Department Member Wins Publication Award

 

Dr. Peter Raffo's book, 1934-2004 Lakehead Psychiatric Hospital From Institution to Community A Transformation of Psychiatric Hospital Services, is this year's winner of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society's Gertrude H. Dyke Award for best popular full-length study.

 
Every two years, the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society gives out awards for the best recent publications that deal with aspects of Northwestern Ontario's history. These awards are intended to help publicize such works, to recognize the excellence of local writers, and to encourage new authors to write about our history. The awards are given out in four categories: for full-length scholarly and popular works and for scholarly and popular articles. The winners are chosen by independent panels of judges in each category.

Also nominated for this year's awards were articles by Dr. Helen Smith (whose work received honorable mention) and Michel S. Beaulieu (MA 2003) for the J.P. Bertrand Award for best academic article. In the popular history category, John Potestio (MA 1982) was nominated for the Gertrude H. Dyke Award for best popular full-length study, and former award winner Jean Morrison (MA 1974) was nominated for the George B. Macgillivray Award for best popular article.