Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

Contents 1 1930s 2 1940s 3 1950s 4 1960s 5 1970s 6 1980s 7 1990s 8 2000s 9 2010s

This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction.

1930s

• 1936: T. B. Robertson, collected newspaper articles
• 1937: Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West
• 1938: John Murray Gibbon, Canadian Mosaic
• 1939: Laura G. Salverson, Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter

1940s

• 1940: J. F. C. Wright, Slava Bohu
• 1941: Emily Carr, Klee Wyck
• 1942: Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country and Edgar McInnes, The Unguarded Frontier
• 1943: John D. Robins, The Incomplete Anglers and E.K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry
• 1944: Dorothy Duncan, Partner in Three Worlds and Edgar McInnes, The War: Fourth Year
• 1945: Evelyn M. Richardson, We Keep a Light and Ross Munro, Gauntlet to Overlord
• 1946: Frederick Philip Grove, In Search of Myself and A.R.M. Lower, Colony to Nation
• 1947: William Sclater, Haida and R. MacGregor Dawson, The Government of Canada
• 1948: Thomas H. Raddall, Halifax, Warden of the North and C.P. Stacey, The Canadian Army, 1939-1945
• 1949: Hugh MacLennan, Cross-country and R. MacGregor Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada

1950s

• 1950: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Saskatchewan and W.L. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada
• 1951: Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile and Frank MacKinnon, The Government of Prince Edward Island
• 1952: Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician and Bruce Hutchison, The Incredible Canadian
• 1953: J.M.S. Careless, Canada, A Story of Challenge and N.J. Berrill, Sex and the Nature of Things
• 1954: Hugh MacLennan, Thirty and Three and A.R.M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream
• 1955: N.J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind and Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain
• 1956: Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North and Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict
• 1957: Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny and Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant
• 1958: Pierre Berton, Klondike and Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney
• 1959: (none), award temporarily discontinued

1960s

• 1960: Frank H. Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism
• 1961: T. A. Goudge, The Ascent of Life
• 1962: Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
• 1963: J.M.S. Careless, Brown of the Globe
• 1964: Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds
• 1965: James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada
• 1966: George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell
• 1967: Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature
• 1968: Mordecai Richler, Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass
• 1969: (none)

1970s

• 1971: Pierre Berton, The Last Spike
• 1972: (none)
• 1973: Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land
• 1974: Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years
• 1975: Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls
• 1976: Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History
• 1977: Frank Scott, Essays on the Constitution
• 1978: Roger Caron, Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
• 1979: Maria Tippett, Emily Carr

1980s

• 1980: Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
• 1981: George Calef, Caribou and the barren-lands
• 1982: Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town
• 1983: Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy
• 1984: Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
• 1985: Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
• 1986: Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
• 1987: Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album
• 1988: Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room
• 1989: Robert Calder, Willie-The Life of W. Somerset Maugham

1990s

• 1990: Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times
• 1991: Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
• 1992: Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
• 1993: Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon
• 1994: John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
• 1995: Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
• 1996: John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
• 1997: Rachel Manley, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
• 1998: David Adams Richards, Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi
• 1999: Marq de Villiers, Water

2000s

• 2000: Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly
• 2001: Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap
• 2002: Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
• 2003: Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
• 2004: Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• 2005: John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
• 2006: Ross King, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
• 2007: Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
• 2008: Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
• 2009: M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India

2010s

• 2010: Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada

Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit English-language awards Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1937–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration French to English translation French-language awards Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1959–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration English to French translation Awards by year 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011