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    The Legislative Assembly offers a variety of guided tours, education programs, teaching tools, and more.

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  5. Past winners

Past Winners

Young Authors Award past winners.

2012 - Walking Into Wilderness: The Toronto Carrying Place and Nine Mile Portage (Heartland Associates, 2010)

2013 - Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War (Between the Lines, 2013)

2014 - Paikin and the Premiers - Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Ontario Leaders (Dundurn Press, 2013)

2015 - Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History (Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House Canada, 2014)

2016 - The Red Kelly Story (ECW Press, 2016)

2017 - Steal Away Home: One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - and her Long Road Back to the South (HarperCollins Ltd., 2017)

2019 - Death in the Family (Penguin Random House/Doubleday Canada, 2017)

2020 - Resilience is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie S. Lalonde (Between the Lines, 2020)

2021 - Indigenous Toronto: Stories that Carry this Place (Coach House Books, 2021)

2022 - The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2022)

2023 - Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (Between the Lines, 2023)

2024 - 1934: The Chatham Coloured All-Stars’ Barrier-Breaking Year (Biblioasis, 2023)

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Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The Legislative Assembly of Ontario is made up of members of provincial Parliament (MPPs) who are elected by Ontarians to represent them and their constituencies. The Legislative Assembly's main responsibilities are to debate and pass legislation, to hold the government to account, and to approve government spending. The Legislative Assembly meets in the Legislative Building located in Queen's Park in Toronto.

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