Gordon Montador Award

The Gordon Montador Award was a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to honour non-fiction writing on social issues.^[1] Created in 1991 in memory of book editor and publisher Gordon Montador,^[2] the award was presented until 1999, when it was superseded by a reorganization of the Writers' Trust Awards. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, presented for the first time in 2000, encompassed much of the same subject area;^[3] although the Cohen award was never formally stated by the organization to be an official replacement for the Montador award, no new winner was ever announced for the Montador award after the Cohen award was introduced.

Winners and nominees

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1993	Ronald Wright	Stolen Continents	Winner	[4]
	Doris Anderson	The Unfinished Revolution	Shortlist	[5]
	Pat Capponi	Upstairs at the Crazy House
	Mordecai Richler	Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
	Rupert Ross	Dancing with a Ghost
	Marlene Webber	Food for Thought
1994	Michael Ignatieff	Blood and Belonging, Journeys into the New Nationalism	Winner	[6]
	Brian Maracle	Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery	Shortlist	[7]
	Andrew Nikiforuk	School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education and What We Can Do About It
	Boyce Richardson	People of Terra Nullius, Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
	Lindalee Tracey	On the Edge: A Journey into the Heart of Canada
1995	Neil Bissoondath	Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada	Winner	[8]
	Maude Barlow, Heather-jane Robertson	Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's Schools	Shortlist	[9]
	James Cote, Anton L. Allahar	Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century
	John MacLachlan Gray	Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream
	Judy Steed	Our Little Secret: Confronting Child Sexual Abuse in Canada
1996	John Ralston Saul	The Unconscious Civilization	Winner	[10]
	Richard Gwyn	Nationalism Without Walls	Shortlist	[11]
	Linda McQuaig	Shooting the Hippo
	Patricia Monture-Angus	Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks
	Vic Parsons	Bad Blood: The Tragedy of the Canadian Tainted Blood Scandal
1997	Cecil Foster	A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada	Winner	[12]
	Mark Kingwell	Dreams of Millennium	Shortlist	[13]
	Brian Maracle	Back on the Rez
	Rupert Ross	Returning to the Teachings
	Jan Wong	Red China Blues
1998	John Ralston Saul	Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century	Winner	[14]
1999	Jean Vanier	Becoming Human	Winner

References

1. "First Montador Award". Financial Post, September 28, 1992.
2. "Award announced". The Globe and Mail, September 18, 1991.
3. Kate Jaimet, "Spirit of Shaughnessy Cohen lives on at literary dinner on Hill". Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2000.
4. "Stolen Continents honored with Gordon Montador Award". Ottawa Citizen, April 23, 1993.
5. "Book awards finalists announced". The Globe and Mail, April 14, 1993.
6. "Ignatieff named non-fiction winner for work examining nationalist issues". Montreal Gazette, May 19, 1994.
7. "Books nominated". Toronto Star, May 3, 1994.
8. "Debated book wins Montador". Halifax Daily News, May 5, 1995.
9. Christopher Harris, "Montador nominees". The Globe and Mail, April 10, 1995.
10. "Writer Saul wins". Montreal Gazette, May 9, 1996.
11. "Ottawa author's book among six finalists for prestigious award". Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 1996.
12. "A Place Called Heaven earns social-issues book prize". Halifax Daily News, May 30, 1997.
13. "Globe writer on shortlist for Montador award". The Globe and Mail, May 17, 1997.
14. "Montador award winners named". North Bay Nugget, May 27, 1999. No shortlists were released in these years; both winners were announced concurrently in 1999.