The François-Xavier Garneau Medal is a book prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. Awarded only every five years since it was first awarded in 1980, the CHA describes the Medal as its "most prestigious" prize, honouring "an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research."[1] The Medal is named for François-Xavier Garneau, a 19th-century Quebecois poet and civil servant who wrote a classic three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada.[2]
| Year[1] | Winner | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Louise Dechêne [fr] | Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle (1974) |
| 1985 | Michael Bliss | A Canadian Millionaire: The Life and Business Times of Sir Joseph Flavelle (1978) |
| 1990 | John M. Beattie | Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 (1986) |
| 1995 | Joy Parr | The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (1990) |
| 2000 | Gérard Bouchard | Quelques arpents d'Amérique : population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 (1996) |
| 2005 | Timothy Brook | The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China (1998) |
| 2010 | John C. Weaver | The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World (2003) |
| 2015 | Bettina Bradbury | Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (2011) |
| 2020 | Shirley Tillotson | Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy (2017) |