Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History
The Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History is a Canadian literary award that has been awarded since 1983 . It comes with a historical , archaeological or ethnographic non-fiction book from the previous year that a Canadian writer published in English on the history of the Ontario region or the greater Toronto area . The prize was awarded by the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Historical Studies Series until 1993 , and has been organized by the Champlain Society since its dissolution.
The award is named after the journalist and philanthropist Floyd Sherman Chalmers (1898–1993), who has served as director in numerous cultural institutions during his long career as editor and publisher, such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, as an assistant professor at the Royal Conservatory of Music, and president at the Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Shakespearean Festival and as principal of York University . The award was established when Chalmers was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Historical Studies Series.
The writing team RD Gidney and WPJ Millar has already received the award twice. Only in 1991 was the award given to two winners at the same time: Marianne McLean , The People of Glengarry: Highlanders in Transition 1745-1820 and John T. Saywell , Just Call Me Mitch. The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn .
The Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History is administered by Jane Errington. Any publisher can propose a book publication on which a board of trustees of recognized Canadian historians advises. Currently they are Brian Osborne, Professor Emeritus, Queen's University , and Research Professor, Carleton University , Professor Sarah Carter, and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History, Classics, and Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Dr. Jan Noel, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto . The submitted contributions are judged on the basis of their logical argumentation, their status and the specificity of their topic, the quality of the research and the excellence of their literary style. ("Submissions are judged on the basis of the strength of the book's arguments, the range and significance of the subject, the quality of the research, and the excellence of the literary style.") The proposals can cover a wide range of topics, but some Genres are excluded from the award: diary editions , pure text editions without interpretive parts by an editor, collections of essays by different authors, translations and bibliographies .
The award consists of a financial prize and a carved Inuit sculpture . According to the regulations, the price can also be canceled in a calendar year if none of the proposed works has the expected quality. In addition, honorable mentions can be given for non-award-winning candidates.
Award winners
| year | author | Title of the non-fiction book | publishing company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Gerald Killan | David Boyle: From Artisan to Archeologist | University of Toronto Press |
| 1984 | Donald H. Akenson | The Irish in Ontario | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 1985 | Kenneth J. Rea | The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario 1939-1975 | University of Toronto Press |
| 1986 | Charles M. Johnston | EC Drury: Agrarian Idealist | University of Toronto Press |
| 1987 | Ian Radforth | Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario 1900–1980 | University of Toronto Press |
| 1988 | Bruce Elliot | Irish Immigrants in the Canadas: A New Approach | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 1989 | Philip Marchand | Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger | Random House of Canada Limited |
| 1990 | RD Gidney , WPJ Millar | Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth Century Ontario | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 1991 | Marianne McLean and John T. Saywell | The People of Glengarry: Highlanders in Transition 1745-1820 and Just Call Me Mitch. The Life of Mitchell F. Hepburn | McGill-Queen's University Press and University of Toronto Press |
| 1992 | Franca Iacovetta | Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 1993 | Douglas McCalla | Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada 1784-1870 | University of Toronto Press |
| 1994 | RD Gidney , WPJ Millar | Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth Century Ontario | University of Toronto Press |
| 1995 | Patricia Jason | Wild Things: Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario 1790–1914 | University of Toronto Press |
| 1996 | Lynne Marks | Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario | University of Toronto Press |
| 1997 | Keith Walden | Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of Late Victorian Culture | University of Toronto Press |
| 1998 | Margaret June Hillyard Little | 'No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit' - The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario | Oxford University Press |
| 1999 | Charlotte Gray | Sisters in the Wilderness. The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill | Penguin Books Canada Limited |
| 2000 | James TH Connor | Doing Good: The Life of Toronto's General Hospital | University of Toronto Press |
| 2001 | Laurel Sefton MacDowell | Renegade Lawyer: The Life of JL Cohen | University of Toronto Press |
| 2002 | Martin Friedland | The University of Toronto: A History | University of Toronto Press |
| 2003 | Terry Crowley | Marriage of Minds: Isabel and Oscar Skelton Reinventing Canada | University of Toronto Press |
| 2004 | Peter L. Storck | Journey to the Ice Age: Discovering An Ancient World | University of British Columbia Press |
| 2005 | Philip Girard | Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life. Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History | University of Toronto Press |
| 2006 | Kerry Abel | Changing Places: History, Community, and Identity in Northeastern Ontario | University of Toronto Press |
| 2007 | Richard J. Gwyn | John A .: The Man Who Made Us | Random House Canada |
| 2008 | Catharine Anne Wilson | Tenants in Time: Family Strategies, Land, and Liberalism in Upper Canada, 1799–1871 | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 2009 | Sharon Wall | The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 | UBC Press |
| 2010 | Michelle A. Hamilton | Collections and Objections: Aboriginal Material Culture in Southern Ontario, 1791-1914 | McGill-Queen's University Press |
| 2011 | NN | NN | |
| 2012 | NN | NN |
Web links
- http://www.champlainsociety.ca/
- Previous Winners of the Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History (PDF; 169 kB). Accessed November 21, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.champlainsociety.ca/
- ↑ a b c d Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . November 27, 2008. Accessed October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Kudos for U of G History Professor's Book. October 20, 2009. Accessed October 5, 2012.
- ↑ News Archives ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - University of Western Ontario . 2011. Accessed October 5, 2012.
