Caption text| Year | Winner | Nominees |
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| 1985 | Islands Protection Society - Islands at the Edge (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Hilary Stewart - Cedar (Douglas & McIntyre)
- John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius (Hartley & Marks)
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| 1986 | Cameron Young et al., - The Forests of British Columbia (Whitecap Books) | - John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells (Harbour Publishing)
- Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic (self-published)
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| 1987 | Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian (Harbour Publishing)
- Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 1988 | Hilary Stewart - The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre) |
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| 1989 | Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire - Stein: The Way of the River (Talonbooks) | - Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope (Cinnabar Press)
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| 1990 | Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Carmanah (Western Canada Wilderness Committee) |
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| 1991 | Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Vancouver (Whitecap Books) |
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| 1992 | Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer (photographer) - The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages (Harbour Publishing)
- Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
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| 1993 | Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook (Chronicle Books) | - Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (New Star Books)
- Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History (Talonbooks)
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| 1994 | Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for a Living (Harbour Publishing) |
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| 1995 | Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer - Eagle Transforming (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Tom Henry - The Good Company (Harbour Publishing)
- Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso's Women (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 1996 | Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
- Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan (Harbour Publishing)
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| 1997 | Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings - British Columbia: A Natural History (Greystone Books) |
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| 1998 | Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young - The Great Bear Rainforest (Harbour Publishing) |
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| 1999 | Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (Harbour Publishing) | - Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and their Keepers (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2000 | Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy (Arsenal Pulp Press/Presentation House Gallery)
- Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate (Talonbooks)
- John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast (Harbour Publishing)
- Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast (Creekstone Press)
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| 2001 | Dan Francis - The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing) |
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| 2002 | Terry Reksten - Illustrated History of BC (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland (Harbour Publishing)
- Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith - A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust)
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| 2003 | Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller - Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats (Harbour Publishing) | - Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2004 | R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories (Harbour Publishing)
- Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast(Harbour Publishing)
- David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
- Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)
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| 2005 | Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Harbour Publishing) | - Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (Hedgerow Press)
- Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
- Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2 (Douglas & McIntyre)
- David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - (Greystone Books)
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| 2006 | James P. Delgado - Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers) | - Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (TouchWood Editions)
- Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest (Harbour Publishing)
- Douglas Coupland - Terry (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2007 | David Suzuki - (Greystone Books) | - Lynne Van Luven (editor) - Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions)
- Daina Augaitis, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
- Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa's Sweater (Sono Nis Press)
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| 2008 | Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest (Greystone Books) | - Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell's Favourite Stories (Harbour Publishing)
- Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)
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| 2009 | Stephen R. Bown – Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver (Douglas & McIntyre) | - Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbour Publishing)
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
- Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
- Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books)
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| 2010 | Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books) |
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| 2011 | Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing) |
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| 2012 | Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver (Harbour Publishing) | - Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation)
- Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood Editions)
- Robert Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)
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| 2013 | Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird - Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun) [4] | - Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40 (Harbour Publishing)
- Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History (Harbour Publishing)
- Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 2014 | Grant Lawrence - The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie (Douglas & McIntyre) [5] | - Jesse Donaldson - This Day in Vancouver (Anvil Press)
- Michael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Raven Brings the Light (Harbour Publishing)
- Paula Wild - The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous (Douglas & McIntyre)
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| 2015 | Aaron Chapman - Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom (Arsenal Pulp Press) [6] | - Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Cloudwalker (Harbour Publishing)
- Alicia Priest - A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist (Harbour Publishing)
- Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds) - The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia (Harbour Publishing)
- Lisa Ahier with Andrew Morrison - The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road (Appetite by Random House)
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| 2016 | Susan Musgrave - A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World (Whitecap Books) [7] |
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| 2017 | Richard Wagamese - Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations (Douglas and McIntyre) [8] | - Aaron Chapman - The Last Gang in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Wade Davis - Wade Davis: Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Michael Layland - A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Peace Dancer (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2018 | Pat Carney - On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers (TouchWood Editions) [9] | - Carleigh Baker - Bad Endings (Anvil Press)
- Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley (editors) - Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Grant Lawrence - Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Hello Humpback! (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2019 | Bob Joseph - 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act (Page Two Strategies) | - Robert Amos - E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
- Darrel J. McLeod - Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (Douglas and McIntyre)
- Eve Lazarus - Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Tale of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer (Arsenal Pulp Press)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - One Eagle Soaring (Harbour Publishing)
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| 2020 | Aaron Chapman - Vancouver After Dark: The Wild History of a City’s Nightlife (Arsenal Pulp Press) | - Danielle (DL) Acken and Emily Lycopolus - Cedar and Salt: Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea (TouchWood Editions)
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Voices from the Skeena: An Illustrated Oral History (Harbour Publishing)
- Bob Joseph - Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips, and Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality (Page Two Strategies)
- Bill Richardson - I Saw Three Ships (Talonbooks)
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| 2021 | Robert Amos, The E.J. Hughes Book of Boats[10] | - Jean Barman, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia[11]
- Charles Demers, Primary Obsessions
- Eve Lazarus, Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City’s Hidden History
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd, Raven Squawk, Orca Squeak
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| 2022 | Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest | - Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner, Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine
- Dawn Postnikoff and Joanne Sasvari, Island Eats: Signature Chefs’ Recipes from Vancouver Island and the Salish Sea
- Roy Henry Vickers and Robert “Lucky” Budd, A is for Anemone: A First West Coast Alphabet
- Iona Whishaw, A Lethal Lesson: A Lane Winslow Mystery
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| 2023 | Robert Joseph, Namwayut: We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation | - Monique Gray Smith (tr. Dolores Greyeyes Sand, ill. Gabrielle Grimard, I Hope / nipakosêyimon
- Grant Lawrence, Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others
- Eve Lazarus, Cold Case B.C.: The Stories behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Persons Cases
- Gary Wyatt with Robert Davidson, Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson
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| 2024 | Jess Housty, Crushed Wild Mint | - Sam George with Jill Yonit Goldberg, Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson, The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School
- Francine McCabe, Fleece and Fibre: Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
- Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, JAJ: A Haida Manga
- Henry Tsang, White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver
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