Governor General's Award for English language non-fiction

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

1930s

 * 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

1940s

 * 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

1950s

 * 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

1960s

 * 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)

1970s

 * 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

1980s

 * 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

1990s

 * 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

2000s

 * 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, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
 * 2004: Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
 * 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
 * 2007: ISBN 978-0-374-53125-6.
 * 2008: Christie Blatchford, Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
 * 2009: M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India

2010s

 * 2010: Allan Casey, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada