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] The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).

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
  • 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[2]
    • 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
  • 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
  • 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[3]
    • 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[4]
    • 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[5]
    • 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 [6]
    • 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[7]
  • 2018 Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy [8]
    • 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

References
  1. Joanna Karaplis (Jan 5, 2010). The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 323.
  2. Hobbs at SFU, 2014
  3. "The Globe's Mickleburgh, co-author Meggs win B.C. book prize". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  4. Marsha Lederman (May 5, 2014). "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  5. Shawn Conner (April 27, 2015). "Vancouver Writers Take Home B.C. Book Prizes". Inside Vancouver. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  6. Adrian Chamberlain (May 1, 2016). "Salt Spring writers win major awards at B.C. Book Prizes". Times Colonist. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  7. Becky Robertson (May 1, 2017). "Deborah Campbell, Julie Flett among B.C. Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  8. Steven W. Beattie (May 7, 2018). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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