The J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

A Detailed Overview

______

Winners

 1984 Tug O' War

Stoddart Publishing Company by Denis and Shelagh Whitaker, Retired General and Journalist

 1986 Clifford Sifton, the Lonely Eminence

University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver by D.J. Hall, Professor of History, University of Alberta

 1987 Frank Underhill, Intellectual Provocateur

University of Toronto Press by R. Douglas Francis, Professor of History, University of Calgary

 1988 Land Settlement and Politics in 18th Century Prince Edward Island

McGill-Queen's University Press by John M. Bumsted, Professor of History, University of Manitoba  1989 Diplomacy of Fear: Canada and the

University of Toronto Press by Denis Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario

 1990 Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and Dieppe

Oxford University Press by Brian Loring Villa, Professor of History, University of Ottawa

 1991 Rome in Canada: The Vatican and Canadian Affairs in the Late Victorian Age

University of Toronto Press by Roberto Perin, Professor of History, York University

 1992 Duff Patullo of British Columbia

University of Toronto Press by Robin Anthony Fisher, Professor of History, University of Northern British Columbia

 1993 Lester B. Pearson: The Worldly Years

Alfred A. Knopf, Canada by John English, Professor of History, University of Waterloo

 1994 The Generals The Canadian Army's Senior Generals in the Second World War

Stoddart Publishing Company. by Jack L. Granatstein, Professor of History, York University

 1995 Trudeau and Our Times: Vol. 2

McClelland and Stewart by Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson

Journalist /Professor of Political Science, Universities of Toronto, Oxford, Paris

 1996 Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John D. Diefenbaker

Macfarlane, Walker and Ross by Denis Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario

 1997 Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Residential Schools in Canada

University of Toronto Press by James R. Miller, Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan

 1998 Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War

University of British Columbia Press by Jonathan Vance, Professor of History, Wilfred Laurier University

 1999 Fool's Gold: The Making of a Global Market Fraud

Alfred A. Knopf, Canada by Brian Hutchinson, Journalist

 2000 J.B. McLachlan: A Biography

James Lorimer and Company by David Frank, Professor of History, University of New Brunswick

 2001 Memoirs of a Very Civil Servant

University of Toronto Press by Gordon Robertson, Retired Civil Servant

 2002 A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian -American Boundary,

1783-1842

University of Toronto Press by Francis M. Carroll, Professor of History, University of Manitoba

 2003 The Lawmakers Judicial Power and the Shaping of Canadian Federalism

University of Toronto Press by John T. Saywell, Professor of History, York University.

 2004 Brian Dickson: A Judge’s Journey

University of Toronto Press by Robert J. Sharpe, Ontario Court of Appeal and Kent Roach, Professor of Law, University of

Toronto

 2005 The Ghosts of Medak Pocket

Random House Canada by Carol Off, Journalist

 2006 Loss of Faith

McClelland and Stewart by Kim Bolan, Journalist

 2007 Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One, 1919-1968

Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 by John English, Professor of History, University of Waterloo

 2008 At the Sharp End: Fighting the Great War, 1914-1918

Toronto: Viking 2007 by Tim Cook, Historian with Canadian War Museum

 2009 Lord Selkirk: A Life

University of Manitoba Press 2008 by Jack Bumsted, Professor of History, University of Manitoba

 2010 Newfoundland and Labrador: A History

University of Toronto Press 2009 by Sean T. Cadigan, Professor of History Memorial University

 2011 Polar Imperative A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America

Douglas & McIntyre 2010 by Shelagh D. Grant, Research Associate, Trent University

 2012 Nation Maker Sir John A Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

Random House 2011 by Richard Gwyn, Toronto journalist and  2013 Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West versus the Rest since Confederation

Knopf Canada 2012 by Mary Janigan, Toronto journalist and writer

Author Profiles and Publishers

Since 1984 the Dafoe Foundation has awarded twenty four Book Prizes.

Three of the books had joint authors, and two have won twice, so twenty nine authors were involved.

Fifteen of the authors were historians, six were journalists, three were political scientists, two were lawyers, one was a retired civil servant, one a retired army officer and one was a research associate.

With respect to Publishers, there have been a variety:

University of Toronto Press published ten.

University of British Columbia Press, two

Stoddart, two.

McClelland and Stewart, two

Alfred A. Knopf, three

Oxford University, one

James Lorimer, one

Random House, two

McFarlane, Walker, Ross, one

McGill-Queens, one Toronto: Viking (Penguin), one

University of Manitoba Press, one

Douglas & McIntyre, one.

Authors have been Academics at the time their book was published at:

University of Toronto

University of Western Ontario

University of Waterloo

University of Ottawa

York University

University of New Brunswick

Wilfred Laurier University

University of Calgary

University of Saskatchewan

University of British Columbia

University of Northern British Columbia

University of Northern British Columbia

Memorial University

and

University of Manitoba.

Fourteen different Universities...