Mr. Christie's Book Award
The Mr. Christie's Book Awards (french: Prix du livre M. Christie) was a Canadian literary prize awarded by William Mellis Christie, Christie, Brown & Company, a division of Nabisco. The awards were discontinued in 2004. The awards were generally considered to be the "Scotiabank Giller Prize, Giller Prize for children's authors". History The awards were established to promote excellence in Canadian children's literature. The recipients were required to be Canadian citizens or permanent residents. The prize was first awarded in 1990. Initially, awards were given for text and illustrations in English and French language books, a total of four categories. In 1993, the categories for text were divided based on age: one for ages 8 or less and one for ages 9 to 14. In 1994, it was decided that text and illustrations would no longer be judged separately and the number of age categories was increased to three: age 7 and under, ages 8 to 11 and ages 12 to 16. Winners English-language ...
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William Mellis Christie
William Mellis Christie (5 January 1829 – 14 June 1900) is the namesake for the Canadian Mr. Christie brand of cookies and biscuits, owned by Nabisco. Christie was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the only child of John Christie and Jane Grant. He apprenticed as a baker before arriving in Canada in 1848. The Christie Bakery With Alexander Brown, Christie co-founded a city bakery in Toronto, which became Christie, Brown and Company in 1853. By the 1880s, Christie's was considered to be the largest manufacturer of biscuits in Canada. The firm's primary plant in Toronto covered . The business opened a $1 million biscuit factory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a region where spring wheat (the type of wheat in bakery flour) is a major crop, in February 1932. The product had a market base in all parts of the country but does not appear to have penetrated export markets to any degree before Christie's death. The product line, of which there were more than 400 varieties of cakes and bis ...
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