| Year | Winner | Finalists |
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2004
Judge: Craig McLuckie | Maggie De Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister | - 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 | Robert Hunter, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey | - Stephen Hume and Alexandra Morton, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
- Roy Miki, Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice
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2006
Judge: Myrna Kotash | Leslie A. Robertson and Dara Culhane, In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver | - 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 | Harold Rhenisch, The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century | - Daniel Francis, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade
- Lynne Van Luven, Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids
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2008
Judge: Ivan Townshend | Leilah Nadir, The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family | - Gary Geddes, Falsework
- Ernest Hekkanen, Of a Fire Beyond the Hills
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2009
Judge: Ivan Townshend | Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo | - Brian Dedora, A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing
- JoAnn Dionne, Little Emperors: A Year with the Future of China
- Manjit Virk, Reena: A Father's Story
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2010
Judge: Greg Simison | 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 | Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song | - 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 | No award presented | |
2013
Judge: Angie Abdou | Joel Bakan, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children | - 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 | Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School | - Adrienne Fitzpatrick, The Earth Remembers Everything
- Gillian Wigmore, Dirt of Ages
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2015
Jury: George Brandak, Anne Chudyk, Beverly Cramp | Shelley Wright, Our Ice is Vanishing / Sikuvat Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change | - 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 | Andrew MacLeod, A Better Place on Earth: The Search for Fairness in Super Unequal British Columbia | - David R. Boyd, The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future
- Larry Gambone, No Regrets
- Chris and Josh Hergesheimer, The Flour Peddlar
- Carrie Saxifrage, The Big Swim: Coming Ashore in a World Adrift
- David Suzuki, Letters to My Grandchildren
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2017
Jury: Trevor Carolan, Jane Curry, Beverley Cramp | Wade Davis, Wade Davis: Photographs | - Stephen Collis, Once in Blockadia
- Ivan Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide
- Marc Edge, The News We Deserve: The Transformation of Canada's Media Landscape
- James Hoggan with Grania Litwin, I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up
- Eric Jamieson, The Native Voice: The Story of How Maisie Hurley and Canada's First Aboriginal Newspaper Changed a Nation
- Alan Livingstone MacLeod, Remembered in Bronze and Stone: Canada's Great War Memorial Statuary
- Christopher Pollon and Ben Nelms, The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
- Anton Scamvougeras, Dysconnected: Humans Isolated by their Personal Technology
- Ron Smith, The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke
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2018
| Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction | - Gary Geddes, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
- David Suzuki and Ian Hanington, Just Cool It! The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do
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2019[4]
| Rod Mickleburgh, On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement | | |
2020
| Diane Pinch, Passion & Persistence: Fifty Years of the Sierra Club in British Columbia | - The Graphic History Collective and David Lester, 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg Strike
- Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging
- Ross Hoffman with Alfred Joseph, Song of the Earth: The Life of Alfred Joseph
- Philip Huynh, The Forbidden Purple City
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2021
| Geoff Mynett, Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician | - 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
| Alexandra Morton, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon | - Darrel J. McLeod, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
- Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
- David Spaner, Solidarity: Canada's Unknown Revolution of 1983
- Jody Wilson-Raybould, “Indian” in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power
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