Doreen and John Windsor Award
2024 Winner of the Windsor Prize
From left to right: Dr Kevin Brushett, OCdt Ethan Charters, winner of the Windsor Prize, and Dr Jim Kenny.
The Doreen and John Windsor Award is presented annually to the undergraduate cadet in the final year of study in Honours History or Honours Military and Strategic Studies programs who demonstrates excellence in some area of Canadian, military, or international history. The recipient will be selected through open competition based on the submission of the best original essay or thesis on a subject in some area of Canadian, military, or international history.
Amount of Award: $10,000
Past winners:
- 2024 - Ethan Charters: "Change Without Progress: How the Indian Residential School System Remained in Operation After the Second World War"
- 2023 - Grace Schmelzle: “Subsistence in the Conquest Era: Food Security, Agriculture, and Allegiance in the Governance of Nova Scotia, 1710-1720”
- 2022 - Luciano DiBlisi: "Argentine Air Superiority during the Falklands War: The Failures of the Fuerza Arwo Argentina."
- 2021 - J.B. McKlusly: "Learning while Warfighting: The Canadian Army at Ortona, December 1943."
- 2020 - Timothy Carroll: "Imperial Tanks: Interoperability of the First Canadian Armoured Brigade and the British Eighth Army in Italy, 1943-44."
- 2019 - Colin de Grandpré: "L’esprit du devoir" : une assistante social au front, janvier-décembre 1945."
- 2018 - Patrick Allard: " The Pen versus the Swords: The Story of Vivan Denot". Saving the Louvres from Prussia in 1815.
- 2017 - Mitchell Hewson
- 2016 - Brendan Hogan
- 2015 - No Award
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2014 - Kevin Connolly
The Lieutenant-Colonel Leroy Fraser Grant Memorial Prize
2024 Winner of the Grant Prize
From left to right: OCdt Vas Patapovich, winner of the Grant Prize and Dr Sean Maloney.
The Lieutenant-Colonel Leroy Fraser Grande Memorial Prize is presented annuakly to the student of any year who, in open competition, submits the best original essay on a subject other than Canada or the Commonwealth.
Amount of Award: $450
Past winners:
- 2024 - Vas Patapovich: "Electronic Iconography: Religious Propaganda in the Contemporary Russian Federation."
- 2023 - Richard Sun: "Islamization of the Tarim Basin."
- 2022 - George Carusu: "Forgotten and Misunderstood: The Rebirth of Soviet Air Forces, 1941-1942."
- 2021 - Ni Yen Wu: "The German Military Presence and Influence in China, 1928-1937."
- 2020 - Gesse-Lea Roberts and Patrick Breen.
- 2019 - Timothy Carroll: "Salerno 1943: The Fall of the German Way of War"
- 2018 - Colin de Grandpré: "Leur place dans le combat: la participation féminine dans la Résistance intérieure française."
- 2017 - Miles Smith
- 2016 - Gabrielle Archambault
- 2015 - Tejvinder Singh Toor
2014 - Jean-Phillippe Bélanger