In Canada, the 1955 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the nineteenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors.
Winners
- Fiction: Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (filmed as D-Day the Sixth of June).
- Poetry or Drama: Wilfred Watson, Friday's Child.
- Non-Fiction: N.J. Berrill, Man's Emerging Mind.
- Non-Fiction: Donald G. Creighton, John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain.
- Juvenile: Kerry Wood, The Map-Maker.
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