Prize watch: Chalmers Prize for Jonathan Vance

The Champlain Society has announced the 2019 winner of its Chalmers Award for the past year's best book on Ontario history is Jonathan Vance of Western University for his book A Township At War, his microhistory of one Ontario community's experience of the First World War.

The award will be presented at the Society's AGM in Toronto Saturday, November 2, at which the society will also be launching its own 2019 publication, “Opposition on the Coast”: The Hudson’s Bay Company, American Coasters, the Russian-American Company, and Native Traders on the Northwest Coast, 1825-1846 by Barry Gough.