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
1980s Year Author TitlesResultRef.1985 David Ricardo Williams Duff: A Life in the Law Winner "$1,000 prizes for B.C. books". The Globe and Mail, October 21, 1985. Michael Kluckner Vancouver The Way It Was Shortlist Daniel Raunet Without Surrender, Without Consent1986 Bruce Hutchison The Unfinished Country Winner Muriel Kitagawa This Is My Own: Letters to Wes Shortlist Reginald Roy The Journal of Private Fraser1987 Doris Shadbolt Bill Reid Winner Peter Wilson, "Haida artist book wins two awards". Vancouver Sun, October 31, 1987. Philip Croft Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian Shortlist Sherrill MacLaren Braehead1988 P. K. Page Brazilian Journal Winner Sandra Djwa The Politics of the Imagination Shortlist Roy Minter The White Pass1989 Robin Ridington Trail To Heaven Winner Edith Iglauer Fishing with John Shortlist Paul Yee Salt Water City
1990s Year Author TitlesResultRef.1990 Philip Marchand Marshall McLuhan Winner Stan Persky Buddy's Shortlist Patricia Roy A White Man's Province1991 Scott Watson Jack Shadbolt Winner Terry Glavin A Death Feast in Dimlahamid Shortlist 1992 Rosemary Neering Down the Road Winner Jean Barman The West Beyond the West Shortlist Robin Fisher Duff Patullo of British Columbia1993 Lynne Bowen Muddling Through Winner Irene Howard The Struggle for Social Justice in B. C. Shortlist Rolf Knight, Homer Stevens Homer Stevens1994 Sharon Brown' Some Become Flowers Winner Arthur Mayse My Father, My Friend Shortlist John Mills Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits1995 Lisa Hobbs Birnie Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues Winner Denise Chong The Concubine's Children Shortlist Rick Ouston Finding Family1996 Claudia Cornwall Letter From Vienna Winner Bev Christiansen Too Good to Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project Shortlist Sheryl Salloum Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpont1997 Catherine Lang O-bon in Chimunesu Winner Deanna Kawatski Clara and Me Shortlist Arthur J. Ray I Have Lived Here Since the World Began1998 Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey Stolen from Our Embrace Winner Richard Bocking Mighty River Shortlist Elizabeth Simpson The Perfection of Hope1999 Peter C. Newman Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power Winner Eric Nicol Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs Shortlist Michael Poole Romancing Mary Jane
2000s Year Author TitlesResultRef.2000 Rita Moir Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels Winner Douglas Cole Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 Shortlist James P. Delgado Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Margaret Horsfield Cougar Annie's Garden Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home2001 Terry Glavin The Last Great Sea Winner Hugh Brody The Other Side of Eden Shortlist Rosemary Neering Wild West Women Harold Rhenisch Tom Thomson's Shack Patricia Van Tighem The Bear's Embrace2002 Susan Crean The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr Winner Bart Campbell The Door is Open Shortlist Stephen Hume Off the Map Ross A. Laird Grain of Truth Heather Pringle The Mummy Congress2003 Sandra Shields, David Campion Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba Winner Thomas Berger One Man's Justice Shortlist 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 Ship2004 Maria Tippett Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian Winner Maria Coffey Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure Shortlist 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 Italy2005 Charles Montgomery The Last Heathen Winner Katherine Palmer Gordon The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley Shortlist 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 World2006 Stan Persky The Short Version: An ABC Book Winner Michael Kluckner Vanishing British Columbia Shortlist J. B. MacKinnon Dead Man in Paradise Rita Moir Windshift Line John Vaillant The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed2007 Heather Pringle The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust Winner Karsten Heuer Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Shortlist 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 Canada2008 Robert Bringhurst Everywhere Being is Dancing Winner J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating Shortlist 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, 1941-672009 Gabor Maté In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Winner Tim Lilburn Going Home: Essays Shortlist Rex Weyler The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message Chris Wood Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America Ronald Wright What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010s Year Author TitlesResultRef.2010 Lorna Crozier Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir Winner Ehor Boyanowsky Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes Shortlist Brian Brett Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life Charles Demers Vancouver Special Brian Payton The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness2011 John Vaillant The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival Winner Morris Bates, Jim Brown Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life Shortlist Douglas Coupland Marshall McLuhan Sarah Leavitt Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me Derek Lundy Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America2012 Charlotte Gill Eating Dirt Winner Carmen Aguirre Something Fierce Shortlist Gary Geddes Drink the Bitter Root Theresa Kishkan Mnemonic: A Book of Trees JJ Lee The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit2013 Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 Winner Luanne Armstrong The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming Shortlist 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 Cop2014 David Stouck Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life Winner Arno Kopecky The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway Shortlist 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 Rustles2015 Eve Joseph In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying Winner Julie Angus Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World Shortlist Kevin Chong Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation Barry M. Gough The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest Nancy Turner Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America2016 Brian Brett Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World Winner Briony Penn The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan Shortlist 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 Genes2017 Deborah Campbell A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War Winner Carmen Aguirre Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Shortlist Mohamed Fahmy, 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 World2018 Arthur Manuel, Ronald Derrickson The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy Winner Carys Cragg Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Shortlist 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 Expedition2019 Lindsay Wong The Woo Woo Winner Bill Gaston Just Let Me Look at You Shortlist 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, Richard Zussman A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
2020s