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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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