Margaret McWilliams Award
2008 Short Lists

The following are the 2008 short lists for Margaret McWilliams Awards, named in honour of writer Margaret McWilliams.

Readings from short-listed books will be given on Wednesday, 8 April 2009, at 7:00 PM, at McNally-Robinson Booksellers (Polo Park). All are welcome to attend.

Winners will be announced on 19 April 2009 at a ceremony at the Dalnavert Visitors Centre.

Categories:
Scholarly History | Local History | Popular History


Scholarly
History

The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915

by Sarah Carter
University of Alberta Press

More information on this book here.

Lord Selkirk: A Life

by J. M. Bumsted
University of Manitoba Press

More information on this book here.

Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

by Deidre Simmons
McGill-Queens University Press

More information on this book here.


Local
History

Pauline Boutal: Destin d’artiste, 1894-1992

by Louise Duguay
Les Éditions de Blé

More information on this book here.

Laurent Desjardins: Un sportif en politique

by Bernard Bocquel
Les Éditions du Blé

More information on this book here.


Popular
History

Ces pionnières de l’Ouest

by Nadine Mackenzie
Éditions des Plaines

More information on this book here.

Picturing Manitoba: Legacies of the Winnipeg Tribune

by Russ Gourluck
Great Plains Publications

More information on this book here.

Withershins

by Susan Rocan
Great Plains Teen Fiction

More information on this book here.

A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant

by John Francis Grant, edited by Gerhard J. Ens
University of Alberta Press

More information on this book here.


The Manitoba Historical Society gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of its
Margaret McWilliams Awards by Friesens Corporation of Altona, Manitoba.

Posted: 24 March 2009

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