Publication Awards

M. Elizabeth Arthur Award: (Academic full-length)

• WINNER: Labour Pains, Thunder Bay’s Working Class in Canada’s Wheat Boom, by Jean Morrison (Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2009).
• Canadian Car & Foundry Aircraft Production at Fort William on the Eve of World War II, by Jonathan Grenville Kirton (Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2009).

Gertrude H. Dyke Award: (Popular full-length)

• WINNER: Dance is on Fire. By Neil McQuarrie (Fort Frances: Dance Fire Memorial Committee, 2008).
• We Were Not Worried at Dinner Time,” The October 1938 Forest Fires and the Last Frontier on the Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Borderland. By Harl A. Dalstrom anbd Kay Calame Dalstrom (Emo: Rainy River District Women’s Institute Museum, 2009).
• 1884-2009 Responding To Unmet Needs: 125 Years of Care in the Community. By Peter Raffo (St. Joseph’s Care Group, 2009).
• Last Best Places: Storytelling about Thunder Bay’s Historic Buildings. By Tania L. Saj (River Rocks Publishing, 2009).
• Where the Heck is Jellicoe? by Lise A. Koning (Jellicoe Recreation Club, 2007).
• Dryden: Little City on the Wabigoon, 1910-2010 (Dryden Museum, 2009)

J.P. Bertrand Award: (Academic Article)

• WINNER: “A Study of the Strike at Canada Safeway by Local 175 of the UFCW,” by William Vinh-Doyle. In Essays in Northwestern Ontario Working Class History: Thunder Bay and its Environs, edited by Michel Beaulieu (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, Northern and Regional Studies Series #16, 2008), 297-326.
• “Finnish Kanadalainen Sosialismi: Towards an Understanding of Finnish-Canadian Socialist Activity, 1900-1935,” by Michel Beaulieu. In Faravid, Pohjois-Suomen Historiallisen Yhdistyksen Vuosikirja XXXIII (Rovaniemi, 2009), 107-25.
• “‘A Socialist Movement which does not Attract the Women Cannot Live’: The Strength of Finnish Socialist Women in Port Arthur, 1903-1933,” by Samira Saramo. In Essays in Northwestern Ontario Working Class History: Thunder Bay and its Environs, edited by Michel Beaulieu (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, Northern and Regional Studies Series #16, 2008), 177-95.
• “Old Economy/New Economy Transitions and Shifts in Demographic and Industrial Patterns in Northern Ontario,” by Chris Southcott. In Transition in Marginal Zones in the Age of Globalization:Case Studies from the North and South, edited by Thomas Dunk (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, Northern and Regional Studies Series #18, 2010), 63-94.
• “Reacting to the Workers’ Revolt: The Lakehead and the Winnipeg General Strike” by Michel Beaulieu. In Left History 14:1 (Spring/Summer 2009), 8-32.
• “The Politics of Planning for Atikaki, 1972-1983,” by George Warecki. In Ontario History 102:1 (Spring 2010), 56-77
• “A Warning to Other Towns: The 1906 Fort William Typhoid Epidemic,” by Mark Chochla. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVII (2009), 3-26.

George B MacGillivray Award: (Popular Article)

• WINNER: “A Memorial Society’s Struggle with the Funeral Industry ,” by Eleanor Dolores Dickey. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVI (2008), 53-67.
• “Theatre and Music on Ontario’s Frontier, 1876-1907” by F. Brent Scollie. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVI (2008), 24-52.
• “Prima In Lacubus: Over a Century of Naval Activity at the Lakehead,” by Chelsea DeGagne, Michel S. Beaulieu and David Ratz in Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVII (2009), 46-59.
• “The Wobblies,” by Donna Jeanpierre. In Lakehead University Magazine, Spring/Summer 2010.
• “A Summer on the Boats,” by Margaret Lorimer. In Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records XXXVII (2009), 60-64.
• “Jackfish Memories: Once it had a Railroad … Now It’s Done,” by Lyle Nicol in Lake Superior Magazine, Feb.-Mar. 2009.
• “The McKinnons: The Grain Trimmers of Thunder Bay,” by William Hryb in Canadian Sailings, Jan. 1, 2007.