Canadian history authors receive more 2020 honours

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This spring we told you about several Canadian history books nominated for 2020 book awards — and since then several winners have been revealed, while other finalists have been announced.

Here are some of the Canadian history books and authors recently recognized as prize winners and finalists:

Winner of the 2020 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for the best book on Canada, Canadians, or Canada’s place in the world:

The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy, by Brendan Kelly

Winner of the Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences:

At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging, by Wendy Wickwire

Also among the finalists for the Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences:

Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title, by Kent McNeil

Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Confederation, by Raymond B. Blake & Melvin Baker

Winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize:

Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950, by Eric H. Reiter

Winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years to honour an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research:

Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy, by Shirley Tillotson

Winners of other Canadian Historical Association book prizes:

Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985, by Valerie Korinek

Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, by Sarah Nickel

Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland, by Bonnie Morgan

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812, edited by Carl Benn

Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada, by Esyllt W. Jones

At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging, by Wendy Wickwire

Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away, by Karen Routledge

Winner of the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction at the 2020 Alberta Literary Awards:

Tiny Lights for Travellers, by Naomi K. Lewis

Winner of the 2020 City of Edmonton Book Prize: