Award Recipients

Charlotte Gray — best-selling novelist, well-respected magazine journalist and frequent political commentator — has laboured faithfully and meticulously in Canadian history and biography for years with her impressive literary talents and dedication.

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering maintains a recognition program for members who contribute to the promotion and preservation of engineering's past, as well as produce print publications, a web site and programs for oral history; and places historical plaques on railway trestles, bridges and canals.

In 2001, we recognized the CBC and Mark Starowicz for the epic 17-part history series, Canada: A People's History.

Author of nineteen books, recognized for his major contributions in documenting Canadian corporate and business history in an accessible way.

CBC Radio journalist — Bob Johnstone, honoured for his “Today in History,” radio vignettes.

The CRB Foundation won for producing its popular Heritage Minutes series, the 60-second mini-movies highlighting Canada's past, seen in theatres and on French and English television. Now known as the Historica Minutes.

Jacques Lacoursière is a prolific and renowned French-Canadian author and historian who is to Québec, what Pierre Berton is to English Canada.

James H. Gray, now deceased, was a well-known chronicler of Western Canadian history and author of such popular and accessible books as Red Lights on the Prairies, The Boy from Winnipeg and Booze.

Pierre Berton was a journalist, editor, TV personality — but most of all — historian, for transforming Canadian history into chart-topping best sellers.