Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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
• *Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
• *Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
• 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
• *Terry Glavin – A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
• 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 P. 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
• *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
• *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
• *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
• 2016 Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World
• *Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
• *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
• *Carmen Aguirre - Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution
• *Mohamed Fahmy with 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 and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
• *Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
• *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
• *Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You
• *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 and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC