List of Books, Book Chapters, and Articles

Books

Morrison, Jean, ed. The Northwest Company in Rebellion: Simon McGillivray’s Fort William Notebook, 1815, a new preface and edits by Michel S. Beaulieu and Thorold J. Tronrud. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2023.

Beaulieu, Michel SZapamiętaj Mnie: The Life of Janina Kokocinski. Thunder Bay: Privately published, 2020. 

Beaulieu, Michel S., David Ratz, and Ronald Harpelle (eds). Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tronrud, and Jenna L. Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1914-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2018.

Henriksson, Markku, Michel S. Beaulieu, Carmen Pekkarinen, and Mari-Anna Suurmunne (eds). Forward by Margaret MacMillan. Canada – Finland, Celebrating 2017: “A brave, hospitably and‎ altogether admirable people.” Helsinki: Suomi-Kanada-seura/Finnish-Canadian Society and Embassy of Canada to Finland, 2017.

Zimmermann, Ernest Robert, completed and edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and David Ratz. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015.

Beaulieu, Michel SCelluloid Dreams: An Illustrated History of Early Film at the Lakehead, 1900-1931. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2012.

Harpelle, Ronald N. and Michel S. Beaulieu (eds). Pulp Friction: Communities and the Forest Industry in a Globalized World. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2012. 

Beaulieu, Michel S., Ronald N. Harpelle, and Jaimi Penney (eds). Labouring Finns: Transnational Politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States. Turku, Finland: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti, 2011.

Beaulieu, Michel SLabour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-1935. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Chris Southcott. North of Superior: An Illustrated History of Northwestern Ontario. Toronto: James Lormier and Company, 2010.

Blahuta, Jason P. and Michel S. Beaulieu (eds). Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough. Oxford and New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

Beaulieu, Michel S. (ed). Essays in Northwestern Ontario Working-Class History: Thunder Bay and Its Environs. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2008.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Ronald N. Harpelle (eds). The Lady Lumberjack: An Annotated Collection of Dorothea Mitchell’s Writings. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2005.


Journal Issues

Co-Editor of Papers & Records, an annual peer-reviewed journal published by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society. Volume XLIII (2015) to present (10 issues). 

Beaulieu, Michel S. and James Paxton (Guest editors). Special issue on "Imagining New Worlds in the New World: Entertainment, Agency, and Power in Upper Canada." Ontario History 102, no. 2 (2010).

Harpelle, Ron and Michel S. Beaulieu (Guest editors). Special issue on "Developments, Definitions, and Directions in Finnish Language, Literature, and Culture." Journal of Finnish Studies 14, no. 2 (2010).


Article and Books Chapters 

Nigro, Laura, Lori Chambers, and Michel S. Beaulieu. “Women Not Welcome: Martinie v. the Italian Society of Port Arthur.” In Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume XII: New Perspectives on Gender and the Law, edited by Lori Chambers and Joan Sangster, 275-303. Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Nicol, Heather, Michel S. Beaulieu, and Diane Hirshberg. "The University of the Arctic (UArctic) as a Non-State Actor in the Circumpolar World." In Non-State Actors in the Arctic Region, edited by Nikolas Sellheim and Dwayne Menezes, 63-77. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2022.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Jenna L. Kirker. "The Continued Evolution of Fort William and Port Arthur into the City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada." In Twin Cities across Five Continents: Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders, edited by Ekaterina Mikhailova and John Garrard, 35-47. London and New York: Routledge, 2022.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “'But there is another source of liberty and vitality in our country:' Louis St-Laurent and Regional Development." In The Unexpected Louis St-Laurent: Politics and Policies for a Modern Canada, edited by Patrice Dutil, 222-242. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "It is better to retreat now than be crushed altogether": Questions of Ethnicity and the Communist Party of Canada at the Lakehead.” In Left Transnationalism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, edited by Oleska Drachewych and Ian McKay, 337-359. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020.

Lemelin, Raynald Harvey, Michel S. Beaulieu, and David Ratz. "'Everything Changed!' - The Ramification of the Second World War on the Canadian North." Journal of Tourism Futures 5, no. 4 (2019): 83-90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JTF-01-2019-0005

Blanchard, David and Michel S. Beaulieu. "The Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Terrace Bay." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 47 (2019): 107-120.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "The Finnish Canadian Contribution to Early Canadian Socialist Organizations." In Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ronald Harpelle, 29-50. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Beaulieu, Michel S., David K Ratz, and Ronald Harpelle. "Writing About the Finnish Canadian Experience" and "Afterword." In Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, David K. Ratz, and Ronald Harpelle, 1-28 and 226-229. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "La contribution finlando-canadienne au travail et à la politique au début du vingtième siècle." trans. Madeleine Bernard et Michel S. Beaulieu. In Canada-Finland, Celebrating 2017: "A brave. hospitable, and altogether admirable people," edited by Markku Henriksson, Michel S. Beaulieu, Carmen Pekkarinen, and Mari-Anna Suurmunne, 39-41. Helsinki: Suomi-Kanada-seura/Finnish-Canadian Society and Embassy of Canada to Finland, 2017. 

Beaulieu, Michel S. "The Finnish-Canadian Contribution to Labour and Politics in the Early Twentieth Century." In Canada-Finland, Celebrating 2017: "A brave. hospitable, and altogether admirable people," edited by Markku Henriksson, Michel S. Beaulieu, Carmen Pekkarinen, and Mari-Anna Suurmunne, 36-38. Helsinki: Suomi-Kanada-seura/Finnish-Canadian Society and Embassy of Canada to Finland, 2017. 

Beaulieu, Michel S. "Dorothea Mitchell." In Women Film Pioneers Project, edited by Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-p9gn-4h05

Lemelin, Harvey, Elaine Wiersma, Michel S. Beaulieu, Linda Trapper, Donna Ashamock, Kirstine Baccar, and Randy Kapashesit. “Using Photovoice to Document Change in the Canadian North: Expanding Opportunities and Addressing Challenges.” Canadian Journal of Native Studies / Le Revue Canadienne Des Etudes Autochtones 35, no. 2 (2015): 1-16.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Meaghan Malashewski. "Labour at the Lakehead During the First World War." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 42 (2014): 86-105.  

Beaulieu, Michel S. "A Historic Overview of Policies Effecting Non-Aboriginal Resource Development in Northwestern Ontario, 1900-1990." In Governance in Northern Ontario: Economic Development and Policy Making, edited by Charles Conteh and Robert Segsworth, 94-114. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "Spittoon Philosophers or Radical Revolutionaries? The Canadian Administration of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1932-35." Ontario History 105, no. 2 (Autumn 2013): 183-211. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1050733ar

Lemelin, Raynald Harvey and Michel S. Beaulieu"The Technological Imperative of the Cree: Examining Adaptability and Livelihood in Northern Ontario, Canada."Journal of Northern Studies 7, no. 1 (2013): 31-47.

Lemelin, R. H., Wiersma, E., Trapper, L., Beaulieu, M.,Kapashesit, R., and Dowsley, M. “A Dialogue and Reflection On Photohistory: Engaging Indigenous Communities in Research through Visual Analysis.” Action Research 11, no. 1 (2013): 92-107.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Ronald N. Harpelle. "The Path to Pulp Friction." In Pulp Friction: Communities and the Forest Industry in a Global Perspective, edited by Ronald Harpelle and Michel S. Beaulieu, 1-12. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2012.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “The Lakehead and Canada's First Social Democratic Party: The Search for Socialist Unity." Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 39 (2011): 29-54.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "Lakeheadin yliopistossa mittava aineisto kanadansuomalaisista." Akti: Arkistolaitoksen asiakaslehti 2 (2011): 22-23.

Beaulieu, Michel S., Ronald N. Harpelle, and Jaimi Penney. "The Finnish Workers’ Experience at Home and Abroad in Historical Perspective." In Labouring Finns: Transnational Politics in Finland, Canada, and the United States, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, Ronald N. Harpelle, and Jaimi Penney, 7-13. Turku, Finland: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti [Institute of Migration], 2011.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “‘Not that I lov'd Fleas less, but that I lov'd England more.’: Entertainment as Agency in Upper Canada: A Kingston Case Study, 1816-1837.” Ontario History CII, no. 2 (Autumn 2010): 195-216. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1065582ar

Lemelin, Raynald Harvey and Michel S. Beaulieu"The Lore of the Lake: A Call for the (RE)-envisioning the Legends and Myths from Kitchi Gami (Lake Superior)." In Lake Tourism Research: Towards Sustaining Communities and Lake Environments, edited by Norman McIntyre, et al., 27-35. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Tourism and Community Development Research, 2010.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “Finnish Kanadalainen Sosialismi: Towards an Understanding of Finnish Canadian Socialist Activity, 1900-1939.” Faravid: Historian ja arkeologian tutkimuksen aikakauskirja [Journal of Historical and Archaeological Studies] 33 (2009): 107-126.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "Reacting to the Workers' Revolt: The Lakehead and the Winnipeg General Strike."Left History 14, no. 1 (2009): 8-32.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “KUPO for Karl and the Materialist Conception of History.” In Final Fantasy and Philosophy: The Ultimate Walkthrough, edited by Jason Blahuta and Michel S. Beaulieu, 142-150. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Degagne, Chelsea, Michel S. Beaulieu, and David Ratz. “PRIMA IN LACUBUS: Over a Century of Naval Activity at the Lakehead.” Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 37 (2009): 46-59.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Bruce W. Muirhead. “Harry Bryan - A Man of Fanatical Convictions.” In Essays in Northwestern Ontario Working Class History, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, 53-70. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2008.

Beaulieu, Michel S. "'We did it just for fun': Amateur Filmmaking at the Lakehead, 1929-1930." Ontario History 99, no. 2 (2007): 168-189. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1065738ar

Beaulieu, Michel S. “The Best Picture Ever Made in Canada? Thunder Bay Films Limited and The Devil Bear.”Revue Canadienne D’Études Cinématographiques / Canadian Journal of Film Studies 14, no. 2 (Automne 2005): 18-37.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “Early Filmmaking at the Lakehead, 1911-1931.” Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 33 (2005): 42-64.

Beaulieu, Michel S“Dorothea Mitchell: a Biographical Sketch." In The Lady Lumberjack: An Annotated Collection of Dorothea Mitchell’s Writings, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu and Ronald Harpelle, ii-xvi. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2005.

Beaulieu, Michel S"“'Wie es eigentlich gewesen?' Early Film as a Historical Source.” In Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: sources, méthodes et interdicplinarité/ Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods, and Interdisciplinarity, edited by Jeff Keshen and Sylvie Perrier, 249-264. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2005.

Beaulieu, Michel S. “In Public Demand: Early Theatre in Fort William’s Town Hall, 1892-1903.” Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records 31 (2003): 3-20.


Book Reviews

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario, by Steven HighUniversity of Toronto Quarterly “Letters in Canada 2020” 89, no.3 (Summer 2020): 570-71.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of Italians of Fort William’s East End, 1907-1969, by Roy Piovesana. Ontario History 107, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 133-135.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of The Search for a Socialist El Dorado: Finnish Immigration to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada in the 1930s by Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala. Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 57, no. 1-2 (April 2015): 148-149.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of According to Baba: A Collaborative Oral History of Sudbury’s Ukrainian Community, by Stacey Zembrzycki. Ontario History 106, no. 2 (Autumn 2014): 280-282.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of Oral History and Photography, edited by Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson. Oral History Forum d'histoire orale 34 (2014). URL: http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space, by Jody Berland. University of Toronto Quarterly’s “Letters in Canada 2011” 82, no. 3 (summer 2013): 514-515.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of Northern Ontario: Introducing the Unknown Country, by Michael Barnes. Ontario History 104, no. 2 (automne 2012): 159-161.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Review of Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970, by Michael Dawson. Histoire Sociale/Social History 39, no. 77 (mai 2006): 281-283.


Select Other

Beaulieu, Michel S. "Political Mapping: Louis St-Laurent’s 1949 Tour of Western Canada." Findings|Trouvailles (November 2020). https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/findings-trouvailles/2020/11/political-mapping

Foreword to George Duncan, Thoreau MacDonald’s Sketches of Rural Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society, 2020. 

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Walter Peace. World Book Encyclopedia, s.v. “Ontario,” pages 764-788. Chicago: World Book Encyclopedia, 2020 --.

de Ruiter, Brian and Michel S. Beaulieu with special thanks to Erno Rossi. “Outside the Barbed Wire Fence: Oral History and German POWs in Wainfleet Township.” Findings|Trouvailles (April 2020). https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/findings-trouvailles/2020/04/outside-the-barbed-wire-fence?

Editor of a series of personal accounts from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. In Canada-Finland, Celebrating 2017: "A brave. hospitable, and altogether admirable people," edited by Markku Henriksson, Michel S. Beaulieu, Carmen Pekkarinen, and Mari-Anna Suurmunne, 72-84. Helsinki: Suomi-Kanada-seura/Finnish-Canadian Society and Embassy of Canada to Finland, 2017.