Year
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Winner
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Finalists
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2004 Judge: Craig McLuckie
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Maggie De Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
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- Marie Clements, Burning Vision
- Matt Hern, Field Day: Getting Society Out of School
- Patricia E. Roy, The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
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2005 Judge: Ross Tyner
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Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
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2006 Judge: Myrna Kotash
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Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
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- Jean Barman, Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
- Michael Kluckner, Vanishing British Columbia
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2007 Judge: Sharon Josephson
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Harold Rhenisch, The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
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2008 Judge: Ivan Townshend
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Leilah Nadir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family
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2009 Judge: Ivan Townshend
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Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
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2010 Judge: Greg Simison
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Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd and Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
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2011 Judge: Andrew Steeves
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Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song
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- Gabor Gasztonyi, A Room in the City: Photographs of Gabor Gasztonyi
- Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
- Benjamin Perrin, Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking
- John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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2012
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No award presented
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2013 Judge: Angie Abdou
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Joel Bakan, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children
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- Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
- Howard White, A Hard Man to Beat: The Story of Bill White, Labour Leader, Historian, Shipyard Worker, Raconteur
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2014 Judge: Sean Johnston
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Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
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2015 Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp
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Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change
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- Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
- Ann Rogers and John Hill, Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security
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2016 Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, George Johnson
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Andrew MacLeod, A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia''
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2017 Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, Beverley Cramp
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Wade Davis, Wade Davis: Photographs
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2018
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Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction''
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2019[4]
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Rod Mickleburgh, On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement''
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2020[4]
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Diane Pinch, Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia''
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2021[4]
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Geoff Mynett, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician''
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- Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of B.C.
- Emma Hansen, Still: Love, Loss, and Motherhood
- Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis
- Maureen Webb, Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism
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2022[4]
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Alexandra Morton, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon''
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