Prize Watch: Nominees that might have been

Last week (see October 8 below), a friend of this blog lamented the lack of history books among award nominees (again), In response I asked for them suggestions:  a few that might have merited some attention. The reply:

• Hillary Doda, Fashioning Acadians: Clothing in the Atlantic World, 1650–1750  ("I kinda liked this book."
• Dimitry Anastakis, Dream Car: Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity.  "Simply wonderful."
• And next year, maybe this book by Laura Madokoro:  Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City
• Or this one: Daniel Macfarlane, The Lives of Lake Ontario An Environmental History

I myself have not read yet any of these, mea culpa. 

Maybe other readers can suggest other authors and titles. The criteria: newly published books by or about Canadians, of sufficient heft, scope, and literary quality to be worth consideration by the Governor General's Literary Award nonfiction jury next year.

(I note there are other prizes for history books, not least all those of the Canadian Historical Association. And literary merit and historical merit are hardly identical.)