James Opp, “Re-imaging the Moral Order of Urban Space: Religion and Photography in Winnipeg, 1900-1914” In this innovative paper, James Opp provides a fresh perspective on urban reform and the Social Gospel in Canada through an examination of the photographs used by social gospelers in Winnipeg in their efforts to create a “scientific” representation of

Marlene Epp, “Pioneers, Refugees, Exiles, and Transnationals: Gendering Diaspora in an Ethno-Religious Context”   In this innovative paper, Marlene Epp combines general theorizing about diaspora with the personal, immediate, and specific technique of story-telling to examine the lived experiences of four Mennonite women and assess the nature of identity among migrant peoples. She shows how notions

John Sandlos. “Federal Spaces, Local Conflicts: National Parks and the Exclusionary Politics of the Conservation Movement in Ontario, 1900-1935″ Professor John Sandlos has written an engaging and thought-provoking article on Canadian national parks and the conservation movement in Ontario during the early 1900s. Making use of a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Professor Sandlos

Kevin Kee, “Bobby Sox to Bach: Charles Templeton and the Commodification of Popular Protestantism in the Postwar Era” This papers focus on popular religion is a valuable counterbalance to the tendency to emphasize church leadership, and its emphasis on the post-Second World War era addresses an era not extensively covered by historians. The essay also

Mark Meyers,  “‘Your brain is no longer you own!’: Mass Media, Secular Religion, and Cultural Crisis in Third Republic France”  Mark Meyers’ cogently argued article “‘Your brain is no longer your own!’: Mass Media, Secular Religion, and Cultural Crisis in Third Republic France,” is a sophisticated and complex study of interwar French culture. While much

Ryan C. Eyford,  “Quarantined Within a New colonial Order. The 1876-77 Lake Winnipeg Smallpox Epidemic”  Ryan’s C. Eyford’s beautifully written paper, “Quarantined Within a New Colonial Order: The 1876-77 Lake Winnipeg Smallpox Epidemic,” brings together the themes of colonization, settlement, and the dispossession of Aboriginal people in western Canadian history.  Theoretically sophisticated, it was deemed

Issue #1Michael Gauvreau. “Winning Back the Intellectuals: Inside Canada’s ‘First War on Terror’ 1968-1970“. Historical treatments of the October Crisis have tended to focus on a simple dichotomy between the aims of the Canadian government and the Front de Liberation du Quebec, have suggested the tensions in the relationship between federal and provincial levels of

Issue #1Kathryn Harvey, “Location, Location, Location: David Ross McCord and the Makings of Canadian History” This  study of the McCord National Museum in Montreal examines the role of place in the creation of personal and public memory.  The founder, David Ross McCord, sought to promote a version of Canadian history in which family and personal myth

Béatrice Richard. « Quelle guerre raconter ? Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron. »In her article “Quelle guerre raconter ? Le dilemme du légionnaire Paul Caron”.  Béatrice Richard revisits the rapport that French Canada had with the Great War through the study of the testimony of journalist Paul Caron, enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914.

Krista J. Kesselring. “‘Negroes of the Crown’: The Management of Slaves Forfeited by Grenadian Rebels, 1796-1831” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 22, no 2 (2011): 1-29.  In her excellent article, Krista J. Kesselring studies the manner in which British officials dealt with and disposed of a group of Crown slaves forfeited by the Grenadian

Madeline Rose Knickerbocker. “What We’ve Said Can Be Proven In The Ground:Stó:L? Sovereignty And Historical Narratives At Xá:Ytem, 1990-2006 ” in JCHA/RSHC volume 1. In this excellent article Knickerbocker carefully traces how Stó:l? created alliances with non-indigenous archeologists and activists to preserve a transformer stone as a heritage site that was under threat of destruction from a housing development

Ian Milligan. “Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’Toolkit” in JCHA/RSHC volume 2. The deluge of information created in a digital format in the last fifty years has changed the game for historians of recent times. In his timely article, Ian Milligan proposes that historians need not abandon their methods, but rather expand their toolkits to

Sharon Wall, “Some thought they were in Love”: Sex, White Teenagehood, and Unmarried Pregnancy in Early Postwar Canada” which appears in Volume 25, Issue 1. By dismantling the stereotype of the sexually conservative 1950s, Wall explores Canadian teenagers’ experiences with unmarried sex and unplanned pregnancies, arguing that the sexual revolution of the 1960s is better understood

Matthew Hayday, “Brought To You by the Letters C, R, T and C: Sesame Street and Canadian Nationalism”. Issue # 1, 2016. Matthew Hayday’s article studies the arrival of the American children’s program Sesame Street on Canadian television in the early 1970s. Hayday treats the controversy over the program and its subsequent Can-Con Canadianization as a case study revealing the

Francesca D’Amico, “‘The Mic Is My Piece’: Canadian Rap, the Gendered “Cool Pose” and Music Industry Racialization and Regulation.” (Volume 1, 2015). This article examines how in the 1980s and 1990s Black Canadian Rap artists — many of whom are the children of Caribbean-born immigrants — employed the hyper-racialized and hyper-gendered “Cool Pose” to interrupt conversations

James Forbes, ““A Deplorable Speech”: The Liberal Party vs. Anti-Catholicism during the Alexander Mackenzie Administration, 1873-1878”, Volume 28, Issue # 1, 2017.  This article discusses an important and underappreciated episode in the history of the Liberal party and Canadian political culture, detailing the evolution of theCanadian Liberal party’s attitudes towards Catholicism and the separation of church and state in the 1870s.

The prize was not awarded in 2019

Jason Ellis. “Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History: Etobicoke, 1945-54”. The winner of the CHA Journal Prize is Jason Ellis, for “Public School Taxes and the Remaking of Suburban Space and History: Etobicoke, 1945–1954.” This article argues that school taxes were a significant policy tool for municipal officials and Etobicoke

Cheryl Thompson, “Black Minstrelsy on Canadian Stages: Nostalgia for Plantation Slavery in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.” The CHA Journal Prize is awarded for an article from the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association that presents rigorous research in an accessible academic form to make a significant contribution to the understanding of history. The winner of the 2021