HarperCollinsCanada Ltd was created in 1989, the result of the worldwide merging of two long-standing and prestigious publishing companies, the American company Harper & Row and the British publisher William Collins & Sons Canada, Ltd. Since then, it has become a prestigious and award-winning company with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, non-fiction, children's books, cookbooks, and reference and spiritual books.

In 2006, for the third time in five years, HarperCollins won the Libris Award for Publisher of the Year from the Canadian Booksellers Association. Creative marketing strategies -- including groundbreaking "trailers" for use online, in movie cinemas and elsewhere -- have also established HarperCollins as an innovative promoter, recognized with special profiles in industry publications, two 2006 awards from the Canadian Marketing Association and a nomination for Marketing magazine's prestigious 2006 Marketer of the Year.

HarperCollins Canada publishes such celebrated Canadian fiction and non-fiction authors as David Bezmozgis, Dennis Bock, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Butala, George Elliott Clarke, Lewis DeSoto, Barbara Gowdy, Charlotte Gray, Frances Itani, Lawrence Hill, Greg Hollingshead, Thomas King, Ken McGoogan, Robin Sharma, Rosemary Sullivan, and Richard B. Wright. Our award-winning children's list includes Barbara Haworth-Attard, Tomson Highway, Susan Juby, Janet McNaughton, Kenneth Oppel and Arthur Slade. In fall 2004, HarperCollins launched an impressive cookbook program in Canada with the publication of A Matter of Taste by award-winning authors Lucy Waverman and James Chatto, which won the 2005 Cuisine Canada/University of Guelph Canadian Culinary Book Awards Gold Medal for Best Cookbook (English Language); and The Low-Carb Gourmet by Karen Barnaby, which won the 2004 Gourmand World Cookbook Award. The launch of the Collins Canada imprint in 2006 incorporated reference books from such authors as Mike Holmes, Samantha Wilson and Barbara Coloroso. In addition to publishing Canadian authors, HarperCollins also brings to its list international stars such as Isabel Allende, Michael Crichton, Michael Cunningham, Achmat Dangor, Jonathan Franzen,Mo Hayder, Gautam Malkani, Val McDermid, Melania Mazzucco, James Meek, Marilynne Robinson, Louise Welsh, Tim Winton and Tom Wolfe.

HarperCollins imprints in Canada include HarperCollinsPublishers, Collins Canada, HarperPerennial Canada (publishing quality trade paperbacks), HarperTrophyCanada (for children) and Phyllis Bruce Books. The latter imprint, founded by its eponymous CBA Libris Award-winning editor, has been publishing distinguished works of fiction and non-fiction for fifteen years, among them winners of the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award, the Rogers Writers' Trust Prize, the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize and the Pierre Berton Award.