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The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author(s) of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". Unlike the other BC and Yukon Book Prizes, there are no requirements in terms of publication or author residence. [1]
| Year | Winner | Nominees |
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| 1985 | Hilary Stewart, Cedar |
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| 1986 | Donald Graham, Keepers of the Light |
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| 1987 | Ruth Kirk, Wisdom of the Elders |
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| 1988 | W.A. Hagelund, Whalers No More |
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| 1989 | Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal |
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| 1990 | Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Carmanah |
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| 1991 | Paul Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics |
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| 1992 | Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees |
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| 1993 | Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller |
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| 1994 | Alex Rose (editor), Nisga'a Tribal Council, illustrated by Gary Flegehen, Nisga'a: People of the Nass River |
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| 1995 | Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up |
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| 1996 | Ken Drushka, HR: A Biography Of H.R. MacMillan |
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| 1997 | 1997 Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws, The Fraser River |
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| 1998 | Richard Bocking, Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser |
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| 1999 | Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen, River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola |
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| 2000 | Margaret Horsfield, Cougar Annie's Garden |
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| 2001 | Daniel Francis, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia |
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| 2002 | Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith, A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas |
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| 2003 | Earnest Perrault, Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan |
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| 2004 | Donald Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia |
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| 2005 | Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming |
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| 2006 | John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed |
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| 2007 | Katherine Gordon, Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia |
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| 2008 | J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating |
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| 2009 | Stephen Hume, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia |
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| 2010 | Andrew Scott, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia |
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| 2011 | Dan Savard, Images from the Likeness House |
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| 2012 | Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver [2] |
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| 2013 | Derek Hayes, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas [3] |
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| 2014 | David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life [4] |
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| 2015 | Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds), The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia [5] |
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| 2016 | Briony Penn, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan [6] |
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| 2017 | Neil J. Sterritt, Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History [7] |
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| 2018 | Kotaro Hayashi, Fumio “Frank” Kanno, Henry Tanaka, and Jim Tanaka (editors), Changing Tides: Vanishing Voices of Nikkei Fishermen and Their Families [8] |
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| 2019 | Sarah Cox, Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley's Stand Against Big Hydro |
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| 2020 | Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga |
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| 2021 | Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Kwanlin Dün: Dǎ Kwǎndur Gh.y Gh.kwad.ndur—Our Story in Our Words [9] |
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| 2021 |  TBA September 24, 2022 |
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