Date Posted: Saturday June 7, 2008 News type: Awards , News release
A west coast editor who helped an east coast author shape a book with national significance has been honoured by the Editors’ Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs. From a short list of four candidates, Saeko Usukawa was chosen to receive the 2007 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her contribution to Abstract Painting in Canada (above right) […]
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Date Posted: Friday June 8, 2007 News type: Awards , News release
OTTAWA, June 8, 2007 – The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce that the 2006 winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence is Audrey McClellan of Victoria, BC, for her work on Judith Williams’s controversial book, Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast. Working with what Carellin Brook, managing editor […]
Date Posted: Wednesday June 21, 2006 News type: Awards , News release
VANCOUVER, June 21, 2006 – The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence is Frank Condron of Toronto, Ontario, for his work on the book How to Go Further: A Guide to Simple Organic Living with Woody Harrelson and Friends. The Tom […]
Date Posted: Friday June 17, 2005 News type: Awards , News release
TORONTO, June 17, 2005—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence is Valerie Wyatt of Victoria, B.C. Wyatt won for her work on Tree of Life: The Incredible Biodiversity of Life on Earth, by first-time author and environmental educator Rochelle Strauss. “Part […]
Date Posted: Saturday June 5, 2004 News type: Awards , News release
CALGARY, June 5, 2004—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce that Toronto editor Ian Coutts has won the 2003 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for his work on D-Day: The Greatest Invasion–A People’s History (Raincoast/Madison Press) by Dan van der Vat.Coutts was presented with the award in Calgary, 60 years almost to the […]
Date Posted: Saturday June 14, 2003 News type: Awards , News release
Ottawa, June 14, 2003—The co-winners of the 2002 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence are Susan Goldberg and David Peebles, both of Toronto. Goldberg received the award for her work on Misinformed Consent: Thirteen Women Share Their Stories about Unnecessary Hysterectomy, and Peebles for McGraw-Hill Ryerson Mathematics of Data Management. The $2,000 award was presented during a […]
Date Posted: Saturday May 25, 2002 News type: Awards , News release
Montréal, May 25, 2002—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) is pleased to announce that Camilla Blakeley, project editor with UBC Press, has won the 20th annual Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for 2001 for her work on Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the Fifties by Alexandra Palmer. Blakeley was praised by the judges […]
Date Posted: Saturday June 16, 2001 News type: Awards , News release
Vancouver editor Barbara Pulling has won the 2000 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on The Bear’s Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack by Patricia Van Tighem (Greystone Books). The judges said that Pulling “added immeasurable value to this story — she saw the gem of the book to be […]
Date Posted: Thursday May 27, 1999 News type: Awards , News release
Vancouver, May 27, 1999 — The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) named Elizabeth McLean of Shawnigan Lake, BC, as winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for 1999. The announcement was made at the Saturday night banquet for Editing on the Edge, EAC’s annual conference, held in Vancouver this year. This is the […]
Date Posted: Sunday May 16, 1999 News type: Awards , News release
Ottawa, May 16, 1999—Jim Lyons of Toronto, Ontario, and Georgina Montgomery of Pender Island, BC, have tied as winners of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. Both were present to receive their awards at the National Press Club in Ottawa Saturday night, May 15, 1999. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the Editors’ […]
Date Posted: Monday May 11, 1998 News type: Awards , News release
Toronto, May 11, 1998—The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) named John Eerkes-Medrano of Victoria, BC, as winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for 1997. The announcement was made at the Saturday night banquet for EAC’s annual conference, held in Toronto this year. This is the 15th annual Fairley Award. Eerkes-Medrano was given […]
Date Posted: Tuesday June 24, 1997 News type: Awards , News release
Toronto, June 24, 1997—Toronto editor Rosemary Shipton is the winner of the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for 1996. The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) announced the choice at the Canadian Booksellers Association Awards Gala, held at Toronto’s Hilton Hotel, June 23, 1997. Shipton was given the award in recognition of her work on Sir […]
Date Posted: Saturday June 1, 1996 News type: Awards , News release
Sharon Stewart is a freelance editor based in Ottawa. The judges were full of praise for Sharon’s work. They noted that the project was an inherently difficult one, given the tight deadline and the complexity and rough state of the manuscript. They were unanimous in applauding her professionalism, conscientiousness and good humour in transforming the […]
Date Posted: Thursday June 1, 1995 News type: Awards , News release
Ruth Pincoe Royal Conservatory of Music. New Piano Series Student Guides: A Guide to the Study of the Examination Repertoire of The Royal Conservatory of Music. 8 volumes. Oakville: Frederick Harris Music, 1994.
Date Posted: Wednesday June 1, 1994 News type: Awards , News release
Jane McNulty Various authors. Career Connections. 6 volumes. Toronto: Trifolium Books, 1993.
Date Posted: Tuesday June 1, 1993 News type: Awards , News release
Lenore d’Anjou Raymond W.Y. Kao. Small Business Management. 3d ed. Toronto: Dryden Canada, 1992.
Date Posted: Monday June 1, 1992 News type: Awards , News release
Rick Archbold John Sawatsky. Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition. Research associate Harvey Cashore. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1991.
Date Posted: Saturday June 1, 1991 News type: Awards , News release
Kathryn Dean Thomas S. Axworthy and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, eds. Towards a Just Society: The Trudeau Years. Toronto: Viking Penguin Books Canada, 1990.
Date Posted: Friday June 1, 1990 News type: Awards , News release
Robert Fulford Larry Zolf. Scorpions for Sale: A Fictional Biography. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1989.
Date Posted: Thursday June 1, 1989 News type: Awards , News release
Nancy Flight David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson. Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1988.
Date Posted: Wednesday June 1, 1988 News type: Awards , News release
Sarah Swartz David Suzuki. Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1987.
Date Posted: Monday June 1, 1987 News type: Awards , News release
Heather Ebbs Karlis Irbitis. Of Struggle and Flight: The History of Latvian Aviation. Ottawa: Canada’s Wings, 1986.
Date Posted: Sunday June 1, 1986 News type: Awards , News release
Norman Dahl Ross Fox. Presentation Pieces and Trophies from the Henry Birks Collection of Canadian Silver. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1985.
Date Posted: Saturday June 1, 1985 News type: Awards , News release
John Eerkes-Medrano Matt Bray and Ernie Epp, eds. A Vast and Magnificent Land: An Illustrated History of Northern Ontario. Thunder Bay: Lakehead University; Sudbury: Laurentian University, 1984.