Winners

• Fiction: Gwethalyn Graham
  Gwethalyn Graham
  Gwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer, whose 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list...
  
  , Swiss Sonata
• Poetry or drama: Kenneth Leslie
  Kenneth Leslie
  Kenneth Leslie was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest , which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers...
  
  , By Stubborn Stars
• Non-fiction: John Murray Gibbon
  John Murray Gibbon
  John Murray Gibbon was a Scottish Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities. Gibbon emigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway...
  
  , Canadian Mosaic
  Canadian Mosaic
  Canadian Mosaic was a book by John Murray Gibbon, published in 1938. Gibbon's book, the full title of which was Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation, heralded a new way of thinking about immigrants that was to shape Canadian immigration policy in the latter part of the Twentieth century...