In Canada, the 1956 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the twentieth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors.
Winners
- Fiction: Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice.
- Poetry or Drama: Robert A.D. Ford, A Window on the North.
- Non-Fiction: Pierre Berton, The Mysterious North.
- Non-Fiction: Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict.
- Juvenile: Farley Mowat, Lost in the Barrens.
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