Canada Prizes
The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the ASPP. The Canada Prizes are awarded to books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada. Each winner receives $2,500.
In 2012, the Canada Prizes were awarded to the following books:
- Canada Prize in the Humanities (English): Susan R. Fisher, Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War, published by University of Toronto Press
- Canada Prize in the Humanities (French): Louise Vigneault, Espace artistique et modèle pionnier. Tom Thomson et Jean-Paul Riopelle, published by Hurtubise
- Canada Prize in the Social Sciences (English): Veronica Strong-Boag, Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Canada Prize in the Social Sciences (French): Michel Ducharme, Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques, 1776-1838, published by McGill Queen’s University Press
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