- Born: 12 JUL 1920 – Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
- Died: 01/ DEC 2004 – Toronto, Ontario
- Achievements:
- Companion of the Order of Canada in 1986
- Canadian Booksellers Award in 1982
- Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for non-fiction in 1981
- Nellie Award for best public affairs broadcaster in radio in 1978
- Governor General’s Award for The Last Spike in 1972
- Governor General’s Award for Klondike in 1958
- Governor General’s Award for The Mysterious North in 1956
- Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 1959
- Works:
- The Royal Family (1954)
- The Golden Trail (1954)
- The Mysterious North (1956)
- Just Add Water and Stir (1959)
- Adventures of a Colonist (1960)
- The Secret World of Og (1961)
- The New City (1961)
- Fast, Fast, Fast Relief (1962)
- The Big Sell (1963)
- Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush (1963)
- The Comfortable Pew (1965)
- My War with the Twentieth Century (1965)
- Remember Yesterday (1965)
- The Cool, Crazy World of the Sixties (1966)
- The Centennial Food Guide (co-author, Janet Berton) (1966)
- Historic Headlines (1967)
- The Smug Minority (1968)
- The National Dream (1970)
- The Last Spike (1971)
- Drifting Home (1973)
- Hollywood’s Canada (1975)
- My Country: The Remarkable Past (1976)
- The Dionne Years (1979)
- The Wild Frontier (1978)
- The Invasion of Canada, 1812-1813 (1980)
- Flames Across the Border (1981)
- Why We Act like Canadians (1982)
- The Klondike Quest (1983)
- The Arctic Grail (1984)
- The Promised Land (1984)
- Vimy (1986)
- Starting Out, 1920-1947 (1987)
- The Great Depression: 1929-1939 (1990)
- Before the Gold Rush (1993)
- The Battle of Lake Erie (1994)
- My Times: Living with History, 1947-1995 (1995)
- Attack on Montreal (1995)
- 1967: The Last Good Year (1997)
- Niagara: A History of the Falls (1997)
- Pierre Berton’s Canada: The Land and the People (1999)
- Prisoners of the North (2004)
- Died: 01/ DEC 2004 – Toronto, Ontario