The Awards
The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society's Publications Awards are given out for the best publications dealing with the history of Northwestern Ontario. They fall into four categories:

• M. Elizabeth Arthur Award: full-length scholarly works
• J.P. Bertrand Award: scholarly articles
• Gertrude H. Dyke Award: full-length popular works, and
• George B. Macgillivray Award: popular articles

A great many excellent books and articles, both popular and scholarly, are written about the history of our region each year, yet so many authors of these works struggle for recognition. These awards are intended to help publicize such works, to recognize the excellence of local writers, and to encourage new authors to write about our history. The awards are made by independent panels of judges in each category.

M. Elizabeth Arthur Award:

• Insufficient nominations

J.P. Bertrand Award:

• WINNER: "'We did it just for Fun': Amateur Filmmaking at the Lakehead, 1929-1930," by Michel S. Beaulieu, in Ontario History XCIX:2 (Autumn 2007): 168-189.


Other works nominated:
• “Situating a Rifle Range on the Fort William Indian Reserve, 1905-1914,” by P. Whitney Lackenbauer. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVI (2006)
• "The Impact of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Creation of Treaty Number Nine," by David Calverley, in Ontario History 98:1 (2006): 30-51.
• “Internment Camp R at Red Rock,” by Ernest R. Zimmermann. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVII (2007)

• CO-WINNER: Aviation in Thunder Bay. By Jim Lyzun (The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2007)
• CO-WINNER: A Bit of a Legend in These Parts: The Life of Betty Berger Lessard. by Neil McQuarrie (NJM Enterprises, 2007)


Other works nominated:
• A History of Finnish Businesses in the Thunder Bay Area. Edited by Martti Kajorinne (The Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society, 2006)
• Schoolmarm. by Penny Petrone. (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2007)
• Fort Lac la Pluie of the North West Company, 177?-1821. by Merv Ahrens (Fort Frances Times Ltd., 2006)

• WINNER: “Sgt. Joe Hicks’ War,” by Bob Ingraham. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVII (2007)


Other works nominated:
• "The Grain Industry in Thunder Bay: Port longs for good old glory days," by William Hryb. In Canadian Sailings, September 18, 2006
• "When Rats Ruled the Rink: How the Smallest Town in Hockey Won the Stanley Cup," by Jim Chliboyko. Beaver Magazine (April/May 2006)

M. Elizabeth Arthur Award:

• WINNER: K.C.A. Dawson, Original People and Euro Canadians in Northwestern Ontario: The Road West, the Hinge of a Developing State (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 2004)


Other works nominated:
• Philip Girard, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2005)

• WINNER: Jayne Elliott, “Blurring the Boundaries of Space: Shaping Nursing Lives at the Red Cross Outposts in Ontario, 1922-1945" in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 21 #4 (2004), 303-25


Other works nominated:
• Michel Beaulieu, “The Best Picture Ever Made in Canada? Thunder Bay Films Limited and The Devil Bear” in Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 14, #2 (Fall 2005) 18-37
• Helen Smith and Pam Wakewich, “’I Was Not Afraid of Work’: Female War Plant Employees and Their Work Environment.” In Robert C. Thomsen and Nanette L. Hale, eds. Canadian Environments: Essays in Culture, Politics and History, Canadian Studies No. 2. (Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2005), 229-247.
• John S. Long, “How the Commissioners Explained Treaty Number 9 to the Ojibway and Cree in 1905,” Ontario History (Spring, 2006)
• Edward J. Hedican, “Understanding Emotional Experience in Fieldwork: Responding to Grief in a Northern Aboriginal Village,” International Journal of Quantitative Methods 5:1 (March 2006)

• WINNER: Peter Raffo, 1934-2004 Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital From Institution to Community A Transformation of Psychiatric Hospital Services (Thunder Bay: St. Joseph’s Care Group, 2005)


Other works nominated:
• John Potestio, Italians in Thunder Bay (Thunder Bay: Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University, 2004)
• Our Storied Past: The Legacy of Conmee Township (Kakabeka Falls: Corp. of the Township of Conmee, 2003)
• Thorold Tronrud and David Nicholson, Thunder Bay Quiz Book (TBHMS 2005)

• WINNER: Kathryn Lyzun, “Wendell Beckwith,” in TBSource, December 2-9, 2005


Other works nominated:
• Mike Southon and Bruce Pynn, “Lord Stanley’s Bottles” in Canadian Bottle and Stoneware Collector, 9, #3 (Nov. 2004), 28-33
• Jean Morrison, “Cobalt Agitators Stir Up Lakehead Union Interest” in Highgrader Magazine, Fall/Christmas 2005, 22-26
• Wayne Pettit, “Old Town Soda: The History of Coca-Cola in Thunder Bay” in Soda Pop Dreams Magazine Vol. 9, No. 40 (Spring 2006)
• Elle Andra-Warner, “Up in the Air: The Lake Superior Link to Bush Plane History,” in Lake Superior Magazine (April-May 2006)

And the Winners of the 2005 awards were:

• M. Elizabeth Arthur Award:
  Lake Superior to Rainy Lake:Three Centuries of Fur Trade History, by Jean Morrison (published by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2003)
• J.P. Bertrand Award:
  “‘Nothing it seems can be done about it’, Charlie Cox, Indian Affairs Timber Policy, and the Long Lac Reserve, 1924-1940,” by Mark Kuhlberg (in Canadian Historical Review, vol. 84, no. 1, 2003)
• Gertrude H. Dyke Award:
  Fort Frances: A Story of a Town and it’s People by Neil McQuarrie (published by the Fort Frances Museum, 2003)
• George B. Macgillivray Award:
  “The Great Map” by D’Arcy Jenish (in The Beaver, March 2004)

Nominations are open for the next Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Publications Awards program. Books and articles must have been published within the past three years to qualify.

Nominations can be submitted to: 425 Donald Street East, Thunder Bay, Ont. P7E 5V1

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