Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
# 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. The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).

## Winners and finalists

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| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 2020 | Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene | Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls |
| 2021 | Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body | Eva Holland, Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear Liz Levine, Nobody Talks About Anything But the End Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis Seth Klein, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency |
| 2021 | TBA September 24, 2022 | Jordan Abel, NISHGA Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers Darrel J. McLeod, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Ian Williams, Disorientation: Being Black in the World |
