The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. [1] The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).
| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | David Ricardo Williams | Duff: A Life in the Law | Winner | [2] |
| Michael Kluckner | Vancouver The Way It Was | Shortlist | ||
| Daniel Raunet | Without Surrender, Without Consent | |||
| 1986 | Bruce Hutchison | The Unfinished Country | Winner | |
| Muriel Kitagawa | This Is My Own: Letters to Wes | Shortlist | ||
| Reginald Roy | The Journal of Private Fraser | |||
| 1987 | Doris Shadbolt | Bill Reid | Winner | [3] |
| Philip Croft | Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian | Shortlist | ||
| Sherrill MacLaren | Braehead | |||
| 1988 | P. K. Page | Brazilian Journal | Winner | |
| Sandra Djwa | The Politics of the Imagination | Shortlist | ||
| Roy Minter | The White Pass | |||
| 1989 | Robin Ridington | Trail To Heaven | Winner | |
| Edith Iglauer | Fishing with John | Shortlist | ||
| Paul Yee | Salt Water City |
| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Philip Marchand | Marshall McLuhan | Winner | |
| Stan Persky | Buddy's | Shortlist | ||
| Patricia Roy | A White Man's Province | |||
| 1991 | Scott Watson | Jack Shadbolt | Winner | |
| Terry Glavin | A Death Feast in Dimlahamid | Shortlist | ||
| 1992 | Rosemary Neering | Down the Road | Winner | |
| Jean Barman | The West Beyond the West | Shortlist | ||
| Robin Fisher | Duff Patullo of British Columbia | |||
| 1993 | Lynne Bowen | Muddling Through | Winner | |
| Irene Howard | The Struggle for Social Justice in B. C. | Shortlist | ||
| Rolf Knight, Homer Stevens | Homer Stevens | |||
| 1994 | Sharon Brown' | Some Become Flowers | Winner | |
| Arthur Mayse | My Father, My Friend | Shortlist | ||
| John Mills | Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits | |||
| 1995 | Lisa Hobbs Birnie | Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues | Winner | |
| Denise Chong | The Concubine's Children | Shortlist | ||
| Rick Ouston | Finding Family | |||
| 1996 | Claudia Cornwall | Letter From Vienna | Winner | |
| Bev Christiansen | Too Good to Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project | Shortlist | ||
| Sheryl Salloum | Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpont | |||
| 1997 | Catherine Lang | O-bon in Chimunesu | Winner | |
| Deanna Kawatski | Clara and Me | Shortlist | ||
| Arthur J. Ray | I Have Lived Here Since the World Began | |||
| 1998 | Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey | Stolen from Our Embrace | Winner | |
| Richard Bocking | Mighty River | Shortlist | ||
| Elizabeth Simpson | The Perfection of Hope | |||
| 1999 | Peter C. Newman | Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power | Winner | |
| Eric Nicol | Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Poole | Romancing Mary Jane |
| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Rita Moir | Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels | Winner | |
| Douglas Cole | Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 | Shortlist | ||
| James P. Delgado | Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage | |||
| Margaret Horsfield | Cougar Annie's Garden | |||
| Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton | Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home | |||
| 2001 | Terry Glavin | The Last Great Sea | Winner | |
| Hugh Brody | The Other Side of Eden | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Bart Campbell | The Door is Open | Shortlist | ||
| Stephen Hume | Off the Map | |||
| Ross A. Laird | Grain of Truth | |||
| Heather Pringle | The Mummy Congress | |||
| 2003 | Sandra Shields, David Campion | Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba | Winner | |
| Thomas Berger | One Man's Justice | Shortlist | ||
| Keath Fraser | The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat | |||
| Cole Harris | Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia | |||
| Derek Lundy | The Way of the Ship | |||
| 2004 | Maria Tippett | Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian | Winner | |
| Maria Coffey | Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Katherine Palmer Gordon | The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Michael Kluckner | Vanishing British Columbia | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Karsten Heuer | Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith | The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Tim Lilburn | Going Home: Essays | Shortlist | ||
| Rex Weyler | The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message | |||
| Chris Wood | Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America | |||
| Ronald Wright | What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order |
| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Lorna Crozier | Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir | Winner | |
| Ehor Boyanowsky | Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes | Shortlist | ||
| Brian Brett | Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life | |||
| Charles Demers | Vancouver Special | |||
| Brian Payton | The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness | |||
| 2011 | John Vaillant | The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | Winner | |
| Morris Bates, Jim Brown | Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life | Shortlist | ||
| Douglas Coupland | Marshall McLuhan | |||
| Sarah Leavitt | Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me | |||
| Derek Lundy | Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America | |||
| 2012 | Charlotte Gill | Eating Dirt | Winner | |
| Carmen Aguirre | Something Fierce | Shortlist | ||
| Gary Geddes | Drink the Bitter Root | |||
| Theresa Kishkan | Mnemonic: A Book of Trees | |||
| JJ Lee | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit | |||
| 2013 | Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh | The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 | Winner | [4] |
| Luanne Armstrong | The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | [5] |
| Arno Kopecky | The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | [6] |
| Julie Angus | Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World | Shortlist | ||
| Kevin Chong | Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation | |||
| Barry M. Gough | The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest | |||
| Nancy Turner | Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America | |||
| 2016 | Brian Brett | Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World | Winner | [7] |
| Briony Penn | The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | [8] |
| Carmen Aguirre | Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution | Shortlist | ||
| Mohamed Fahmy, Carol Shaben | The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom | |||
| Joy Kogawa | Gently to Nagasaki | |||
| Mark Leiren-Young | The Killer Whale Who Changed the World | |||
| 2018 | Arthur Manuel, Ronald Derrickson | The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy | Winner | [9] |
| Carys Cragg | Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father | Shortlist | ||
| 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 | Winner | |
| Bill Gaston | Just Let Me Look at You | Shortlist | ||
| 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, Richard Zussman | A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC |
| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Alejandro Frid | Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene | Winner | [10] |
| Ivan Coyote | Rebent Sinner | Shortlist | [11] | |
| 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 | Winner | [12] |
| Eva Holland | Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear | Shortlist | [13] | |
| Liz Levine | Nobody Talks About Anything But the End | |||
| Benjamin Perrin | Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis | |||
| Seth Klein | A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency | |||
| 2022 | Jordan Abel | NISHGA | Winner | [14] |
| Danielle Geller | Dog Flowers | Shortlist | [15] | |
| Darrel J. McLeod | Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity | |||
| Suzanne Simard | Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest | |||
| Ian Williams | Disorientation: Being Black in the World | |||
| 2023 | Karen Bakker | The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants | Winner | [16] |
| Lyndsie Bourgon | Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods | Shortlist | [17] | |
| Michael J. Hathaway | What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make | |||
| Harrison Mooney | Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery | |||
| Jody Wilson-Raybould | True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change | |||
| 2024 | John Vaillant | Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast | Winner | [18] |
| Colleen Brown | If you lie down in a field, she will find you there | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Naomi Klein | Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | |||
| Helen Knott | Becoming a Matriarch | |||
| Emelia Symington-Fedy | Skid Dogs |