Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

1993 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTouch the DragonKaren Connelly...Amazon1993 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistFrontiersNoël MostertAmazonIn a Gilded CageMarian FowlerAmazonSystems of SurvivalJane JacobsAmazonThe Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot NoirMarq de VilliersAmazon

1992 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerRevenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan FarmMaggie Siggins...Amazon1992 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistInside: The Biography of John GuntherKen CuthbertsonAmazonMr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel BronfmanMichael R. MarrusAmazonPlague: A Story of Smallpox in MontrealMichael BlissAmazon

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTrudeau and Our TimesStephen Clarkson & Christina McCallVolume 2: The Heroic Delusion "Winner of the John W. Dafoe Prize for Distinctive Writing" This volume describes in fascinating detail the abiding liberal Pierre Trudeaus quixotic confrontations with his neo-conservative opponents, Margaret Thatcher and Ro...Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene ForseyEugene ForseyAmazonGod's Dominion: A Sceptic's QuestRon GrahamAmazonInside Memory: Pages from a Writer's WorkbookTimothy FindleyAmazonThe Last Modern: A Life of Herbert ReadJames KingAmazon

1991 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerOccupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected PastRobert Hunter and Robert Calihoo...Amazon1991 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBy Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A LifeRosemary SullivanAmazonPoor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre"D.L. (Lorne) MacDonaldAmazonWords With PowerNorthrop FryeAmazonZero HourKristjana GunnarsAmazon

1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerLouisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison TownChristopher MooreEach year, thousands of tourists flock to the Fortress of Louisbourg on the coast of Cape Breton Island to visit the reconstruction of part of the original eighteenth-century fort and town. Using the same records, diaries, letters, and charts that were use...Amazon1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistGrits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal PartyChristina McCall-NewmanAmazonThe Great Code: The Bible and LiteratureNorthrop FryeAmazon

1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerByng of Vimy: General and Govenor GeneralJeffery WilliamsField Marshal the Viscount Byng of Vimy did not fit into the conventional mould in the Army, as Governor-General of Canada or as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Few officers commanded more widespread affection from their troops, or knew them and t...Amazon1983 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistReading from Left to Right: One Man's Political HistoryH.S. FernsAmazonThe GameKen DrydenAmazon

1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and LaurierSandra Gwyn...Amazon1984 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistP.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in PowerGraham FraserAmazonPrairie Fire: The 1885 North-West RebellionBob Beal and Rod MacleodAmazon

1985 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English CanadaRamsay CookA crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social prob...Amazon1985 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistCanada 1922-1939: Decades of DiscordJohn Herd ThompsonAmazonPrelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalismMichael D. BehielsAmazonThe Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime MinisterP.B. WaiteAmazon

1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerNorthrop Frye on ShakespeareNorthrop FryeOffers fresh insights into ten of Shakespeares most popular plays, relating each of these works to others and discussing many of the central elements of Shakespearean drama...Amazon1986 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistHomeWitold RybczynskiAmazonMelanie KleinPhyllis GrosskurthAmazonThe Imperial CanadianClaude BissellAmazon

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Russian AlbumMichael IgnatieffWinner of the Royal Society of Literature Award In The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, ...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBrazilian JournalP.K. PageAmazonUnder Eastern EyesJanice Kulyk KeeferAmazon