The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the books which have been published for this park. ParksCanadaHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 8 1973	Lieux historiques canadiens: cahiers d'archéologie et d'histoire no 8 1973	Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 10 1974
cover only Building the Rideau Canal: A Pictorial History Robert W. Passfield 1982	Construction du canal Rideau: histoire illustrée Robert W. Passfield 1982	cover only Legacy in Stone: The Rideau Corridor Barbara Humphreys and Fiona Spalding-Smith 1999	A History of the Rideau Lockstations Ken W. Watson 2000
cover only Our Canal: The Rideau Canal in Ottawa Peter Conroy 2002	Engineered Landscapes: The Rideau Canal's Transformation of a Wilderness Waterway Ken W. Watson 2006	The Rideau Route: Exploring the Pre-Canal Waterway Ken W. Watson 2007	cover only The Rideau Canal: Then and Now Ron Corbett 2007
cover only The Rideau Canal Joseph Albino 2008	cover only The House on the Hill: Recollections of a Rideau Canal Lockmaster's Son Don Warren 2008	cover only Military Paternalism, Labour, and the Rideau Canal Project Robert W. Passfield 2013	cover only The Rideau Canal: A Historical Guide Paul Schliesmann 2013