Canadian History Award

CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History

Award History | Award Details | Entry Information | Winners

History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants “honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.”

For more information about the CAA Awards for Adult Literature, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History

About the Award

CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History is for a work of historical non-fiction on a Canadian topic.

Funding History

The CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History was established in 1997. It is made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Lela Florence Common, a long-time member of the Hamilton Branch of the Canadian Authors Association.

Mrs. Common had a life-long interest in history, and was active in research and writing on historical topics.

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Entry Information

DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by January 15, 2013.

The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact the CAA National Office.

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CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History Winners

1997 Phil Jenkins | An Acre of Time
1998 Dorothy Harley Eber | Images of Justice
1999 Rod McQueen | The Eatons
2000 D'Arcy Jenish | Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and Blackfoot Conspiracy
2001 Will Ferguson | Canadian History for Dummies
2002 Ken McGoogan | Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin
2003 Derek Hayes | Historical Atlas of Canada
2004 Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok and David Morrison | Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
2005 Charlotte Gray | The Museum Called Canada
2006 J.L. Granatstein | The Last Good War
2007 Mark Zuehlke | For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
2008 Robert Wright | Three Nights in Havana
2009 J.M. Bumsted | Lord Selkirk: A Life
2010 Jonathan F. Vance | A History of Canadian Culture
2011 Shelagh D. Grant | Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
2012 Richard Gwyn | Nation Maker
2013 Michael S. Cross | A Biography of Robert Baldwin: The Morning-Star of Memory

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