The Canterbury History Foundation raises funds for and administers the annual Canterbury Community Historian award.

The Foundation will not be appointing a Community Historian for 2012

Current Recipient:

2011: Ian Dougherty - 100 Years of the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association

Previous Community Historians and their projects have been:

2010: Dr. Jean Garner - Women's letters from the John Hall family to England in the 1860s, published as Letters to Grace

2009:  Mrs Ruth Low - History of Droving in New Zealand

2008:  Dr Vaughan Wood - The Banks Peninsula cocksfoot seed industry

2007: Rhian Gallagher - Jack Adamson, Hermitage photographer and guide, published as Feeling for Daylight

2006: John Wilson - History of Addington

2005: Mrs Philippa Graham - Maori rock drawings in Canterbury and North Otago

2004: Libby Plumridge - Maori Women's Welfare League, Banks Peninsula, published as Rapaki Wahine Whakamaumahara

2003: Jim Sullivan - Oral history in sound archives, published as Canterbury Voices

2002: Colin Amodeo - Canterbury 1849, published as The Forgotten Forty-niners

2001: Margaret Lovell-Smith - Helen Connon, published as Easily the best