The CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize is an annual book prize awarded by the

Canadian Historical Association The Canadian Historical Association (CHA; French ''Société historique du Canada'', SHC) is a Canadian organization founded in 1922 for the purposes of promoting historical research and scholarship. It is a bilingual, not-for-profit, charitable ...

. According to the CHA, the award is for the "non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past." Recipients may be either English or French language works. First awarded in 1977, the prize was originally named for Canada's first Prime Minister,

Sir John A. Macdonald Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that sp ...

. However, in 2017, the CHA council proposed changing the name of the award given Macdonald's contentious legacy, particularly in relation to Indigenous peoples. In May 2018, a significant majority of CHA members voted in favour of the change at the Association's annual meeting. This prize is also part of the Governor General's Awards for excellence in scholarly research.Canada's History. "Governor General's History Awards Recipients." https://www.canadashistory.ca/awards/governor-general-s-history-awards/award-recipients?category=ScholarlyResearch#jump Retrieved 2020-07-24. It comes with a prize of $5,000 and is presented by Canada's Governor General at Rideau Hall.

Recipients

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Fernand Ouellet Fernand Ouellet (6 November 1926 in Lac-Bouchette, Quebec – 28 June 2021 in Toronto, Ontario) was a French-Canadian author and educator. He was educated at Université Laval and gained a PhD in 1965. Ouellet taught at Université Laval, Carle ...

, ''Le Bas-Canada 1791-1840: Changements structuraux et crise'' , - , 1978 , Robin A. Fisher , ''Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in B.C. 1774-1890'' , - , 1979 , Richard J. Diubaldo , ''Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic'' , - , 1980 ,

Maria Tippett Maria W. Tippett (born 9 December 1944) is a Canadian historian specialising in Canadian art history. Her 1979 biography of Emily Carr won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction. Educated at Simon Fraser University and t ...

, ''Emily Carr: A Biography'' , - , 1981 ,

Gregory Kealey Gregory S. Kealey (born 1948) is a historian of the working class in Canada, founding editor of the journal ''Labour/Le Travail'', and former vice-president (research) and provost of the University of New Brunswick, where he is Professor Emeritus ...

, ''Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism 1867-1892'' , - , 1982 , Paul-André Linteau , ''Maisonneuve: Comment des promoteurs fabriquent une ville, 1883-1918'' , - , 1983 ,

Irving Abella Irving Martin Abella (July 2, 1940 – July 3, 2022) was a Canadian historian who served as a professor at York University from 1968 to 2013. He specialized in the history of the Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement. Early life Abe ...

and

Harold Troper Harold (Hesh) Troper (born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in Jewish Canadian history. Together with Irving Abella, he authored '' None Is Too Many'', the story of the Canadian government's refusal to ...

, '' None is too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948'' , - , 1984 ,

Marcel Trudel Marcel Trudel (May 29, 1917 – January 11, 2011) was a Canadian historian, university professor (1947–1982) and author who published more than 40 books on the history of New France. He brought academic rigour to an area that had been ma ...

, ''Histoire de la Nouvelle-France'', volume III, ''La Seigneurie des Cent-Associés, 1627-1663'' , - , 1985 , Gerald Friesen , ''The Canadian Prairies, A History'' , - , 1986 , Allan Greer , ''Peasant, Lord, and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Parishes, 1740-1840'' , - , 1987 , Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles , ''Monopoly's Moment. The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930'' , - , 1988 ,

Cole Harris Richard Colebrook Harris (July 4, 1936 – September 26, 2022), better known as Cole Harris, was a Canadian geographer and university professor. Education Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1958) from the University of British Columbia ...

and G. J. Matthews (eds.) , ''From the Beginning to 1800, volume I of the Historical Atlas of Canada'' , - , 1989 ,

Veronica Strong-Boag Veronica Jane Strong-Boag (born 1947 in Prestwick, Scotland) is a Canadian historian specializing in the history of women and children in Canada. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia, where she was Professor of Women's ...

, ''The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939'' , - , 1990 , John English , ''Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, Vol. I; 1897-1948'' , - , 1991 ,

Joy Parr Joy Parr (born 1949) is a Canadian historian. Parr is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk. She is known for her work in the fields of labour and gender histo ...

, ''The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950'' , - , 1992 ,

Julie Cruikshank Julie Cruikshank is a Canadian anthropologist known for her research collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Yukon. She is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She has lived and worke ...

, ''Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders'' , - , 1993 , Olive Patricia Dickason , ''Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times'' , - , 1994 ,

Bettina Bradbury Bettina Bradbury (born 1949) is a professor emerita in the Department of History and Gender Studies at York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is also the author of numerous history books. In 2012, she was awarded the ...

, ''Working Families: Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal'' , - , 1995 , Harold Kalman , ''A History of Canadian Architecture'', 2 Vols. , - , 1996 , Jan Noel , ''Temperance Crusades Before Confederation'' , - , 1997 ,

Gérard Bouchard Gérard Bouchard (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval i ...

, ''Quelques arpents d'Amérique'' , - , 1998 , Jonathan F. Vance , ''Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War'' , - , 1999 , Mary-Ellen Kelm , ''Colonizing Bodies: Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-1950'' , - , 2000 , H. V. Nelles , ''The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary'' , - , 2001 , Nancy Christie , ''Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada'' , - , 2002 , Bruce Curtis , ''The Politics of Population. State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875'' , - , 2003 ,

, ''Making Native Space. Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia'' , - , 2004 , Jerry Bannister , ''The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832''. , - , 2005 , Dominique Deslandres , ''Croire et faire croire. Les missions françaises au XVIIe siécle'' , - , 2006 , Michael Gauvreau , ''The Catholic Origins of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970'' , - , 2007 , Tina Loo , '' States of Nature. Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century'' , - , 2008 ,

Franca Iacovetta Franca Iacovetta (born 1957) is a " feminist/socialist" historian of labour and migration currently working at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, published as ''Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto'', was supe ...

, ''Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada'' , - , 2009 ,

Ian McKay Ian John McKay, VC (7 May 1953 – 12 June 1982) was a British Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Bor ...

, ''Reasoning Otherwise. Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920'' , - , 2010 , Béatrice Craig , ''Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada'' , - , 2011 , Michel Ducharme , ''Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)'' , - , 2012 , François-Marc Gagnon, with Nancy Senior and Réal Ouellet (eds.) , ''The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas'' , - , 2013 , William C. Wicken , ''The Colonization of Mi’kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928'': ''The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy'' , - , 2014 , James Daschuk , '' Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life'' , - , 2015 ,

Jean Barman Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, United States, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work ''The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia'' has been described as the "standard text o ...

, ''French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest'' , - , 2016 , Robert C. H. Sweeny , ''Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819-1849'' , - , 2017 ,

Sarah Carter Sarah Sanguin Carter (born October 30, 1980) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her recurring role as Alicia Baker in the superhero series ''Smallville'' (2004–2005), Madeleine Poe in ''Shark'' (2006–2008), and main role as ...

, ''Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies'' , - , 2018 , E. A. Heaman , ''Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917'' , - , 2019 , Shirley Tillotson , ''Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy'' , - , 2020 , Eric Reiter , ''Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950'' , - , 2021 , Brittany Luby , '' Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory'' , - , 2022 , Benjamin Hoy , ''A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands''

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