Books on lacrosse and growing up Cree in northern Alberta are among dozens of Canadian-history titles to be recognized by book prize juries so far this year, along with books about labour relations, taxes and efforts by women to gain the vote.
Allan Downey’s Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood won the 2019 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, with the jury saying it “tells the fascinating story of Canada’s national game of lacrosse” and “makes an important and valuable contribution to Canadian cultural history and social understanding in an era with hopes of reconciliation and better understanding.”
Another finalist for that award, Shirley Tillotson’s Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy, won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2019 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize.