Year | Winner | Finalists |
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2004 Judge: Craig McLuckie | Maggie De Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister | - Marie Clements, Burning Vision
- Matt Hern, Field Day: Getting Society Out of School
- Patricia E. Roy, The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
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2005 Judge: Ross Tyner | Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey | |
2006 Judge: Myrna Kotash | Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver | - Jean Barman, Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
- Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia
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2007 Judge: Sharon Josephson | Harold Rhenisch, The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century | |
2008 Judge: Ivan Townshend | Leilah Nadir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family | |
2009 Judge: Ivan Townshend | Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo | |
2010 Judge: Greg Simison | Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future | |
2011 Judge: Andrew Steeves | Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song | - Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City: Photographs of Gabor Gasztonyi
- Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
- Benjamin Perrin, Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking
- John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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2012 | No award presented | |
2013 Judge: Angie Abdou | Joel Bakan, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children | - Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
- Howard White, A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
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2014 Judge: Sean Johnston | Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School | |
2015 Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp | Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change | - Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
- Ann Rogers and John Hill, Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security
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2016 Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, George Johnson | Andrew MacLeod, A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia'' | |
2017 Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, Beverley Cramp | Wade Davis, Wade Davis: Photographs | |
2018
| Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction'' | | |
2019 [4]
| Rod Mickleburgh, On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement'' | | |
2020 [4]
| Diane Pinch, Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia'' | | |
2021 [4]
| Geoff Mynett, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician'' | - Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of B.C.
- Emma Hansen, Still: Love, Loss, and Motherhood
- Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
- Maureen Webb, Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
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2022 [4]
| Alexandra Morton, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon'' | |