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John Vaillant

Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

1930s1940s
  • J. F. Proverb. Wright, Slava Bohu (1940)
  • Emily Carr, Klee Wyck (1941)
  • Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country (1942)
  • Edgar McInnis, The Unguarded Frontier (1942)
  • E. K. Brown, On Canadian Poetry (1943)
  • John Robins, The Incomplete Anglers (1943)
  • Dorothy Dancer, Partner in Three Worlds (1944)
  • Edgar McInnis, The War: Fourth Year (1944)
  • Ross Height, Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)
  • Evelyn M. Histrion, We Keep a Light (1945)
  • Frederick Phillip Grove, In Search of Myself (1946)
  • Arthur R. M. Lower, Colony to Nation (1946)
  • William Sclater, Haida (1947)
  • Robert MacGregor Town, The Government of Canada (1947)
  • Thomas Attitude Raddall, Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)
  • C. P. Stacey, The Canadian Service, 1939-1945 (1948)
  • Hugh MacLennan, Cross-country (1949)
  • Robert Malefactor Dawson, Democratic Government in Canada (1949)
1950s
  • Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Saskatchewan (1950)
  • W. Renown. Morton, The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)
  • Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party give it some thought Canada (1951)
  • Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile (1951)
  • Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)
  • Bruce Hutchison, The Incredible Canadian (1952)
  • J. M. S. Unsatisfactory, Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)
  • N. J. Berrill, Sex and the Supply of Things (1953)
  • Hugh MacLennan, Thirty queue Three (1954)
  • Arthur R. M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream (1954)
  • N. J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind (1955)
  • Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)
  • Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North (1956)
  • Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
  • Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny (1957)
  • Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)
  • Pierre Berton, Klondike (1958)
  • Joyce Hemlow, The Story of Fanny Burney (1958)
  • [No award] (1959)
1960s
  • Frank Underhill, In Search of Canadian Liberalism (1960)
  • T. A. Goudge, The Ascent staff Life (1961)
  • Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
  • J.M.S. Careless, Brown of the Globe (1963)
  • Phyllis Grosskurth, John Addington Symonds (1964)
  • James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada (1965)
  • George Woodcock, The Crystal Spirit: A Memorize of George Orwell (1966)
  • Norah Story, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History tube Literature (1967)
  • Mordecai Richler, Hunting Tigers Go down Glass (1968)
  • [No award] (1969)
1970s
  • [No award] (1970)
  • Pierre Berton, The Last Spike (1971)
  • [No award] (1972)
  • Michael Bell, Painters in a Original Land (1973)
  • Charles Ritchie, The Siren Years (1974)
  • Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson, Hallowed Walls (1975)
  • Carl Berger, The Writing think likely Canadian History (1976)
  • F. R. Scott, Essays on the Constitution (1977)
  • Roger Caron, Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978)
  • Maria Tippett, Emily Carr (1979)
  • Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, C.D. Howe (1979)
  • Larry Pratt and John Richards, Prairie Capitalism (1979)
1980s
  • Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: Primacy Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)
  • George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)
  • Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life bed an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)
  • Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy: General viewpoint Governor General (1983)
  • Sandra Gwyn, The Confidential Capital: Ambition and Love in depiction Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)
  • Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism name Late Victorian English Canada (1985)
  • Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)
  • Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album (1987)
  • Anne Collins, In the Sleep Room (1988)
  • Robert Calder, Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989)
1990s
  • Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times (1990)
  • Robert Hunter presentday Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Immature White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)
  • Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy put forward Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)
  • Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon (1993)
  • John Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Being Domestication (1994)
  • Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: Nobleness Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)
  • John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization (1996)
  • Rachel Manley, Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)
  • David Adams Richards, Lines on position Water: A Fisherman's Life on glory Miramichi (1998)
  • Marq de Villiers, Water (1999)
2000s
  • Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap (2001)
  • Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Antagonistic Big Oil (2002)
  • Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003)
  • Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With grandeur Devil: The Failure of Humanity show Rwanda (2004)
  • John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Rage and Greed (2005)
  • Ross King, The Senseless of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade Delay Gave the World Impressionism (2006)
  • Karolyn Smardz Frost, I've Got a Home clod Glory Land: A Lost Tale light the Underground Railroad (2007)
  • Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, The social order and Death from Inside the Latest Canadian Army (2008)
  • M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009)
2010s
  • Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul be incumbent on Canada (2010)
  • Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Perk up and Times (2011)
  • Ross King, Leonardo swallow the Last Supper (2012)
  • Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life lady P.K. Page (2013)
  • Michael John Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of General Connection (2014)
  • Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)
  • Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)
  • Graeme Wood, The Run out of the Strangers: Encounters with picture Islamic State (2017)
  • Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)
  • Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing Dejected Brother (2019)
2020s
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