Eayrs won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1965 Governor General's Awards for his book In Defence of Canada: From the Great War to the Great Depression.[2] The book, which examined Canadian military and defence policy during the period between the First World War and the Great Depression,[3] was the first in a multi-volume series on Canadian military history and was followed by In Defence of Canada, Vol. 2: Appeasement and Rearmament (1965),[4]In Defence of Canada: Peacemaking and Deterrence (1972),[5]In Defence of Canada: Growing Up Allied (1980)[6] and In Defence of Canada: Indochina, Roots of Complicity (1983).[7]
^"James EAYRS obituary". The Globe and Mail. 13–17 February 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
^"Council Names 5 for Awards". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Canadian Press. 1 April 1966. p. 14.
^Foulkes, Charles (28 November 1964). "Between the Wars, the Services Fought On". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. A13.
^Underhill, Frank H. (1 January 1966). "Was King Innocent or Statesman?". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. A13.
^Cook, Ramsay (14 October 1972). "Eayrs the Rational Scholar". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 33.
^Cook, Ramsay (8 March 1980). "The Origin and Growth of NATO from the Prima Ballerina of Foreign Policy Scholarship". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. E15.
^Kirton, John (20 August 1983). "Thankless Tasks in the Far East". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. E12.
^Cherry, Zena (20 November 1984). "Prof. James Eayrs Wins Prize". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. F16.
^Fraser, Matthew (20 November 1984). "Eayrs, Dube Win $50,000 Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. M9.
^Lind, Loren (12 November 1974). "In the Basements, a Campaign Is Born". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. p. 5.