Canada Prizes

The Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales, each worth $10,000, are awarded annually to the best scholarly books that have received funding from the Scholarly Book Awards (ASPP).

About the Prizes
Frequently Asked Questions
2020 winners
Past winners

About the Prizes 

The Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales, each worth $10,000, are awarded annually to the best scholarly books that have received funding from the Scholarly Book Awards (ASPP).

Established in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Scholarly Book Awards and to celebrate the best Canadian scholarly books – not simply within a single academic discipline, but across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences – the Canada Prizes are truly unique. The winners and finalists of the prizes provoke and inform national conversations on important topics and draw attention to the important contribution of scholarship to Canadian society. 

The program is currently on hold.

The Federation completed a full review of the prizes in 2021, and will introduce changes to address anti-Black racism, support reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, and more fully imbed the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization in the near future.

Selection process

Eligible books are nominated by their publishers. Two independent juries, one Anglophone and one Francophone, assess the nominated books before selecting finalists and winners. Juries are composed of four members, typically including past winners and finalists and other respected scholars and academic leaders from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. 

The Federation strives to achieve gender equity and balance among regions and institutions, to support diversity and, whenever possible, to ensure participation of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized scholars.

Frequently Asked Questions

All eligible books have received funding from the Federation’s Scholarly Book Awards (ASPP), which provides financial support for the publication and translation of books of advanced scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

Every year, two prizes are awarded: Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences (English), and Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales (French).

Eligible books are first nominated by their publishers. Then, two independent juries, one Anglophone and one Francophone, each assess the nominated books before selecting finalists and winners.

Juries are composed of four members, typically including past winners and finalists and other respected scholars and academic leaders from disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. The Federation strives to achieve gender equity and balance among regions and institutions, to support diversity and, whenever possible, to ensure participation of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized scholars.

A complete list of past winners is available here.

The winner was Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Guillaume Marcotte, Les Bois-Brûlés de l'Outaouais - Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau  (Presses de l’Université Laval). It was selected by an independent jury of prominent Francophone scholars.

While noting the book’s controversial subject matter, the jury called it “a thorough investigation” and said its findings were “extremely enlightening.” According to the Jury:

The study of the Métis of western Quebec by authors Bouchard, Malette and Marcotte is an extremely thorough investigation into a little-known “Métis identity phenomenon.” It relates the untold story of the Bois-Brûlés of the Gatineau Valley who have ties of kinship with the Red River and Great Lakes Métis (whose history is known), sharing the same lifestyle and culture, a similar sense of belonging and a common awareness of identity. The authors acknowledge that the subject is controversial, but the findings of their ethnohistorical investigation are extremely enlightening with respect to several distinctive aspects of this community: a syncretic culture that combines elements borrowed from Indigenous and European cultures; an intergenerationally fluid identity; and transmission of a cultural identity that is unconnected to a notion of ethnic “purity,” based on a specific social structure (associated with the fur trade) and land occupancy (hunting practices), kinship ties, political demands, and noted clusters (around missions or in response to stated borders).

The authors' analysis of the documentary sources was painstaking. Their conceptual framework is carefully defined, and each stage is based on a transparent methodology. The challenge was a sizable one: reconstructing the full presence of a historical community in the Maniwaki area whose invisible existence could only be traced by cross-referencing some often stigmatizing statements, reports from a variety of sources, correspondence, frequently exclusionary policies, spoken memories and genealogical research. An exemplary and meticulous work.

Another reviewer said: “There have been sharp debates about Métis identity in many parts of Canada. Bois-Brûlés enters this field through its strong scholarly commitment to archival and ethnographic evidence. It adds further nuance and subtlety to these debates and sheds significant light on a contested field.” (John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law, University of Victoria Law School. Source: www.ubcpress.ca/bois-brules).

Following the jury’s decision, we have spoken with scholars who have deep concerns and criticisms with this book, including Métis scholars. We have gained a much greater appreciation of the concerns about Indigenous self-identification, and we commit to learning more about them and to making sure that the views of Indigenous peoples are effectively represented in all our activities going forward, including the Canada Prizes. We welcome opportunities to better understand and discuss those perspectives.

No, it does not. The prize winner was selected by an independent jury of Francophone scholars, and the views expressed by the authors are their own.

2020 winners

Winner: Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press)

Winner: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

  • Michel Bouchard, Guillaume Marcotte, and Sébastien Malette, Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais: une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau (Presses de l’Université Laval)

Finalists: Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Edward Anthony Koning, Immigration & the Politics of Welfare Exclusion: Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies (U of T Press)
  •  Kent McNeil, Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (UBC Press)
  •  Raymond B. Blake & Melvin Baker, Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Confederation (U of Regina Press)
  • Andrea Katherine Medovarski, Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing (U of T Press)

Finalists: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

  • Vincent Charles Lambert and Karine Cellard, Espaces critiques: écrire sur la littérature et les autres arts au Québec (1920-1960) (Presses de l’Université Laval)
  •  Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte, Des mines littéraires: l’imaginaire minier dans les littératures de l’Abitibi et du Nord de l’Ontario, (Éditions Prise de parole)
  •  Dave Noël, Montcalm, général américain (Éditions du Boréal)
  •  Thierry Nootens, Genre, patrimoine et droit civil: les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise en procès, 1900-1930 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

 

Past winners

 

2019

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Winner: Allan Downey, The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood (UBC Press)

Finalists:
Constance B. Backhouse, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life (UBC Press)
Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal System (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Allan Downey, The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood (UBC Press)
Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Shirley Tillotson, Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy (UBC Press)

Jury: Eric Helleiner (Chair), Sherrill Grace, Elsbeth Heaman, Blair Stonechild.

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

Winner: Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le Piège de la liberté. Les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux (Les éditions du Boréal)

Finalists: 
Pierre Anctil, Histoire des Juifs du Québec (Les éditions du Boréal)
Denys Delâge et Jean-Philippe Warren, Le Piège de la liberté. Les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux (Les éditions du Boréal)
Sophie Dubois, Refus global. Histoire d'une réception partielle (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Anne Gilbert, Linda Cardinal, Michel Bock, Lucie Hotte et François Charbonneau, Ottawa, lieu de vie français (Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Adrien Rannaud, De l'amour et de l'audace. Femmes et roman au Québec dans les années 1930 (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Jury: Lucie Lamarche (Chair), Dominique Caouette, Caroline Desbiens and Alex Gagnon 

Related content

Blogs: Downey | Delâge et Warren
Videos: Downey Delâge et Warren

2018

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Winner: E.A. Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Finalists:
Christopher Dummitt, Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Cheryl Suzack, Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (University of Toronto Press)
Donald G. Wetherell, Wildlife, Land, and People: A Century of Change in Prairie Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Jury : Patricia Demers (Chair), Eric Helleiner, Arthur J. Ray, Nancy Turner

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

Winner: Alex Gagnon, La communauté du dehors. Imaginaire social et crimes célèbres au Québec (XIXe-XXe siècle) (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Finalists:
Houda Asal, Se dire arabe au Canada. Un siècle d'histoire migratoire (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Julien Goyette, Temps et culture. Fernand Dumont et la philosophie de l'histoire (Les Presses de l’Université Laval)
Lucie Hotte et François Paré, Les littératures franco-canadiennes à l’épreuve du temps (Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Laurent Poliquin, De l’impuissance à l’autonomie. Évolution culturelle et enjeux identitaires des minorités canadiennes-françaises (Éditions Prise de parole)

Jury: Pierre Anctil (Chair), Hélène Cazes, Lucie Lamarche, Gordon Mace

Related content

Blogs: Heaman | Gagnon 
Photos: Awards Ceremony
Videos: Awards Ceremony | Heaman | Gagnon

2017

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Winner: Arthur J. Ray, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Finalists:
Emilie Cameron, Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic (University of British Columbia Press)
Gerhard J. Ens and Joseph Sawchuk, From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries (University of Toronto Press)
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Donald Wright, Donald Creighton: A Life in History (University of Toronto Press)

Jury: David E. Smith (Chair), Patricia Demers, Kathleen E. Mahoney, Brian Young

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

Winner: Mylène Bédard, Écrire en temps d'insurrections : Pratiques épistolaires et usages de la presse chez les femmes patriotes (1830-1840) (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Finalists:
Amélie Bourbeau, Techniciens de l'organisation sociale. La réorganisation de l'assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974) (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Marie-France Labrecque, La migration saisonnière des Mayas du Yucatan au Canada. La dialectique de la mobilité (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Guillaume Pinson, La culture médiatique francophone en Europe et en Amérique du Nord : De 1760 à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Ania Wroblewski, La vie des autres : Sophie Calle et Annie Ernaux, artistes hors-la-loi (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Jury: Pierre Anctil (Chair), Caroline Caron, Ryoa Chung, Frédérick Guillaume Dufour

Related content

Blogs: Ray | Bédard
Photos: Awards Ceremony
Videos: Ray | Bédard

2016 - 25th Anniversary

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winner: Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Finalists:
Jennifer L. Bonnell, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press)
Norman Hillmer, O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition (University of Toronto Press)
Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of Regina Press)
Ian Mosby, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada's Home Front (UBC Press)

Jury: Bronwyn Drainie, Stephen Henighan, Ronald Rudin

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine : Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Finalists:
Andrée Rivard, Histoire de l'accouchement dans un Québec moderne (Éditions du remue-ménage)
Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan : Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime (Éditions du Boréal)

Jury: Yves Frenette, Yan Hamel, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winner: Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Finalists:
Chris Andersen, Métis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (UBC Press)
Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953-84 (UBC Press)
Girish Daswani, Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost (University of Toronto Press)

Jury: Michael Asch, Joseph Heath, Linda Kealey

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Caroline Caron, Vues, mais non entendues. Les adolescentes québécoises et l'hypersexualisation (Presses de l’Université Laval)

Finalists:
Joel Belliveau, Le «moment 68» et la réinvention de l'Acadie (Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Olivier Côté, Construire la nation au petit écran : Le Canada, une histoire populaire de CBC/Radio Canada (1995-2002) (Éditions du Septentrion)
Linda Kay, Elles étaient seize : Les premières femmes journalistes au Canada (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Jury: Daniel Béland, Steven Guilbeault, Dominique Perron

Related content

Blogs: Caron | Durand | TurnerYoung

Photos: Awards Ceremony

2015

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winner: Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in, Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas (UBC Press)

Finalists:
Phyllis D. Airhart, A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (McGill- Queen's University Press)
Gene Allen, Making National News: A History of Canadian Press (University of Toronto Press)
Sandra Campbell, Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Stephen Henighan, Sandino's Nation: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramirez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Jury: Margaret Conrad, Sandra Dwja, Jane Koustas

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Yan Hamel, L'Amérique selon Sartre : littérature, philosophie, politique (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

Finalists:
Stéphane Savard, Hydro-Québec et l'État Québécois, 1944-2005 (Éditions du Septentrion)
Sherry Simon, Villes en traduction. Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelone et Montréal (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

Jury: Pierre Anctil, Jocelyn Maclure, Catherine Mavrikakis

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winner: Michael Asch, On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (University of Toronto Press)

Finalists:
Caroline Desbiens, Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec (UBC Press)
Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice (University of Toronto Press)
Elizabeth Sheehy, Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts (UBC Press)
Ron Williams, Landscape Architecture in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Jury: Pat Armstrong, Robert Bothwell, David E. Smith

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Dominique Perron, L’Alberta autophage : identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l’Ouest canadien (University of Calgary Press)

Finalists:
Frédérick Bastien, Tout le monde en regarde! La politique, le journalisme et l'infodivertissement à la télévision québécoise (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Jean-Pierre Deslauriers, Les groupes communautaires : vers un changement de paradigme? (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Géraldine Mossière, Converties à l'islam : Parcours de femmes au Québec et en France (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

Jury: Gérard Bouchard, Fannie Lafontaine, Hugues Théroêt

Related content

Videos: Asch Hamel | Perron Townsend-Gault and Kramer | Ceremony

Photos: Awards Ceremony

Blogs: Asch | Hamel | Perron Townsend-Gault et al.

2014

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winner: Sandra Djwa, Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Finalists:
Dimitry Anastakis, Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade (University of Toronto Press)
Bruce Curtis, Ruling by Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology (University of Toronto Press)
Patrick Grant, Imperfection (Athabasca University Press)
Kirsty Johnston, Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Jury: François-Marc Gagnon, Linda Hutcheon, Andrew Rippin

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal, 1896-1954 : Un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu (Presses de l'Université Laval)

Finalists:
Martine Béland, Kulturkritik et philosophie thérapeutique chez le jeune Nietzsche (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Marie-Josée Fortier, Les jardins d'agrément en Nouvelle-France : Étude historique et cartographique (Éditions GID)

Jury: Lise Bissonnette, Thomas De Koninck, Michel Nareau

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winner: David E. Smith, Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics (University of Toronto Press)

Finalists:
Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (University of Calgary Press)
Rowland Lorimer, Ultra Libris: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada (ECW Press)

Jury: Michael Adams, Gregory Kealey, Janice Gross Stein

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Hugues Théorêt, Les chemises bleues : Adrien Arcand, journaliste antisémite canadien-français (Éditions du Septentrion)

Finalists:
Suzanne Laurin, L'échiquier de Mirabel (Éditions du Boréal)
Marie-Claude Thifault, L'incontournable caste des femmes : Histoire des services de santé au Québec et au Canada (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)

Jury: Renée Dupuis, Xavier Gélinas, Nicolas Vonarx

Related content

Audio: Interviews

Photos: Awards Ceremony | Finalists’ Reception

Blogs: Anctil | Djwa | Smith | Théorêt | Ceremony Keynote

2013

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winners: François-Marc Gagnon, Réal Ouellet, and Nancy Senior, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Finalists:
Elena Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (University of Toronto Press)
Sophie McCall, First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (UBC Press)
David A. Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Jury: Natalie Zemon Davis, Susan R. Fisher, Noreen Golfman

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Michel Nareau, Double jeu : Baseball et littératures américaines (Le Quartanier)

Finalists:
Susan Margaret Murphy, Le Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970) : formes, fonctions et représentations (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Sylvain Schryburt, De l'acteur vedette au théâtre de festival : Histoire des pratiques scéniques montréalaises, 1940-1980 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Jury: Jocelyn Letourneau, Louise Vigneault, Daniel Weinstock

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winners: Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby, Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America (University of Toronto Press)

Finalists:
Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press)
Tarah Brookfield, Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Bonita Lawrence, Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario (UBC Press)

Jury: Charlotte Gray, Mark Kingwell, Veronica Strong-Boag

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Nicolas Vonarx, Le Vodou haïtien : Entre médecine, magie et religion (Presses de l’Université Laval)

Finalists:
Chantal Bouchard, Méchante langue : La légitimité linguistique du français parlé au Québec (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Mario Mimeault, Destins de pêcheurs : Les Basques en Nouvelle-France (Éditions du Septentrion)

Jury: Denise Bombardier, Nathalie Des Rosiers, Michel Ducharme

Related content

Videos: Gagnon | Nareau | Whitaker and Parnaby | Vonarx

Blogs: Gagnon et al. | Nareau | Whitaker et al. | Vonarx

2012

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winner: Susan R. Fisher, Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War (University of Toronto Press)

Finalists:
Carole Gerson, Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Marylin J. McKay, Picturing Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Stewart Roderick and Sharon Stewart, Pheonix: The Life of Norman Bethune (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Tony Tremblay, David Adams Richards of the Miramichi (University of Toronto Press)

Jury: Di Brandt, Robert Davidson, Tobias Gittes, Shelagh Grant, Gene Walz, David Williams

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Louise Vigneault, Espace artistique et modèle pionnier. Tom Thomson et Jean-Paul Riopelle (Éditions Hurtubise)

Finalists:
Marc André Brouillette, Spatialité textuelle dans la poésie contemporaine (Éditions Nota bene)
Karine Cellard, Leçons de littérature : Un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Denis Saint-Jacques et Lucie Robert, La vie littéraire au Québec, tome VI (1919-1933) (Presses de l’Université Laval)

Jury: Pascale Fleury, François-Marc Gagnon

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winner: Veronica Strong-Boag, Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)

Finalists:
Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (University of Toronto Press)
Timothy B. Leduc, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North (University of Ottawa Press)
Paulette Regan, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth-telling and Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press)
Peter C. Van Wyck, The Highway of the atom (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Jury: Lyle Dick, Stephen Duguid, Rebecca Johnson, John Lutz, Meg Luxton

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Michel Ducharme, Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques, 1776-1838 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Finalists:
Agnès Blais, Une ONG en Rusie post-soviétique (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Donald Fyson, Magistrats, police et société : la justice criminelle ordinaire au Québec et au Bas-Canada (1764-1837) (Éditions Hurtubise)
Simon Jolivet, Le vert et le bleu. Identité québécoise et identité irlandaise au tournant du XXe siècle (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Jury: Marie-Aimée Cliche, Michel Despland, Marion Froger

Related content

Videos and blogs: Ducharme | Fisher | Strong-Boag | Vigneault

2011

Canada Prize in Humanities

Winner: Louis-Jacques Dorais, The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Finalists:
Di Brandt and Barbara Godard, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Robert A. Davidson, Jazz Age Barcelona (University of Toronto Press)
Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing (University of Toronto Press)
Stephen Guy-Bray, Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From (University of Toronto Press)

Jury: R. Bruce Elder, Madeline Hron, Marylin MacKay, Anna Smol

Prix du Canada en sciences humaines

Winner: Antoine Boisclair, L'École du regard. Poésie et peinture chez Saint-Denys Garneau, Roland Giguère et Robert Melançon (Éditions Fides)

Finalists:
Michel Despland, Le recul du sacrifice (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Sandrina Joseph, Objects de mépris, sujets de langage (Éditions XYZ)
Christian Leduc, Substance, individu et connaissance chez Leibniz (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Jury: Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, François Dumont, Margot Irvine, Marilyn Randall

Canada Prize in the Social Sciences

Winner: Joy Parr, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (UBC Press)

Finalists:
John Borrows, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (University of Toronto Press)
Alan Gordon, The Hero and the Historians: Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier (UBC Press)
Bryan D. Palmer, Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era (University of Toronto Press)
Phil Ryan, Multicultiphobia (University of Toronto Press)

Jury: Sharon Cook, Joanne Fiske, Reinhold Kramer, James Rice, David A. Wilson

Prix du Canada en sciences sociales

Winner: Marion Froger, Le cinéma à l'épreuve de la communauté. Le cinéma francophone de l'Office national du film, 1960-1985 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Finalists:
Emma Anderson, La trahison de la foi (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Peter C. Bischoff, Les débardeurs au port de Québec : tableau des luttes syndicales, 1831-1902 (Éditions Hurtubise)
Lucie Joubert, Écouter la chanson (Éditions Fides)

Jury: Bernard Bernier, Manon Tremblay, Anne Trépanier

1991-2010

Before 2011, the Canada Prizes were known as the Raymond Klibansky Prize, for the best English book in the humanities; the Prix Raymond-Klibansky, for the best French book in the humanities; the Harold Adams Innis Prize, for the best English book in the social sciences; and the Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau, for the best French book in the social sciences. The prizes were awarded annually in the year following the prize period (i.e. the 2008-2009 prizes were awarded in 2010).

2008-2009

Raymond Klibansky Prize: David A. Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume I Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Pierre Popovic, Imaginaire social et folie littéraire. Le seconde Empire de Paulin Gagne (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: John Lutz, Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations (UBC Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Michel Seymour, De la tolérance à la reconnaissance : une théorie libérale des droits collectifs (Éditions du Boréal)

2007-2008

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Leslie Dawn, National Visions, National Blindness : Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s (UBC Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Denise Brassard, Le souffle du passage : Poésie et essais chez Fernand Ouellette (VLB éditeur)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (UBC Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Claude Gélinas, Les autochtones dans le Québec post-confédéral, 1867-1960 (Éditions du Septentrion)

2006-2007

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Daniel Coleman, White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Élyse Dupras, Diables et saints. Rôle des diables dans les mystères hagiographiques français (Librairie DROZ)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: José Igartua, The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71 (UBC Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Marie-Aimée Cliche, Maltraiter ou punir? La violence envers les enfants dans les familles québécoises, 1850-1969 (Éditions du Boréal)

2005-2006

Raymond Klibansky Prize: James Flath, The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China (UBC Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Éric Méchoulan, Le livre avalé. De la littérature entre mémoire et culture (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Stephen Ward, The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Denyse Baillargeon, Un Québec en mal d’enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970 (Éditions remue-ménage)

2004-2005

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Peter Ives, Gramsci’s Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Michel Lacroix, De la beauté comme violence. L’esthétique du fascisme français, 1919-1939 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Heather Devine, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900 (University of Calgary Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Bibeau, Le Québec transgénique. Science, marché, humanité (Éditions du Boréal)

2003-2004

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Louise Bienvenue, Quand la jeunesse entre en scène. L'Action catholique avant la Révolution tranquille (Éditions du Boréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Rebecca Johnson, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (UBC Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Havard, Empire et métissages. Indiens et Français dans le Pays d'en Haut, 1660-1715 (Éditions du Septentrion)

2002-2003

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Toby Morantz, The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenges to the Crees in Quebec (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lori Saint-Martin, La Voyageuse et la Prisonnière. Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes (Éditions du Boréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Lyle Dick, Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (University of Calgary Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Yves Théorêt, Le fédéralisme et les communications. Les relations intergouvernementales au Canada de 1984 à 1993 (Éditions Hurtubise)

2001-2002

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Marilyn Randall, Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Germain Lacasse, Le bonimenteur de vues animées: Le cinéma " muet " entre tradition et modernité (Éditions Nota bene)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gervais Carpin, Le Réseau du Canada. Étude du monde migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662) (Éditions du Septentrion)

2000-2001

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson, Paddling her Own Canoe: Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Yvan Lamonde, Histoire sociale des idées au Québec (1760 - 1896) (Éditions Fides)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Stephen Duguid, Can Prisons Work? The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Daniel Dagenais, La fin de la famille moderne. Signification des transformations contemporaines de la famille (Presses de l'Université Laval)

1999-2000

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Donald S. Hair, Robert Browning's Language (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Esther Trépanier, Peinture et modernité au Québec 1919-1939 (Éditions Nota Bene)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Michael Ornstein and Michael Stevenson, Politics and ideology in Canada: Elite and Public Opinion in the Transformation of a Welfare State (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Bernard Allaire, Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor. Les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris, 1500-1632 (Éditions du Septentrion)

1998-1999

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Susan Glickman, The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois, 1941-1954 (Lanctôt éditeur)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Linda Freeman, The Ambiguous Champion: Canada and South Africa in the Trudeau and Mulroney Years (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Dominique Marshall, Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

1997-1998

Raymond Klibansky Prize: David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Marcel Olscamp, Le Fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron, 1921-1949 (Éditions Fides)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: A.A. den Otter, The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Michel Morin, L'Usurpation de la souveraineté autochtone. Le cas des peuples de la Nouvelle-France et des colonies anglaises de l'Amérique du Nord (Éditions du Boréal)

1996-1997

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Lorne Falkenstein, Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Benoît Melançon, Diderot épistolier. Contribution à une poétique de la lettre familière au XVIIIe siècle (Éditions Fides)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Pierre Camu, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la voile, 1608-1850 (Éditions Hurtubise)

1995-1996

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Guy P. R. Métraux, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Claude Lamy, Hubert Aquin. Mélanges littéraires I: Profession: écrivain; Jacinthe Martel, Hubert Aquin. Mélanges littéraires II: Comprendre dangereusement; Jacques Allard, Hubert Aquin. Prochain épisode; Guylaine Massoutre, Hubert Aquin. Point de fuite (Leméac Éditeur)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Joan Sangster, Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960 (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: René Hardy, La sidérurgie dans le monde rural. Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe siècle (Presses de l'Université Laval)

1994-1995

Raymond Klibansky Prize: J.D. Schmidt, Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905 (Cambridge University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Michel Biron, La modernité belge. Littérature et société (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Wallace Clement and John Myles, Relations of Ruling: Class and Gender in Postindustrial Societies (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Bibeau et Marc Perreault, Dérives montréalaises. À travers des itinéraires de toxicomanies dans le quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (Éditions du Boréal)

1993-1994

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Evelyn Cobley, Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lucie Bourassa, Rythme et sens. Des processus rythmiques en poésie contemporaine (Presses de l'Université Laval); Philip Knee, Qui perd gagne. Essai sur Sartre (Éditions Balzac)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Bettina Bradbury, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Le Rang d'habitat. Le réel et l'imaginaire (Éditions Hurtubise)

1992-1993

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Barbara Rieti, Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland (ISER Books)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Serge Cantin, Le Philosophe et le déni du politique. Marx, Henry, Platon (Presses de l'Université Laval)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry E. Brady, Jean Crête, Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Yves Landry, Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle. Suivi d'un Répertoire biographique des Filles du roi (Leméac Éditeur)

1991-1992

Raymond Klibansky Prize: James A. Leith, Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares, and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Maurice Lemire, et. al., La vie littéraire au Québec, vol. 1, 1764-1805 (Presses de l'Université Laval)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (University of Toronto Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: André Cellard, Histoire de la folie au Québec, 1600-1850 (Éditions du Boréal)

1990-1991

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Pierre Berthiaume, L'Aventure américaine au XVIIIe siècle. Du voyage à l'écriture (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: Philip Resnick, The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Serge Courville, Entre ville et campagne. L'essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada (Presses de l'Université Laval)

1989-1990

Raymond Klibansky Prize: Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lucie Robert, L'institution du littéraire au Québec (Presses de l'Université Laval)

Harold Adams Innis Prize: William E. Conklin, Images of a Constitution (University of Toronto Press); Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (McGill-Queen's University Press)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Jean-Paul Lafrance, Le Câble ou l'univers médiatique en mutation (Éditions Québec-Amérique)

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