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François-Xavier Garneau Medal

book prize conferred by the Canadian Historical Association

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3332197 ↗
Source-derived summary

The François-Xavier Garneau Medal is a book prize awarded by the Canadian Historical Association. Awarded only every five years since it was first awarded in 1980, the CHA describes the Medal as its "most prestigious" prize, honouring "an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research." The Medal is named for François-Xavier Garneau, a 19th-century Quebecois poet and civil servant who wrote a classic three-volume history of the French Canadian nation entitled Histoire du Canada.

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The public source identifies “François-Xavier Garneau Medal” as book prize conferred by the Canadian Historical Association. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around François-Xavier, Garneau and Medal.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with François-Xavier, Garneau and Medal providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3332197. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “François-Xavier Garneau Medal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.