Year
Winner
Nominees
1985
David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law
Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986
Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country
Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
1987
Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid
Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988
P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal
Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989
Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven
1990
Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
Stan Persky – Buddy's
Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991
Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt
1992
Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993
Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994
Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995
Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues [2]
Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996
Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997
Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu
Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998
Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace
1999
Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
2000
Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels
Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
James P. Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001
Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea
Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002
Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
Stephen Hume – Off the Map
Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003
Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
2004
Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005
Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen
Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
Patrick Lane – There is a Season
Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
2006
Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book
Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
Rita Moir – Windshift Line
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007
Heather Pringle – The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Eric Miller – The Reservoir
Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008
Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing
J.B. MacKinnon , Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet : A Year of Local Eating
Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009
Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010
Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011
John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012
Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt
Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013
Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 [3]
Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
George Bowering - Pinboy
Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
2014
David Stouck - Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life [4]
Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
J.B. MacKinnon - The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
Bev Sellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
Jane Silcott - Everything Rustles
2015
Eve Joseph - In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying [5]
Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation
Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
2016
Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World [6]
Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
Lorimer Shenher - That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
Maria Tippett - Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
Emily Urquhart - Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
2017
Deborah Campbell - A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War [7]
2018
Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy [8]
Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
Theresa Kishkan - Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays
Andrew Struthers - The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed
Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
2019
Lindsay Wong , The Woo Woo
Bill Gaston , Just Let Me Look at You
Ian Hampton, Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music
Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
2020
Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene
Ivan Coyote , Rebent Sinner
Helen Knott , In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada
Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
2021
Billy-Ray Belcourt , A History of My Brief Body [9]
2021
TBA September 24, 2022