The Macdonald Prize became part of the National History Awards in 2009.

The prize, in the amount of $1,000, is awarded annually by the Canadian Historical Association. In 2011, the winner will be announced at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, for the non-fiction work of Canadian history “judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past.”

Visit the Macdonald Prize area of the Canadian Historical Association website.

2011 Winner Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

Congratulations to Michel Ducharme (University of British Columbia), author of Le concept de liberté au Canada a l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838).

Canada's History editor Mark Reid reports:

The concept of “freedom,” and most importantly, how Canadians viewed, and exercised, that freedom. That’s the issue that lies at the heart of the best academic history book of 2011, as chosen by the Canadian Historical Association. This year’s winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald prize for academic writing is Michel Ducharme of the University of British Columbia. He won the top writing prize at this year’s CHA awards gala for his 2010 book, Le concept de liberté au Canada a l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838). Read more

Shortlist for the 2011 Sir John A Macdonald Prize

Michel Ducharme

Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques, 1776-1838. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

Shelagh Grant

Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America. Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.

Sean Mills

The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

Joy Parr

Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003. University of British Columbia Press, 2010.

Joan Sangster

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2010.