2017 Canada Prizes Finalists Announced

The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences has announced the finalists for the 2017 Canada Prizes. The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP).

We are pleased to announce that three of our books were selected as finalists, two under the English language titles and one under the French language titles.

Congratulations to the following MQUP authors for this wonderful achievement: Sean Mills, Arthur J. Ray, and Amélie Bourbeau.

A Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec

By Sean Mills

Finalist:  Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A richly drawn portrait of Haiti in Quebec, of Quebec through Haiti, and the ways in which migrants transform societies. 

Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History

By Arthur J. Ray

Finalist:  Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

How research into Indigenous rights claims is influenced by, and in turn changes, Indigenous law and claims legislation.

Forums such as commissions, courtroom trials, and tribunals that have been established through the second half of the twentieth century to address aboriginal land claims have consequently created a particular way of presenting aboriginal, colonial, and national histories. The history that emerges from these land-claims processes is often criticized for being “presentist” – inaccurately interpreting historical actions and actors through the lens of present-day values, practices, and concerns. Read more>

Techniciens de l’organisation sociale
La réorganisation de l’assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974)

By Amélie Bourbeau

Finalist: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

How experts, businessmen, and volunteers reorganized Catholic charities in twentieth-century Quebec.

Très tôt pendant la grande dépression, des hommes d’affaires de Montréal ont présidé à la restructuration et à la rationalisation des œuvres de charité catholiques anglophones et francophones de la ville, avec la bénédiction de l’Église, mais sans sa participation active. Ainsi a débuté une longue période de transition des œuvres de charité privées vers l’assistance sociale, du travail essentiellement bénévole vers le travail social professionnel et des activités caritatives tributaires de l’aumône vers l’assistance privée financée par de vastes campagnes centralisées. Read more>

We would also like to congratulate all of the other finalists: Emilie Cameron, Gerhard J. Ens and Joseph Sawchuk, Donald Wright, Mylène Bédard, Marie-France Labrecque, Guillaume Pinson, and Ania Wroblewski.

The two winners of the 2017 Canada Prizes will be announced on April 10 and will be presented at an awards ceremony to be held during the 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Ryerson University.