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Publishing books that defend, refute, and create fresh interpretations of the world, MQUP is in the business of debate. With over 2,800 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, our goal is to produce rigorously edited, beautifully produced, intelligent, interesting books. 

2019 Winners | 2019 Finalists | 2018 Winners | 2018 Finalists | 2017 Winners | 2017 Finalist | 2016 Winners | 2016 Finalists | 2015 Winners | 2015 Finalists | Previous

2019 WINNERS

Canada's History Society 2019 Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research
Elsbeth Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (2017)

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2019 FINALISTS

The Association of American Publishers 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences, in the category of Clinical Psychology
Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton and James W. Spisak, eds., Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond (2018)

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2018 WINNERS

UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society’s 2018 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw (2017)

Canadian Studies Network 2017 Prize for the Best Edited Collection
R.W. Sandwell, ed., Powering Up Canada: The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (2016)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 2018 Melva J. Dwyer Award
Heather Davis, ed., Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada; Copublished with Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), (2017)

Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2018 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences
E.A. Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (2017)

Canadian Historical Association 2018 Sir John A. Macdonald prize
Elsbeth Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (2017)

The Political History Group 2018 Political History Prize – Best Book
Elsbeth Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (2017)

Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC (CCHSBC) 2018 Dr. Edgar Wickberg Book Prize for the Best Book on Chinese Canadian History (co-winner)
Mary Chapman, ed., Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (2016)

Canadian Association for Theatre Research 2018 Patrick O'Neill Award
Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (eds.), Performance Studies in Canada (2017)

The Writers' Guild of Alberta 2018 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War (2017)

American Sociological Association, Peace, War and Social Conflict Section's 2018 Outstanding Book Award
Kevin J.A. Thomas, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases (2017)

North American Society for Oceanic History 2017 John Lyman Book Award for Naval and Maritime Biography and Autobiography
Sheila Johnson Kindred, Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen (2017)

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2018 FINALISTS

The Wilson Institute for Canadian History 2017 Wilson Book Prize Shortlist
Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman, eds., Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (2017)

The Wilson Institute for Canadian History 2017 Wilson Book Prize Longlist
Catherine Foisy, Au risque de la conversion: L'expérience québécoise de la mission au XXe siècle (1945–1980) (2017)
Cecilia Morgan, Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (2017)

Shevchenko Foundation 2018 Kobzar Literary Award
Bohdan S. Kordan, No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (2016)

Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2018 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Christopher Dummitt, Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life (2017)
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (2017)
Donald G. Wetherell, Wildlife, Land, and People: A Century of Change in Prairie Canada (2016)

Canadian Aboriginal History committee of the Canadian Historical Association 2018 Best Book Prize, Honourable Mention
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw (2017)

Pacific BookWorld News Society, Yosef Wosk, and Vancouver Public Library 2018 George Ryga Award Longlist
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw (2017)

West Coast Book Prize Society 2018 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Marianne Ignace and Ronald E Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq'ey's-kucw (2017)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 2018 Melva J. Dwyer Award Nominee
Lora Senechal Carney, Canadian Painters in a Modern World, 1925–1955: Writings and Reconsiderations (2017)
Ann Whitelaw, Spaces and Places for Art Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, 1912-1990 (2017)

League of Canadian Poets 2018 Raymond Souster Award Shortlist
Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War (2017)

League of Canadian Poets 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Shortlist
Julie Paul, The Rules of the Kingdom (2017)

West Coast Book Prize Society 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Julie Paul, The Rules of the Kingdom (2017)

The Writers' Trust of Canada 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Christopher Dummitt, Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life (2017)

J. W. Dafoe Foundation 2018 John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Christopher Dummitt, Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King’s Secret Life (2017)

2017 ReLit Awards
Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (2016)

Donner Canadian Foundation 2017/18 Donner Prize
Joshua Newman, Governing Public-Private Partnerships (2017)

Donner Canadian Foundation 2017/18 Donner Prize
Kevin Quigley, Ben Bisset, and Bryan Mills, Too Critical to Fail: How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure (2017)

Canadian Association for Theatre Research 2018 Ann Saddlemyer Award (Honorable Mention)
Barry Freeman, Staging Strangers: Theatre and Global Ethics (2017)

Canadian Historical Association 2018 Sir John A. Macdonald prize
Cecilia Morgan, Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (2017)

Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures 2017 Gabrielle Roy Prize
Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada (2017)

Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada 2018 English Language Culinary Narrative Award
Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas, eds., Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide Cooking with a Canadian Classic (2017)

City of Ottawa 2018 Ottawa Book Award / Le Prix du livre d’Ottawa, in the Non-Fiction category
Dorothy Anne Phillips, Victor and Evie: British Aristocrats in Wartime Rideau Hall (2017)

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2017 WINNERS

Prix du livre politique 2017 - Prix de la présidence de l'Assemblée nationale
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

Le Prix de la présidence de l’Assemblée nationale 2017
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

Canadian Historical Association 2017 Clio Prize (Quebec)
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture
Mary Chapman, ed., Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eaton (2016)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) 2017 Melva J. Dwyer Award 
Howard Shubert, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena (2016)

Society for International Hockey Research 2017 Paul Kitchen Award
Howard Shubert, Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena (2016)

The UBC Library 2017 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia
Arthur J. Ray, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (2016)

2017 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Arthur J. Ray, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (2016)

Shevchenko Foundation 2017 Kobzar Literary Award
Bohdan S. Kordan, No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (2016)

Ontario Historical Association 2017 J.J. Talman Award for best book on Ontario's social, economic, political or cultural history
Sarah Bassnett, Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City (2016)

Heritage Toronto’s 2017 Historical Writing: Book Award 
Sarah Bassnett, Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City (2016)

Canadian Communication Association 2017 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize
Nicole S. Cohen, Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (2016)

Canadian Economics Association Doug Purvis Memorial Award for 2016
Ed. David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell and France St-Hilaire, Income Inequality: The Canadian Story (2016)

Canadian Authors Association 2017 Fred Kerner Book Award
Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (2016)

Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Literary Awards 2017 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Peter Feldstein, The Pauper’s Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec (2017)

Choice: Association of College and Research Libraries 2017 Outstanding Academic Titles
Amitava Chowdhury and Donald Harman Akenson, eds., Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice (2016)
Louis Patrick Leroux and Charles R. Batson, eds., Cirque Global: Quebec's Expanding Circus Boundaries (2016)

Canada’s History Society 2017 Governor General’s History Award for Scholarly Research
Robert Sweeny, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?: Montreal, 1819-1849 (2015)

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2017 FINALISTS

The Atlantic Book Awards Society Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Kurt Korneski, Conflicted Colony (2016)

The League of Canadian Poets 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (2016)

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia 2017 J.M. Abraham Poetry Award
Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (2016)

Royal City Literary Arts Society 2017 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
Margo Wheaton, The Unlit Path Behind the House (2016)

Canadian Historical Association 2017 John A. Macdonald Prize
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

2017 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

2017 Haitian Studies Association Avant Garde Book Prize
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (2016)

2017 Prix du Canada en Sciences humaines et sociales
Amélie Bourbeau, Techniciens de l'organisation sociale: La réorganisation de l'assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974) (2015)

Nanovic Institute for European Studies 2017 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
Rotem Kowner, From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 (2014)

2017 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Kurt Korneski, Conflicted Colony: Critical Episodes in Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland and Labrador (2016)

The British Art Journal 2016 William MB Berger Prize for British Art History (Long List)
Joan Coutu, Then and Now: Collecting and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England (2015)

The Ukrainian-Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko 2018 Kobzar Literary Award
Bohdan S. Kordan, No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (2016)

Quebec Writers’ Federation’s Literary Awards 2017 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction
Elsbeth Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (2017)

The Canada Council for the Arts 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry
Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War (2017)

2016 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selected entry - Jackets and Covers category
Edward Carson (Author), David Drummond (Designer), Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), Knots (2016)
R.W. Sandwell (Editor), David Drummond (Designer), Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), Powering Up Canada: The History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (2016)
John Reibetanz (Author), David Drummond (Designer), Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), Where We Live (2016)
Jane M. Koustas (Author), Heng Wee Tan (Designer), Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), Robert Lepage on the Toronto Stage: Language, Identity, Nation (2016)

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2016 Winners

2016 QWF Concordia University First Book Prize
Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires (2016)

2016 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires (2016)

Canadian History of Education Association, 2016  English-Language Book Award
Anthony Di Mascio, The Idea of Popular Schooling in Upper Canada: Print Culture, Public Discourse, and the Demand for Education (2012)

Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française 2016 Prix Lionel Groulx
Mary Anne Poutanen, Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal (2015)

Canadian Association of Hispanists' 2016 Best Book Award
al mejor libro 2016 de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
Stephen Henighan, Sandino's Nation: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012 (2014)

Society for Economic Botany 2016 Mary W. Klinger Book Award
Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2014)

The Ontario Historical Society’s 2015 Donald Grant Creighton Award
Hugh Grant's W.A. Mackintosh: The Life of a Canadian Economist (2015)

Canadian Historical Association, 2016 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Robert Sweeny, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize?: Montreal, 1819-1849 (2015)

2016 Outstanding Scholarship Prize of the Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (2014)
Gada Mahrouse for
Conflicted Commitment: Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism

Canadian Historical Association 2016 Clio-Québec prize
Amélie Bourbeau for Techniciens de l'organisation sociale : la réorganisation de l’assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974) (2015)

Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize
Winfried Siemerling, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015)

Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (CSSR) 2016 Book Prize
Phyllis Airhart for A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (2013)

Geographical Society of Ireland 2013-2015 Book of the Year Award
William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916 (2013)

2016 Donner Prize for excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians 
Donald J. Savoie, What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer (2015)

2016 New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
Donald J. Savoie, What Is Government Good At?: A Canadian Answer (2015)

2016 Canada Prize in the Humanities
Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords (2014)

2016 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2014)

2016 Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine : nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (2015)

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2016 Finalists

Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal de 2016
Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires (2016)

The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada, Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize (2016)
Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (2014)

Prix littéraire Trillium 2016, en langue française
Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine : nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (2015)

Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize
Paul Huebener, Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture (2015)

2016 Pat Lowther Award
Sarah Tolmie, Trio (2015)

Canadian Historical Association, 2016 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine : nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (2015)

Canadian Historical Association, 2016 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Douglas McCalla, Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada (2015)

2016 Donner Prize for excellence and innovation in public policy writing by Canadians
Robert Lacroix and Louis Maheu, Leading Research Universities in a Competitive World (also with the French language version published by PUM)

2016 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selected entry - Jackets and Covers category
Jeffery Donaldson (Author), David Drummond (Designer), Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), Missing Link (2015)

Ilyana Karthas (Author), David Drummond (Designer) Elena Goranescu (Production Coordinator & Art Director), When Ballet Became French (2015)

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2015 Winners

Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize
Winfried Siemerling, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015)

Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française 2015 Prix Lionel Groulx
Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords (2014)

American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Prize
John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter, A World of Paper (2014)

ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award
Nancy J. Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014) 

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best in the World in Fundraising, North America
Tina Landsman Abbey, Gail Goldfarb Karp, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz (eds), The Smart Palate (2014)

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Health and Nutrition, Institutions
Tina Landsman Abbey, Gail Goldfarb Karp, and Dr. Joe Schwarcz (eds), The Smart Palate (2014) 

Ontario Historical Society Huguenot Society of Canada Award
Pearl Eliadis, Speaking Out on Human Rights (2014)

PROSE Award in the category of Archeology and Anthropology
Nancy J. Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Melva J. Dwyer Award
Ron Williams, Landscape Architecture in Canada (2014)

Society for French Historical Studies 2015 David H. Pinkney Prize
John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter, A World of Paper (2014)

The Society for Nautical Research 2015 Anderson Medal for Nautical Research
Susan Rose, England’s Medieval Navy, 1066-1509 (2014)

Pacific Bookworld News Society 2015 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq (2014)

Canadian Historical Association Clio Atlantic Prize
Gregory M. W. Kennedy, Something of a Peasant Paradise? (2014)

Canadian Political Science Association Donald Smiley Prize
Bruce Smardon, Asleep at the Switch (2014)

Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize
Bruce Gilbert, The Vitality of Contradiction (2013) 

Indexing Society of Canada Ewart-Daveluy Award for Excellence in Indexing
François Trahan, indexer for Nancy Turner's Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014)

ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award
Nancy J. Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014) 

OHS 2014 J.J. Talman Award
Christopher Armstrong, Making Toronto Modern (2014) 

OHS 2014 Huguenot Society of Canada Award
Pearl Eliadis, Speaking Out on Human Rights (2014)

Outstanding Scholarship Prize - Women's and Gender Studies Association
Heather Latimer, Reproductive Acts (2013)

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2015 Finalists

2015 Luther College and University of Regina Arts Award for Scholarly Writing
David McGrane, Remaining Loyal: Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan (2014)

Selected entry, 2015 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the category of Trade Illustrated
Christopher Armstrong (author), David LeBlanc (designer), Elena Goranescu (production coordinator), Jonathan Crago (acquiring editor), Ryan Van Huijstee (project editor) Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Design, 1895-1975 (2014)

Selected entry, 2015 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the category of Jackets and Covers
-Michael Saenger (editor), David Drummond (designer), Elena Goranescu (production coordinator & art director) Interlinguicity, Internationality, and Shakespeare (2014)
-Michael Penny (author), David Drummond (designer), Elena Goranescu (production coordinator & art director) Outside, Inside (2014)

Donner Prize
Derek H. Burney and Fen Osler Hampson, Brave New Canada (2014)

John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing/Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq (2014)

Canadian Historical Association John A. Macdonald Prize
Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec (2014)

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Canada Prize in the Humanities
Phyllis D. Airhart, A Church with the Soul of a Nation (2014)
Sandra Campbell, Both Hands (2013)
Stephen Henighan, Sandino's Nation (2014)

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Ron Williams, Landscape Architecture in Canada (2015)

Prix du livre politique 2015 - Prix de la présidence de l'Assemblée nationale
Harold Bérubé, Des sociétés distinctes (2014)
Maurice Demers, Connected Struggles (2014) 

The UBC Library 2015 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia
Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014)

The West Coast Book Prize Society 2015 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge (2014)

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Gregory M. W. Kennedy, Something of a Peasant Paradise? (2014) 

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2014 Winners

2014 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences Co-winner (American Conference for Irish Studies)
Willam Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion (2013)

Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas (2013)

Society for Nautical Research Anderson Medal
Susan Rose, England's Medieval Navy, 1066-1509 (2014)

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Canada Prize in the Humanities
Sandra Djwa, Journey With No Maps (2012)

Ontario Archaeological Society Award for Excellence in Publishing
Marit K. Munson and Susan M. Jamieson, Before Ontario (2013)

CSA John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award
James Kennedy, Liberal Nationalisms (2013)

OHS 2013 Fred Landon Award
John L. Riley, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country (2013)

OHS 2013 J.J. Talman Award
John Clarke, The Ordinary People of Essex (2011)

OHS 2013 Joseph Brant Award
William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion (2013)

CPSA Donald Smiley Prize 
G. Bruce Doern, Allan M. Maslove, and Michal J. Prince, Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises (2013)

Canadian Institute of Planners Excellence Merit Award for Planning Publications
Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola, and David Natcher, Reclaiming Indigenous Planning (2013)

Outstanding Scholarship Prize - Women's and Gender Studies Association
Elizabeth Podnieks, Mediating Moms (2012)

Gertrude J. Robinson - Canadian Communication Association
John Bonnett, Emergence and Empire (2013)

Canadian Historical Association Clio Atlantic Prize
Renée Lafferty, The Guardianship of Best Interests (2012)

Canadian Historical Association Clio Ontario Prize
William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion (2013)

Canadian Association of Foundations of Education (CAFE) 2014 Publication Award
R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar, How Schools Worked (2012)

Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Book Prize
Eldon Hay, The Covenanters in Canada (2012)

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2014 FINALISTS

Donner Prize
Miranda Campbell, Out of the Basement (2013)
Gregory Taylor, Shut Off (2013) 

National Business Book Award
Donald J. Savoie, Harrison McCain (2013)

Women's and Gender Studies Association (WGSRF)
Sharon Anne Cook, Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes (2012)

CHA John A. Macdonald Prize
Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists (2013)

CHA Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
Ian K. Steele, Setting All The Captives Free (2013)

J. W. Dafoe Prize
John L. Riley, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country (2013)

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Donald J. Savoie, Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? (2013)

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Melva J. Dwyer Award
François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas (2013)

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2013 WINNERS

Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps (2012)

2013 Canada Prize in the Humanities
François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas (2011)

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
P.B. Waite, In Search of R.B. Bennett (2012)

John Lyman Book Award in Canadian Naval and Maritime History
Nicholas Tracy,  A Two-Edged Sword (2012)

Rev. Dr. T. Melville Bailey History Prize
Eldon Hay, The Covenanters in Canada (2012)

Pierre Savard Award
Stephen J. Hornsby, Surveyors of Empire (2011)

Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in the Scholarship category
L. Ruth Klein,
Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses (2012) 

Doug Purvis Memorial Prize
Kathleen M. Day and Stanley L. Winer, Interregional Migration and Public Policy in Canada (2012) 

Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Book Prize
William Closson James, God's Plenty (2011)

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2013 Finalist

Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps (2012)

CPSA Prize in International Relations
Christopher Powell, Barbaric Civilization (2011)

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps (2012)

Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps (2012)

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2012 Winners

2012 American Political Science Association Seymour Martin Lipset Book Award
Janet Ajzenstat, The Canadian Founding (2007)

Le Prix du Canada 2012 en sciences sociales (français)
Michel Ducharme, Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838) (2010)

2012 Canadian Jewish Book Awards: Yiddish
Rebecca Margolis, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil (2011)

2012 Canadian Jewish Book Awards : Poetry
S. Weilbach, Singing from the Darktime (2011)

2012 Ontario Historical Society Alice Prentice Award
Maria Meindl, Outside the Box (2011)

2012 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award
Jack Lipinsky, Imposing Their Will (2011)

2012 Melva J. Dwyer Award
François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas (2011)

2012 Sir John A. MacDonald Book Prize
François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas (2011)

2012 CHA Canadian Political History Book Prize
David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2 (2011)

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2012 Finalists

2012 ReLit Poetry Awards
John Asfour, Blindfold (2011)

2012 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction
Ruth Phillips, Museum Pieces (2011)

2012 Alberta Literary Awards: Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Michael Penny, Particles (2011)

2012 Donald Smiley Book Prize
Gregory J. Inwood, Carolyn M. Johns and Patricia L. O'Reilly, Intergovernmental Policy Capacity in Canada (2011)

2012 CHA Canadian Aboriginal History Book Prize
Arthur Ray, Telling it to the Judge (2011)

2012 Sir John A. MacDonald Book Prize: Honorable Mention
Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton, Peopling the North American City (2011)

2012 CHA Canadian Political History Book Prize
David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2 (2011)

2012 CHA Canadian Political History Book Prize
Peter Neary, On to Civvy Street (2011)

2012 CHA Canadian Political History Book Prize
David Massell, Quebec Hydropolitics (2011)

2012 J.W Dafoe Prize
David A. Wilson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2 (2011)

2012 Canada Prize in the Humanities
Marylin McKay, Picturing the Land (2011)
Roderick and Sharon Stewart, Phoenix (2011)

2012 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Peter van Wyck, The Highway of the Atom (2011)

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2011 Winners

2011 Chalmers Award
Michelle Hamilton, Objections and Collections (2010)

2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation
Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (2010)

2011 Qualitative Book Award (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Co-winner
Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, Staging Strife (2010)

2011 ASPP Canada Prize for the Humanities
Louis-Jacques Dorais, The Language of the Inuit (2010)

2011 CHA Canadian Political History Book Prize
Ivana Caccia, Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime (2010)

2011 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Michel Ducharme, Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838) (pub 2010)

2011 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Peter Hoffmann, Behind the Valkyrie (2011)

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2011 Finalists

2011 Gabrielle Roy Prize
Brian Busby, A Gentleman of Pleasure (2011)

2011 Donner Prize
Ruth Phillips, Museum Pieces (2011)

2011 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
Carman Miller, A Knight in Politics (2010)

2011 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
Sean Mills, The Empire Within (2010)

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2010 Winners

2010 C.P Stacey Award for the Best Book in Canadian Military History
Miller, A Knight in Politics (2010)

2010-2011 Pierre Savard Award
Ian McKay and Robin Bates, In the Province of History (2010)

2010 Lorne Pierce Medal (Royal Society of Canada)
Sherrill Grace, Canada and the Idea of North (2002)

2010 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences for English Language book (ASPP)
David Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1 (2008)

2009-2010 Pierre Savard Prize (International Council for Canadian Studies)
Rosemary Chapman, Between Languages and Cultures (2009)

2010 F.X. Garneau Medal (Canadian Historical Association)
John Weaver, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (2003)

2010 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Louis-Jacques Dorais, The Language of the Inuit (2010)

2010 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self (2009)

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2009 Winners

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences (best English-language book in the Humanities; CFHSS-FCSH)
David Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1 (2008)

Gabrielle Roy Prize (Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures)
Reinhold Kramer, Mordecai Richler:  Leaving St Urbain (2008)

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2008 Winners

Chalmers Award (The Champlain Society)
Catharine Anne Wilson, Tenants in Time (2008)

Prix Michel-Brunet (Institut d'Histoire de l'Amerique Francaise)
Thierry Nootens, Fous, prodigues et ivrognes: familles et déviance à Montréal au XIXe siècle (2007)

John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Prize (Canadian Sociological Association)
Cecil Foster, Blackness and Modernity: The Colour of Humanity and the Quest for Freedom (2007)

Joseph Brant Award (Ontario Historical Society)
Elizabeth Jane Errington, Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (2007)

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2007 Winners

The Donner Prize (Donner Canadian Foundation)
Eric Helleiner, Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada’s Exchange Rate Regime (2006)

The Donald Smiley Prize (Canadian Political Science Association)
Garth Stevenson, Parallel Paths: The Development of Nationalism in Ireland and Quebec (2006)

Gabrielle Roy Prize for English-language Criticism (Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures)
Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City, (2006)

National Jewish Book Award – Best Book in Education and Jewish Identity (Jewish Book Council)
Faydra Shapiro, Building Jewish Roots: The Israel Experience (2006)

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2006 Winners                             

Jason A. Hannah Medal (Royal Society of Canada)
James Opp, The Lord for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Protestant Faith Healing in Canada, 1880-1930 (2005)

Canada Prize in the Humanities (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Stephen J.A. Ward, The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2005)

Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (Canadian Historical Association)
Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 (2005)

National Business Book Award (PriceWaterhouseCoopers Canada)
Matthew Bellamy, Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990 (2005)

CHEA Founders’ Prize (Canadian History of Education Association)
Catherine Gidney, The Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University, 1920-1970 (2003)

Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (Quebec Writers’ Federation Book Awards)
Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City (2006)

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