Awards
Over the years our books have won many prestigious awards. Most recently, one of out 2022 members’ books, Jim Phillips, Philip Girard and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914, was awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association’s Prize for the best book published in 2022.
Here is a full list of all our award winners:
Canadian Historical Association Awards
Best Book in Political History
Best Book in Indigenous History
Canadian Historical Association Awards
Prize for the best book in any field of Canadian history(formerly the McDonald Prize)
Honourable Mentions
Clio Award, Regional History
Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize
Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize
Honourable Mentions
Ontario Historical Society Awards
J.J. Talman Award
The best book on any aspect of Ontario history in the previous three years.
Fred Landon Award
The best book on regional history in Ontario in the previous three years.
Joseph Brant Award
The best book on the province’s multi-cultural history.
Alison Prentice Award
Best book in women’s history in the preceding three years.
Other Awards
Best Book in Canadian Studies, given by the Canadian Studies Association
Fondation du Barreau du Québec Monograph Prize
J. Willard Hurst Prize
J. Willard Hurst Prize of the Law and Society Association, for the best book in English on socio-legal history for any country.
Honourable Mention
John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize
For distinguished writing on Canada and/or Canada’s place in the world.
Winners
Floyd Chalmers Award
Given annually by the Champlain Society for writing on Ontario history.
Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction
Harold Adams Innis Prize
Given each year for the best English language book supported by the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Priz Lionel Groulx
Priz Lionel Groulx of the Institut d’histoire de l’Ámerique française, awarded for the best book on the history of French America.
Walter Owen Book Prize
Awarded by the Foundation of Legal Research.
Charles Taylor Award
Charles Taylor Award for Literary Non-Fiction
RBC Taylor Prize
RBC Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction
UBC Medal for Canadian Biography
Drainie-Taylor Prize for Biography
City of Toronto Book Prize
Arthur Ellis Award
For the Best Non-Fiction book.
Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker’s Book Award
Donner Prize
For the best book on Canadian public policy.
Outstanding Book
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States “Outstanding Book” award
Other Honours For Our Authors
The 2022 David W. Mundell Medal was awarded to Philip Girard, Associate Editor of the Osgoode Society. The Mundell Medal, awarded since 1986, is given annually to an author who has made a distinguished contribution to the law in legal writing. Among the books for which Professor Girard was given the award are five Osgoode Society books:
A History of Law in Canada Volume I: Beginnings-1866 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2018). (with Jim Phillips and Blake Brown).
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and Toronto University Press, 2011), pp. 249.
Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2005), pp. 646.
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2004), 515 pp. (editor with Jim Phillips and J. Barry Cahill).
Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume Three, Nova Scotia (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1990), 369 pp. (editor with Jim Phillips).
Three other Osgoode Society authors have previously been awarded the Mundell Medal. The 2014 winner was Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips. The 2010 winner was William Kaplan. The 2009 winner was Robert Sharpe.
One of our most prolific authors, Constance Backhouse, was named to the Order of Ontario in 2010. Professor Backhouse was honoured for her work as scholar, educator, and advocate for womens’ rights. That work includes four Osgoode Society books: Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 (2008); The Heiress versus the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice(2004, with Nancy Backhouse); Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900 – 1950 (1999); and Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1991). Since 2009 she has also published Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Life (2017) and the forthcoming Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges and the RDS Case.