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Article: Tenth Pierre Berton Award dinner the toast of Toronto.(Award Winner)(Brief Article)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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More than 150 Beaver readers, History Society patrons, and noted historians and writers bunked in for an evening at Historic Fort York on November 25 to pay tribute to Jack Granatstein, the 2004 recipient of the Pierre Berton Award for excellence in popularizing Canadian history.
Just days before his passing, Mr. Berton, unable to attend due to illness, conveyed his congratulations in a message delivered by long-time business associate, Elsa Franklin: "For years there have been two kinds of historians; scholarly academics who assess the significance of our history and popular narrative historians who are basically storytellers. The significant thing about ...