Awards and distinctions won by members of the group
2025
Kathleen Durocher – Certificat de mise en valeur du patrimoine, Ville de Gatineau
In recognition of her outstanding contribution to research, promotion, and dissemination of the history of the “Allumettières”
Laura Madokoro – Clio Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Sanctuary in Pieces: Two Centuries of Flight, Fugitivity, and Resistance in a North American City. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024
Désirée Rochat – laureate of the Black History Month Roundtable
2024
Don Nerbas – Best Article Prize in Labour History
“‘Lawless Coal Miners’ and the Lingan Strike of 1882–1883: Remaking Political Order on Cape Breton’s Sydney Coalfield” (Labour / Le Travail, 92)
Amanda Ricci – Prix de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec Countercurrents. Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023
Amanda Ricci – The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize Countercurrents. Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023
Amanda Ricci – Honourable Mention for the Berks Book Prize, first book in the field of the history of women, gender and/or sexuality Countercurrents. Women’s Movements in Postwar Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023
Louise Swaffer – Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Prize
“Women’s Protestant Foreign Mission Work and Settler State Formation in Canada: A Re-examination of the Scottish Diaspora” (vol. 21, no. 4)
Brian Young – Waugh Family Foundation Career Achievement Prize, Canadian Business History Association
2023
Jean-Philippe Bernard – Prix de la Fondation Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, Assemblée nationale du Québec
« “Emparons-nous du sol!” Chômage, retour à la terre et colonialisme durant la Grande dépression au Québec » (thèse de doctorat)
Magda Fahrni – member of the Royal Society of Canada
Daniel Ross – Heritage Toronto Book Award The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Citizen Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street. UBC Press, 2022
2020
Denyse Baillargeon – Prix de la Présidence de l’Assemblée nationale Repenser la nation. L’histoire du suffrage féminin au Québec. Éditions du remue-ménage, 2019
Bettina Bradbury– Alexander Henderson Award for the best Australian family history, awarded by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Caroline’s Dilemma: A Colonial Inheritance Saga. Sydney, NewSouth Books, 2019, 336 p. (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2020)
2019
Paul-Etienne Rainville – Political History Prize Best Article (French Language), Canadian Historical Association
« Au nom de l’ordre ou de la liberté ? Le Congrès juif canadien face à la répression des libertés civiles et des droits des minorités religieuses au Québec (1945-1954) » (Canadian Historical Review, vol. 99, no 2)
Paul-Etienne Rainville – finaliste, Prix de la Fondation Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, Assemblée nationale du Québec De l’universel au particulier : les luttes en faveur des droits humains au Québec, de l’après-guerre à la Révolution tranquille (thèse de doctorat)
2018
Denyse Baillargeon, Josette Brun et Estelle Lebel – Hilda Neatby Prize (French Article), Canadian Historical Association « J’vois pas pourquoi j’travaillerais pas » : le travail salarié des femmes mariées à l’émission télévisée Femme d’aujourd’hui (Société Radio-Canada, 1965-1982) » (Recherches féministes, vol. 30, no 2)
Isabelle Bouchard – Prix de la Fondation Jean-Charles-Bonenfant, Assemblée nationale du Québec Des systèmes politiques en quête de légitimité : terres « seigneuriales », pouvoirs et enjeux locaux dans les communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent (1760-1860) (thèse de doctorat)
Laura Madokoro – Best Book in Social Sciences Prize, Association for Asian American Studies Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants and the Cold War. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2016
2017
Isabelle Bouchard – John Bullen Prize (best Ph.D. thesis), Canadian Historical Association Des systèmes politiques en quête de légitimité : terres « seigneuriales », pouvoirs et enjeux locaux dans les communautés autochtones de la vallée du Saint-Laurent (1760-1860) (thèse de doctorat)
Sean Mills – Prix de la Présidence de l’Assemblée nationale A Place in the Sun : Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016
Sean Mills – finalist, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (best book in Canadian history), Canadian Historical Association A Place in the Sun : Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016
Sean Mills – finalist, Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences A Place in the Sun : Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016
2016
Magda Fahrni – Neil Sutherland Article Prize, Canadian Historical Association “Glimpsing Working-Class Childhood Through the Laurier Palace Fire of 1927: The Ordinary, the Tragic, and the Historian’s Gaze” (Journal of the History of Children and Youth, vol. 8)
Magda Fahrni – Best Article Prize in Labour History, Canadian Historical Association “Glimpsing Working-Class Childhood Through the Laurier Palace Fire of 1927: The Ordinary, the Tragic, and the Historian’s Gaze” (Journal of the History of Children and Youth, vol. 8)
Magda Fahrni – Best Article Prize, Journal of theHistory of Childhood and Youth
“Glimpsing Working-Class Childhood Through the Laurier Palace Fire of 1927: The Ordinary, the Tragic, and the Historian’s Gaze” (Journal of the History of Children and Youth, vol. 8)
Mary Anne Poutanen – Prix Lionel-Groulx (Grand Prix de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française) Beyond Brutal Passions. Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015
Brian Young – Canada Prize (best book in the humanities published in English), Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec The Taschereaus and McCords. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014
2015
Bettina Bradbury – Médaille François-Xavier-Garneau, Société historique du Canada Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (University of British-Columbia Press, 2011)
Nicolas Kenny – Arnold Hirsch Prize for the best article submitted to the Urban History Association, American Historical Association
” City Glow: Streetlights, Emotions and Nocturnal Life, 1880s-1910s » (Journal of Urban History, vol. 43, no 1)
Nicolas Kenny – finalist, John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association The Feel of the City: Experiences of Urban Transformation. University of Toronto Press, 2014
Brian Young – Prix Lionel-Groulx (Grand Prix de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française) Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec The Taschereaus and McCords. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014
Brian Young – finalist, John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec The Taschereaus and McCords. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014
2014
Brian Gettler – Best Article Prize, Histoire sociale/Social History
“Money and the Changing Nature of Colonial Space in Northern Quebec: Fur Trade Monopolies, the State, and Aboriginal Peoples during the Nineteenth Century” (Histoire sociale / Social History, vol. 46, no 92)
Sean Mills – Political History Group – Best Article Prize (French Language), Canadian Historical Association
“Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974” (Canadian Historical Review, vol. 94, no 3)
Sean Mills – Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize, Canadian Hisotrical Association
“Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974” (Canadian Historical Review, vol. 94, no 3)
2013
Sean Mills – Best Article Prize, Canadian Historical Review
“Quebec, Haiti, and the Deportation Crisis of 1974” (Canadian Historical Review, vol. 94, no 3)
2012
Bettina Bradbury – Prix Lionel-Groulx (Grand Prix de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française) Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal. University of British-Columbia Press, 2011
Jarrett Rudy – Best Article Prize, Canadian Historical Review
“Do You Have the Time? Modernity, Democracy, and the Beginnings of Daylight Saving Time in Montreal, 1907–1928” (Canadian Historical Review, vol. 93, no 4)
2011
Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert – Hilda Neatby Prize (French Article), Canadian Historical Association « Québécoises et Ontariennes en voiture! L’expérience culturelle et spatiale de l’automobile au féminin (1910-1945) » (Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, vol. 63, no 2-3)
Maude-Emmanuelle Lambert – Prix Guy-et-Lilianne Frégault, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française « Québécoises et Ontariennes en voiture! L’expérience culturelle et spatiale de l’automobile au féminin (1910-1945) » (Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, vol. 63, no 2-3)
Sean Mills – finalist (with honorable mention), John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010
2010
Amélie Bourbeau – John Bullen Prize (best Ph.D. thesis), Canadian Historical Association La réorganisation de l’assistance chez les catholiques montréalais: la Fédération des Œuvres de charité canadiennes-françaises et la Federation of Catholic Charities, 1930-1972 (thèse de doctorat)
Sean Mills – First Book Prize, Quebec Writers’ Federation The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010
2009
Sean Mills – John Bullen Prize (best Ph.D. thesis), Canadian Historical Association The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination (thèse de doctorat)
2008
Andrée Lévesque – Robert S. Kenny Prize Red Travellers. Jeanne Corbin and her Comrades. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006
Sean Mills – Eugene Forsey Prize, Canadian Historical Association The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination (thèse de doctorat)
Tamara Myers – Prize for Best article on the history of Sexuality, Canadian Historical Association “Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec” (Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 14, no 4)
Tamara Myers – Marion Dewar Prize in Women’s History
2007
Donald Fyson – Prix Lionel-Groulx (Grand Prix de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française) Magistrates, Police and People. Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837 (University of Toronto Press/The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006)
Donald Fyson – Prix du meilleur livre de l’Association canadienne Droit et Société Magistrates, Police and People. Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837 (University of Toronto Press/The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006)
Donald Fyson – finalist (with honorable mention), John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association Magistrates, Police and People. Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837 (University of Toronto Press/The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2006)
Tamara Myers – Best Article Prize of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, Canadian Historical Association “Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec” (Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 14, no 4)
2006
Denyse Baillargeon – Jean-Charles Falardeau prize for the best French book in Canada, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Un Québec en mal d’enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970. Éditions du remue-ménage, 2004
Magda Fahrni – finalist, John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction. University of Toronto Press, 2005
Mary Anne Poutanen et Rod Macloed – Canadian History of Education Association’s Book Award A Meeting of the People : School Boards and Prostestant Communities in Quebec, 1810-1998. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004
Mary Anne Poutanen et Rod Macloed – Canadian Association of Foundations of Education Book Award A Meeting of the People : School Boards and Prostestant Communities in Quebec, 1810-1998. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004
Sylvie Taschereau – Prix Guy-et-Lilianne Frégault, Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
« Échapper à Shylock : la Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal entre antisémitisme et intégration, 1911-1913 » (Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, vol. 59, no 4)
2005
Denyse Baillargeon – Prix Lionel-Groulx (Grand Prix de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française) Un Québec en mal d’enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970. Éditions du remue-ménage, 2004
Denyse Baillargeon – Marion Dewar Prize in Women’s History
Denyse Baillargeon – finalist, John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association Un Québec en mal d’enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970. Éditions du remue-ménage, 2004
2004
Suzanne Morton – finalist (with honorable mention), John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association At Odds : Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969. University of Toronto Press, 2003
Mary Anne Poutanen et Rod Macloed – finalist, John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian history, Canadian Historical Association A Meeting of the People : School Boards and Prostestant Communities in Quebec, 1810-1998. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004
