TITLE TITRE | AUTHOR AUTEUR | CATEGORY CATÉGORIE | PUBLISHER ÉDITEUR |
| 1946 |
| Continental Revue | Winifred Bambrick | Fiction | Faber and Faber and The Ryerson Press |
| Poems | Rober Finch | Poetry or Drama | Oxford University Press |
| In Searh of Myself | Frederick Philip Grove | Nonfiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| Colony to Nation | A.R.M. Lower | Nonfiction | Longmans Canada |
| 1947 |
| The Tin Flute (trans.) | Gabrielle Roy | Fiction | Reynal & Hitchcock Co. and McClelland and Stewart |
| Poems for People | Dorothy Livesay | Poetry or Drama | The Ryerson Press |
| Haida | William Sclater | Nonfiction | Oxford University Press |
| The Government of Canada | R.MacGregor Dawson | Nonfiction | University of Toronto Press |
| 1948 |
| The Precipice | Hugh MacLennan | Fiction | Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada |
| The Rocking Chair and Other Poems | A.M. Klein | Poetry or Drama | The Ryerson
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| Halifax, Warden of the North | Thomas H. Raddall | Nonfiction | McClelland and Stewart |
| The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 | C.P. Stacey | Nonfiction | The King's Printer |
| 1949 |
| Mr. Ames Against Time | Philip Child | Fiction | The Ryerson Press |
| The Red Heart | James Reaney | Poetry or Drama | McClelland and Stewart |
| Cross-country | Hugh MacLennan | Nonfiction | Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada |
| Democratic Government in Canada | R. MacGregor Dawson | Nonfiction | University of Toronto Press and Copp Clark Publishing Co. |
| Franklin of the Arctic | R.S. Lambert | Juvenile | McClelland and Stewart |
| 1950 |
| The Outlander (trans.) | Germaine Guèvremont | Fiction | McGraw-Hill Co. of Canada |
| Of Time and the Lover | James Wreford Watson | Poetry or Drama | McClelland and
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| The Saskatchewan | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | Nonfiction | Rinehart |
| The Progressive Party in Canada | W.L. Morton | Nonfiction | University of Toronto Press |
| The Great Adventure | Donald Dickie | Juvenile | J.M. Dent & Sons (Canada) |
| 1951 |
| The Loved and the Lost | Morley Callaghan | Fiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| The Mulgrave Road | Charles Bruce | Poetry or Drama | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| The Ardent Exile | Josephine Phelan | Nonfiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| The Governement of Prince Edward Island | Frank MacKinnon | Nonfiction | University of Toronto Press |
| A Land Divided | John F. Hayes | Juvenile | Copp Clark Publishing Co. |
| 1952 |
| The Pillar | David Walker | Fiction | Collins Clear-Type Press and Houghton Mifflin |
| Towards the Last Spike | E.J. Pratt | Poetry or Drama | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| The Incredible Canadian | Bruce Hutchison | Nonfiction | Longmans Green Canada |
| John A. Macdonald, the Young Politician | Donald G. Creighton | Nonfiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| Cargoes on the Great Lakes | Marie McPhedran | Juvenile | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| 1953 |
| Digby | David Walker | Fiction | Collins Clear-Type Press |
| The Net and the Sword | Douglas LePan | Poetry or Drama | Clarke, Irwin & Co. |
| Sex and the Nature of Things | N.J. Berrill | Nonfiction | Dodd, Mead & Co. |
| Canada, A Story of Challenge | J.M.S. Careless | Nonfiction | Cambridge University Press and Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| Rebels Ride at Night | John F. HAyes | Juvenile | Copp Clark Publishing Co. |
| 1954 |
| The Fall of a Titan | Igor Gouzenko | Fiction | Cassell & Co. |
| The Metal and the Flower | P.K. Page | Poetry or Drama | McClelland and Stewart |
| Thirty and Three | Hugh MacLennan | Nonfiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| This Most Famous Stream | A.R.M. Lower | Nonfiction | The Ryerson Press |
| The Nor'westers | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | Juvenile | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| 1955 |
| The Sixth of June | Lionel Shapiro | Fiction | Doubleday & Co. |
| Friday's Child | Wilfred Watson | Poetry or Drama | Faber and Faber |
| Man's Emerging Mind | N.J. Berrill | Nonfiction | Dodd, Mead & Co. |
| John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain | Donald G. Creighton | Nonfiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| The Map-Maker | Kerry Wood | Juvenile | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| 1956 |
| The Sacrifice | Adele Wiseman | Fiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| A Window on the North | Robert A.D. Ford | Poetry or Drama | The Ryerson Press |
| The Mysterious North | Pierre Berton | Nonfiction | McClelland and Stewart and Knopf |
| Century of Conflict | Joseph Lister Rutledge | Nonfiction | Doubleday & Co. |
| Lost in the Barrens | Farley Mowat | Juvenile | Little, Brown and Co. |
| 1957 |
| Street of Riches (trans.) | Gabrielle Roy | Fiction | McClelland and Stewart |
| The Boatman | Jay Macpherson | Poetry or Drama | Oxford University Press |
| Canada: Tomorrow's Giant | Bruce Hutchison | Nonfiction | Logmans Canada |
| The Path of Destiny | Thomas H. Raddall | Nonfiction | Doubleday & Co. |
| The Great Chief | Kerry Wood | Juvenile | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| 1958 |
| Execution | Colin McDougall | Fiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| A Suit of Nettles | James Reaney | Poetry or Drama | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| Klondike | Pierre Berton | Nonfiction | McClelland and Stewart |
| The History of Fanny Burney | Joyce Hemlow | Nonfiction | Clarendon Press and Oxford University Press |
| Nkwala | Edith L. SHarp | Juvenile | Little, Brown and Co. |
| 1959 |
| Malgré tout, la joie | André Giroux | Romans et nouvelles | Institut Littéraire du Québec |
| Red Carpet for the Sun | Irving Layton | Poetry or Drama | McClelland and Stewart |
| The Watch that Ends the Night | Hugh MacLennan | Fiction | Macmillan Co. of Canada |
| Le barachois | Féélix-Antoine Savard | Études et essais | Éditions Fides |