Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
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]
Winners and finalists
- 1985 David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law
- Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
- Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
- 1986 Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country
- 1987 Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid
- Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
- 1988 P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal
- Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
- Roy Minter – The White Pass
- 1989 Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven
- Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John
- Paul Yee – Salt Water City
- 1990 Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
- Stan Persky – Buddy's
- Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
- 1991 Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt
- 1992 Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
- Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
- Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
- 1993 Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
- Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
- Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
- 1994 Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
- Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
- John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
- 1995 Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues
- Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
- Rick Ouston – Finding Family
- 1996 Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
- Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
- Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
- 1997 Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu
- Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
- Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
- 1998 Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace
- Richard Bocking – Mighty River
- Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
- 1999 Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
- Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
- Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2007 Heather Pringle – The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
- Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
- 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
- J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
- 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
- Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
- Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
- Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
- Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
- 2010 Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
- Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
- Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
- Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
- Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
- 2011 John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
- Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
- Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
- Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
- 2012 Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt
- Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
- JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
- Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
- Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
- 2013 Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 [2]
- Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
- 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 [3]
- Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
- 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 [4]
- Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
- Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
- Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation
- Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
References
- ↑ Joanna Karaplis (Jan 5, 2010). The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 323.
- ↑ "The Globe’s Mickleburgh, co-author Meggs win B.C. book prize". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ↑ Marsha Lederman (May 5, 2014). "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
- ↑ Shawn Conner (April 27, 2015). "Vancouver Writers Take Home B.C. Book Prizes". Inside Vancouver. Retrieved April 30, 2015.