The Bancroft Award is an award of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...

 "given for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject". It is named in honour of Joseph Austin Bancroft (1882–1957). It is awarded bi-annually. The award consists of a presentation scroll and a cash award of CAD $2,500.

Recipients

• 1968 - John Tuzo Wilson, FRSC
• 1970 - David M. Baird, FRSC
• 1975 - E.R. Ward Neale, FRSC
• 1976 - Roger A. Blais
  Roger Blais
  Roger A. Blais, was a Canadian geological engineer and academic. He helped develop a number of prospecting and exploration technologies....
  
  
• 1978 - Frank Kenneth North
• 1980 - William W. Hutchison
• 1982 - Christopher R. Barnes, FRSC
• 1984 - Jack G. Souther
  Jack Souther
  Jack Souther is an Bancroft Award winning American-Canadian volcanologist of the Geological Survey of Canada. He is a leading authority on geothermal resources and volcanism in the Canadian Cordillera. Souther has long been in demand as a professor to lay audiences because of his ability to give...
  
  
• 1986 - Derek York, FRSC
• 1990 - Steven D. Scott, FRSC
• 1992 - Godfrey S. Nowlan
• 1994 - Alan V. Morgan
• 1996 - Dale A. Russell
• 2000 - Jan Veizer
  Jan Veizer
  Ján Veizer is the Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysis, of Bochum Ruhr University, he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry until 2004...
  
  , FRSC
• 2002 - John J. Clague
  John J. Clague
  John Joseph Clague PhD FRSC is an award-winning Canadian authority in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences. He is a Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University and an Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada....
  
  , FRSC
• 2004 - William Richard Peltier
  William Richard Peltier
  William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. , is a university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Science and principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Network...
  
  , FRSC
• 2006 - David J. Dunlop, FRSC
• 2008 - A. E. Williams-Jones, FRSC
• 2010 - Frank C. Hawthorne