Toronto IODE Award
Date: January 3, 2001
The Toronto IODE is awarded to an author or illustrator for excellence in children's literature.

Pearson Rogers Writers Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Date: June 21, 1999
A $10 000 dollar award for excellence in non-fiction. Supported by Pearson PLC and co-sponsored and administered by The Writer' Trust of Canada.

Norma Fleck Award
Date: October 4, 2001
This $10,000 award is presented annually to an author or author and illustrator of Canadian children's non-fiction.

BC Book Prize
Date: June 21, 1999
Established in 1985, these awards celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. ($4,000)

Toronto Poet-Laureate Appointment
Date: April 1, 2001
Toronto's Poet-Laureate serves as the city's ambassador for the arts to enhance Toronto's strong literary tradition and support the city's many diverse voices.

Niagara Book Prize
Date: November 9, 2001
This award honours Niagara region writers.

Test
Date: January 1, 1900
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City of Toronto Book Award
Date: September 1, 1995
A $20, 000 prize to the book that best illuminates life in the Canadian city.

Canadian Toy Testing Council "Hot Dozen" Choice
Date: April 11, 2003
The Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC), the leading authority on toys in Canada, selectsthe year's hot dozen books for the season. Winners are selected by the CTTC member families.

Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction
Date: June 21, 1999
The Prize is awarded for achievement in literary non-fiction, in commemoration of essayist Charles Taylor.

American Photography Association Award
Date: June 4, 1990


TORGI Award
Date: October 16, 2000
Awarded by the CNIB Library for the Blind. Criteria include literary merit, quality of narration and technical excellence.

Hackmatack Award
Date: May 1, 2005
The Hackmatack Award promotes reading of quality Canadian books suitable for children in grades four to six. Each year, thousands ofyoung readers in the four Atlantic provinces read nominated books and vote for their favourites. The nominations for the 2004/2005 Hackmatack Award are divided into three categories - English Fiction, EnglishNon-fiction and French. Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents will be among the thirty titles read and voted for by students in April 2005.

TORGI Award
Date: September 21, 2004
Awarded by the CNIB Library for the Blind. Criteria include literary merit, quality of narration and technical excellence.

Arthur Ellis Award
Date: April 23, 2001
Administered by the Crime Writers of Canada celebrates and honours Canadian crime writing.

TORGI Award
Date: June 21, 2000
Awarded by the CNIB Library for the Blind. Criteria include literary merit, quality of narration and technical excellence.

Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers' Craft Award
Date: October 10, 2001


Coles' Publisher of the Year
Date: June 4, 1987
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National Aboriginal Achievement Award
Date: April 4, 2004
Fourteen recipients are awarded the Aboriginal community’s highest honour. Among this year's recipient is writer Basil Johnston.

Parent's Choice Award
Date: January 31, 2001


National Science Teacher's Association (NSTA)
Date: March 14, 2001


Toronto Arts Award
Date: August 11, 1999
Toronto Arts Awards are given annually by Arts Toronto in recognition of excellence and a contribution to Toronto’s arts and culture community.

Ruth Schwartz Children'siterature Award
Date: April 23, 2003
This award is administered by the Canadian Bookseller's Association and the Ontario Arts Council. Winners are chosen from juries of children from Ontario. ($3,000)

Govenor General's Award
Date: January 1, 1994
The Canada Council for the Arts, administers and promotes the 14 Govenor General awards (7 categories in french and english), worth $15,000 each.

Dartmouth Book Award
Date: February 7, 2003
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotian literature and recognize the valuable contribution writers make to our cultural heritage. Two prizes of $1500 each are awarded - one for fiction and one for non-fiction (2003).

Canadian Bookseller's Association People's Choice Award
Date: January 1, 2001


Science in Society Book Award
Date: June 8, 2003
Awarded by the Canadian Science Writers Association (2002).

Mississauga Arts Award
Date: May 1, 2003
Each year, The Mississauga Arts Awards brings to the forefront an array of local talent and gives the public a glimpse of what lies in the future for the arts in Mississauga and beyond. Add to this a roll call of seasoned, world renowned finalists like Alf Coward, Michael Burgess, Rik Emmett and Robert J. Sawyer and the Mississauga Arts Awards Gala Night becomes too hard to resist for those with an appreciation for the arts!

Garden Writer's Association of America Garden Globe Awards
Date: January 1, 2003
For over 20 years, the GWA has conducted an annual awards program for talent and products published or aired in the field of garden communications. The purpose of the program was to provide recognition for the vast talents of the GWA membership in the area of writing, photography, graphic design, illustration and electronic media such as radio, television and Internet programming. It is a means of showcasing the many exceptional works created and/or published every year.

Ruth Schwartz Children's Literature Award
Date: April 23, 2002
This award is administered by the Canadian Bookseller's Association and the Ontario Arts Council. Winners are chosen from juries of children from Ontario. ($3,000)

Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize
Date: March 29, 2000
A $1,000 award for shortlisted authors for this Canadian literary award.

Toronto Historical Board Commendation
Date: December 30, 1994


Science in Society Book Award
Date: April 1, 1997


Rogers Viacom Non-Fiction Prize
Date: September 1, 1999


Donner Prize, The
Date: July 2, 2003
The award for the best book on Canadian public policy(2002/2003).

Trillium Book Award
Date: January 4, 2001
The Trillium Book Award promotes and honours Ontario writers and their publishers for their literary excellence.

Red Cedar Award
Date: February 7, 2003
The Red Cedar is British Columbia's Young Reader's Choice book award. Every year thousands of children between grades 4 and 7 from across the province are invited to read books from the nominated lists of non-fiction and fiction titles and vote for their favourit(2003).

Trillium Award
Date: April 1, 1999
The Trillium Award promotes and honours Ontario writers and their publishers for their literary excellence.

Science In Society Book Award
Date: June 19, 1999
Nominated by the Science Writers Association of Canada

BC Book Prize
Date: March 5, 2004
Established in 1985, these awards celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers.

BC Book Prize
Date: April 29, 2000
Established in 1985, these awards celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. ($4, 000)

City of Toronto Book Award
Date: January 9, 1995
A $20, 000 prizegiven to the book that best illuminates life in the Canadian city.

YALSA American Library Association
Date: March 30, 2000
The YALSA list recommends 10 - 25 paperbacks with teen appeal to encourage reading for enjoyment.

Commendation from the Business and Professional Women's Club of Ontario
Date: April 1, 2025
Every year the Business and Professional Women's Club of Ontario commends businesses on their contribution to women's issues.

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Date: April 28, 2000
This award, named in celebration of the life of Danuta Gleed, and is awarded for excellence in Canadian short story writing.

Quebec Writer's Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction
Date: January 1, 1900
Every year, QWF shines the spotlight on the best English-language writers to emerge from Quebec. The Awards Gala, which began in 1988 under QSPELL, has grown into one of Montreal's most eagerly-anticipated literary events, and includes the Hugh Maclennan Prize for Fiction, the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, The McAuslan First Book Prize, the Translation Prize, and the Community Award. Past winners include Neil Bissoondath, Anne Carson, Claire Dé, Trevor Ferguson, Sheila Fischman, Elyse Gasco, Taras Grescoe, Julie Keith, Yann Martel, Mary Meigs, Mordecai Richler, T.F. Rigelhof, Hélène Rioux, Witold Rybczynski, and Jack Todd.

BC Book Prize
Date: May 25, 2004
Established in 1985, these awards celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers.

Science in Society Book Awards
Date: April 24, 2004
Administered by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, these awards honour outstanding contributions to science writing.

Canadian Toy Testing Council "Hot Dozen" Choice
Date: November 4, 2002
The Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC), the leading authority on toys in Canada, selectsthe year's hot dozen books for the season. Winners are selected by the CTTC member families.

Cuisine Canada Award
Date: December 19, 2003
The Cuisine Canada Culinary Book Awards are designed to promote excellence and creativity in food and beverage writing and publishing, while at the same time promoting our Canadian culinary food culture and celebrating our Canadian authors and publishers.

McNally Robinson Books for Young People Awards
Date: June 17, 2004
This award, divided into the categories of Young Adult and Children, is presented to the two Manitoba writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. The books must have been published in 2003. The two winning authors will each receive a cash award of $2,500 donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

Alcuin Award for Book Design
Date: June 4, 1997
The Alcuin Society Awards promote a wider appreciation of what goes into creating fine books.

Gourmand World Cookbook Award
Date: December 6, 2001
The Gourmand World Award honours the best cookbooks from around the globe.

Dartmouth Book Awards
Date: February 7, 2003
The Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotian literature and recognize the valuable contribution writers make to our cultural heritage. Two prizes of $1500 each are awarded - one for fiction and one for non-fiction (2003).

Science in Society Book Award
Date: June 8, 2003
Awarded by the Canadian Science Writers Association (2003).

Hans Christian Andersen Author Award
Date: April 10, 2002
Also known as the IBBY Award, this international honour celebrates the lasting contribution to literature for children and young people. This year's Canadian nominee is Toronto's Poet Laureate Dennis Lee.

Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
Date: April 3, 2004
Created in 1998, this annual award recognizes the best work of biography, autobiography, or personal memoir ($10,000).

National Aboriginal Achievement Award
Date: January 4, 2013
The Aboriginal community's highest honour. 14 awards were handed out this year (2004)The awards were founded by Mohawk conductor and social activist John Kim Bell,in 1993 to recognize the achievements of Aboriginal professionals.

Red Maple Award
Date: February 7, 2003
The Red Maple Award reading program is offered for the enjoyment of students in Grades 7, 8 and 9. The program, like the Association's Silver Birch Awards reading program, gives students who have read a minimum number of nominated titles the opportunity to vote with a large group of their peers for the nominated title that they feel should win the Red Maple Award each year (2003).

Ruth Schwartz Award
Date: May 20, 2003
This award is administered by the Canadian Bookseller's Association and the Ontario Arts Council. Winners are chosen from juries of children from Ontario. ($3,000)

Canadian Booksellers Association's Publisher of the Year
Date: June 4, 1986


Writer's Trust of Canada 's Matt Cohen Award
Date: May 3, 2001
Valued at $20,000, this award established in January 2001, honours a Canadian writer who has dedicated his or her life to writing.

Landscape Ontario's Gardening Communicator of the Year
Date: January 2, 2025
The award, given out by Landscape Ontario, recognizes the media person who has made thegreatest contribution to gardening, landscaping and related industries in Ontario over the past year.

Atlantic Booksellers Choice Award
Date: June 4, 1987


Hackmatack Award, The
Date: April 1, 2005
This award promotes reading of quality Canadian books suitable for children in grades four to six.

Commonwealth Writers Prize
Date: March 3, 1998


ReLit Award (Regarding Literature Award)
Date: April 4, 2002
The ReLit Awards are designed to support small, independent Canadian presses and recognize the work of a broad range of Canadian authors.

National Business Book Award
Date: April 1, 1993
This Canadian award promotes excellence in business writing.

Ontario Library Association's Red Maple Award
Date: May 20, 2003
The Red Maple Award reading program is offered for the enjoyment of students in Grades 7, 8 and 9. The program, like the Association's Silver Birch Awards reading program, gives students who have read a minimum number of nominated titles the opportunity to vote with a large group of their peers for the nominated title that they feel should win the Red Maple Award each year.


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