Question 2 Canada's first Pulitzer Prize was awarded to a Scottish Canadian. True. Arthur Balmer-Watt, as editor of the Edmonton Journal, challenged the press censorship law of William Aberhart, the Social Credit premier of Alberta. Aberhart threatened to throw Arthur in jail. But Arthur Balmer-Watt stood his ground and in 1938 the paper was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize ever given outside the United States. Next Top of Page