Prize Watch: the Garneau and other Canadian Historical Association Prizes

About now, Canadian history profs ought to be at the annual academic Coachella known as Congress, but that is not happening this year, and the Canadian Historical Association has had to present its prizes virtually. Here is the full list, announced yesterday, from the CHA website.

The top CHA prize is the François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded once every five years for an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research. This year's short list was: 

Heaman, E.A. Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Hill, Susan. The Clay We Are Made Of, Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River. University of Manitoba Press, 2017.
Mimeault, Mario. L'Exode Québécois, 1852-1925. Septentrion, 2013.
Perry, Adele. Colonial Relations: the Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Sweeny, Robert C.H. Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819-1849. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Tillotson, Shirley. Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy. UBC Press, 2017.
Young, Brian. Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

The winner, announced yesterday, is Shirley Tillotson for Give and Take. I can say I have actually read Give and Take, and a couple of the other nominees too, some of which have been noted here previously.

The CHA Prize for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize had this six-book shortlist:

Jones, Esyllt. Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada. ARP Books, 2019.
Loo, Tina. Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada. UBC Press, 2019.
Nickel, Sarah. Assembling Unity: Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. UBC Press, 2019.
Reiter, Eric. Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950. UTP for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2019.
Vallières, Marc. Courtiers et entrepreneurs: le courtage financier au Québec, 1867-1987. Septentrion, 2019.
Wickwire, Wendy. At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging. UBC Press, 2019.

And the winner was Eric Reiter for Wounded Feelings -- a honour not only for Reiter, but for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History (so as a member I have a copy of that one too).

See the website for article prizes, regional awards, and other honours.

Postscript:  Might recall that Tillotson and Elsbeth Heaman previously won the CHA Prize in consecutive years, then each was nominated this year for the Garneau Prize won by Tillotson.  Pretty good record for a couple of complementary books on the history of income tax -- both books very much aware that taxation is politics and politics is taxation, so political history as well.