The François-Xavier Garneau Prize
Michael Bliss
Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle. Macmillan of Canada, 1978.
Louise Dechêne
Louise Dechêne, Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle. Paris : Plon, 1974.
John M. Beattie
John M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800. Princeton University Press, 1986 Honorable Mentions:David Eltis, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transltlantic Trade. Oxford University Press, 1987Allan Greer, Peasants, Lord and Merchant: Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840. University of Toronto Press, 1985
Joy Parr
Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950. University of Toronto Press, 1990 Honorable Mentions :Modris Eksteins, The Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Lester and Orpen Dennys Ltd, 1989James A. Leith, Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799. McGill-Queen’s University
Gérard Bouchard
Gérard Bouchard, Quelques arpents d’Amérique : population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971. Montréal, Les Éditions du Boréal, 1996.This book is a unique and major contribution to the history of Quebec, Canada and North America. It represents the summation of over twenty years of research on the Saguenay region and is one of the most important demographic studies
Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998)Timothy Brooks book offers a wonderfully vivid and complex picture of the economic and social life of Ming China, both as seen by contemporaries and as understood by historians today. Brook takes as his organizing principle a
John C. Weaver
John C. Weaver. The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World.His work was chosen by the prize jury the most remarquable canadian contribution to historical research published between 2003 and 2008. A triumph of comparative and inter-disciplinary history, The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World addresses the complex regional and national
Bettina Bradbury
Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011. Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteen-Century Montreal by Bettina Bradbury reveals patterns in several critical life-course events experienced by women of different social circumstances and cultural backgrounds during a tumultuous period in an endlessly fascinating colonial city. “To
Shirley Tillotson
Shirley Tillotson. Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy. UBC Press, 2017. Often the news exposes the social relevance of historical work. Such is the case with Shirley Tillotson’s Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy published by UBC Press. At a time when the state is supporting citizens in a