This year’s Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media, also known as the Pierre Berton Award, goes to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. The ongoing publishing project began in 1959 and is updated simultaneously in French and English editions. To date, it includes more than 8,400 biographies that are available online as well as in 15 print volumes.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography currently receives over 1 million visitors per year at its website Biographi.ca.