1930s 1940s 
J. F. C. Wright , Slava Bohu  (1940)Emily Carr , Klee Wyck Bruce Hutchison , The Unknown Country  (1942)Edgar McInnis , The Unguarded Frontier  (1942)E. K. Brown , On Canadian Poetry  (1943)John Robins , The Incomplete Anglers  (1943)Dorothy Duncan , Partner in Three Worlds  (1944)Edgar McInnis , The War: Fourth Year  (1944)Ross Munro , Gauntlet to Overlord  (1945)Evelyn M. Richardson , We Keep a Light  (1945)Frederick Phillip Grove , In Search of Myself  (1946)Arthur R. M. Lower , Colony to Nation  (1946)William Sclater , Haida  (1947)Robert MacGregor Dawson , The Government of Canada  (1947)Thomas Head Raddall , Halifax, Warden of the North  (1948)C. P. Stacey , The Canadian Army, 1939-1945  (1948)Hugh MacLennan , Cross-country  (1949)Robert MacGregor Dawson , Democratic Government in Canada  (1949) 1950s 
Marjorie Wilkins Campbell , The Saskatchewan  (1950)W. L. Morton , The Progressive Party in Canada  (1950)Frank MacKinnon, The Progressive Party in Canada  (1951) 
Josephine Phelan , The Ardent Exile  (1951)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician  (1952)Bruce Hutchison , The Incredible Canadian  (1952)J. M. S. Careless , Canada, A Story of Challenge  (1953)N. J. Berrill , Sex and the Nature of Things  (1953)Hugh MacLennan , Thirty and Three  (1954)Arthur R. M. Lower , This Most Famous Stream  (1954)N. J. Berrill , Man's Emerging Mind  (1955)Donald G. Creighton , John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain  (1955)Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North  (1956)Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict  (1956) 
Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny  (1957)Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant  (1957)Pierre Berton , Klondike  (1958)Joyce Hemlow , The History of Fanny Burney  (1958)[No award] (1959)  1960s 1970s 
[No award] (1970) 
Pierre Berton , The Last Spike [No award] (1972) 
Michael Bell, Painters in a New Land  (1973) 
Charles Ritchie , The Siren Years  (1974)Marion MacRae  and Anthony Adamson , Hallowed Walls  (1975)Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History  (1976) 
F. R. Scott , Essays on the Constitution  (1977)Roger Caron , Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars Maria Tippett , Emily Carr  (1979)Robert Bothwell  and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe  (1979)Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism  (1979)  1980s 
Jeffrey Simpson , Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration  (1980)George Calef , Caribou and the Barren-Land  (1981)Christopher Moore , Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town  (1982)Jeffery Williams , Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General  (1983)Sandra Gwyn , The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier  (1984)Ramsay Cook , The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada  (1985)Northrop Frye , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare  (1986)Michael Ignatieff , The Russian Album  (1987)Anne Collins , In the Sleep Room  (1988)Robert Calder , Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham  (1989) 1990s 
Stephen Clarkson  and Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times  (1990)Robert Hunter  and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past  (1991)Maggie Siggins , Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm  (1992)Karen Connelly , Touch the Dragon  (1993)John Livingston , Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication  (1994)Rosemary Sullivan , Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen  (1995)John Ralston Saul , The Unconscious Civilization  (1996)Rachel Manley , Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood  (1997)David Adams Richards , Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi  (1998)Marq de Villiers , Water  (1999) 2000s 
Nega Mezlekia , Notes from the Hyena's Belly  (2000)Thomas Homer-Dixon , The Ingenuity Gap Andrew Nikiforuk , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil  (2002)Margaret MacMillan , Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Roméo Dallaire , Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed  (2005)Ross King , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism  (2006)Karolyn Smardz Frost , I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad  (2007)Christie Blatchford , Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army  (2008)M. G. Vassanji , A Place Within: Rediscovering India  (2009) 2010s 
Allan Casey , Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life and Times  (2011)Ross King , Leonardo and the Last Supper Sandra Djwa , Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page  (2013)Michael John Harris , The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection  (2014)Mark L. Winston , Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive  (2015)Bill Waiser , A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905  (2016)Graeme Wood , The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State  (2017)Darrel J. McLeod , Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age'  (2018)Don Gillmor , To the River: Losing My Brother  (2019) 2020s