2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
To the River: Losing My Brother
Don Gillmor
2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
Darrel J. McLeod
2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood
2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
Bill Waiser
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Mark L. Winston
2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Michael Harris
2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
Sandra Djwa
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Ross King
2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Mordecai: The Life & Times
Charles Foran
2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Allan Casey
2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
M.G. Vassanji
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Christie Blatchford
2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Karolyn Smardz Frost
2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Ross King
2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed of John the Painter, First Modern
John Vaillant
2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire
2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil
Andrew Nikiforuk
2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Ingenuity Gap
Thomas Homer-Dixon
2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Notes from the Hyena’s Belly
Nega Mezlekia
1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Water
Marq de Villiers
1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Lines on the Water – A Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi
David Adams Richards
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
Rachel Manley
1996 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Unconscious Civilization
John Ralston Saul
1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Rosemary Sullivan
1994 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
John A. Livingston
1993 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Touch the Dragon
Karen Connelly
1992 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Maggie Siggins
1991 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Trudeau and Our Times
Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall
1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Willie—The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
Robert Calder
1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
In the Sleep Room
Anne Collins
1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Russian Album
Michael Ignatieff
1986 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye
1985 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
Ramsay Cook
1984 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
Sandra Gwyn
1983 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Byng of Vimy: General and Govenor General
Jeffery Williams
1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Christopher Moore
1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Caribou and the Barren-Lands
George Calef
1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
Jeffrey Simpson
1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Emily Carr: A Biography
Maria Tippett
1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Go Boy
Roger Caron
1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Essays on the Constitution
Frank Scott
1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Writing of Canadian History
Carl Berger
1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Hallowed Walls
Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson
1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Siren Years
Charles Ritchie
1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Painters in a New Land
Michael Bell
1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Last Spike
Pierre Berton
1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Hunting Tigers Under Glass
Mordecai Richler
1967 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature
Norah Story
1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell
George Woodcock
1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
In Defence of Canada
James Eayrs
1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
John Addington Symonds
Phyllis Grosskurth
1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Brown of the Globe
J.M.S. Careless
1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Ascent of Life
T.A. Goudge
1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
In Search of Canadian Liberalism
Frank H. Underhill
1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Klondike
Pierre Berton
1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Canada: Tomorrow’s Giant
Bruce Hutchison
1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Mysterious North
Pierre Berton
1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain
Donald G. Creighton
1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Thirty and Three
Hugh MacLennan
1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Canada, A Story of Challenge
J.M.S. Careless
1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician
Donald G. Creighton
1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Ardent Exile
Josephine Phelan
1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Progressive Party in Canada
W.L. Morton
1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Cross-country
Hugh MacLennan
1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Halifax, Warden of the North
Thomas H. Raddall
1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Haida
William Sclater
1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Colony to Nation
A.R.M. Lower
1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
We Keep a Light
Evelyn M. Richardson
1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Partner in Three Worlds
Dorothy Duncan
1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
On Canadian Poetry
E.K. Brown
1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
The Unknown Country
Bruce Hutchison
1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Klee Wyck
Emily Carr
1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Slava Bohu
J.F.C. Wright
1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Confessions of an Immigrant’s Daughter
Laura G. Salverson
1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
Canadian Mosaic
John Murray Gibbon
1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
My Discovery of the West
Stephen Leacock
1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction
