Book Awards By Year

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and LaurierSandra Gwyn...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistP.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in PowerGraham FraserAmazonPrairie Fire: The 1885 North-West RebellionBob Beal and Rod MacleodAmazon

1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerByng of Vimy: General and Govenor GeneralJeffery WilliamsField Marshal the Viscount Byng of Vimy did not fit into the conventional mould in the Army, as Governor-General of Canada or as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Few officers commanded more widespread affection from their troops, or knew them and t...Amazon1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistReading from Left to Right: One Man's Political HistoryH.S. FernsAmazonThe GameKen DrydenAmazon

1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerLouisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison TownChristopher MooreEach year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were use...Amazon1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistGrits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal PartyChristina McCall-NewmanAmazonThe Great Code: The Bible and LiteratureNorthrop FryeAmazon