Governor General's Award for English-language non-fictionCheck all the winners of Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 |
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Allan Casey | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada |
| 2009 |
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M. G. Vassanji | A Place Within: Rediscovering India |
| 2008 |
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Christie Blatchford | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army |
| 2007 |
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Karolyn Smardz Frost | I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad |
| 2006 |
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Ross King | The Judgement of Paris |
| 2005 |
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John Vaillant | The Golden Spruce |
| 2004 |
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Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands with the Devil |
| 2003 |
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Margaret MacMillan | Paris 1919 |
| 2002 |
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Andrew Nikiforuk | Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil |
| 2001 |
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Thomas Homer-Dixon | The Ingenuity Gap |
| 2000 |
|
Nega Mezlekia | Notes from the Hyena's Belly |
| 1999 |
|
Marq de Villiers | Water |
| 1998 |
|
David Adams Richards | Lines on the Water |
| 1997 |
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Rachel Manley | Drumblair |
| 1996 |
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John Ralston Saul | Unconscious Civilization |
| 1995 |
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Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker |
| 1994 |
|
John Livingston | Rogue Primate |
| 1993 |
|
Karen Connelly | Touch the Dragon |
| 1992 |
|
Maggie Siggins | Revenge of the Land |
| 1991 |
|
Robert Calihoo | Occupied Canada |
|
Robert Hunter | Occupied Canada | |
| 1990 |
|
Stephen Clarkson | Trudeau and Our Times |
|
Christina McCall | Trudeau and Our Times | |
| 1989 |
|
Robert Calder | Willie, the Life of W. Somerset Maugham |
| 1988 |
|
Anne Collins | In the Sleep Room |
| 1987 |
|
Michael Ignatieff | The Russian Album |
| 1986 |
|
Northrop Frye | Northrop Frye on Shakespeare |
| 1985 |
|
George Ramsay Cook | The Regenerators |
| 1984 |
|
Sandra Gwyn | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
| 1983 |
|
Jeffery Williams | Byng of Vimy |
| 1982 |
|
Christopher Moore | Louisbourg Portraits |
| 1981 |
|
George Calef | Caribou and the Barren-Lands |
| 1980 |
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Jeffrey Simpson | Discipline of Power |
| 1979 |
|
Maria Tippett | Emily Carr |
| 1978 |
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Roger Caron | Go-boy! |
| 1977 |
|
F. R. Scott | Essays on the Constitution |
| 1976 |
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Carl Berger | The Writing of Canadian history |
| 1975 |
|
Anthony Adamson | Hallowed Walls |
|
Marion MacRae | Hallowed Walls | |
| 1974 |
|
Charles Ritchie | The Siren Years |
| 1973 |
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Michael Bell | Painters in a New Land: from Annapolis Royal to the Klondike |
| 1971 |
|
Pierre Berton | The Last Spike |
| 1968 |
|
Mordecai Richler | Cocksure, Hunting Tigers Under Glass |
| 1967 |
|
Norah Story | The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature |
| 1966 |
|
George Woodcock | The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell |
| 1965 |
|
James Eayrs | In Defence of Canada |
| 1964 |
|
Phyllis Grosskurth | John Addington Symonds |
| 1963 |
|
James Maurice Stockford Careless | Brown of the Globe |
| 1962 |
|
Marshall McLuhan | The Gutenberg Galaxy |
| 1961 |
|
T. A. Goudge | The Ascent of Life |
| 1960 |
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Frank Underhill | In Search of Canadian Liberalism |
| 1958 |
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Joyce Hemlow | The History of Fanny Burney |
| 1958 |
|
Pierre Berton | Klondike |
| 1957 |
|
Bruce Hutchison | Canada: Tomorrow's Giant |
| 1957 |
|
Thomas Head Raddall | The path of destiny |
| 1956 |
|
Joseph Lister Rutledge | Century of Conflict |
| 1956 |
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Pierre Berton | Mysterious North |
| 1955 |
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Donald Creighton | John A. Macdonald |
| 1955 |
|
N.J. Berrill | Man's Emerging Mind |
| 1954 |
|
Arthur R. M. Lower | This Most Famous Stream |
| 1954 |
|
Hugh MacLennan | Thirty & Three |
| 1953 |
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James Maurice Stockford Careless | Canada, A Story of Challenge |
| 1953 |
|
N.J. Berrill | Sex and the Nature of Things |
| 1952 |
|
Bruce Hutchison | Incredible Canadian |
| 1952 |
|
Donald Creighton | John A. Macdonald |
| 1951 |
|
Frank Douglas MacKinnon | The Government of Prince Edward Island |
| 1951 |
|
Josephine Phelan | The Ardent Exile |
| 1950 |
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Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | The Saskatchewan |
| 1950 |
|
W. L. Morton | The Progressive Party in Canada |
| 1949 |
|
Hugh MacLennan | Cross-Country |
| 1949 |
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Robert MacGregor Dawson | Democratic Government in Canada |
| 1948 |
|
Charles Perry Stacey | The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 |
| 1948 |
|
Thomas Head Raddall | Halifax Warden of the North |
| 1947 |
|
Robert MacGregor Dawson | The Government of Canada |
| 1947 |
|
William Sclater | Haida |
| 1946 |
|
Arthur R. M. Lower | Colony to Nation |
| 1946 |
|
Frederick Philip Grove | In Search of Myself |
| 1945 |
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Evelyn M. Richardson | We Keep a Light |
| 1945 |
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Ross Munro | Gauntlet to Overlord |
| 1944 |
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Dorothy Duncan | Partner in three worlds |
| 1944 |
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Edgar McInnes | The War: Fourth Year |
| 1943 |
|
E. K. Brown | On Canadian Poetry |
| 1943 |
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John D. Robins | The Incomplete Anglers |
| 1942 |
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Bruce Hutchison | Unknown Country |
| 1942 |
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Edgar McInnes | The Unguarded Frontier |
| 1941 |
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Emily Carr | Klee Wyck |
| 1940 |
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James Frederick Church Wright | Slava Bohu |
| 1939 |
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Laura Salverson | Confessions of An Immigrant's Daughter |
| 1938 |
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John Murray Gibbon | Canadian Mosaic |
| 1937 |
|
Stephen Leacock | My Discovery of the West |
| 1936 |
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T. B. Robertson | Collected Newspaper articles |
