# Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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 | Titles | Result |
| 1985 | David Ricardo Williams | Duff: A Life in the Law | Winner |
| 1985 | Michael Kluckner | Vancouver The Way It Was | Shortlist |
| 1985 | Daniel Raunet | Without Surrender, Without Consent | Shortlist |
| 1986 | Bruce Hutchison | The Unfinished Country | Winner |
| 1986 | Muriel Kitagawa | This Is My Own: Letters to Wes | Shortlist |
| 1986 | Reginald Roy | The Journal of Private Fraser | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Doris Shadbolt | Bill Reid | Winner |
| 1987 | Philip Croft | Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian | Shortlist |
| 1987 | Sherrill MacLaren | Braehead | Shortlist |
| 1988 | P. K. Page | Brazilian Journal | Winner |
| 1988 | Sandra Djwa | The Politics of the Imagination | Shortlist |
| 1988 | Roy Minter | The White Pass | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Robin Ridington | Trail To Heaven | Winner |
| 1989 | Edith Iglauer | Fishing with John | Shortlist |
| 1989 | Paul Yee | Salt Water City | Shortlist |

### 1990s

| Year | Author | Titles | Result |
| 1990 | Philip Marchand | Marshall McLuhan | Winner |
| 1990 | Stan Persky | Buddy's | Shortlist |
| 1990 | Patricia Roy | A White Man's Province | Shortlist |
| 1991 | Scott Watson | Jack Shadbolt | Winner |
| 1991 | Terry Glavin | A Death Feast in Dimlahamid | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Rosemary Neering | Down the Road | Winner |
| 1992 | Jean Barman | The West Beyond the West | Shortlist |
| 1992 | Robin Fisher | Duff Patullo of British Columbia | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Lynne Bowen | Muddling Through | Winner |
| 1993 | Irene Howard | The Struggle for Social Justice in B. C. | Shortlist |
| 1993 | Rolf Knight, Homer Stevens | Homer Stevens | Shortlist |
| 1994 | Sharon Brown' | Some Become Flowers | Winner |
| 1994 | Arthur Mayse | My Father, My Friend | Shortlist |
| 1994 | John Mills | Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Lisa Hobbs Birnie | Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues | Winner |
| 1995 | Denise Chong | The Concubine's Children | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Rick Ouston | Finding Family | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Claudia Cornwall | Letter From Vienna | Winner |
| 1996 | Bev Christiansen | Too Good to Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Sheryl Salloum | Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpont | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Catherine Lang | O-bon in Chimunesu | Winner |
| 1997 | Deanna Kawatski | Clara and Me | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Arthur J. Ray | I Have Lived Here Since the World Began | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey | Stolen from Our Embrace | Winner |
| 1998 | Richard Bocking | Mighty River | Shortlist |
| 1998 | Elizabeth Simpson | The Perfection of Hope | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Peter C. Newman | Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power | Winner |
| 1999 | Eric Nicol | Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Michael Poole | Romancing Mary Jane | Shortlist |

### 2000s

| Year | Author | Titles | Result |
| 2000 | Rita Moir | Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels | Winner |
| 2000 | Douglas Cole | Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 | Shortlist |
| 2000 | James P. Delgado | Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Margaret Horsfield | Cougar Annie's Garden | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton | Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Terry Glavin | The Last Great Sea | Winner |
| 2001 | Hugh Brody | The Other Side of Eden | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Rosemary Neering | Wild West Women | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Harold Rhenisch | Tom Thomson's Shack | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Patricia Van Tighem | The Bear's Embrace | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Susan Crean | The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr | Winner |
| 2002 | Bart Campbell | The Door is Open | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Stephen Hume | Off the Map | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Ross A. Laird | Grain of Truth | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Heather Pringle | The Mummy Congress | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Sandra Shields, David Campion | Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba | Winner |
| 2003 | Thomas Berger | One Man's Justice | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Keath Fraser | The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Cole Harris | Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Derek Lundy | The Way of the Ship | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Maria Tippett | Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian | Winner |
| 2004 | Maria Coffey | Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Pat Wastell Norris | High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Peter Steele | The Man Who Mapped the Arctic | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Mark Zuehlke | The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Charles Montgomery | The Last Heathen | Winner |
| 2005 | Katherine Palmer Gordon | The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Patrick Lane | There Is a Season | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Alan Twigg | First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Rex Weyler | Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Stan Persky | The Short Version: An ABC Book | Winner |
| 2006 | Michael Kluckner | Vanishing British Columbia | Shortlist |
| 2006 | J. B. MacKinnon | Dead Man in Paradise | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Rita Moir | Windshift Line | Shortlist |
| 2006 | John Vaillant | The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Heather Pringle | The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust | Winner |
| 2007 | Karsten Heuer | Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Eric Miller | The Reservoir | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Harold Rhenisch | The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Dan Zuberi | Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Robert Bringhurst | Everywhere Being is Dancing | Winner |
| 2008 | J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith | The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Don Gayton | Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Theresa Kishkan | Phantom Limb | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Patricia E. Roy | The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Gabor Maté | In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction | Winner |
| 2009 | Tim Lilburn | Going Home: Essays | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Rex Weyler | The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Chris Wood | Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Ronald Wright | What Is America? A Short History of the New World Order | Shortlist |

### 2010s

| Year | Author | Titles | Result |
| 2010 | Lorna Crozier | Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir | Winner |
| 2010 | Ehor Boyanowsky | Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Brian Brett | Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Charles Demers | Vancouver Special | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Brian Payton | The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness | Shortlist |
| 2011 | John Vaillant | The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | Winner |
| 2011 | Morris Bates, Jim Brown | Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Douglas Coupland | Marshall McLuhan | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Sarah Leavitt | Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Derek Lundy | Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Charlotte Gill | Eating Dirt | Winner |
| 2012 | Carmen Aguirre | Something Fierce | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Gary Geddes | Drink the Bitter Root | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Theresa Kishkan | Mnemonic: A Book of Trees | Shortlist |
| 2012 | JJ Lee | The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh | The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 | Winner |
| 2013 | Luanne Armstrong | The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming | Shortlist |
| 2013 | George Bowering | Pinboy | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sandra Djwa | Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Carol Shaben | Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop | Shortlist |
| 2014 | David Stouck | Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life | Winner |
| 2014 | Arno Kopecky | The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway | Shortlist |
| 2014 | J.B. MacKinnon | The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Bev Sellars | They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Jane Silcott | Everything Rustles | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Eve Joseph | In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying | Winner |
| 2015 | Julie Angus | Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Kevin Chong | Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Barry M. Gough | The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Nancy Turner | Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Brian Brett | Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World | Winner |
| 2016 | Briony Penn | The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Lorimer Shenher | That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Maria Tippett | Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Emily Urquhart | Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Deborah Campbell | A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War | Winner |
| 2017 | Carmen Aguirre | Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Mohamed Fahmy, Carol Shaben | The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Joy Kogawa | Gently to Nagasaki | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Mark Leiren-Young | The Killer Whale Who Changed the World | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Arthur Manuel, Ronald Derrickson | The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy | Winner |
| 2018 | Carys Cragg | Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Theresa Kishkan | Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Andrew Struthers | The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Paul Watson | Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Lindsay Wong | The Woo Woo | Winner |
| 2019 | Bill Gaston | Just Let Me Look at You | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Ian Hampton | Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Kate Harris | Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Rob Shaw, Richard Zussman | A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC | Shortlist |

### 2020s

| Year | Author | Titles | Result |
| 2020 | Alejandro Frid | Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene | Winner |
| 2020 | Ivan Coyote | Rebent Sinner | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Helen Knott | In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jonathan Manthorpe | Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jessica McDiarmid | Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | A History of My Brief Body | Winner |
| 2021 | Eva Holland | Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Liz Levine | Nobody Talks About Anything But the End | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Benjamin Perrin | Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Seth Klein | A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Jordan Abel | NISHGA | Winner |
| 2022 | Danielle Geller | Dog Flowers | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Darrel J. McLeod | Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Suzanne Simard | Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest | Shortlist |
| 2022 | Ian Williams | Disorientation: Being Black in the World | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Karen Bakker | The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants | Winner |
| 2023 | Lyndsie Bourgon | Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Michael J. Hathaway | What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Harrison Mooney | Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery | Shortlist |
| 2023 | Jody Wilson-Raybould | True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change | Shortlist |
| 2024 | John Vaillant | Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast | Winner |
| 2024 | Colleen Brown | If you lie down in a field, she will find you there | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Naomi Klein | Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Helen Knott | Becoming a Matriarch | Shortlist |
| 2024 | Emelia Symington-Fedy | Skid Dogs | Shortlist |