Talk:Governor General's Awards

Sequence and commencement dates
Sections 1 to 7 cover distinct named awards in the GG program followed by sec 8 Other. All of 1-7 give commencement dates; they are in sequence except sections 2 (1982) and 3 (1979). Section 2 mentions "continuing the tradition" of another award, which may justify the sequence.
 * GG Medals in Architecture (section 2): we say without wikilink or reference, "presented since 1982, continuing the tradition of the Massey Medals, which had been awarded between 1950 and 1970". What tradition continuing in what sense? Not the Massey Medal for geography, annual without break 1959 to 2014. --P64 (talk) 23:30, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * * "Massey Medals for Architecture 1950–1970" (2010) at Toronto Modern (robertmoffatt115.wordpress.com)
 * * same displayed at Google Maps --P64 (talk) 23:35, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Section 8 covers eight more award names as bullet points. The first four give no dates, the last four give dates; they are in sequence.

A commencement date should be given for every award name, 15 in all. I suppose the eight bullet points should appear in chronological order. Why not?

The literary awards are dated by the year of publication (we date them consistently so, i understand). Apparently the 1936 awards were announced or presented in November 1937 and the 2014 awards in November 2014. We should explain --perhaps only in list articles on particular awards-- when the schedule was revised in that respect and what were/are its consequences for November/December publications.

--P64 (talk) 17:42, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

Stephen Leacock Award
Our award article Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour provides contemporary newspaper sources for many of the annual announcements. We say the Leacock Award was and always has been administered and presented separately from the Governor General's Literary Awards [redirects here], but their winners were announced together in 1947 and for some time thereafter --at least for the 1946 to 1958 publication years, we imply in this article. Here is a selection of the newspaper publication dates we show in the Leacock article: Thus we/I say at 1946 Governor General's Awards -- in coverage of the inaugural Leacock Award, which I relegated from the lead to section 2, and expanded -- "the Leacock Medal approximately maintains its original schedule ... Meanwhile the ceremonial date of the Governor General's Literary Awards has advanced to November of the publication year." --P64 (talk) 16:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1947 April 19
 * 1953 May 23, maybe ("Governor General's Awards Announced for Two Authors")
 * 1978 May 12 (the earliest after 1953; title suggests the Leacock alone)
 * 1980 May 10
 * 1990 April 19; shortlist April 3
 * 2000 April 20
 * 2010 May 2; shortlist April 2
 * In the annual series YYYY Governor General's Awards, we provide one or more dates only for 1936 (following November), 1947 (following April), and 1995 (November) to present. --P64 (talk) 16:54, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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