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Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

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

1958 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerKlondikePierre BertonWith the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We m...AmazonThe History of Fanny BurneyJoyce Hemlow...Amazon
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1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1960 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerIn Search of Canadian LiberalismFrank H. UnderhillFrank Underhill was an outspoken public intellectual, whose charged career as a university historian is reflected in this collection of essays on Canadas political history, covering the Family Compact to the government of Louis St. Laurent. Witty, energet...Amazon
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1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1963 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerBrown of the GlobeJ.M.S. CarelessGeorge Brown (1818-1880) was the influential editor of the Toronto Globe, the most powerful newspaper in British North America. He was also leader of the Liberal Party, arch-rival of John A. Macdonald, and the statesman who held the key to Confederation at...Amazon
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1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1965 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerIn Defence of CanadaJames EayrsVolume III of this outstanding history of Canadas defence and foreign policy is a study of Ottawas thinking and decisions during the closing years of the Second World War and the opening years of the cold war. Eayrs presents both the events and the perso...Amazon
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