Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction To the River: Losing My Brother Don Gillmor Amazon 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Darrel J. McLeod Amazon 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State Graeme Wood Amazon 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 Bill Waiser Amazon 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive Mark L. Winston Amazon 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 Amazon 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Sandra Djwa Amazon 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Leonardo and the Last Supper Ross King Amazon 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Mordecai: The Life & Times Charles Foran Amazon 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Allan Casey Amazon 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction A Place Within: Rediscovering India M.G. Vassanji Amazon 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 Amazon 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 Amazon 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism Ross King Amazon 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 Amazon 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire Amazon 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World Margaret MacMillan Amazon 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil Andrew Nikiforuk Amazon 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Ingenuity Gap Thomas Homer-Dixon Amazon 2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Notes from the Hyena’s Belly Nega Mezlekia Amazon 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Water Marq de Villiers Amazon 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Lines on the Water – A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi David Adams Richards Amazon 1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood Rachel Manley Amazon 1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Unconscious Civilization John Ralston Saul Amazon 1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen Rosemary Sullivan Amazon 1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication John A. Livingston Amazon 1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Touch the Dragon Karen Connelly Amazon 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 Amazon 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo Amazon 1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Trudeau and Our Times Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall Amazon 1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Willie—The Life of W. Somerset Maugham Robert Calder Amazon 1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction In the Sleep Room Anne Collins Amazon 1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Russian Album Michael Ignatieff Amazon 1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Northrop Frye on Shakespeare Northrop Frye Amazon 1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada Ramsay Cook Amazon 1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier Sandra Gwyn Amazon 1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General Jeffery Williams Amazon 1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town Christopher Moore Amazon 1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Caribou and the Barren-Lands George Calef Amazon 1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration Jeffrey Simpson Amazon 1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Emily Carr: A Biography Maria Tippett Amazon 1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Go Boy Roger Caron Amazon 1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Essays on the Constitution Frank Scott Amazon 1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Writing of Canadian History Carl Berger Amazon 1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Hallowed Walls Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson Amazon 1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Siren Years Charles Ritchie Amazon 1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Painters in a New Land Michael Bell Amazon 1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Last Spike Pierre Berton Amazon 1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Hunting Tigers Under Glass Mordecai Richler Amazon 1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature Norah Story Amazon 1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell George Woodcock Amazon 1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction In Defence of Canada James Eayrs Amazon 1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction John Addington Symonds Phyllis Grosskurth Amazon 1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Brown of the Globe J.M.S. Careless Amazon 1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Ascent of Life T.A. Goudge Amazon 1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction In Search of Canadian Liberalism Frank H. Underhill Amazon 1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Klondike Pierre Berton Amazon 1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Canada: Tomorrow’s Giant Bruce Hutchison Amazon 1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Mysterious North Pierre Berton Amazon 1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain Donald G. Creighton Amazon 1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Thirty and Three Hugh MacLennan Amazon 1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Canada, A Story of Challenge J.M.S. Careless Amazon 1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician Donald G. Creighton Amazon 1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Ardent Exile Josephine Phelan Amazon 1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Progressive Party in Canada W.L. Morton Amazon 1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Cross-country Hugh MacLennan Amazon 1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Halifax, Warden of the North Thomas H. Raddall Amazon 1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Haida William Sclater Amazon 1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Colony to Nation A.R.M. Lower Amazon 1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction We Keep a Light Evelyn M. Richardson Amazon 1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Partner in Three Worlds Dorothy Duncan Amazon 1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction On Canadian Poetry E.K. Brown Amazon 1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction The Unknown Country Bruce Hutchison Amazon 1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Klee Wyck Emily Carr Amazon 1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Slava Bohu J.F.C. Wright Amazon 1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter Laura G. Salverson Amazon 1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Canadian Mosaic John Murray Gibbon Amazon 1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction My Discovery of the West Stephen Leacock Amazon 1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction T.B.R.—newspaper pieces T.B. Roberton Amazon