Caption text| Year | Winner | Nominees |
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| 1985 | Hilary Stewart, Cedar | - Barry Gough, Gunboat Frontier
- Saeko Usukawa, Sound Heritage
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| 1986 | Donald Graham, Keepers of the Light | - Douglas Cole, Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
- Peter Murray, The Devil and Mr. Duncan
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| 1987 | Ruth Kirk, Wisdom of the Elders | - Philip Croft, Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Alan Twigg, Vancouver and Its Winters
- Lynne Bowen
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| 1988 | W.A. Hagelund, Whalers No More | - Jo-Ann Canning-Dew, Hastings & Main
- Lynne Bowen, Three Dollar Dreams
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| 1989 | Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal |
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| 1990 | Western Canada Wilderness Committee, Carmanah | - Earl K. Pollon, Shirlee Smith Matheson, This Was Our Valley
- Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Write It On Your Heart
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| 1991 | Paul Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics |
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| 1992 | Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees |
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| 1993 | Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller | - Bruce MacDonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
- Vickie Jensen, Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
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| 1994 | Alex Rose (editor), Nisga'a Tribal Council, illustrated by Gary Flegehen, Nisga'a: People of the Nass River | - Graham Osborne, British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
- Alan Haig-Brown, Fishing for a Living
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| 1995 | Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up | - Tzeporah Berman et al., illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons, Clayoquot & Dissent
- Beth Hill, Seven-Knot Summers
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| 1996 | Ken Drushka, HR: A Biography Of H.R. MacMillan | - Tom Henry, Dogless in Metchosin
- Patrick Reid, Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
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| 1997 | 1997 Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws, The Fraser River | - Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings, British Columbia: A Natural History
- Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior
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| 1998 | Richard Bocking, Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser | - Michael Kluckner, The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
- Daniel Wood, Beverly Sinclair, Western Journeys
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| 1999 | Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen, River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola | - Helene Cyr, Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter's Experience
- Sean Rossiter, Hotel Georgia
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| 2000 | Margaret Horsfield, Cougar Annie's Garden | - Faith Moosang, First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy
- Dick Hammond, Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
- Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
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| 2001 | Daniel Francis, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia | - Richard Somerset Mackie, Island Timber
- Terry Glavin, The Last Great Sea
- Philip Resnick, The Politics of Resentment
- Harold Rhenisch, Tom Thomson's Shack
- Gary Wyatt, Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
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| 2002 | 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 | - Wayne Campbell, et al., Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
- John Armstrong, Guilty of Everything
- Terry Reksten, Illustrated History of BC
- Maria Coffey, Dag Goering, Visions of the Wild
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| 2003 | Earnest Perrault, Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan | - Ian Thom, E.J. Hughes
- Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy, Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
- Alison Watt, The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
- Francis Mansbridge, Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
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| 2004 | Donald Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia | - Ross Freake and Don Plant, Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
- Rob Butler, The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
- David Nunuk, Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
- R. Samuel Bawlf, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
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| 2005 | Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming | - Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
- Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
- Nancy Turner, Plants of Haida Gwaii
- Jay Sherwood, Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell
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| 2006 | John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed | - Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
- Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster, Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
- Daryl Ashby, John Muir: West Coast Pioneer
- Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
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| 2007 | Katherine Gordon, Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia | - Judith Williams, Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast
- Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, and Johanne Lamoureux, Emily Carr
- Jan Hare and Jean Barman, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
- Rachel Lebowitz, Hannus
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| 2008 | J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating | - Barry Gough, Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest
- Ian McAllister, The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
- Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture
- Chris Harris, Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
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| 2009 | Stephen Hume, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia | - Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
- Donald A. Pettit, The Peace: A History in Photographs
- Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
- Margaret Horsfield, Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
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| 2010 | Andrew Scott, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia | - Ian Gill, All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
- Lorne Dufour, Jacob's Prayer
- Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
- Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
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| 2011 | Dan Savard, Images from the Likeness House | - Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
- Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
- Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors), Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual
- Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
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| 2012 | Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver [2] | - Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests
- Fred Herzog, Fred Herzog: Photographs
- Sheryl Salloum, foreword by Sherrill Grace, The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton [#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC Series]
- Scott Watson, Edited by Naomi Sawada & Jana Tyner, Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries
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| 2013 | Derek Hayes, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas [3] | - Aaron Chapman, Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
- Jackson Davies and Marc Strange, Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
- Ali Kazimi, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru - An Illustrated History
- Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
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| 2014 | David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life [4] | - Sean Kheraj, Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
- Rolf Knight, Voyage Through the Past Century
- Graeme Truelove, Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
- Robin K. Wright, Daina Augaitis (eds), with Haida Advisors Robert Davidson and James Hart, Charles Edenshaw
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| 2015 | Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds), The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia [5] | - Christine Lowther, Born Out of This
- Ian McAllister, Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
- Jay Sherwood, Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
- Margaret Horsfield and Ian Kennedy, Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History
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| 2016 | Briony Penn, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan [6] | - Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners' Strike
- Gwen Curry, Tod Inlet: A Healing Place
- Derrick Stacey Denholm, Ground-Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC's North Coast
- John Thistle, Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
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| 2017 | Neil J. Sterritt, Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History [7] | - Anthony Kenyon, The Recorded History of the Liard Basin 1790-1910: Where British Columbia joins the Yukon and N.W.T.
- Michael Layland, A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island
- David Pitt-Brooke, Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
- Christopher Pollon with photographs by Ben Nelms, The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
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| 2018 | Kotaro Hayashi, Fumio “Frank” Kanno, Henry Tanaka, and Jim Tanaka (editors), Changing Tides: Vanishing Voices of Nikkei Fishermen and Their Families [8] | - Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts
- Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
- Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
- K. Jane Watt, Surrey: A City of Stories
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| 2019 | Sarah Cox, Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley's Stand Against Big Hydro | - Council of the Haida Nation, Athlii Gwaii: Upholding Haida Law at Lyell Island
- Darrin Martens, Beau Dick
- Harley Rustad, Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Trees
- Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You
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| 2020 | Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga | - Michael Christie, Greenwood
- Ian McAllister and Alex Von Tol, The Great Bear Rainforest: A Giant-Screen Adventure in the Land of the Spirit Bear
- Briony Penn, A Year on the Wild Side: A West Coast Naturalist’s Almanac
- Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging
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| 2021 | Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Kwanlin Dün: Dǎ Kwǎndur Gh.y Gh.kwad.ndur—Our Story in Our Words[9] | - Grant Buday, Orphans of Empire[10]
- Claudia Cornwall, British Columbia in Flames
- David McIlwraith (Editor), Wanda Joy Hoe (Translator), The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain
- Briony Penn with Cecil Paul, Following the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa'xaid
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| 2022 | Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner, Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine | - Jordan Abel, NISHGA
- Karen Duffek, Bill McLennan and Jordan Wilson, Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art
- Barry Gough, Possessing Meares Island: A Historian’s Journey into the Past of Clayoquot Sound
- Rahela Nayebzadah, Monster Child
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| 2023 | Cole Pauls, Kwändǖr | - Dempsey Bob and Sarah Milroy, Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice
- Erika Dyck and Jesse Donaldson, The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital
- Caitlin Gordon-Walker, Pam Brown, Jisgang Nika Collison, Anthony Alan Shelton and Jodi Simkin, Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast
- Roy Henry Vickers, Ben the Sea Lion
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| 2024 | Ian Kennedy, The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna | - Jennifer Bonnell, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia
- Wayne McCrory, The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future
- David Norwell, A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska
- Katherine Palmer Gordon, This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands
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