Recent News

(PCUH) – The 24th Annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were held April 29, 2017 at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. The awards celebrate excellence in writing and publishing. Prof. Bohdan Kordan’s No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience was shortlisted and then selected as the recipient of the Jennifer … Read More >

We are delighted to announce that Arthur J. Ray’s Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History has won the 2017 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Science!

From the jury’s citation: “Arthur J. Ray’s masterful study is based on three decades of experience in academic research and in courtrooms … Read More >

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 … Read More >

Congratulations to Howard Shubert! His new book Architecture on Ice: A History of the Hockey Arena has won the Melva J. Dwyer Award. The Dwyer Award is given to the creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture. The jury selected Architecture on Ice from a field of 12 nominees as … Read More >

We are pleased to announce that four MQUP titles were selected for the 2017 AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Design Show!

Congratulations to our Production team and cover designers, Heng Wee Tan and David Drummond, on this well-deserved accomplishment!

Selected entries will premiere at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Austin, June 11-13, 2017 (more info). Congratulations to our fellow university … Read More >

Congratulations to Mary Anne Poutanen for winning the Prix Lionel-Groulx 2016 for her book Beyond Brutal Passions: Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal. Awarded by the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française, the prize recognizes the best scholarly book on the history of French America. Mary Anne joins MQUP author Brian Young, whose book Patrician Families and the … Read More >

It has been a busy past few months on the awards scene for MQUP. Here’s a little round-up of some of the more recent prizes awarded to our authors. CONGRATULATIONS to all the authors, from all of us at MQUP!

2016 Outstanding Scholarship Prize
Award by the Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes association

WINNER:
Gada … Read More >

Congratulations to Stephen Henighan on being awarded the Canadian Association of Hispanists’ Award for best book published between 2013-2016! The award was given in recognition of Stephen Henighan’s exemplary work on Sandino’s Nation.

Sandino’s Nation
Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
By Stephen Henighan

How two of Latin America’s greatest writers dramatized … Read More >

MQUP had a great time at the 2016 Canada Prizes ceremony. Winning three prizes in itself made for a wonderful evening, however the highlight for us were the excellent speeches given by our three winning authors, Brian Young, Nancy Turner and Caroline Durand. We were able to obtain a copy of Caroline Durand’s speech and have shared it below (in … Read More >

Congratulations to Hugh Grant on being awarded the Ontario Historical Society‘s 2015 Donald Grant Creighton Award for W.A. Mackintosh: The Life of a Canadian Economist. The Creighton Award recognizes the best book of biography or autobiography highlighting life in Ontario, past or present, published in the past three years.

At the award ceremony, from left, … Read More >