The J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
A Detailed Overview
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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 Cold War
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: Canadians 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...