Sylvie Taschereau (ex officio)
Département des sciences humaines
UQÀT, local 1005 Ringuet
3351, boulevard des Forges
Trois-Rivières, Québec, G9A 5H7
Sylvie.Taschereau@uqtr.ca

The deadline for entries is January 15, 2012. All entries should be clearly marked: “COREY PRIZE”

Corey Prize Winners

2010

David L. Preston. The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783.

Putting community relations at the heart of this clearly written, innovative study, David L. Preston analyzes intercultural contact among settlers – native and European – on the Iroquoian frontier. The quotidian challenges of daily chores and sociability testify to the mutual concerns within these ethnically diverse communities. Preston then addresses the havoc wrought by imperial warfare, which forced people to choose sides, redefine property and landholding arrangements, and abandon the calibrated accommodations forged over previous decades.

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2008

Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada
(Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2007)

Sharon Hepburn's Crossing the Border is an eloquent and exhaustively
researched history of the free-black planned community of Buxton, Ontario. Her
richly-textured story touches on the transatlantic currents of abolitionism and
the transborder activism of Canadian and American emancipationists, while
making a significant comparison of national racial policies. Alternating
between the intimate scale of Buxton's determined citizenry (from its founding
in 1849 to today) and the wider complexities of race and slavery in US and
Canadian historiography, Hepburn's compelling history offers a close look at
one of the all too rare successes in fugitive black community-building in the
19th century.

Sharon A. Roger Hepburn is professor and chair of the department of history at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. 

John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, and Randy William Widdis. Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 (University of Pittsburgh Press and University of Calgary Press, 2005).

Among a strong field of entries, Permeable Border stood out as a particularly successful effort to push forward understandings of Canadian-American borderlands via emerging ideas of transnationalism.  Taking a broad sweep of time, and balancing new research with critical historiographical analysis, the border is examined as a “human creation.. typically invisible, geographically illogical, militarily indefensible,  and emotionally inescapable” – a border that paradoxically strengthens and disappears simultaneously amidst competing forces of nationalism and globalization.  (AHA Perspectives, vol. 45, no. 3 March 2007, page 33).

(awarded at CHA annual Meeting, June 2004, Winnipeg)

Stephen High. Industrial Sunset: The Making of North Americas Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003).

Steven Highs imaginative comparison of the distinctive impact of deindustrialization in the Midwestern region of the United States and southern Ontario during the early post-industrial era is a compelling and readable book. His rich oral testimony supplements an extensive secondary literature and a broad public debate on both sides of the border to grapple in a comparative fashion with worker and community reactions to plant closures during the 1970s and early 1980s. Industrial Sunset takes a theme central to Canadian/American relations (the mobility of capital and labour across international boundaries) and breathes new life into it. By situating worker reactions on both sides of the border to downsizing in the context of public discourse on the role of governments and capital in moderating the impact of industrial restructuring, it extends a public debate that has become even more intense in the post Free Trade Agreement era.

(awarded at AHA Annual Meeting, January 2003, Chicago)

Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).

A Good and Wise Measure is a meticulous and thorough examination of the political dynamics and relationships between Great Britain and the United States that led to the creation of the Canadian-American border. Through compelling characterizations of the various personalities involved in the debates, Carroll traces the uneven and often contentious and dramatic process of negotiations between competing economic and military interests that would constitute Anglo-Canadian-American relations into the twentieth century.

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, June 2000, Edmonton)

Karen Dubinsky, The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls, (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1999).

By focusing on a microregion whose spectacular resources are shared by both Canada and the United States, this book reconstructs the transformation of Niagara Falls from an exclusive "tourist site" into one of the most powerful symbols of twentieth-century North American culture. In doing so, the author sheds important light not only on the history of North American tourism but also on the history of sexuality, of marriage, and of their growing commercialization in popular culture. Based upon a wide range of documentary sources, this book is at the cutting edge of cultural history and its analysis is fresh and compelling. Seldom has an historical work spoken so directly and pertinently to both Canadian and United States history.

(awarded at the AHA Annual meeting, Washington, January 1999/Books 1995-96 imprint)

Elizabeth Vibert, Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846.

Elizabeth Vibert's work contributes to our understanding of both the native peoples of this time and place and their British and eastern North American observers. The work contains critiques of the historic narratives of fur traders and travellers, organized into topical chapters. Vibert analyses how the cultural backgrounds of these observers shaped perceptions of the peoples and landscapes they encountered. The result is a sophisticated and fascinating cross-cultural study, a model of its type.

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, June 1996/Books 1993-94 imprint)

Ernest Clarke, The Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776: An Episode in the American Revolution

(awarded at the AHA annual meeting, December 1994/Books 1992-93 imprint)

Royden K. Loewen, Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, June 1992/Books 1990-91 imprint)

Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes Regions, 1650-1815

Honourable Mentions:

Bruno Ramirez, On the Move: French Canadian and Italian Migrants in the North Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914

Michael Doucet and John Weaver, Housing the North American City

(awarded at AHA annual meeting, December 1990/Books 1988-89 imprint)

Reginald Stewart, United States Expansionism and British North America, 1775-1871

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, June 1988/Books 1986-87 imprint)

Jane Errington, The Lion, The Eagle, and Upper Canada: A Developing Colonial Ideology

(awarded at AHA annual meeting, December 1986/Books 1984-85 imprint)

James L. Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, Guelph, June 1984/Books 1982-83 imprint)

James Eayrs, In Defence of Canada. Indochina: Roots of Complicity (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 1983)

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Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer, Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1982)

(awarded at AHA annual meeting, December 1982/Books 1980-81 imprint)

Guildo Rousseau, L'Image des États-Unis dans la littérature québécoise 1775-1930 (Éditions Naaman)

(awarded at CHA annual meeting, Montreal, June 1980/Books 1978-79 imprint)

Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, C.D. Howe: A Biography (McClelland & Stewart)

(awarded at American Historical Association [AHA] annual meeting, December 1978/Books 1976-77 imprint)

Michael B. Katz, The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth-Century City (Harvard Univ. Press)

R.H. Babcock, Gompers

Mike - two volumes of memoirs by the late Lester B. Pearson

The prize was accepted by Robert Bothwell on behalf of Mrs. Pearson. Mr. Bothwell presented the award to Mrs. Pearson on January 3, 1975.