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. Biographical works are not eligible.
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.
Entry Information
The nominations deadline is December 15th each year. Entries should be postmarked by that date, except for works published after December 1st, in which case they must be postmarked no later than January 15th in the following year.
The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact the CAA National Office.
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
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Updated: June 8, 2009
