- 1936 - T. B. Robertson , collected newspaper articles
- 1937 - Stephen Leacock , ''My Discovery of the West''
- 1938 - John Murray Gibbon , ''Canadian Mosaic''
- 1939 - Laura G. Salverson , ''Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter''
- 1940 - J.F.C. Wright , ''Slava Bohu''
- 1941 - Emily Carr , ''Klee Wyck''
- 1942 - Bruce Hutchison , ''The Unknown Country'' and Edgar McInnes , ''The Unguarded Frontier''
- 1943 - John D. Robins , ''The Incomplete Anglers'' and E.K. Brown , ''On Canadian Poetry''
- 1944 - Dorothy Duncan , ''Partner in Three Worlds'' and Edgar McInnes , ''The War: Fourth Year''
- 1945 - Evelyn M. Richardson , ''We Keep a Light'' and Ross Munro , ''Gauntlet to Overlord''
- 1946 - Frederick Philip Grove , ''In Search of Myself'' and A.R.M. Lower , ''Colony to Nation''
- 1947 - William Sclater , ''Haida'' and R. MacGregor Dawson , ''The Government of Canada''
- 1948 - Thomas H. Raddall , ''Halifax, Warden of the North'' and C.P. Stacey , ''The Canadian Army, 1939 - 1945 ''
- 1949 - Hugh MacLennan , ''Cross-country'' and R. MacGregor Dawson , ''Democratic Government in Canada''
- 1950 - Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , ''The Saskatchewan'' and W.L. Morton , ''The Progressive Party in Canada''
- 1951 - Josephine Phelan , ''The Ardent Exile'' and Frank MacKinnon , ''The Government of Prince Edward Island''
- 1952 - Donald G. Creighton , ''John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician'' and Bruce Hutchison , ''The Incredible Canadian''
- 1953 - J.M.S. Careless , ''Canada, A Story of Challenge'' and N.J. Berrill , ''Sex and the Nature of Things''
- 1954 - Hugh MacLennan , ''Thirty and Three'' and A.R.M. Lower , ''This Most Famous Stream''
- 1955 - N.J. Berrill , ''Man's Emerging Mind'' and Donald G. Creighton , ''John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain''
- 1956 - Pierre Berton , ''The Mysterious North'' and Joseph Lister Rutledge , ''Century of Conflict''
- 1957 - Thomas H. Raddall , ''The Path of Destiny'' and Bruce Hutchison , ''Canada: Tomorrow's Giant''
- 1958 - Pierre Berton , ''Klondike'' and Joyce Hemlow , ''The History of Fanny Burney''
- 1959 - (none), award temporarily discontinued
- 1960 - Frank H. Underhill , ''In Search of Canadian Liberalism''
- 1961 - T.A. Goudge , ''The Ascent of Life''
- 1962 - Marshall McLuhan , ''The Gutenberg Galaxy''
- 1963 - J.M.S. Careless , ''Brown of the Globe''
- 1964 - Phyllis Grosskurth , ''John Addington Symonds''
- 1965 - James Eayrs , ''In Defence of Canada''
- 1966 - George Woodcock , ''The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell''
- 1967 - Norah Story , ''The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature''
- 1968 - Mordecai Richler , ''Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass''
- 1969 - (none)
- 1971 - Pierre Berton , ''The Last Spike''
- 1972 - (none)
- 1973 - Michael Bell , ''Painters in a New Land''
- 1974 - Charles Ritchie , ''The Siren Years''
- 1975 - Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson , ''Hallowed Walls''
- 1976 - Carl Berger , ''The Writing of Canadian History''
- 1977 - Frank Scott , ''Essays on the Constitution''
- 1978 - Roger Caron , ''Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars''
- 1979 - Maria Tippett , ''Emily Carr''
- 1980 - Jeffrey Simpson , ''Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration''
- 1981 - George Calef , ''Caribou and the barren-lands''
- 1982 - Christopher Moore , ''Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town''
- 1983 - Jeffery Williams , ''Byng of Vimy''
- 1984 - Sandra Gwyn , ''The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier''
- 1985 - Ramsay Cook , ''The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada''
- 1986 - Northrop Frye , ''Northrop Frye on Shakespeare''
- 1987 - Michael Ignatieff , ''The Russian Album''
- 1988 - Anne Collins , ''In the Sleep Room''
- 1989 - Robert Calder , ''Willie-The Life of W. Somerset Maugham''
- 1990 - Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall , ''Trudeau and Our Times''
- 1991 - Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo , ''Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past''
- 1992 - Maggie Siggins , ''Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm''
- 1993 - Karen Connelly , ''Touch the Dragon''
- 1994 - John A. Livingston , ''Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication''
- 1995 - Rosemary Sullivan , ''Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen''
- 1996 - John Ralston Saul , ''The Unconscious Civilization''
- 1997 - Rachel Manley , ''Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood''
- 1998 - David Adams Richards , ''Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi''
- 1999 - Marq De Villiers , ''Water''
- 2000 - Nega Mezlekia , ''Notes from the Hyena's Belly''
- 2001 - Thomas Homer-Dixon , '' The Ingenuity Gap ''
- 2002 - Andrew Nikiforuk , ''Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil''
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- 2005 - John Vaillant , ''The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed''
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