Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960

• Repression and Resistance by Ross Lambertson examines the history of human rights in Canada from 1930-1960, which is the period before the emergency of more modern human rights groups and it focuses on the activists who were fighting against injustices they deemed of great importance at the time. Some examples being the Quebec anti-communist padlock law, civil liberty violations in the war, post-war attempts to deport Japanese Canadians, attempts to obtain anti-discrimination legislation, Cold War civil liberty violations, struggles to obtain a Bill of Rights, among others.
• https://www.amazon.ca/Repression-Resistance-Canadian-Activists-1930-1960/dp/0802089216

Human Rights in Canada: A History

• This book, by Dominique Clément, shows how human rights became a primary language for social change and how the 1970s was a critical decade for this. The author argues that this time period transformed political culture, social movements, and foreign policy in Canada.
• https://books.google.ca/books/about/Human_Rights_in_Canada.html?id=elteDAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

Canadian Human Rights in a Nutshell

• This book, by Bryan K. Law, explores what the human rights landscape is in Canada, how the various laws work to prohibit discrimination and uses case examples to explain the major legislations such as the federal Canadian Human Rights Act, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provincial/territorial laws.
• https://www.amazon.ca/Canadian-Human-Rights-Nutshell-Bryan/dp/0988121700

A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues

• This book explores a variety of human rights themes coming out of the post-confederation period including immigration/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, disability, state formation, and provincial-federal relations. This book unites original essays that examine the history of human rights in Canada with the addition of the topic of the "war on terrorism".
• ​​​​​​​https://www.amazon.ca/History-Human-Rights-Canada-Essential/dp/1551303566

Speaking Out on Human Rights: Debating Canada's Human Rights System

• This book challenges the notion held by Canadians that Canada has always been a champion of human rights in the international community. The author of this book, Peal Eliadis, critiques these myths and analyzes the ways Canadian history has been framed in such a manner. Specifically, this book draws on interviews from leading Canadian human rights experts to explore how commissions and tribunals have mediated rights in areas such as hate speech, religious freedoms and sexuality.
• https://www.mqup.ca/speaking-out-on-human-rights-products-9780773543058.php

About Canada: Disability Rights

• This book, by Deborah Stienstra, explores the historical and modern experiences of people with disabilities in Canada alongside the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences. Stienstra discusses the importance of disability rights, the cross-sectoral policy opportunities of greater disability freedom, and she offers new approaches and practices to improve inclusivity and accommodation.
• ​​​​​​​https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-disability-rights801

Canada's Human Rights History Collection

• This is Canada's Human Rights History's collection of published books and edited collections.
• ​​​​​​​https://historyofrights.ca/about/published-books/

Canadian Human Rights Law

• This is Queen's University's collection of general and introductory texts on Canadian Human Rights Law.
• https://guides.library.queensu.ca/human-rights-law

Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada

• This book, written by Neil Bissoondath in 1994 is a critique of the 1971 Multiculturalism Act because of its emphasis on differences rather than similarities among the country's various ethnic groups. This highly controversial text highlights the conflicts surrounding collective rights, which he argues is not limited to French Canadians. This book sparked immense debate around the differences between Canadian values and collective rights claims of ethnic and religious minority groups.
• https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1411669