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1956 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1956 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe SacrificeAdele WisemanThe Sacrifice is a haunting depiction of one family and its often tragic attempts to come to terms with a new life in a new country. It is a moving, almost biblical story of a father possessed by his hope for his only son; of a son who rebels against his f...Amazon
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1956 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Juvenile

1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Juvenile Winner and Nominees

1956 Governor General's Literary Award - Juvenile WinnerLost in the BarrensFarley MowatA Cree Indian boy and a city boy are stranded in the northern wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue after their canoe capsizes. Survival will test every ounce of their ingenuity and resilience....Amazon
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1956 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1956 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerCentury of ConflictJoseph Lister Rutledge...AmazonThe Mysterious NorthPierre BertonPersonal memories of life and travel in the Canadian north in the late 1940s and early 1950s, with postscripts updating each section to the late 1980s....Amazon
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1957 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1957 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerStreet of Riches (translation)Gabrielle RoySemiautobiographical and universal in appeal, Street of Riches is about a young girls growing up in a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here is Christine, the perceptive narrator of The Road Past Altamont (also a Bison Book), awakening to natural and sometime...Amazon
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1957 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1957 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerCanada: Tomorrow's GiantBruce Hutchison...AmazonThe Path of DestinyThomas H. RaddallGovernor Carleton The Quebec Act, Canada on the eve of theAmerican Revolution, Ehtan Allen in the Champlain pass, Benedict Arnold plans a dash on Quebec, Montgomery, Ben Franklin, the fight at three rivers, Lord Durham, Reform movement in Nova Scotia, the ...Amazon
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1958 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1958 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerExecutionColin McDougallThe great Canadian novel of the Second World War in Italy, winner of the 1958 Governor Generals Award Lieutenant John Adam, recovering from wounds sustained in the Italian campaign of 1943, faces a terrible dilemma when he finds that one his men, a volunt...Amazon
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