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2006:
Won the Pierre Berton Award for History for a body of work.

 

2005:
Lady Franklin's Revenge won:

The UBC Medal for Canadian Biography

 

2001-02:
Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae won:

  • The Writers’ Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize

  • The Canadian Authors’ Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History

  • The Grant MacEwan Author’s Award (Alberta Community Development / co-winner)
  • An American Christopher Award for a work of artistic excellence that “affirms the highest values of the human spirit”
1998:
Won a University of Cambridge press fellowship offering “journalists of high ability and promise a unique opportunity to reflect and study for twelve weeks in one of the world’s great universities.”

1992-97:
Won the Calgary Freedom of Expression Award; the Wilfred Eggleston Award for best non-fiction book for Canada’s Undeclared War: Fighting Words From the Literary Trenches; and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
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