2019 Recipient of the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research

Four other academics were shortlisted for the Scholarly Research prize (in alphabetical order):

• Denys Delâge et Jean-Philippe Warren, Le Piège de la Liberté: Les Peuples autochtones dals l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux. Boréal, 2017.
• Valérie LaPointe-Gagnon, Panser le Canada: Une histoire intellectuelle de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton. Boréal, 2018.
• Jean-François Lozier, Flesh Reborn: The St Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.
• Joshua MacFadyen. Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.

The CHA announced the winner of its other major annual prize. Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876–1903 by Aidan Forth won the Ferguson Prize for outstanding scholarly work in a field of history outside of Canadian history.

Numerous other awards were also handed out at the CHA ceremony, including:

Canadian Committee on Labor History

Best Article Prize

Winner: Robert Tremblay, « La grève générale des charpentiers-menuisiers de Montréal, 1833–1834: réévaluation d’un acte fondateur autour du concept de légitimité » Labour / Le Travail, volume 81, Spring 2018.

Eugene A. Forsey Prize For Graduate Student Dissertation Prize

Winner: Sean Antaya, “Struggling for a New Left: The New Tendency, Autonomist Marxism, and Rank-and-File Organizing in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s” MA Thesis, Trent University, 2018.

Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize

Winner: Laurie K. Bertram, “‘Eskimo’ Immigrants and Colonial Soldiers: Icelandic Immigrants and the North-West Resistance, 1885”, Canadian Historical Review, 99, no. 1, 2018.

Canadian Committee on Women’s History — Hilda Neatby Prize

Winners of the French Language Article

Denyse Baillargeon, Josette Brun & Estelle Lebel, « J’vois pas pourquoi j’travaillerais pas » : le travail salarié des femmes mariées à l’émission télévisée Femme d’aujourd’hui (Société Radio-Canada, 1965–1982) Recherches féministes, volume 30, no. 2, 2018.

Winner of the English Language Article

Karen Flynn, “‘Hotel Refuses Negro Nurse:’ Gloria Clarke Baylis and the Queen Elizabeth Hotel”. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, volume 35, no. 2, 2018.

Political History Group

Best French-Article Prize

Winner: Paul-Étienne Rainville, « Au nom de l'ordre ou de la liberté ? Le Congrès juif canadien face à la répression des libertés civiles et des droits des minorités religieuses au Québec (1945–1954) » Canadian Historical Review, volume 99, no. 2, 2018.

Book Prize

Winner: Michael Dawson, Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945–1985. University of Toronto Press.

Public History Group

Best Project Prize

Winner: Aanischaaukamikw, Cree Cultural Institute “Footprints: A Walk through Generations.”

Canadian Business History Association

Book Prize

Winner: Michael Stamm, Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America. John Hopkins University Press, 2018.

Indigenous History Prizes

Best Book Prize

Winners: Mary Jane Logan McCallum & Adele Perry, Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City. University of Manitoba Press, 2018.

CHA PRIZES / Prix de la SHC

Prix Jean-Marie-Fecteau Prize

For best article published in a peer-reviewed journal by a PhD or Masters-level student in English or in French.

Winner: Edward Dunsworth, “Race, Exclusion, and Archival Silences in the Seasonal Migration of Tobacco Workers from the Southern United States to Ontario” Canadian Historical Review, volume 99, no. 4, December 2018.

John Bullen Prize

Honours the outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Winner: Stephen Fielding, “Sporting Multiculturalism: Toronto’s Postwar European Immigrants, Gender, Diaspora, and the Grassroots Making of Canadian Diversity.” PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, 2018.

Clio Prizes

For meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history.

Atlantic Region

Winner: Patrick Mannion, A Land of Dreams: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Irish in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Maine, 1880–1923.. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.

Québec

Winner: Nicole Neatby, From Old Quebec to La Belle Province. Tourism Promotion, Travel Writing, and National Identities, 1920–1967. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018.

Ontario

Winner: Steven High, One Job Town: Work, Belonging and Betrayal in Northern Ontario. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

The Prairies

Winners: Valerie Korinek, Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930–1985.. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

British Columbia

Winner: Daniel Marshall, Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New Eldorado. Ronsdale Press, 2018.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner (Prairies): Gerald Friesen

Winner (British Columbia): Hamar Foster

Wallace K. Ferguson Prize

Awarded to outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history.

Short list in alphabetical order

• Kristine Alexander. Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s. UBC Press, 2018.
• Venus Bivar. Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France. UNC Press, 2018.
• Aidan Forth. Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876–1903. University of California Press, 2018.
• Molly Ladd-Taylor. Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century. John Hopkins University Press, 2018.
• Quinn Slobodian. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Winner: Aidan Forth, Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903. University of California Press, 2018.