Publications and Research

Michel’s research typically explores the social, economic, and political history of Northern Ontario and has been funded by a number of agencies such as SSHRC and IDRC. His research and community work has been recognized by a number of awards, including Lakehead University’s Distinguished Researcher Award (the highest honour conferred by Lakehead for research and scholarly activity). Click here for a PDF list of publications or click here for information on exhibits, film, and media projects.

Recent Publications (last 5 years)

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, forthcoming.

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, in-press.

Michel S. Beaulieu and Thorold J. Tronrud, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records LI (in-press).

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.

Thorold J. Tronrud and Michel S. Beaulieu, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records L (2022).

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Walter Peace. World Book Encyclopedia, s.v. “Ontario,” pages 764-787. Chicago: World Book Encyclopedia, 2022.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Thorold J. Tronrud, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XLIV (2021).

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 6, no. 1 (2020): 83-90.

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

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

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

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Beth Boegh, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XLVIII (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?

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

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. and Beth Boegh, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XLVII (2019).

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.

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

Beaulieu, Michel S., David Ratz, and Ronald Harpelle. “Writing about the Finnish-Canadian Immigrant Experience.” In Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada, edited by Michel S. Beaulieu, David Ratz, Ronald Harpelle, 1-28. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Beaulieu, Michel S. and Beth Boegh, eds. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XLVI (2018).

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, forthcoming.

Beaulieu, Michel S. Zapamiętaj 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 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 S. Celluloid 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 S. Labour 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.