Waffle 1966-1973." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Regina, 2005.

Gruending, Dennis. Promises to Keep: A Political Biography of Allan Blakeney. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1990.

Harding, Jim ed. Social Policy and Social Justice: The NDP Government in Saskatchewan during the Blakeney Years. Waterloo: Wilfird Laurier University Press, 1995.

McKinnon, Janice. Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-Offs, and Canada's Future. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003

Ogle, Bob. North/South Calling: an Auto Biography. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1987

Praud, Jocelyne and McQuarrie, Sarah. "The Saskatchewan CCF-NDP from the Regina Manifesto to the Romanow Years." In Howard Leeson ed. Saskatchewan Politics: Into the Twenty-First Century. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2001.

Quiring, Brett. "Intergenerational Conflict within the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party; 1967-1971." Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Regina, 2006.

Richard, John and Pratt, Larry. Prairie Capitalism: Power and Influence in the New West. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly

 



CCF-NDP Federally and Outside of Saskatchewan.

Avakumovic, Ian. Socialism in Canada: A Study of the CCF-NDP in Federal and Provincial Politics. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.

Azoulay, Dan. Keeping the Dream Alive: The Survival of the Ontario CCF-NDP, 1950-1963. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Bullen, John. "The Ontario Waffle and the Struggle for an Independent Socialist Canada: Conflict within the NDP." Canadian Historical Review, Vol. LXIV, No 2 (1983), 188-215.

Coldwell, M.J. Left Turn, Canada. New York: Duell, 1945.

Granatstein, J.L. "The York South By-election of February 9, 1942: A Turning Point in Canadian Politics." Canadian Historical Review. Vol. 48, No. 2 (1967), 142-158.

Groome, Agnes. "M.J. Coldwell and CCF Foreign Policy, 1932-1950" Unpublished MA Thesis University of Regina, 1967.

Hackett, Robert. "Pie in the Sky: A History of the Ontario Waffle." Canadian Dimension, Vol.15, No 1&2 (October-November 1980) 2-72.

Knowles, Stanley. The New Party. Ottawa: McClelland and Stewart, 1961.

Levitt, Joseph. Fighting Back for Jobs and Justice: Ed Broadbent in Parliament. Ottawa: LLA Publishing, 1996.

Lewis, David. The Good Fight: Political Memoirs: 1909-1958, Toronto: Macmillian, 1981.

Lewis, David and Scott, Frank. Make this Your Canada: A Review of CCF History and Policy. Winnpeg: Hybrid, 2001 [1943].

MacDonald, Donald. The Happy Warrior: Political Memoirs: Expanded Ed. Toronto: Dundurn Press 1999.

McHenry, Dean. The Third Force in Canada: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, 1932-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950.

McNaught, Kenneth. A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959.

Mills, A. Fool for Christ: The Political Thought of J.S. Woodsworth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Morton Desmond. The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1986.

Rae, Bob. From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics, Toronto: Viking, 1996.

Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann. Stanley Knowles: The Man from Winnipeg North Centre. Saskatoon: Western Producer Books, 1982.

Whitehorn, Alan. Canadian Socialism: Essays on the CCF-NDP. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Whitehorn, Alan. "An Analysis of the Historiography of the CCF-NDP: The Protest Movement Becalmed Tradition," in J. William Brennan ed. "Building the Co-operative Commonwealth" Essays on the Democratic Socialist Tradition in Canada. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1985.

Whitehorn, Alan. "The CCF-NDP 50 Years After." In Thorburn, Hugh G. Party Politics in Canada 5th ed. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1985.

Wiseman, Nelson. Social Democracy in Manitoba: A History of the CCF-NDP. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1983.

Young, Walter. The Anatomy of a Party: the National CCF, 1932-61. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969.

Zakuta, Leo. A Protest Movement Becalmed: A Study of Change in the CCF. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964.

Top || Core Works || Sask Politics || Influences || Founding

Douglas and Lloyd || Medicare || Blakeny and Romanow || Federaly