| Year |
Winner |
Nominees
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| 1985
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David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law
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- Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
- Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
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| 1986
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Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country
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- Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
- Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
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| 1987
|
Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid
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- Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
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| 1988
|
P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal
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- Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
- Roy Minter – The White Pass
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| 1989
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Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven
|
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| 1990
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Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
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- Stan Persky – Buddy's
- Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
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| 1991
|
Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt
|
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| 1992
|
Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
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- Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
- Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
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| 1993
|
Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
|
- Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
- Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
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| 1994
|
Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
|
- Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
- John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
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| 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]
|
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| 2021
|
Шаблон:Blue ribbon TBA September 24, 2022
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