British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction was a Canadian literary award.[1] Awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation,[2] it was the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 in its initial years to $40,000 in 2008.[3] Despite being presented by a BC-based organization, the award was not limited to writers from British Columbia, and instead was open to all non-fiction work by Canadian writers.

In May 2018, the British Columbia Achievement Foundation announced that it was discontinuing the award as part of a process of refocusing the foundation's activities and programs.[4]

Winners

Year	Winner	Nominated
2005	Patrick Lane, There Is a Season	Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead Harry Thurston, A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
2006	Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk	J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise John Terpstra, The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007	Noah Richler, This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada	Marian Botsford Fraser, Requiem for My Brother Gerta Moray, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr Dragan Todorovic, The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia
2008	Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island	Donald Harman Akenson, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself Jacques Poitras, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy
2009	Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself	Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect Mary Henley Rubio, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings Christopher Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika
2010[5]	Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son	Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece Kenneth Whyte, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
2011	John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival	Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
2012	Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe	Brian Fawcett, Human Happiness Andrew Westoll, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery Joel Yanofsky, Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism
2013	Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age	George Bowering, Pinboy Robert R. Fowler, A Season in Hell: My 130 Days In the Sahara With Al Qaeda Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
2014	Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America	Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us J. B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
2015	Karyn L. Freedman, One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery	Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and The Day That Almost Was Alison Pick, Between Gods: A Memoir James Raffan, Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in the Invisible Arctic
2016	Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva	John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper Emily Urquhart, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
2017	Sandra Martin, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices	Taras Grescoe, Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration Alexandra Shimo, Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
2018[6]	Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey Into the Lives of Others	Ken Dryden, Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

References

1. British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, official website.
2. British Columbia Achievement Foundation, official website.
3. "B.C. book prize is country's richest for non-fiction". canada.com, February 5, 2008.
4. "Cancellation of lucrative non-fiction award met with sadness, shock". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2018.
5. "Globe writer calls B.C. literary win shot in the arm for creative non-fiction". The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2010.
6. "Carol Off, Tanya Talaga longlisted for 2018 B.C. National Non-fiction Award". Quill and Quire. November 2, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2018.

External links

• British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, official website.