2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![To the River: Losing My Brother Don Gillmor](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580965208-2430-image-3.jpg)
To the River: Losing My Brother
Don Gillmor
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Darrel J. McLeod](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580982073-3786-image-3.jpg)
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
Darrel J. McLeod
2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State Graeme Wood](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580941993-60304-image-3.jpg)
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood
2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 Bill Waiser](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580844351-58693-image-3.jpg)
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
Bill Waiser
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive Mark L. Winston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580872327-770-image-3.jpg)
Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Mark L. Winston
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection Michael Harris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581023389-5767-image-3.jpg)
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Michael Harris
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Sandra Djwa](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581048472-7568-image-3.jpg)
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
Sandra Djwa
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581045697-7344-image-3.jpg)
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Ross King
2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Mordecai: The Life & Times Charles Foran](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978373-3481-image-3.jpg)
Mordecai: The Life & Times
Charles Foran
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Allan Casey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046921-7442-image-3.jpg)
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Allan Casey
2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![A Place Within: Rediscovering India M.G. Vassanji](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580850979-59242-image-3.jpg)
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
M.G. Vassanji
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army Christie Blatchford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-2-image-3.jpg)
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Christie Blatchford
2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad Karolyn Smardz Frost](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581049439-7646-image-3.jpg)
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Karolyn Smardz Frost
2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Ross King](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581048387-7561-image-3.jpg)
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Ross King
2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed of John the Painter, First Modern John Vaillant](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581040384-7169-image-3.jpg)
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed of John the Painter, First Modern
John Vaillant
2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580961434-2119-image-3.jpg)
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire
2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World Margaret MacMillan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580971831-2976-image-3.jpg)
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil Andrew Nikiforuk](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580964009-2331-image-3.jpg)
Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil
Andrew Nikiforuk
2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Ingenuity Gap Thomas Homer-Dixon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581050498-7730-image-3.jpg)
The Ingenuity Gap
Thomas Homer-Dixon
2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Notes from the Hyena's Belly Nega Mezlekia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580974981-3201-image-3.jpg)
Notes from the Hyena’s Belly
Nega Mezlekia
1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Water Marq de Villiers](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580942188-60320-image-3.jpg)
Water
Marq de Villiers
1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Lines on the Water – A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi David Adams Richards](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581044548-7249-image-3.jpg)
Lines on the Water – A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi
David Adams Richards
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood Rachel Manley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581025220-5918-image-3.jpg)
Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
Rachel Manley
1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Unconscious Civilization John Ralston Saul](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580944838-60539-image-3.jpg)
The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul
1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen Rosemary Sullivan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580961556-2129-image-3.jpg)
Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Rosemary Sullivan
1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication John A. Livingston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580964724-2390-image-3.jpg)
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
John A. Livingston
1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Touch the Dragon Karen Connelly](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580952314-1366-image-3.jpg)
Touch the Dragon
Karen Connelly
1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm Maggie Siggins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580965900-2487-image-3.jpg)
Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Maggie Siggins
1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Trudeau and Our Times Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580945627-60604-image-3.jpg)
Trudeau and Our Times
Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Willie—The Life of W. Somerset Maugham Robert Calder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580939380-60088-image-3.jpg)
Willie—The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
Robert Calder
1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![In the Sleep Room Anne Collins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580959822-1986-image-3.jpg)
In the Sleep Room
Anne Collins
1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Russian Album Michael Ignatieff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580964105-2339-image-3.jpg)
The Russian Album
Michael Ignatieff
1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Northrop Frye on Shakespeare Northrop Frye](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580975223-3221-image-3.jpg)
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye
1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada Ramsay Cook](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966675-2551-image-3.jpg)
The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
Ramsay Cook
1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier Sandra Gwyn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580968931-2737-image-3.jpg)
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
Sandra Gwyn
1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General Jeffery Williams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580865320-191-image-3.jpg)
Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General
Jeffery Williams
1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town Christopher Moore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Christopher Moore
1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Caribou and the Barren-Lands George Calef](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035581-6773-image-3.jpg)
Caribou and the Barren-Lands
George Calef
1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration Jeffrey Simpson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
Jeffrey Simpson
1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Emily Carr: A Biography Maria Tippett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581023777-5799-image-3.jpg)
Emily Carr: A Biography
Maria Tippett
1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Go Boy Roger Caron](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062004-8054-image-3.jpg)
Go Boy
Roger Caron
1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Essays on the Constitution Frank Scott](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Essays on the Constitution
Frank Scott
1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Writing of Canadian History Carl Berger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Writing of Canadian History
Carl Berger
1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Hallowed Walls Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Hallowed Walls
Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson
1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Siren Years Charles Ritchie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580960332-2028-image-3.jpg)
The Siren Years
Charles Ritchie
1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Painters in a New Land Michael Bell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Painters in a New Land
Michael Bell
1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Last Spike Pierre Berton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046278-7389-image-3.jpg)
The Last Spike
Pierre Berton
1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Hunting Tigers Under Glass Mordecai Richler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Hunting Tigers Under Glass
Mordecai Richler
1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature Norah Story](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature
Norah Story
1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell George Woodcock](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581030175-6327-image-3.jpg)
The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell
George Woodcock
1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![In Defence of Canada James Eayrs](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
In Defence of Canada
James Eayrs
1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![John Addington Symonds Phyllis Grosskurth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
John Addington Symonds
Phyllis Grosskurth
1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Brown of the Globe J.M.S. Careless](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580868369-443-image-3.jpg)
Brown of the Globe
J.M.S. Careless
1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Ascent of Life T.A. Goudge](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Ascent of Life
T.A. Goudge
1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![In Search of Canadian Liberalism Frank H. Underhill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580962815-2233-image-3.jpg)
In Search of Canadian Liberalism
Frank H. Underhill
1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Klondike Pierre Berton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581047321-7475-image-3.jpg)
Klondike
Pierre Berton
1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Canada: Tomorrow's Giant Bruce Hutchison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581064185-8234-image-3.jpg)
Canada: Tomorrow’s Giant
Bruce Hutchison
1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Mysterious North Pierre Berton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580977150-3380-image-3.jpg)
The Mysterious North
Pierre Berton
1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain Donald G. Creighton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581061325-7998-image-3.jpg)
John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain
Donald G. Creighton
1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Thirty and Three Hugh MacLennan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581058864-7805-image-3.jpg)
Thirty and Three
Hugh MacLennan
1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Canada, A Story of Challenge J.M.S. Careless](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035799-6791-image-3.jpg)
Canada, A Story of Challenge
J.M.S. Careless
1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician Donald G. Creighton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062598-8103-image-3.jpg)
John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician
Donald G. Creighton
1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Ardent Exile Josephine Phelan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Ardent Exile
Josephine Phelan
1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Progressive Party in Canada W.L. Morton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Progressive Party in Canada
W.L. Morton
1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Cross-country Hugh MacLennan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581030453-6350-image-3.jpg)
Cross-country
Hugh MacLennan
1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Halifax, Warden of the North Thomas H. Raddall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581013176-4927-image-3.jpg)
Halifax, Warden of the North
Thomas H. Raddall
1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Haida William Sclater](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581013382-4944-image-3.jpg)
Haida
William Sclater
1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Colony to Nation A.R.M. Lower](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581032259-6499-image-3.jpg)
Colony to Nation
A.R.M. Lower
1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![We Keep a Light Evelyn M. Richardson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580941884-60295-image-3.jpg)
We Keep a Light
Evelyn M. Richardson
1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Partner in Three Worlds Dorothy Duncan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581062501-8095-image-3.jpg)
Partner in Three Worlds
Dorothy Duncan
1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![On Canadian Poetry E.K. Brown](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
On Canadian Poetry
E.K. Brown
1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![The Unknown Country Bruce Hutchison](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
The Unknown Country
Bruce Hutchison
1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Klee Wyck Emily Carr](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581047334-7476-image-3.jpg)
Klee Wyck
Emily Carr
1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Slava Bohu J.F.C. Wright](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Slava Bohu
J.F.C. Wright
1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter Laura G. Salverson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter
Laura G. Salverson
1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![Canadian Mosaic John Murray Gibbon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Canadian Mosaic
John Murray Gibbon
1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![My Discovery of the West Stephen Leacock](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581060514-7931-image-3.jpg)
My Discovery of the West
Stephen Leacock
1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
![T.B.R.—newspaper pieces T.B. Roberton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-3-image-3.jpg)