Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction

This is a list of Governor General's Award winners for English language non-fiction.

*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 and 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"
*2003 - Margaret Olwen MacMillan, ""
*2004 - Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, ""
*2005 - John Vaillant, "The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed"
*2006 - Ross King, "The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism"