Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Ryan McBride - Thursday Apr 03 2008 9:14 am
Posted in: Awards, Winnipeg
Jurists for the 23rd John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize have released their shortlist.
- At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1916 by
- Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson by
- Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company by
- The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood by and
- The Life of Yousuf Karsh: Portrait in Light and Shadow by
The book prize memorializes John Wesley Dafoe one of the most significant Canadian editors of the 20th century. It is one of the richest book awards for good non-fiction about Canada, Canadians and the nation in international affairs. In his tenure at the Manitoba Free Press, later renamed the Winnipeg Free Press, from 1901-1944, Dafoe was known for his advocacy of western development, free trade and national independence. His case for adoption by Britain of the Statute of Westminster in 1931 severed formal ties with Empire and created the dominions which became the nucleus of the Commonwealth.(From the press release.)
| By Tim Cook - $40.00 - add to cart | |
At the Sharp End covers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, died, before the generals and soldiers found ways to break the terrible sta...
| By Andrea Mandel-campbell - $34.95 - add to cart | |
A scathing wake-up call castigating the timidity of Canadian companies in international markets, combining bracing analysis and compelling anecdotes with shrewd prescriptions for the future. Can...
| By James Raffan - $34.95 - add to cart | |
The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book ...
| By Robert Joel Sharpe - $50.00 - add to cart | |
On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England’s reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada’s Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Mu...
| By Maria Tippett - $39.95 - add to cart | |
Portrait in Light and Shadow tells, for the first time ever, the full story of how a young Armenian immigrant living in Ottawa in the 1930s became the most prominent portrait photographer of the tw...
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