Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

One of the B.C. Book Prizes, it was named after writer Hubert Evans, author of O Time In Your Flight (1979).

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[edit] Winners and Nominees

[edit] 1985

  • David Ricardo Williams, Duff: A Life in the Law
  • Michael Kluckner, Vancouver The Way It Was
  • Daniel Raunet, Without Surrender, Without Consent

[edit] 1986

[edit] 1987

  • Doris Shadbolt, Bill Reid
  • Philip Croft, Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
  • Sherrill MacLaren, Braehead

[edit] 1988

  • P. K. Page, Brazilian Journal
  • Sandra Djwa, The Politics of the Imagination
  • Roy Minter, The White Pass

[edit] 1989

  • Robin Ridington, Trail To Heaven
  • Edith Iglauer, Fishing with John
  • Paul Yee, Salt Water City

[edit] 1990

  • Philip Marchand, Marshall McLuhan
  • Stan Persky, Buddy's
  • Patricia Roy, A White Man's Province

[edit] 1991

  • Scott Wilson, Jack Shadbolt

[edit] 1992

  • Rosemary Neering, Down The Road
  • Jean Barman, The West Beyond The West
  • Robin Fisher, Duff Patullo of British Columbia

[edit] 1993

  • Lynne Bowen, Muddling Through
  • Irene Howard, The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
  • Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens, Homer Stevens

[edit] 1994

  • Sharon Brown, Some Become Flowers
  • Arthur Mayse, My Father, My Friend
  • John Mills, Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits

[edit] 1995

  • Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues
  • Denise Chong, Concubine's Children
  • Rick Ouston, Finding Family

[edit] 1996

  • Claudia Cornwall, Letter From Vienna
  • Bev Christiansen, Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
  • Sheryl Sallloum, Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont

[edit] 1997

  • Catherine Lang, O-bon in Chimunesu
  • Deanna Kawatski, Clara and Me
  • Arthur J. Ray, I Have Lived Here Since the World Began

[edit] 1998

  • Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
  • Richard Bocking, Mighty River
  • Elizabeth Simpson, The Perfection of Hope

[edit] 1999

  • Peter C. Newman, Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
  • Eric Nicol, Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
  • Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane

[edit] 2000

  • Rita Moir, Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels
  • Douglas Cole, Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
  • James Delgado, Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
  • Margaret Horsfield, Cougar Annie's Garden
  • Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton, Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home

[edit] 2001

  • Terry Glavin, The Last Great Sea
  • Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden
  • Rosemary Neering, Wild West Women
  • Harold Rhenisch, Tom Thomson's Shack
  • Patricia Van Tighem, The Bear's Embrace

[edit] 2002

  • Susan Crean, The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
  • Bart Campbell, The Door is Open
  • Stephen Hume, Off the Map
  • Ross A. Laird, Grain of Truth
  • Heather Pringle, The Mummy Congress

[edit] 2003

  • Sandra Shields and David Campion, Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
  • Thomas Berger, One Man's Justice
  • 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

[edit] 2004

  • Maria Tippett, Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
  • Maria Coffey, Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
  • 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

[edit] 2005

  • Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen
  • Katherine Gordon, The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
  • 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

[edit] 2006

  • Stan Persky, The Short Version: An ABC Book
  • Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia
  • J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise
  • Rita Moir, Windshift Line
  • John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed