Canadian Historical Society-Societe Historique du Canada
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François-Xavier Garneau Medal (honours an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research)
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (awarded annually to the best book in Canadian history)
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (awarded annually to the best book in history other than Canadian)
Albert B. Corey Prize (awarded every other year jointly with the American Historical Association to the best book in Canadian-American history)
The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years, is the most prestigious of the CHA prizes. It honours an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research.
2010
The great land rush and the making of the modern world by John C. Weaver
2005
The confusions of pleasure : commerce and culture in Ming China by Timothy Brook
2000
Quelques arpents d'Amérique : population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 by Gérard Bouchard
Honourable mention:
Death so noble : memory, meaning, and the First World War by Jonathan Vance
Working families : age, gender, and daily survival in industrializing Montreal by Bettina Bradbury
1995
The gender of breadwinners : women, men, and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 by Joy Parr
Honourable mention:
Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
Space and revolution : projects for monuments, squares and public buildings in France, 1789-1799 by James A. Leith
1990
Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800 by John M. Beattie
Honourable mention:
Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade by David Eltis
Peasant, lord and merchant : rural society in three Quebec parishes, 1740-1840 by Allan Greer
1985
A Canadian millionaire : the life and business times of Sir Joseph Flavelle by Michael Bliss
1980
Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle by Louise Dechêne (English translation)
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is awarded annually to the best book in Canadian history.
2010
Backwoods consumers and homespun capitalists : the rise of a market culture in eastern Canada by Béatrice Craig
Honourable mention:
Respectable citizens : gender, family, and unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression by Lara Campbell
The ironies of identity in a rebellious era : Canada's 1960s by Bryan D. Palmer
2009
Reasoning otherwise : leftists and the people's enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 by Ian McKay
Honourable Mentions:
A silent revolution? : gender and wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930 by Peter Baskerville
Le peuple, l'État et la guerre au Canada sous le Régime français by Louise Dechêne
2008
Gatekeepers : reshaping immigrant lives in Cold War Canada by Franca Iacovetta
Honourable Mention:
Alliance and illusion : Canada and the world, 1945-1984 by Robert Bothwell
The dominion of youth : adolescence and the making of a modern Canada, 1920-50 by Cynthia Comacchio
2007
States of nature : conserving Canada's wildlife in the twentieth century by Tina Loo
2006
The Catholic origins of Quebec's quiet revolution, 1931-1970 by Michael Gauvreau
2005
Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises au XVIIe siécle (1600-1650) by Dominique Deslandres
Honourable mention:
Fish into wine : the Newfoundland plantation in the seventeenth century by Peter Pope
2004
The rule of the admirals : law, custom and naval government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 by Jerry Bannister
Honourable mentions:
Marriage of minds : Isabel and Oscar Skelton reinventing Canada by Terry Crowley
At odds : gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969 by Suzanne Morton
2003
Making native space : colonialism, resistance, and reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris
Honourable mention:
Heroines and history : representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord by Colin Coates and Cecilia Morgan
2002
The politics of population : state formation, statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875 by Bruce Curtis
Honourable mentions:
Renegade lawyer : the life of J. L. Cohen by Laurel Sefton MacDowell
Natural selections : national parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970 by Alan MacEachern
2001
Engendering the state : family, work, and welfare in Canada by Nancy Christie
Honourable mentions:
Citizens and nations : an essay on history, communications, and Canada by Gerald Friesen
Histoire sociale des idées au Québec, volume 1 : 1760-1896 by Yvan Lamonde
2000
The art of nation-building : pageantry and spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary by H.V. Nelles
Honourable mentions:
Pièges de la mémoire : Dollard des Ormeaux, les Amérindiens et nous by Patrice Groulx
William Osler : a life in medicine by Michael Bliss
1999
Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-1950 by Mary-Ellen Kelm
Honourable mentions:
The science of war : Canadian scientists and allied military technology during the Second World War by Donald H. Avery
Aux origines de l'État-providence by Dominique Marshall
1998
Death so noble : memory, meaning, and the First World War by Jonathan Vance
Special mention:
Traders' tales : narratives of cultural encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 by Elizabeth Vibert
"Race," rights and the law in the Supreme Court of Canada : historical case studies by James W. St. G. Walker
1997
Quelques arpents d'Amérique : population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 by Gérard Bouchard
Special mention:
The struggle for Canadian sport by Bruce Kidd
Shingwauk's vision : a history of native residential schools by J.R. Miller
1996
Canada dry : temperance crusades before Confederation by Jan Noel
Special mention:
La Sidérurgie dans le monde rural : les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe siècle by René Hardy
Northern sandlots : a social history of Maritime Baseball by Colin D. Howell
Wild things : nature, culture, and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 by Patricia Jasen
1995
A history of Canadian architecture by Harold Kalman
Special mention:
The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay
1994
Working families : age, gender and daily survival in industrializing Montreal by Bettina Bradbury
1993
Canada's first nations : a history of founding peoples from earliest times by Olive Patricia Dickason
Special mention:
Sweatshop strife : class, ethnicity, and gender in the Jewish labour movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth A. Frager
Such hardworking people : Italian immigrants in postwar Toronto by Franca Iacovetta
Orphelines en France pionnières au Canada: les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle by Yves Landry
1992
Life lived like a story : life stories of three Yukon native elders by Julie Cruikshank in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned
Special mention:
The Ojibwa of southern Ontario by Peter S. Schmalz
The Evangelical century : college and creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression by Michael Gauvreau
The nature of their bodies : women and their doctors in Victorian Canada by Wendy Mitchinson
1991
The gender of breadwinners : women, men and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 by Joy Parr
Special mention:
Maritime capital : the shipping industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 by Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting
1990
Shadow of heaven : the life of Lester Pearson by John English
Special mention:
Seafaring labour : the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 by Eric W. Sager
Two worlds : the Protestant culture of nineteenth-century Ontario by William Westfall
1989
The new day recalled : lives of girls and women in English Canada, 1919-1939 by Veronica Strong-Boag
Special mention:
Newfoundland in the North Atlantic world, 1929-1949 by Peter Neary
Irish migrants in the Canadas : a new approach by Bruce S. Elliott
Working in steel : the early years in Canada, 1883-1935 by Craig Heron1988
Historical atlas of Canada, volume 1 : from the beginning to 1800 edited by R. Cole Harris with G.J. Matthews as cartographer
Special mention:
Bushworkers and bosses : logging in northern Ontario, 1900-1980 by Ian Radforth
Inventing Canada : early Victorian science and the idea of a transcontinental nation by Suzanne Zeller
1987
Monopoly's moment : the organization and regulation of Canadian utilities, 1830-1930 by Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles
Special mention:
George Nowlan by Margaret Conrad
They're still women after all : the Second World War and Canadian womanhood by Ruth Roach Pierson
The government generation : Canadian intellectuals and the state, 1900-1945 by Doug Owram
1986
Peasant, lord, and merchant : rural society in three Quebec parishes, 1740-1840 by Allan Greer
Special mention:
Saint John : the making of a colonial urban community by T.W. Acheson
Natives and newcomers : Canada's "Heroic Age" reconsidered by Bruce G. Trigger
1985
The Canadian prairies : a history by Gerald Friesen
1984
Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, volume 3 : La Seigneurie des Cent-Associés, 1627-1663, tome 2 : La Société by Marcel Trudel
1983
None is too many : Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving Abella and Harold Troper
1982
Maisonneuve : Comment des promoteurs fabriquent une ville, 1883-1918 by Paul-André Linteau
1981
Toronto workers respond to industrial capitalism, 1867-1892 by Gregory Kealey
1980
Emily Carr : a biography by Maria Tippett
Special mention:
A disciplined intelligence : critical inquiry and Canadian thought in the Victorian era by A. B. McKillop
A culture in conflict : skilled workers and industrial capitalism in Hamilton, 1860-1914 by Bryan Palmer
Micmacs and colonists : Indian-White relations in the Maritimes, 1713-1867 by L. S. F. Upton
1979
Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic by Richard J. Diubaldo
Special mention:
Dugard of Rouen : French trade to Canada and the West Indies, 1729-1770 by Dale Miquelon
The heritage of Upper Canadian furniture by Howard Pain
1978
Contact and conflict : Indian-European relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 by Robin Fisher
Special mention:
The decline of politics : the Conservatives and the party system, 1901-20 by John English
Reformers, rebels, and revolutionaries : the Western Canadian radical movement, 1899-1919 by A. Ross McCormack
G. Howard Ferguson : Ontario tory by Peter Oliver
1977
Le Bas-Canada, 1791-1840 : changements structuraux et crise by Fernand Ouellet
Special mention:
The writing of Canadian history : aspects of English-Canadian historical writing, 1900-1970 by Carl Berger
The enemy that never was : a history of the Japanese Canadians by Ken Adachi
The Canadian Northern Railway : pioneer road of the northern prairies 1895-1918 by T.D. Regehr
The Wallace K. Ferguson Prize is awarded annually to the best book in history other than Canadian.
2010
Salvation and globalization in the early Jesuit missions by Luke Clossey
Honourable mention:
The fluid envelope of our planet : how the study of ocean currents became a science by Eric Mills
2009
Death by a thousand cuts by Timothy Brooks, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue
Honourable Mentions:
The precious raft of history : the past, the West, and the woman question in China by Joan Judge
Women in British Imperial airspace, 1922-1937 by Liz Millward
2008
James P. Cannon and the origins of the American revolutionary left, 1890-1928 by Bryan D. Palmer
Honourable Mention:
Some family : the Mormons and how humanity keeps track of itself by Donald Harman Akenson
Le promeneur à Paris au XVIIIe siècle by Laurent Turcot
2007
Trickster travels : a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis
2006
The social life of coffee : the emergence of the British coffeehouse by Brian Cowan
2005
In search of empire : the French in the Americas, 1670-1730 by James Pritchard
Honourable mentions:
Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises au XVIIe siècle (1600-1650) by Dominique Deslandres
From fascism to democracy : culture and politics in the Italian election of 1948 by Robert Ventresca
2004
The great land rush and the making of the modern world, 1650-1900 by John C. Weaver
Honourable mentions:
Facing the Second World War : strategy, politics and economics in Britain and France, 1938-1940 by Talbot C. Imlay
Anti-Italianism in sixteenth-century France by Henry Heller
2003
Blood ground : colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 by Elizabeth Elbourne
Honourable mentions:
A merciful end : the Euthanasia movement in modern America by Ian Dowbiggin
Obedient heretics : Mennonite identities in Lutheran Hamburg and Altona during the confessional age by M. D. Driedger
2002
At the dawn of modernity : biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000 by David Levine
Honourable mentions:
Divine feminine : theosophy and feminism in England by Joy Dixon
A social history of the cloister : daily life in the teaching monasteries of the Old Regime by Elizabeth Rapley
2001
Jacob Burckhardt and the crisis of modernity by John R. Hinde
Honourable mentions:
The Catholic Church in Spain, 1875-1998 by William J. Callahan
Classroom and empire : the politics of schooling Russia's eastern nationalities, 1860-1917 by Wayne Dowler
2000
William Osler : a life in medicine by Michael Bliss
Honourable mentions:
"Vérité garde le roy" : la construction d'une identité universitaire en France (XIIIe-XVe siècle) by Serge Lusignan
God's assassins : state terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s by Patricia Marchak ; in collaboration with William Marchak
1999
Crowds, culture and politics in Georgian Britain by Nicholas Rogers
Honourable mentions:
Drawn from life : science and art in the portrayal of the New World by Victoria Dickenson
Le notaire, la famille et la ville (Aix-en-Provence à la fin du XVIe siècle) by Claire Dolan
1998
The twisted muse : musicians and their music in the Third Reich by Michael H. Kater
Honourable mentions:
Weapons and warfare in Renaissance Europe : gunpowder, technology, and tactics by Bert S. Hall.
Traders' tales : narratives of cultural encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 by Elizabeth Vibert
1997
Champions of charity : war and the rise of the Red Cross by John F. Hutchinson
Honourable mentions:
Divergent paths : how culture and institutions have shaped North American growth by Marc Egnal
Peasant rebels under Stalin : collectivization and the culture of peasant resistance by Lynne Viola
1996
Lives of the bigamists : marriage, family, and community in colonial Mexico by Richard Boyer
Honourable mentions:
Citizen Sherman : a life of William Tecumseh Sherman by Michael Fellman
Building the railways of the Raj, 1850-1900 by Ian J. Kerr
Policing gender, class and family : Britain 1850-1940 by Linda Mahood
1995
Law and English railway capitalism, 1825-1875 by R. W. Kostal
Honourable mention:
Farmers and fishermen : two centuries of work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 by Daniel Vickers
1994
Slow death for slavery : the course of abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 by Paul E. Lovejoy, Jan S. Hogendorn
1993
A measure of wealth : the English land tax in historical analysis by Donald E. Ginter
Honourable mention:
God's peoples : covenant and land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster by Donald Harman Akenson
1992
Power and pleasure : Louis Barthou and the Third French Republic by Robert J. Young
Honourable mentions:
Space and revolution : projects for monuments, squares, and public buildings in France 1789-1799 by James A. Leith
The making of an industrial society : Whickham, 1560-1765 by David Levine and Keith Wrightson
1991
The Dévotes : women and shurch in seventeenth-century France by Elizabeth Rapley
Honourable mention:
Betrayals : Fort William Henry and the massacre by Ian K. Steele
1990
Rites of spring : the Great War and the birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
1989
Conspicuous production : automobiles and elites in Detroit, 1899-1933 by Donald Finlay Davis
1988
The Holocaust in history by Michael R. Marrus
1987
Crime and the courts in England, 1660-1800 by J. M. Beattie
1986
Church, politics, and society in Spain, 1750-1874 by William J. Callahan
1984
Vannes and its regions : a study of town and country in eighteenth-century France by T. LeGoff
1982
Urban society in an age of war : Nordlingen, 1580-1720 by Christopher R. Friedrichs
1980
The iron barons : a social analysis of an American urban elite, 1874-1965 by John N. Ingham
Honourable mention:
The fall of the royal government in Mexico City by Timothy E. Anna
The diplomacy of modernization : Colombian-American relations, 1920-1940 by Stephen J. Randall
The Albert B. Corey Prize is awarded every other year jointly with the American Historical Association to the best book in Canadian-American history.
2010
The texture of contact : European and Indian settler communities on the frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783 by David L. Preston
2008
Crossing the border : a free Black community in Canada by Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
2006
Permeable border : the Great Lakes Basin as transnational region, 1650-1990 by John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy William Widdis
2004
Industrial sunset : the making of North America's rust belt, 1969-1984 by Stephen High
2002
A good and wise measure : the search for the Canadian-American boundary, 1783-1842 by Francis M. Carroll
2000
The second greatest disappointment : honeymooners, heterosexuality, and the tourist industry at Niagara Falls by Karen Dubinsky
1998
Traders' tales : narratives of cultural encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 by Elizabeth Vibert
1996
The siege of Fort Cumberland, 1776 : an episode in the American Revolution by Ernest Clarke
1994
Family, church, and market : a Mennonite community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930 by Royden K. Loewen
1992
The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 by Richard White
Honourable mention:
On the move : French Canadian and Italian migrants in the North Atlantic economy, 1860-1914 by Bruno Ramirez
Housing the North American city by Michael Doucet and John Weaver
1990
United States expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871 by Reginald C. Stuart
1988
The lion, the eagle, and Upper Canada : a developing colonial ideology by Jane Errington
1986
The invasion within : the contest of cultures in Colonial North America by James Axtell
1984
In defence of Canada, volume 5 : Indochina : roots of complicity by James Eayrs
Dreaming of what might be : the Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 by Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer
1982
L'image des États-Unis dans la littérature québécoise 1775-1930 by Guildo Rousseau
1980
C. D. Howe, a biography by Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn
1978
The people of Hamilton, Canada West : family and class in a mid-nineteenth-century city by Michael B. Katz
1976
Gompers in Canada : a study in American continentalism before the First World War by Robert H. Babcock
1974
Mike; the memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson