In Canada the 1942 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the sixth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize and were just an honour for the authors.

Winners

• Fiction: G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man.
• Poetry or Drama: Earle Birney, David and Other Poems.
• Non-Fiction: Bruce Hutchison, The Unknown Country.
• Non-Fiction: Edgar McInnis, The Unguarded Frontier.

Other Governor General's Awards

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