Margaret McWilliams Award: 2011 Winners

The following are the 2011 winners of the Margaret McWilliams Awards, one of the oldest literary awards in Canada, named in honour of writer Margaret McWilliams. Books nominated for this award have been published in the 2011 calendar year.

Winners were announced on Manitoba Day 2012 (12 May) and presented at Dalnavert Museum on Saturday, 9 June 2012 at 1:00 PM during the Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Historical Society.

Categories:
Scholarly History | Local History | Popular History


Scholarly
History

Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland

by John C. Lehr
University of Manitoba Press

More information on this book here


Local
History

Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967

by Dale Barbour
University of Manitoba Press

More information on this book here


Much Ado About Squat: Squatters and Homesteaders Ravage Riding Mountain Forest

by Ron Stevens
Heartland Associates


Popular
History

The Home Front: Hopscotch and Heartache While Daddy was at War

by Margaret Dennis Owen
Heartland Associates


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

Posted: 10 June 2023