1930s 1940s
J. F. C. Wright , Slava Bohu (1940)Emily Carr , Klee Wyck Bruce Hutchison , The Unknown Country (1942)Edgar McInnis , The Unguarded Frontier (1942)E. K. Brown , On Canadian Poetry (1943)John Robins , The Incomplete Anglers (1943)Dorothy Duncan , Partner in Three Worlds (1944)Edgar McInnis , The War: Fourth Year (1944)Ross Munro , Gauntlet to Overlord (1945)Evelyn M. Richardson , We Keep a Light (1945)Frederick Phillip Grove , In Search of Myself (1946)Arthur R. M. Lower , Colony to Nation (1946)William Sclater , Haida (1947)Robert MacGregor Dawson , The Government of Canada (1947)Thomas Head Raddall , Halifax, Warden of the North (1948)C. P. Stacey , The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 (1948)Hugh MacLennan , Cross-country (1949)Robert MacGregor Dawson , Democratic Government in Canada (1949) 1950s
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , The Saskatchewan (1950)W. L. Morton , The Progressive Party in Canada (1950)Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada (1951)
Josephine Phelan , The Ardent Exile (1951)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician (1952)Bruce Hutchison , The Incredible Canadian (1952)J. M. S. Careless , Canada, A Story of Challenge (1953)N. J. Berrill , Sex and the Nature of Things (1953)Hugh MacLennan , Thirty and Three (1954)Arthur R. M. Lower , This Most Famous Stream (1954)N. J. Berrill , Man's Emerging Mind (1955)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain (1955)Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North (1956)Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict (1956)
Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny (1957)Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant (1957)Pierre Berton , Klondike (1958)Joyce Hemlow , The History of Fanny Burney (1958)[No award] (1959) 1960s 1970s
[No award] (1970)
Pierre Berton , The Last Spike [No award] (1972)
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land (1973)
Charles Ritchie , The Siren Years (1974)Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson , Hallowed Walls (1975)Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (1976)
F. R. Scott , Essays on the Constitution (1977)Roger Caron , Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars Maria Tippett , Emily Carr (1979)Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe (1979)Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism (1979) 1980s
Jeffrey Simpson , Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration (1980)George Calef , Caribou and the Barren-Land (1981)Christopher Moore , Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town (1982)Jeffery Williams , Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General (1983)Sandra Gwyn , The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1984)Ramsay Cook , The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada (1985)Northrop Frye , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare (1986)Michael Ignatieff , The Russian Album (1987)Anne Collins , In the Sleep Room (1988)Robert Calder , Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham (1989) 1990s
Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times (1990)Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (1991)Maggie Siggins , Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm (1992)Karen Connelly , Touch the Dragon (1993)John Livingston , Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication (1994)Rosemary Sullivan , Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen (1995)John Ralston Saul , The Unconscious Civilization (1996)Rachel Manley , Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood (1997)David Adams Richards , Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi (1998)Marq de Villiers , Water (1999) 2000s
Nega Mezlekia , Notes from the Hyena's Belly (2000)Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Ingenuity Gap Andrew Nikiforuk , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil (2002)Margaret MacMillan , Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Roméo Dallaire , Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (2005)Ross King , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006)Karolyn Smardz Frost , I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007)Christie Blatchford , Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army (2008)M. G. Vassanji , A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2009) 2010s
Allan Casey , Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life and Times (2011)Ross King , Leonardo and the Last Supper Sandra Djwa , Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (2013)Michael John Harris , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (2014)Mark L. Winston , Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive (2015)Bill Waiser , A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (2016)Graeme Wood , The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State (2017)Darrel J. McLeod , Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age' (2018)Don Gillmor , To the River: Losing My Brother (2019) 2020s 
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