François-Xavier Garneau Medal
{{short description|Book prize}}
The François-Xavier Garneau Medal is a book prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. Awarded only every five years since it was first awarded in 1980, the CHA describes the Medal as its "most prestigious" prize, honouring "an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research."{{Cite web|title=CHA Prizes|url=https://cha-shc.ca/english/what-we-do/prizes|access-date=2020-07-23|website=cha-shc.ca|language=en}} The Medal is named for François-Xavier Garneau, a 19th-century Quebecois poet and civil servant who wrote a classic three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada.{{Cite web|title=Histoire du Canada (François-Xavier Garneau) - La Fondation Lionel-Groulx|url=https://www.fondationlionelgroulx.org/Histoire-du-Canada-Francois-Xavier.html|access-date=2020-07-23|website=www.fondationlionelgroulx.org}}
Recipients
| class="wikitable"
!Winner !Title |
| 1980
|{{ill|Louise Dechêne|fr}} |Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle (1974) |
| 1985
|A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle (1978) |
| 1990
|Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (1986) |
| 1995
|The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (1990) |
| 2000
|Quelques arpents d'Amérique : population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 (1996) |
| 2005
|The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (1998) |
| 2010
|The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World (2003) |
| 2015
|Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (2011) |
| 2020
|Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy (2017) |
See also
References
External links
- [https://cha-shc.ca/english/what-we-do/prizes/the-francois-xavier-garneau-medal.htm Canadian Historical Association Prizes]