AWARDS
Margaret McWilliams Award Past Winners
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polular History | Osborne Village – An Architectural Tour | Susan Algie and James Wagner | Winnipeg Architecture Foundation |
| Local History | Valley of the Birdtail – An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation | Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) | Harper Collins |
| Scholarly History | Medicare’s Histories – Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada | Esyllt W. Jones, James Hanley, Delia Gavrus | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular History | Ancestors: Indigenous Peoples of W. Canada in Historic Photographs | Sarah Carter and Inez Lightning | University of Alberta Press |
| Local History | Thinking Big: A History of the Winnipeg Business Community to the Second World War | Jim Blanchard | Great Plains Publishing |
| Scholarly History | Authorized Heritage: Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada | Robert Coutts | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular History | Historic Photographs of Portage la Prairie, 1870-1939: From Saskatchewan Trail to Royal Road | James Kostuchuk, Matthew D. Lacroix (editor) | Portage la Prairie Heritage Advisory Committee |
| Local History | Fire, Folly and Fiasco: Why it took 100 Years to Build the Manitoba Museum | James A. Burns | Woolly Mammoth Publishing |
| Local history – memoirs | Trailblazer in First Nations Education: Duzahan Mani Win, Doris Dowan-Pratt | Doris Dowan-Pratt, Leona Devuyst, and Ed Ledohowski | Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre |
| Scholarly History | Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies | Rhonda Hinther and Jim Mochoruk (editors) | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular History | The Wittenbergs | Sarah Klassen | Turnstone Press |
| Scholarly History | Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty: An Anishinabe Understanding of Treaty One | Aimée Craft | Purich Publishing |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular History | Silver Screens on the Prairie: An Illustrated History of Motion Picture Theatres in Manitoba | Russ Gourluck | Great Plains Publications |
| Scholarly History | Inside the Ark: The Hutterites in Canada and the United States | Yossi Katz & John Lehr | University of Regina Press |
| Local history | For Elise: Unveiling the Forgotten Woman on the Criddle Homestead | Oriole A. Vane Veldhuis | Oriole A. Vane Veldhuis |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular History | The Home Front: Hopscotch and Heartache While Daddy was at War | Margaret Dennis Owen | Heartland Associates |
| Scholarly History | Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland | John C. Lehr | University of Manitoba Press |
| Local history | Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967 | Dale Barbour | University of Manitoba Press |
| Much Ado About Squat: Squatters and Homesteaders Ravage Riding Mountain Forest | Ronald Herbert Stevens | Heartland Associates |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | Manitoba Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries | Barry Ferguson and Robert Wardhaugh (editors) | Canadian Plains Research Centre |
| Local history | The Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End | Russ Gourluck | Great Plains Publications |
| Popular History | Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age | Jim Blanchard | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | Negotiating the Numbered Treaties: An Intellectual and Political Biography of Alexander Morris | Robert J. Talbot | Purich Publishing Ltd. |
| Local history | Between Earth and Sky: Steinbach, the First 50 Years | Ralph Friesen | The Steinbach Heritage Committee |
| Popular History | Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People in Manitoba | Allan Levine | Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada and Heartland Publications |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915 | Sarah Carter | University of Alberta Press |
| Local history | Pauline Boutal: Destin d’artiste, 1894-1992 | Louise Duguay | Les Éditions de Blé |
| Laurent Desjardins: Un sportif en politique | Bernard Bocquel | Les Éditions du Blé | |
| Popular History | A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant | Gerhard J. Ens | University of Alberta Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg | Esyllt Jones | University of Toronto Press |
| Local history | A Place Out of Time | Robert Leslie “Alf/Bob” Silver | Great Plains Publications |
| Popular History | Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains | Tony Rees | Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group |
| First-person memoir | A Glowing Dream: A Memoir | Roland Penner | J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | “I Will Fear No Evil:” Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 | Susan Elaine Gray | University of Calgary Press |
| Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe – Russia – Canada, 1525 to 1980 (honourable mention) | James Urry | University of Manitoba Press | |
| Organizational history | St. John’s College: Faith and Education in Western Canada | John Michael “Jack” Bumsted | University of Manitoba Press |
| St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church: Celebrating 100 Years, Together for Tomorrow | St. Nicholas Church & June Dutka | St. Nicholas Church | |
| Local history | Vista Tales from Islay School District No. 733 in Vista, Manitoba | Gerald R. Brown | |
| Popular History | Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue | Russ Gourluck | Great Plains Publications |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly History | The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes | Alvin J. Esau | University of British Columbia Press |
| Institutional history | Memoir of a Living Disease: The Story of Earl Hershfield and Tuberculosis in Manitoba and Beyond | Maurice Mierau | Great Plains Publications |
| Local history | Phantom Lake: North of 54 | Birk Sproxton | University of Alberta Press |
| Au Pays de Gabrielle Roy (honourable mention) | Annette Saint-Pierre | Éditions des Plaines | |
| Historical fiction | Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein | Carol Matas | Scholastic Canada |
| Popular History | Winnipeg 1912: Diary of a City | Jim Blanchard | University of Manitoba Press |
| A View From the Ledge: An Insider’s Look at the Schreyer Years (honourable mention) | Herb Schulz | Heartland Associates | |
| Audiovisual presentation | Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit | Jamie Brown & Lynne Skromeda | Frantic Films |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Formidable Heritage: Manitoba’s North & the Cost of Development | Jim Mochoruk | University of Manitoba Press |
| Popular book | A Store Like No Other: Eaton’s of Winnipeg | Russ Gourluck | Great Plains Publications |
| Local history | Saint-Laurent, Manitoba – Evolving Métis Identities 1850-1914 | Nicole St-Onge | Canadian Plains Research Center – University of Regina |
| Organization | St. Charles Country Club: A Centennial History | Barbara Huck & Doug Whiteway | Heartland Associates Inc. |
| Historical fiction | Louis, fils des Prairies | Noëlie Palud-Pelletier | Les Éditions des Plaines |
| Short article | Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy and Research on Métisaage and Métis Origins on the Saskatchewan River: The Case of the Jerome Family | Ruth Swan & Edward A. Jerome | Prairie Forum, volume 29, number 1 (Spring 2004), pages 1-24. |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Archbishop A.-A. Taché of St. Boniface: The “Good Fight” and the Illusive Vision | Raymond Joseph Armand Huel | University of Alberta Press |
| Popular book | The Canadian Crucible: Manitoba’s Role in Canada’s Great Divide | Frances Russell | Heartland Associates Inc. |
| Local history | Crossroads of the Continent: A History of the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers | Barbara Huck (editor) | Heartland Associates Inc. |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Walk Towards the Gallows | Reinhold Kramer & Tom Mitchell | Oxford University Press |
| Popular book | 1000 Miles of Prairie | Jim Blanchard | University of Manitoba Press |
| Historical fiction | Footsteps in the Snow | Carol Matas | Scholastic Canada |
| Local history | From Fire to Flood: A History of Theatre in Manitoba | Kevin Longfield | Signature Editions |
| Local history (honourable mention) | David Heinrich Friesen Family | Lynne Ward | |
| Organization (honourable mention) | Riverview Health Centre: The First Century of Legacy and Care | Riverview Health Centre Educational Special Projects |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson’s Bay Company Winterer | Barbara Belyea (editor) | Wilfrid Laurier Press |
| Popular book | In Search of the Western Sea: Selected Journals of La Vérendrye | Denis Combet | Great Plains Publications |
| Historical fiction | Over the Prison Wall: The Story of Percy Moggey | John Warms | Roviera Publishing |
| Local history | Mission to Little Grand Rapids: Life with the Anishinabe 1927-1938 | John Warms | Signature Editions |
| University thesis | The Rossville Scandal, 1846: James Evans, the Cree and a Mission on Trial | Raymond Morris Shirrit-Beaumont | University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg |
| Organizations | The University of Manitoba: An Illustrated History | John Michael “Jack” Bumsted | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | The Road to the Rapids: Nineteenth Century Church and Society at St. Andrew’s Parish | Robert J. Coutts | University of Calgary Press |
| Popular book | Misthay Sakahegan, The Great Lake: The Beauty and the Treachery of Lake Winnipeg | Frances Russell | Heartland Associates Inc. |
| Historical fiction | A Reckoning of Angels | Stuart James Whitley | Great Plains Publications |
| Organizations | The People’s Co-op: The Life and Times of a North End Institution | Jim Mochoruk with Nancy Kardash | Fernwood Publishing |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Niddrie of the North-West | John J. Chalmers & John W. Chalmers | University of Alberta Press |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Rites of Passage (Eriksdale) | Lucy B. Lindell | |
| Special projects | Heritage Stew | Boissevain and Morton Regional Library and Community Archives |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System 1879-1986 | John S. Milloy | University of Manitoba Press |
| Local history | Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent | Christopher Dafoe | Great Plains Publications |
| Popular book | Cartoon Charlie: The Life and Art of Animation Pioneer Charles Thorson | Gene Walz | Great Plains Publications |
| Historical fiction | The Blood Libel | Allan Levine | Great Plains Publications |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Fur Trade Wars: The Founding of Western Canada | John Michael “Jack” Bumsted | Great Plains Publications |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Rites of Passage (Eriksdale) | Lucy B. Lindell | |
| Special projects | Heritage Stew | Boissevain and Morton Regional Library and Community Archives |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | T. A. Crerar: A Political Life | James Edgar Rea | McGill-Queen’s University Press |
| Popular book | Barker VC: William Barker, Canada’s Most Decorated War Hero | Wayne Ralph | Doubleday Canada Ltd. |
| University thesis | Friesens Corporation: Printers in Mennonite Manitoba 1951-1995 | Janie Thiessen | University of Manitoba |
| Institutional project | Building on a Tradition of Caring – The Sharon Home | Jim Carr (editor), Annalee Greenberg (research and writing) | The Sharon Home Inc. |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Faces of the Flood: Manitoba’s Courageous Battle Against the Red River | Jake MacDonald and Shirley Sandrel, photos by Tom Thomson | Stoddart Publishing Co. |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | The Red River Rebellion | John Michael “Jack” Bumsted | Watson & Dwyer / J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing |
| Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West | Harry Gutkin & Mildred Gutkin | NeWest Publishers Ltd. | |
| Local history | Voices from Hudson Bay – Cree Stories from York Factory | Flora Beardy & Robert Coutts | McGill-Queen’s University Press |
| Institutional history | Our Heritage – The Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, 1883-1995 | The Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg Historical Society | The Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg Historical Society |
| University essay (honourable mention) | Silver Crosses and Victory Loaves: The Rural Municipality of Morton at War, 1914-1918 | Major Marc Wilson James George CD | University of Manitoba |
| Audio-visual | To Cross a Frozen Sea | Alexander Dmytryszyn | Parks Canada |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | “As Their Natural Resources Fail:” Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930 | Frank Tough | University of British Columbia Press |
| Popular book | Shoestring Glory: A History of Semi-Pro Ball on the Prairies 1886-1994 | Lewis St. George Stubbs | Turnstone Press |
| Institutional history | A City at Leisure: An Illustrated History of Parks and Recreation Services in Winnipeg 1893-1993 | Catherine Macdonald | City of Winnipeg Parks and Recreation Department |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Severing the Ties that Bind: Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies | Katherine Pettipas | University of Manitoba Press |
| Subjects or Citizens? The Mennonite Experience in Canada, 1870-1925 | Adolf Ens | University of Ottawa Press | |
| Local history | The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 | John Michael “Jack” Bumsted | Watson & Dwyer Publishing Ltd. |
| Scholarly book (honourable mention) | The Ojibwa of Western Canada, 1780 to 1870 | Laura Peers | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular book | Elijah: No Ordinary Hero | Pauline Comeau | Douglas & McIntyre |
| Local history | Crescentwood: A History | The Crescentwood Home Owners Association & Randy Rostecki | The Crescentwood Home Owners Association |
| University thesis | The Hudson Bay Lowland Cree in the Fur Trade to 1821: A Study in Historical Geography | Victor Petro Lytwyn | University of Manitoba |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Sagkeeng | George T. Lalor | Pemmican Publications Inc. |
| Local history (honourable mention) | The First Hundred Years, 1893-1993. R.M. of Rosser | The RM of Rosser Centennial History Book Committee | The R.M. of Rosser Centennial History Book Committee |
| University thesis (honourable mention) | The Public Career of Stuart Garson: The Manitoba Years | Mark Eric Vajcner | University of Manitoba |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F. E. Black MD | Julie Vandervoort | University of Manitoba Press |
| Popular book | The Iron Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Charlotte Ross MD | Fred Edge | University of Manitoba Press |
| University essay | Restoring Order: The RNWMP and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 | Eric Angel | Queen’s University |
| University thesis | Quiet Dignity: Aspects of Building Schools in the Winnipeg School Division No. 1, 1871-1928 | Giles Bugailiskis | University of Manitoba |
| Special project (honourable mention) | Tapestry: Winnipeg West End | Gordon Bell Grade 12 Students | Gordon Bell High School |
| Audio-visual | Il Regalo Degli Amatesi: A Social History of Italians in Winnipeg | Stanislao Carbone |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| University thesis | Something More Than Mere Ornament: Cloth and Indian-European Relationships in the Eighteenth Century | Erica Smith | University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg |
| University essay | Origins and Influences: The First Years of the Reverend Henry Budd | Raymond M. Beaumont | University of Winnipeg |
| Scholarly book | Metis Lands in Manitoba | Thomas Flanagan | University of Calgary Press |
| Scholarly book (honourable mention) | Margaret McWilliams – An Interwar Feminist | Mary Kinnear | McGill-Queen’s University Press |
| University thesis (honourable mention) | Ethnicity and the Canadianization of Red River Politics | Ruth Swan | University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Sigfusson’s Roads | Svein Sigfusson | Watson & Dwyer Publishing Co. |
| Special project | Where the Spirit Lives | Neal Putt | Pemmican Publications |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular book | Joe Zuken: Citizen and Socialist | Doug Smith | James Lorimer & Co. |
| University thesis | Manitoba Mennonites and the Winnipeg Mobilization Board in World War II | Kenneth Wayne Riddig | University of Manitoba |
| University essay | Images of Peguis as a Manitoba Folk Hero and Ojibwa Leadership Patterns | Ingrid Botting | Great Plains Publications |
| University thesis (honourable mention) | Constructing Corporate Images of the Fur Trade: The Hudson’s Bay Company, Public Relations and The Beaver Magazine, 1920-1945 | Peter G. Geller | University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Curling Capital: Winnipeg and the Roarin’ Game, 1876-1988 | Morris Mott and John Allardyce | University of Manitoba Press |
| University thesis | The Keewatin Inuit and Interband Trade and Communication, 1717-1900 | Renee Fossett Jones | University of Manitoba / University of Winnipeg |
| University essay | Farming the Frontier: Agriculture in the Fur Trade, A Case Study of the Provisional Farm at Lower Fort Garry | Thomas Flanagan | University of Calgary Press |
| Scholarly book (honourable mention) | Singing Mennonite: Low German Songs Among the Mennonites | Carolyn Podruchny | McGill University |
| University thesis (honourable mention) | Ethnicity and the Canadianization of Red River Politics | Doreen Helen Klassen | University of Manitoba Press |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Trader, Tripper, Trapper: The Life of a Bay Man | Sydney Augustus Keighley | University of Winnipeg / Watson & Dwyer |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | As Long as the Rivers Run: Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada | James B. Waldram | University of Manitoba Press |
| University thesis | The Anglo-Protestant Churches of Manitoba and the Manitoba Schools Question, 1889-1896 | Christopher Hackett | University of Manitoba |
| University essay | Family Memory, Photography and the Fur Trade: The Sinclairs at Norway House, 1902-1911 | Thomas Flanagan | University of Calgary Press |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Dogtown to Dauphin | Adam Sharp Little | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Thompson, A City and Its People | Graham Buckingham | Thompson Historical Society |
| Scholarly book (honourable mention) | The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy, and War, 1790-1870 | John S. Millroy | University of Manitoba Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | First Days, Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History | Mary Kinnear | Canadian Plains Research Center |
| Popular book | The Worst of Times, The Best of Times | Harry Gutkin & Mildred Gutkin | Fitzhenry and Whiteside |
| University thesis | An Ethnohistory of the Western Ojibwa, 1780-1830 | Laura L. Peers | University of Manitoba |
| Local history | Gretna: Window on the Northwest | F. G. Enns | Village of Gretna History Committee |
| Institutional history | Search for Renewal: The Story of the Rudnerweider/EMMC | Jack Heppner | |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | A Mennonite Odyssey | Rhinehart Friesen | Hyperion Press |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Indian-European Trade Relations in the Lower Saskatchewan River Region to 1840 | Paul C. Thistle | University of Manitoba Press |
| Popular book | People of the Interlake | Andrew Blicq and Ken Gigliotti | Turnstone Press |
| University thesis | Business, Art and Labour: Brigden’s and the Growth of the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry 1870-1950 | Angela Elizabeth Davis | University of Manitoba |
| Local history | The Wheat King: The Selected Letters and Papers of A. J. Cotton, 1888-1913 | Wendy Owen | Manitoba Record Society |
| Special project | Planting the Garden: An Annotated Archival Bibliography of the History of Women in Manitoba | Mary Kinnear and Vera K. Fast | University of Manitoba Press |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | The Foot of the River | George Lalor, illustrated by Real Berard | Pemmican Publications |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Symbol in Stone: The Art and Politics of a Public Building | Marilyn Baker | Hyperion Press |
| Popular book | Pride of the Land: An Affectionate History of Brandon’s Agricultural Exhibitions | Ken Coates and Fred McGuinness | Peguis Publishers |
| University thesis | Methodist Indian Day Schools and Indian Communities in Northern Manitoba | Susan Elaine Dueck | University of Manitoba |
| Local history | Icelandic River Saga | Nelson Gerrard | Saga Publications |
| Special project | Ghost Towns of Manitoba | Helen Mulligan and Wanda Ryder | Heritage House |
| Institutional history | The Lion Rampant: A Pictorial History of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, 1910-1985 | Grant C. A. Tyler | Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada |
| Institutional history (honourable mention) | The Story of Home Street Mennonite Church 1957-1982 | Dennis Stoeszfor | Home Street Mennonite Church |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local history | Volost and Municipality, The Rural Municipality of Rhineland 1884-1984 | Gerhard John Ens | |
| Popular book | The North I Love | Gerald William Malaher | |
| Barns of Western Canada | Bob Hainstock | ||
| Adult essay | The Jewish Farmers of Western Canada | Cyril E. Leonoff | |
| Special project | Treasures and Traditions, A Catalogue and Exhibit | Manitoba Multicultural Museums Committee | |
| Institutional history | Footprints of a Pilgrim People | Peter D. Zacharias | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Lasting Impressions: Historical Sketches of the Swan River Valley | Swan Valley Historical Society | |
| Scholarly book (honourable mention) | The Battle of Batoche | Walter Hildebrandt | |
| The Icelandic Unitarian Connection | Rev. V. Emil Gudmundson | ||
| Popular book (honourable mention) | The Native Link | Rupert Leslie Taylor | |
| University essay | Mayoralty Candidates of Winnipeg | Henry Huber |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional history | A Boundless Horizon: The Winnipeg Art Gallery | Virginia Berry | |
| Institutional history | BGH – 100: A History of Brandon General Hospital 1883-1983 | F. Madeline Perry | |
| Local history | Altona: The Story of a Prairie Town | Esther Epp-Tiessen | |
| Special project | Canadian Airways Limited | Shirley Render | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Blumenort, A Mennonite Community in Transition | Royden Loewen | |
| Book (honourable mention) | The Vernacular Architecture of Three Ethnic Groups in Manitoba: A Comparative Analysis | Gwendolyn Edna Dowsett | |
| Little Black Devils, A History of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles | Bruce Tascona and Eric Wells | ||
| Institutional history (honourable mention) | Winnipeg’s Villa Rosa: Total Assistance for Single Parents | Gina Sylvestre |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional history | 100 Years of Caring: The History of the Convalescent Home of Winnipeg 1883-1983 | Lesley Thomson | |
| Local history | The Rural Municipality of Dufferin 1880-1980 | June M. Watson (compiler & editor) | |
| Institutional history (honourable mention) | Once More Unto the Breach: St. George’s Anglican Church 1880-1980 | Mary Lile Benham | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Reapers of the Valley 1882-1982, History of the Municipality of Montcalm | Bernard R. Ayotte (coordinator) | |
| A Century of Living Hartney 1882-1982 | Hartney and District Historical Committee | Hartney and District Historical Committee | |
| Ox Trails to Blacktop | Oak Lake History Committee | ||
| University essay (honourable mention) | The Building of Holy Trinity Anglican Church | Giles Bugailiskis | University of Winnipeg |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| University thesis | Disorder, Dependency and Fiscal Responsibility: Unemployment Relief in Winnipeg, 1907-1942 | Michael R. Goeres | |
| Reform, War and Industrial Crisis in Manitoba: F. J. Dixon and the Framework of Consensus, 1903-1920 | Duncan Norman Irvine | ||
| Local history | Selkirk: The First Hundred Years | Barry Potyondi | |
| Book | Porridge and Old Clothes | Eileen M. Scott | |
| Student essay | Ukrainian Immigration to Western Canada | Scott Armstrong | |
| Book | The ‘Feminist’ Movement in Canada, 1880-1920, and its Manifestation by Winnipeg Women | Margaret McPherson | |
| The Internment of Ukrainians in Canada During the First World War | Peter Melnycky | ||
| The Conditions Within and Outside Manitoba that Led to the Destruction of Denominational Schools Within Manitoba and the Creation of a Public School System | Doreen M. Craton | ||
| Local history | Come Into Our Heritage | Rural Municipality of Argyle | |
| Beckoning Hills Revisited | Boissevain History Committee | ||
| Reflections 1882-1982: A Community History of the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain and the Town of Killarney | J. A. Victor David Museum and New Horizons | ||
| Brandon: A Prospect of a City | Mary Hume (editor) | ||
| Golden Memories of Bissett | R. J. Minton | ||
| Book | Andrew and Agnes Rutherford and Their Descendants 1882-1982 | Agnes L. Florence | |
| Local history | Hugging the Meridian: A Manitoba Municipal History 1881-1981 | Betty Dyck | |
| Book | Pioneer Profiles: Ukrainian Settlers in Manitoba | Michael Ewanchuk | |
| Audio-visual | Flight Into the 20th Century | Department of Education |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Journey Into Our Heritage | Harry Gutkin | |
| Local history | Memories of Lorne 1880-1980 | Yvette Brandt and the RM of Lorne | |
| University thesis | The Growth of Winnipeg 1870-1886 | Randolph Rostecki | |
| Student essay | Religious History of Winnipeg | David Lowry | |
| Local history | Golden Memories, History of the Pioneers of the School Districts of Golden Stream, Palestine, Steele Bridge, and Woodside | The Four Districts History Group | |
| Local history | Home to Harding 1879-1981 | Constance Howey | |
| Institutional history | By Steps Not Leaps, St. Augustine of Canterbury Parish, Brandon 1881-1981 | St. Augustine’s History Committee | |
| Special project | Beckoning Hills Historical Calendar | Boissevain and Morton Regional Library | |
| Adult essay | Vignettes of the Working Poor in Winnipeg 1920-1928 | Anna McDonald | |
| Student essay | The Icelandic Settlement in the Interlake of Manitoba | Gordon Strachan | |
| Student essay | Winnipeg: A History | Manley Chan and Allan Moore | |
| Student essay | Manitoba’s Aviation in History | Barbara Grant | |
| Student essay | The History of Wheat in Manitoba | Margaret Racz | |
| Student essay | Mennonites in Manitoba | Julia Kim and Michelle Archambeau |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special project | Western Canada Pictorial Index | Eric Wells | |
| Local history | Manitoba Agricultural Museum, 25 Years of Progress | Penny Ham | Manitoba Agricultural Museum |
| Scholarly book | John Bracken, A Political Biography | John Kendle | University of Toronto Press |
| University thesis | Manly Sports and Manitobans, Settlement Days to World War One | Morris Kenneth Mott | Queen’s University |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Trails to Rails to Highways, A History of the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth | Bob Porth and Craig MacKenzie | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Deloraine Scans a Century 1880-1980 | Verna Hasselfield | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Our First Hundred Years, History of St. Francois Xavier Municipality | Historical Committee of St. Francois Xavier Municipality | |
| Book (honourable mention) | The Militia of Manitoba, A Study of Infantry and Cavalry Regiments Since 1883 | Bruce Tascona |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| University thesis | A Political History of the Ukrainian Community in Manitoba 1899-1922 | Peter Melnycky | |
| Adult essay | Single Tax, Socialism and the Independant Labour Party of Manitoba: The Political Ideas of F. J. Dixon and S. J. Farmer | Allen Mills | |
| Local history | Yesteryears – Woodlands Municipal Memoirs | Opal Langrell | |
| University essay (honourable mention) | The Conservation of Historic Buildings | Robert John Moskal | |
| Student essay (honourable mention) | Reflections on a Manitoba Heritage: Short Biographies of Three Early Manitobans | Robert Clark |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| University essay or thesis | Alexander Morris and the Creation of the Office of Premier: A Historical Analysis of the Evolution of Responsible Government in Manitoba | Laurence F. Wilmot | |
| University essay or thesis | One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganizations and Dissolution (1878-1971) | Mary B. Perfect | |
| University essay or thesis | The Commissioned Officers of the Hudson Bay Company and the Deed Poll in the 1870s with Particular Emphasis on the Fur Trade Party (1878-1879) | Robert V. Oleson | |
| University essay or thesis | Country Town: The History of Minnedosa | Barry S. Potyondi | |
| University essay or thesis (Honourable mention) | Winnipeg: A Theatrical History | John Kiernan | |
| Local history | Riverton and the Icelandic Settlement | Steinn O. Thompson | |
| Local history | Gimli Saga | Gimli Women’s Institute | |
| Local history | Mennonite Memoires | L. Klippenstein and J. G. Toews | |
| Local history | Springfield: First Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973 | Dugald Women’s Institute | |
| Local history | The Grosse Isle Story | Gross Isle Women’s Institute | |
| Popular book | The Nonsuch | Laird Rankin | Clarke, Irwin & Co. |
| Popular book | Winnipeg: An Illustrated History | Alan F. J. Artibise | James Lorimer |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | Off and Running | Keith Wilson and Antoine S. Lussier | Peguis Publishers |
| Popular book (honourable mention) | The Diary of Mary Louise Pickering-Thomson | Norman Williamson (editor) | Norman J. Williamson |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular book | Mrs. Doctor, Reminiscences of Manitoba Doctors Wives | Audrey Peterkin and Margaret Shaw | |
| Institutional history | Learned Friends, Reminiscences, Pitblado & Hoskin, 1882-1974 | Ethel Anna Sankey Tillenius | Pitblado & Hoskin |
| Local history | Reinland – An Experience in Community | Peter D. Zacharias | |
| Scholarly book | Dictionary of Ukrainian Canadian Biography | Vladimir J. Kaye (editor and compiler) | |
| Adult essay | Early Electric Street Lighting in Winnipeg | Herbert W. Blake | |
| Special project | The Restoration of the Bank of Montreal, Main Branch, Portage and Main | Bank of Montreal | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Hazeldell in Review 1890-1960, School District 611, Sec 27 Twp 2 R15W | Elva McDonald | |
| Student essay (honourable mention) | Peter Ratuski, The Story of a Ukrainian Immigrant | Andrea Ratuski |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult essay | A Hundred Years of Health – A Brief Survey of the Winnipeg General Hospital | Beatrice Ellen Fines | |
| University essay | The Knights of Labour in Winnipeg, 1883-1891 | David Spector | |
| Local history | It’s Time to Remember, 1874-1974. A Hundred Years of Progress, Tremain-Hunterville Area | J. Tully McKenzie | Tremain Activity Group |
| Local history | Strathcona – Portrait of a Prairie Municipality | Freida Rajotte | United Churches of Belmont and Hilton |
| Scholarly book | The University of Winnipeg, A History of the Founding Colleges | Allen Gerald Bedford | University of Toronto Press |
| Scholarly book | Winnipeg in Maps 1816-1972 | Alan F. J. Artibise and Edward H. Dahl | Public Archives of Canada |
| Local history | Criddle-de-diddle-ensis, A Biographical History of the Criddles of Aweme, Manitoba Pioneers of the 1880s | Alma Criddle | |
| Adult essay (honourable mention) | Carriages at 10:45, The History of Early Winnipeg Theatres | Dorothy Garbutt | |
| Adult essay (honourable mention) | My Father – A Remembrance | Rita C. Trudel | |
| Individual contributions (honourable mention) | Research and writing on Hudson’s Bay Company’s “Winter Packet” | Rupert Leslie Taylor |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular book | Winnipeg Architecture 100 Years | William Paul Thompson and Henry D. Kalen | Queenston House |
| Local history | A View of the Birdtail | Marion Abra (compiler and editor) | History Committee of the Municipality of Birtle |
| Local history | A History of Winkler, 1892-1973 | Frank Brown | |
| University thesis | The Influence of Religion on Education for Native People in Manitoba Prior to 1870 | Arthur Rempel | |
| Adult essay | Transportation in the Western Fur Trade Era | H. B. Brehaut | |
| Individual contributions | Personal achievement in the field of Manitoba history | Real Berard | |
| Individual contributions | Personal achievement in the field of Manitoba history | Nan Shipley | |
| Individual contributions | Personal achievement in the field of Manitoba history | Wilson F. Green | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | The Old Stone Church. The History of Little Britain United Church (est. 1852) | K. Schneider and Gwen Fox | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | St. Laurent, Manitoba | Soeur Pauline Mercier |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audio-visual | In Memory of Margaret McWilliams | University Women’s Club of Winnipeg | |
| Individual contributions | Seven articles in Jewish Post and The Canadian Jewish News on Jewish immigration to Manitoba in the 1880s | Abraham J. Arnold | |
| University essay | Emerson During the 1880s: The Town, the People and the Railroad | James McClelland | |
| Local history | Homesteaders and Homemakers: A History of Elton Municipality in its First Century | The Elton Historical Committee | |
| Adult essay (honourable mention) | The Fort Brandon Story | Roy Brown | |
| Adult essay (honourable mention) | Reports and Letters of the Reverend W. H. Taylor | Anita Schmidt | |
| Adult essay (honourable mention) | The Railroads of Manitoba: The First Forty Years | George A. Moore | |
| Individual contributions (honourable mention) | “Historical Diary” broadcast on CBC radio since 1970 | Maurice Burchell |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | By Section, Township and Range | John Langton Tyman | |
| Popular book | Reflections On Our Heritage | Abe Warkentin | |
| University essay | Walk For Labour | Randolph Rostecki | |
| Special project | The Golden Thread: Or, The Last of the Pioneers. A Story of the Districts of Basswood and Minnedosa, Manitoba, from Community Beginnings to the Present Day | Reverend George H. Hambley | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Next Stop – Winnitoba! | D. A. Patterson and A. L. Crossin | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Grandmother Isaac | A. G. Isaac |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| University thesis | The Urban Development of Winnipeg 1874-1914 | Alan F. J. Artibise | |
| Adult essay | The Brandon Teachers “Strike” | Margaret Mann | |
| Student essay | Russian Jewish Immigration Into Manitoba and its Effects Upon | Mara Ludwig and Janice Karlinsky | |
| Special project | Red River House Museum, St. Andrew’s | Dr. E. C. Shaw | |
| Special project | Dugald Fashion Review | Mrs. Van Slyck | |
| Popular book | The Era of Streetcars in Winnipeg 1881-1895 | Herbert W. Blake | |
| University essay | To Evangelize? To Civilize | N. Jaye Goossens | |
| Adult essay | Canadian Mennonites and World War I | George H. Reimer | |
| Adult essay | What’s in a Manitoba Place Name | Penny Ham |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Manitoba Mosaic of Place Names | J. B. Rudnyckyj | |
| Special project | Short History of the Minnedosa Post Office | E. M. Macdonald | |
| Special project | Significant work in the History of Assiniboine Valley Boats | Roy Brown | |
| Special project | Lorette Collegiate students under the direction of Sister Lucie Arpin | ||
| Local history | Newdale, A History from 1870 to 1970 | Newdale Historical Society | |
| University essay | South Central Manitoba: A Study of Rural Society | Mel Mitchell | |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Between Mountain and Lake | Ochre River Women’s Institute | |
| Special project (honourable mention) | Centennial 100 Essays | G. Kroeker and students of Grant Park Collegiate | |
| Special project (honourable mention) | Time Tunnel | G. Langton and students of Cartwright Collegiate | |
| Special project (honourable mention) | St. Vital History | Students of Glenwood Junior High School | |
| Special project (honourable mention) | Louis Riel – A Play | Francis Peterman, Greenway School |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popular book | The Prairie W.A.S.P. | J. A. D. Stuart | |
| University essay | James Ross – An English Speaking Halfbreed in the Red River Settlement | Leonard Remis | |
| University essay | The Emergence of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Manitoba, 1932-1936 | N. Paul Cloutier | |
| University essay | Depression, Civic Politics and Market Square: Jake Penner’s First Year on Council | Brian McKillop | |
| Adult essay | The Saga of Turtle Mountain Coal | Anthony D. Doerksen | |
| Local history | Local history of Benito | Benito Collegiate Grade 11 class | |
| Individual contributions | Long-time residents and works on Churchill history | Mr. and Mrs. Angus MacIver | |
| Individual contributions | Contribution to history and geography of Manitoba | Martin Kavanagh | |
| Individual contributions | Recording and promoting history of Selkirk and area | Elsie McKey | |
| Special project | Restoration and preservation of Newmac Building, 436 Main Street, an example of Winnipeg 1890 architecture | Newman, MacLean and Associates | |
| Local history | Ripples From the Creek | Mrs. F. D. Baragar | |
| Adult essay | The St. Boniface Cathedral-Basilica | E. G. Lysak | |
| University essay | Rev. Dr. Salem G. Bland. A Study of His Activities and Influence in the Politics, Reform, Church and Society of Manitoba and Western Canada, 1903-1919 | Dennis L. Butcher | |
| University essay | Archibishop Langevin, Schools and Politics in Manitoba 1895-1915 | Gilbert L. Comeault | |
| University essay | The Dissolution of the Coalition – Roblin’s Rise to Leadership 1949-1954 | D. McCormick |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | Les La Verendrye et la Poste de l’Ouest | Father Antoine Champagne | |
| Popular book | Heart of the Continent | E. S. Russenholt | |
| Local history | Banner Country | Russell Centennial Committee | |
| Local history | Trails Old & New | R. L. Taylor (editor) | MacGregor and District History Committee |
| Individual contributions | Writing in Winnipeg Free Press, including “It Happened Here” | Edith Paterson | |
| Individual contributions | Work for Manitoba museums | Barbara Johnstone | |
| Individual contributions | Work for Manitoba archaeology | Chris Vickers | |
| Individual contributions | Writings about Jewish community in Western Canada and elsewhere | Louis Rosenberg |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Through Narrow Gates | Simon Belkin | The Eagle Publishing Company (Montreal), 1966 |
| Book | A Clear Spirit | Canadian Federation of University Women | |
| University essay | James Evans, Missionary (1801-1846) | John H. Thompson | University of Winnipeg |
| Adult essay | James Evans, Missionary (1801-1846) | Rev. J. Cameron Reid | |
| Newspapers | A Sociological History of Government House in Winnipeg | Kaye Rowe | The Brandon Sun, Centennial Edition, Section B, 30 June 1967 |
| Newspapers (honourable mention) | Peguis | Betty Woods | The Western Producer, 18 August 1966 |
| Newspapers (honourable mention) | Alexander Kennedy Isbister | Betty Woods | The Western Producer, 6 July 1967 |
| Local history | A Rear View Mirror, A History of Austin and Surrounding Districts | Anne M. Collier | Friesens, Altona, 1967 |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Golden Memories | Dand Women’s Institute | Leech Printing, Brandon, 1967 |
| Local history (honourable mention) | Banner Country | Russell Women’s Institute | Derksen Printers, Steinbach, 1967 |
| Organizations | 90 Years of Jewish Life | Canadian Jewish Congress | |
| High school essay (honourable mention | Cold Copper City | Sir Maurice Roche School Centennial Project | Flin Flon, 1967 |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local history | Trails and Crossroads to Killarney | Aileen Garland | |
| Popular book | Peter Fidler: Canada’s Forgotten Surveyor | J. G. MacGregor | |
| Popular book | The Winter Years | James H. Gray | |
| University essay | Manitoba Politics and the Origins of the North West Mounted Police 1870-1873 | R. C. Macleod | Queen’s University |
| University thesis | Some Aspects of the Historical Geography of the Red River Settlement 1812-1870 | Barry Kaye | University of Manitoba |
| Adult essay | Why Did Donald Creighton Cut Short His ‘Long View’? | Abraham J. Arnold | |
| Individual contributions | Establishment of “Peguis Publishers” and publication of various books | Mary Scorer | |
| Individual contributions | Historical writing | Roy Stubbs |
| Category | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly book | All Things Common | Victor Peters | |
| University thesis | Dominion Railway Policy and Manitoba Politics, 1870-1883 | Leo A. Johnson | University of Toronto |
| Adult essay | Voices in the Wilderness | Francis Walker “Frank” Armstrong | |
| Individual contributions | Teaching and numerous publications | W. L. Morton | |
| Individual contributions | “In The Beginning” and series “This Week in History” | Gwain Hamilton | |
| Individual contributions | The Bison and promotional work for the Society | Frank Hall |
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| Local History | Winnipegosis … Little Muddy Water | Eva Matilda Ferguson | |
| Local History | Chief Peguis | Albert E. Thompson | |
| Local History | Memories of Manitou | Thomas Turnbull |
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| Local History | Foxwarren: The Little Red Schoolhouse Grows Up | George S. Belton | |
| Local History | A Short History of the Town of Winkler | Frank Brown | |
| Local History | New Light on the Old Forts of Winnipeg | William Douglas | |
| Local history | The Story of Dauphin Pioneer Days | Eva Matilda Ferguson | |
| Local history | St. Andrews – The Retired Fur Traders’ Parish | Barbara A. Johnstone | |
| Local history | The Pemmican War, 1813-1815 | G. Cameron McMillan |
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