François-Xavier Garneau Medal

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The François-Xavier Garneau Medal is a five-year award from the Canadian Historical Association for outstanding contribution to Canadian historical research. It is named after the historian François-Xavier Garneau (1809–1866) and represents the most prestigious award of the Canadian Historical Association. It was first awarded in 1980.

Award winners

  • 1980: Louise Dechêne , Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle. (1974, Paris: Plon)
  • 1985: Michael Bliss , A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle (1978, Macmillan of Canada)
  • 1990: John M. Beattie , Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (1986, Princeton University Press)
  • 1995: Joy Parr , The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (1990, University of Toronto Press)
  • 2000: Gérard Bouchard , Quelques arpents d'Amérique: population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 (1996, Montréal: Les Éditions du Boréal)
  • 2005: Timothy Brook , The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. (1998, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press)
  • 2010: John C. Weaver , The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World. (2003, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press)
  • 2015: Bettina Bradbury , Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal. (2011, Vancouver: UBC Press)
  • 2020: Shirley Tillotson , Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy . (2017, Vancouver: UBC Press)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 2020 CHA Prize Winners. In: cha-shc.ca. Canadian Historical Association, June 3, 2020, accessed June 3, 2020 .