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The CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize

Robin A. Fisher

Robin A. Fisher, Contact and Conflict: Indian-European Relations in B.C. 1774-1890Honourable Mentions:John English, The Decline of Politics: The Conservatives and the Party System, 1901-20A. Ross McCormack, Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899-1919Peter Oliver, G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario Tory

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Fernand Ouellet

Fernand Ouellet, Le Bas-Canada 1791-1840: Changements structuraux et crise Honourable Mentions: Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing 1900-1970 Ken Adachi, The Enemy That Never Was: A History of the Japanese Canadians T.D. Regehr, The Canadian Northern Railways: Pioneer Road on the Northern Prairies 1895-1918

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Maria Tippett

Maria Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography Honourable Mentions:A.B. McKillop, A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian EraBryan Palmer, A Culture in Conflict: Skilled Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Hamilton 1860-1914L.S.F. Upton, Micmacs and Colonials: Indian-White Relations in the Maritime Provinces, 1713-1867

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Allan Greer

Allan Greer, Peasant, Lord, and Merchant. Rural Society in Three Parishes 1740-1840 Honourable Mentions:T.W. Acheson, Saint John. The Making of a Colonial CommunityBruce Trigger, Natives and Newcomers: Canada’s Heroic Age Reconsidered 

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John English

John English, Shadow of Heaven: The Life of Lester Pearson, Vol. I; 1897-1948  Honourable Mentions:Eric W. Sager, Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 William Westfall, Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth Century Ontario 

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Veronica Strong-Boag

Veronica Strong-Boag, The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939Honourable Mentions:Peter Neary, Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949Bruce S. Elliott, Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New ApproachCraig Heron, Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

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Joy Parr

Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 Honourable Mention:Eric W. Sager with Gerald E. Panting, Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914

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Harold Kalman

Harold Kalman, A History of Canadian Architecture, 2 Vols. (Oxford University Press) Honourable Mention:Ian McKay, The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

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Olive Patricia Dickason

Olive Patricia Dickason, Canada’s First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times (McClelland and Stewart Inc./University of Oklahoma Press) Honourable Mentions:Ruth A. Frager, Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto 1900-1039 (University of Toronto Press)Franca Iacovetta, Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (McGill-Queen’s University Press)Yves Landry, Orphelines en France pionnières au Canada:

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Julia A. Cruikshank

Julia A. Cruikshank, Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders  (UBC Press/University of Nebraska Press) Honourable Mentions:Peter S. Schmalz, The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario (University of Toronto Press)Michael Gauvreau, The Evangelical Century, College and Creed in English Canada from the Great Revival to the Great Depression (McGill-Queen’s University Press)Wendy Mitchinson, The Nature of Their Bodies. Women

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Gérard Bouchard

Gérard Bouchard, Quelques arpents d’Amérique (Montréal: Boréal) Honourable Mentions:Bruce Kidd, The Struggle for Canadian Sport (University of Toronto Press)James R. Miller, Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools (University of Toronto Press)

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Jan Noel

Jan Noel, Temperance Crusades Before Confederation, (University of Toronto Press) Honourable Mentions:René Hardy, La Sidérurgie dans le monde rural: Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe siècle (Les Presses de l’Université Laval)Colin D. Howell, Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (University of Toronto Press)Patricia Jasen, Wild Things: Nature, Culture, and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 (University of Toronto Press)

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H.V. Nelles

H.V. Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec’s Tercentenary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.This book makes a valuable contribution to the international literature on the construction of memory, with a particular focus on the Canadian experience. H.V. Nelles attacks the exceptionally complex subject of Canadian identity in the Edwardian Age. His points of

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