The following are the 2008 winners for Margaret McWilliams Awards, presented at a ceremony at Dalnavert Visitors Centre on Sunday, 19 April 2009.
The Manitoba Historical Society congratulates the authors and publishers of these fine books, and also those of other books under consideration. There was an outstanding collection of books on this year’s short lists.
Categories:
Scholarly History | Local History | Popular History
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada in 1915
by Sarah Carter
University of Alberta PressLord Selkirk: A Life
by J. M. Bumsted
University of Manitoba Press
Pauline Boutal: Destin d’artiste, 1894-1992
by Louise Duguay
Les Éditions de BléLaurent Desjardins: Un sportif en politique
by Bernard Bocquel
Les Éditions du Blé
A Son of the Fur Trade: The Memoirs of Johnny Grant
by John Francis Grant, edited by Gerhard J. Ens
University of Alberta Press
The Manitoba Historical Society gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of its
Margaret McWilliams Awards by Friesens Corporation of Altona, Manitoba.
Posted: 19 April 2009
