| Year
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Winner
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Nominees
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| 1985
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Islands Protection Society - Islands at the Edge (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Hilary Stewart - Cedar (Douglas & McIntyre)
- John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius (Hartley & Marks)
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| 1986
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Cameron Young et al., - The Forests of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
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- John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells (Harbour Publishing)
- Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic (self-published)
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| 1987
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Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian (Harbour Publishing)
- Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 1988
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Hilary Stewart - The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor - Rick Hansen: Man In Motion (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Howard White, Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Coast (Harbour Publishing)
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| 1989
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Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire - Stein: The Way of the River (Talonbooks)
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- Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope (Cinnabar Press)
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| 1990
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Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Carmanah (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)
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- Paul St. Pierre - Chilcotin & Beyond (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering - The Coast Of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
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| 1991
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Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Vancouver (Whitecap Books)
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- Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury's Album (Harbour Publishing)
- Jack Webster - Webster! (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 1992
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Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer (photographer) - The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages (Harbour Publishing)
- Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
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| 1993
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Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook (Chronicle Books)
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- Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (New Star Books)
- Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History (Talonbooks)
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| 1994
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Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for a Living (Harbour Publishing)
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- Diane Swanson - The Emerald Sea (Whitecap Books)
- Clayton Mack - Grizzlies & White Guys (Harbour Publishing)
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| 1995
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Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer - Eagle Transforming (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Tom Henry - The Good Company (Harbour Publishing)
- Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso's Women (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
| 1996
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Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
- Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan (Harbour Publishing)
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| 1997
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Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings - British Columbia: A Natural History (Greystone Books)
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- Bruce Obee - Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure (Beautiful British Columbia Magazine)
- Maria Coffey - Sailing Back in Time (Whitecap Books)
|
| 1998
|
Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young - The Great Bear Rainforest (Harbour Publishing)
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- Keith Keller - Dangerous Waters (Harbour Publishing)
- Ian Gill - Haida Gwaii (Raincoast Books)
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| 1999
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Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (Harbour Publishing)
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- Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and their Keepers (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2000
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Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (Douglas & McIntyre)
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- Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy (Arsenal Pulp Press/Presentation House Gallery)
- Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate (Talonbooks)
- John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast (Harbour Publishing)
- Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast (Creekstone Press)
|
| 2001
|
Dan Francis - The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
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- Patricia Van Tighem - The Bear's Embrace (Anchor)
- Douglas Coupland - City of Glass (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Terry Glavin - The Last Great Sea (Greystone Books)
- Rosemary Neering - Wild West Women (Whitecap Books)
|
| 2002
|
Terry Reksten - Illustrated History of BC (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
- Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland (Harbour Publishing)
- 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 (Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust)
|
| 2003
|
Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller - Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats (Harbour Publishing)
|
- Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2004
|
R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
- Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories (Harbour Publishing)
- Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast(Harbour Publishing)
- David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
- Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)
|
| 2005
|
Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Harbour Publishing)
|
- Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (Hedgerow Press)
- Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
- Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2 (Douglas & McIntyre)
- David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - Tree: A Life Story (Greystone Books)
|
| 2006
|
James P. Delgado - Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers)
|
- Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (TouchWood Editions)
- Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest (Harbour Publishing)
- Douglas Coupland - Terry (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing)
|
| 2007
|
David Suzuki - David Suzuki: The Autobiography (Greystone Books)
|
- Lynne Van Luven (editor) - Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions)
- Daina Augaitis, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
- Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa's Sweater (Sono Nis Press)
|
| 2008
|
Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest (Greystone Books)
|
- Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell's Favourite Stories (Harbour Publishing)
- Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)
|
| 2009
|
Stephen R. Bown – Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
- Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbour Publishing)
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
- Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
- Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books)
|
| 2010
|
Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books)
|
- Andrew Scott - Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
- Dal Richards with Jim Taylor - One More Time: The Dal Richards Story (Harbour Publishing)
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Red: A Haida Manga (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa - Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC's Japanese Canadian Fishermen (Harbour Publishing)
|
| 2011
|
Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing)
|
- Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
- Gary Kent, illustrated by Kim La Fave - Fishing with Gubby (Harbour Publishing)
- Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
| 2012
|
Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver (Harbour Publishing)
|
- Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation)
- Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood Editions)
- Robert Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)
|
| 2013
|
Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird - Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun) [3]
|
- Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40 (Harbour Publishing)
- Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History (Harbour Publishing)
- Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
| 2014
|
Grant Lawrence - The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie (Douglas & McIntyre) [4]
|
- Jesse Donaldson - This Day in Vancouver (Anvil Press)
- Michael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Raven Brings the Light (Harbour Publishing)
- Paula Wild - The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous (Douglas & McIntyre)
|
| 2015
|
Aaron Chapman - Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom (Arsenal Pulp Press) [5]
|
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Cloudwalker (Harbour Publishing)
- Alicia Priest - A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist (Harbour Publishing)
- Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds) - The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing)
- Lisa Ahier with Andrew Morrison - The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road (Appetite by Random House)
|
| 2016
|
Susan Musgrave - A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World (Whitecap Books) [6]
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- Caroline Adderson, John Atkin, Kerry Gold, Evelyn Lau, Eve Lazarus, John Mackie, Elise & Stephen Partridge, and Bren Simmers with an introduction by Michael Kluckner and photographs by Tracey Ayton and Caroline Adderson - Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival (Anvil Press)
- Eve Lazarus - Cold Case Vancouver: The City's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Orca Chief (Harbour Publishing)
- Caroline Woodward - Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2017
|
Richard Wagamese - Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations (Douglas and McIntyre) [7]
|
- Aaron Chapman - The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Wade Davis - Wade Davis: Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Michael Layland - A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Peace Dancer (Harbour Publishing)
|
| 2018
|
Pat Carney - On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers (TouchWood Editions) [8]
|
- Carleigh Baker - Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
- Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley (editors) - Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Grant Lawrence - Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Hello Humpback! (Harbour Publishing)
|
| 2019
|
Bob Joseph - 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act (Page Two Strategies)
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- Robert Amos - E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Darrel J. McLeod - Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Eve Lazarus - Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Tale of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - One Eagle Soaring (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2020
|
Aaron Chapman - Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife (Arsenal Pulp Press)
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- Danielle (DL) Acken and Emily Lycopolus - Cedar and Salt: Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Voices from the Skeena: An Illustrated Oral History (Harbour Publishing)
- Bob Joseph - Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips, and Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality (Page Two Strategies)
- Bill Richardson - I Saw Three Ships (Talonbooks)
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| 2021
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Robert Amos, The E.J. Hughes Book of Boats
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- Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia
- Charles Demers, Primary Obsessions[9]
- Eve Lazarus, Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History[9]
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak[9]
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| 2021
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TBA September 24, 2022
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