Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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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).

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Winners and finalists

1980s

YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
1985 David Ricardo Williams Duff: A Life in the LawWinner [2]
Michael Kluckner Vancouver The Way It WasShortlist
Daniel Raunet Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986 Bruce Hutchison The Unfinished CountryWinner
Muriel Kitagawa This Is My Own: Letters to WesShortlist
Reginald Roy The Journal of Private Fraser
1987 Doris Shadbolt Bill ReidWinner [3]
Philip Croft Nature Diary of a Quiet PedestrianShortlist
Sherrill MacLaren Braehead
1988 P. K. Page Brazilian JournalWinner
Sandra Djwa The Politics of the ImaginationShortlist
Roy Minter The White Pass
1989 Robin Ridington Trail To HeavenWinner
Edith Iglauer Fishing with JohnShortlist
Paul Yee Salt Water City

1990s

YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
1990 Philip Marchand Marshall McLuhanWinner
Stan Persky Buddy'sShortlist
Patricia Roy A White Man's Province
1991 Scott Watson Jack ShadboltWinner
Terry Glavin A Death Feast in DimlahamidShortlist
1992 Rosemary Neering Down the RoadWinner
Jean Barman The West Beyond the WestShortlist
Robin Fisher Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993 Lynne Bowen Muddling ThroughWinner
Irene Howard The Struggle for Social Justice in B. C.Shortlist
Rolf Knight, Homer Stevens Homer Stevens
1994 Sharon Brown'Some Become FlowersWinner
Arthur Mayse My Father, My FriendShortlist
John Mills Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995 Lisa Hobbs BirnieUncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue RodriguesWinner
Denise Chong The Concubine's Children Shortlist
Rick Ouston Finding Family
1996 Claudia Cornwall Letter From ViennaWinner
Bev Christiansen Too Good to Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion ProjectShortlist
Sheryl Salloum Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpont
1997 Catherine Lang O-bon in ChimunesuWinner
Deanna Kawatski Clara and MeShortlist
Arthur J. Ray I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998 Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey Stolen from Our EmbraceWinner
Richard Bocking Mighty RiverShortlist
Elizabeth Simpson The Perfection of Hope
1999 Peter C. Newman Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized PowerWinner
Eric Nicol Anything for a Laugh: MemoirsShortlist
Michael Poole Romancing Mary Jane

2000s

YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
2000 Rita Moir Buffalo Jump: A Woman's TravelsWinner
Douglas Cole Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906Shortlist
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 SeaWinner
Hugh Brody The Other Side of EdenShortlist
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 CarrWinner
Bart Campbell The Door is OpenShortlist
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 HimbaWinner
Thomas Berger One Man's JusticeShortlist
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 IndianWinner
Maria Coffey Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme AdventureShortlist
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 HeathenWinner
Katherine Palmer Gordon The Slocan: Portrait of a ValleyShortlist
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 BookWinner
Michael Kluckner Vanishing British ColumbiaShortlist
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 HolocaustWinner
Karsten Heuer Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic HerdShortlist
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 DancingWinner
J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local EatingShortlist
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 AddictionWinner
Tim Lilburn Going Home: EssaysShortlist
Rex Weyler The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message
Chris WoodDry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Ronald Wright What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order

2010s

YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
2010 Lorna Crozier Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie MemoirWinner
Ehor Boyanowsky Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted HughesShortlist
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 SurvivalWinner
Morris Bates, Jim BrownMorris as Elvis: Take a Chance on LifeShortlist
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 DirtWinner
Carmen Aguirre Something FierceShortlist
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, 1972-1975Winner [4]
Luanne Armstrong The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and FarmingShortlist
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 LifeWinner [5]
Arno Kopecky The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern GatewayShortlist
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 DyingWinner [6]
Julie Angus Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the WorldShortlist
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 WorldWinner [7]
Briony Penn The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart CowanShortlist
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 WarWinner [8]
Carmen Aguirre Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the RevolutionShortlist
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 EconomyWinner [9]
Carys Cragg Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My FatherShortlist
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 WooWinner
Bill Gaston Just Let Me Look at YouShortlist
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

2020s

YearAuthorTitlesResultRef.
2020 Alejandro Frid Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the AnthropoceneWinner [10]
Ivan Coyote Rebent SinnerShortlist [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 FearShortlist [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 NISHGAWinner [14]
Danielle Geller Dog FlowersShortlist [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 PlantsWinner [16]
Lyndsie Bourgon Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's WoodsShortlist [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 BeastWinner [18]
Colleen Brown If you lie down in a field, she will find you thereShortlist [19]
Naomi Klein Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Helen Knott Becoming a Matriarch
Emelia Symington-Fedy Skid Dogs

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