We’ve had a number of exceptional titles entered this year and we would like to highlight as many of these authors as possible. We will once again be featuring a longlist and shortlist.
Thank you to our jurors Dale Barbour, Patricia Bovey, and Gregory Mason.
2025 Longlist
Crystal Gail Fraser’s By Strength, We Are Still Here
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Roshan Danesh’s Reconciling History: A Story of Canada
Raymond B. Blake’s Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
Asa McKercher and Michael D. Stevenson’s Building a Special Relationship: Canada-US Relations in the Eisenhower Era, 1953–61
M.G. Vassanji’s Nowhere, Exactly
Gerald Friesen’s The Honourable John Norquay
Ken McGoogan’s Shadows of Tyranny: Defending Democracy in an Age of Dictatorship
Mark Bourrie’s Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia
Tim Martin’s Unwinnable Peace: Untold Stories of Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan
Niigaan Sinclair’s Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre