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Shelley Wright is the recipient of this year’s George Ryga Award for Social Awareness.
The award will be presented June 11, 2015, at the Vancouver Public Library. This event is open to the public.
From the BC Bookworld website:
Formerly Okanagan-based and hosted by Okanagan College and George Ryga House in Summerland, one of the province’s foremost literary awards … Read More >
On April 9th, Sarah Tolmie presented the Trio Prize to Erica de la Cruz, a 2013 piano graduate from the University of Waterloo.
The Trio Prize of $500 was a composition prize offered to music students and recent graduates at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, to set 7-10 sonnets from Read More >
We are delighted to announce that A World of Paper, by Ben S. Trotter and the late John C. Rule, has won the 2015 David H. Pinkney Prize!
The David Pinkney Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book on French history published by a North American scholar.
The prize was … Read More >
The 2014/2015 Donner Prize shortlist was announced earlier today.
We’re pleased to announce that Brave New Canada, by Derek H. Burney and Fen Osler Hampson, is in the running for this year’s prestigious prize. Congratulations to Derek and Fen!
In Brave New Canada, Burney and Hampson identify the key trends that are reshaping the world’s … Read More >
Shelley Wright’s Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq is one of five books shortlisted for the 2015 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.
This prestigious prize is given annually by the J. W. Dafoe Foundation of Winnipeg to a non-fiction work that contributes to the understanding of Canada and its place in the world. The award commemorates long-time … Read More >
Today was the big announcement for the 2015 Canada Prize finalists by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
We are delighted and proud to announce that the following authors are shortlisted! CONGRATULATIONS to Phyllis D. Airhart, Stephen Henighan, Sandra Campbell, and Ron Williams on these wonderful achievements.
SANDINO’S NATION: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012
By Stephen Henighan
Shortlisted for … Read More >
Congratulations to Brian Young, a finalist for this year’s Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald Prize.
Young is shortlisted for his book, PATRICIAN FAMILIES AND THE MAKING OF QUEBEC: The Taschereaus and McCords, an analysis of two elite families in the shaping of English and French Quebec.
The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize is … Read More >
Exciting news! The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) announced the winners of its annual Awards of Excellence this week.
Ron Williams’ Landscape Architecture in Canada / Architecture de paysage du Canada is one of 10 projects to receive this prestigious award!
Of the 10 projects – “pre-eminent examples in Canadian landscape architecture, honouring distinctive design, ground-breaking research … Read More >
A huge congratulations goes out to David C. Woodman, author of Unravelling the Franklin Mystery, who is one of 220 recipients of the Erebus Medal.
This special and well-deserved honour, announced this week by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, commemorates and recognizes those who contributed to the find of one of the lost ships of the British … Read More >
UBC has announced the 2015 UBC Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize shortlist…
We’re proud to announce that Nancy Turner’s ANCIENT PATHWAYS, ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE is a finalist! Congratulations, Nancy!
From the UBC Library website:
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia was established in memory of Read More >