Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize - Winners and Finalists

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 Wilson – 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 – What I Remember from My Time on Earth
  • 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