CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize

The CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize is an annual book prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. According to the CHA, the award is for the "non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past."[1] Recipients may be either English or French language works. First awarded in 1977, the prize was originally named for Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. However, in 2017, the CHA council proposed changing the name of the award given Macdonald's contentious legacy, particularly in relation to Indigenous peoples.[2] In May 2018, a significant majority of CHA members voted in favour of the change at the Association's annual meeting.[3]

This prize is also part of the Governor General's Awards for excellence in scholarly research.[4] It comes with a prize of $5,000 and is presented by Canada's Governor General at Rideau Hall.[1][3]

Recipients

Year[1] Winner Title
1977 Fernand Ouellet Le Bas-Canada 1791-1840: Changements structuraux et crise
1978 Robin A. Fisher Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in B.C. 1774-1890
1979 Richard J. Diubaldo Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic
1980 Maria Tippett Emily Carr: A Biography
1981 Gregory Kealey Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism 1867-1892
1982 Paul-André Linteau Maisonneuve: Comment des promoteurs fabriquent une ville, 1883-1918
1983 Irving Abella and Harold Troper None is too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948
1984 Marcel Trudel Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, volume III, La Seigneurie des Cent-Associés, 1627-1663
1985 Gerald Friesen The Canadian Prairies, A History
1986 Allan Greer Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Parishes, 1740-1840
1987 Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles Monopoly's Moment. The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930
1988 Cole Harris and G. J. Matthews (eds.) From the Beginning to 1800, volume I of the Historical Atlas of Canada
1989 Veronica Strong-Boag The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939
1990 John English Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, Vol. I; 1897-1948
1991 Joy Parr The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
1992 Julie Cruikshank Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders
1993 Olive Patricia Dickason Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times
1994 Bettina Bradbury Working Families: Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal
1995 Harold Kalman A History of Canadian Architecture, 2 Vols.
1996 Jan Noel Temperance Crusades Before Confederation
1997 Gérard Bouchard Quelques arpents d'Amérique
1998 Jonathan F. Vance Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
1999 Mary-Ellen Kelm Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-1950
2000 H. V. Nelles The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary
2001 Nancy Christie Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada
2002 Bruce Curtis The Politics of Population. State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875
2003 Cole Harris Making Native Space. Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
2004 Jerry Bannister The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832.
2005 Dominique Deslandres Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises au XVIIe siécle
2006 Michael Gauvreau The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970
2007 Tina Loo States of Nature. Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
2008 Franca Iacovetta Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
2009 Ian McKay Reasoning Otherwise. Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920
2010 Béatrice Craig Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
2011 Michel Ducharme Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)
2012 François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet (eds.) The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas
2013 William C. Wicken The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy
2014 James Daschuk Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
2015 Jean Barman French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest
2016 Robert C. H. Sweeny Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819-1849
2017 Sarah Carter Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
2018 E. A. Heaman Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917
2019 Shirley Tillotson Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
2020 Eric Reiter Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950
2021 Brittany Luby Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory
2022 Benjamin Hoy A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands
2023 Lianne C. Leddy Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "CHA Prizes". cha-shc.ca. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  2. ^ Dec 21, The Canadian Press Published on; 2017 5:06pm (2017-12-21). "Canadian Historical Association council seeks to pull Sir. John A.'s name off award". iPolitics. Retrieved 2020-07-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b "Historical association rebrands award named for John A. Macdonald". National Post. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  4. ^ Canada's History. "Governor General's History Awards Recipients." https://www.canadashistory.ca/awards/governor-general-s-history-awards/award-recipients?category=ScholarlyResearch#jump Retrieved 2020-07-24.