The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC Book Prizes, awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author(s) of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". No requirements in terms of publication or author residence exist.
Winners and nominees
1985 Hilary Stewart, Cedar
Barry Gough, Gunboat Frontier
Saeko Usukawa, Sound Heritage
1986 Donald Graham, Keepers of the Light
Douglas Cole, "Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Peter Murray, The Devil and Mr. Duncan
1987 Ruth Kirk, Wisdom of the Elders
Philip Croft, Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Alan Twigg, Vancouver and Its Winters
Lynne Bowen
1988 W.A. Hagelund, Whalers No More
Jo-Ann Canning-Dew, Hastings & Main
Lynne Bowen, Three Dollar Dreams
1989 Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal
Howard White, The Accidental Airline
Bridget Moran, Stoney Creek Woman
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
1991 Paul Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics
Cyril E. Leonoff, An Enterprising Life
Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
1992 Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Michael Poole, Ragged Islands
Jean Barman, The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
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
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
1995 Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
Tzeporah Berman et al., illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons, Clayoquot & Dissent
Beth Hill, Seven-Knot Summers
1996 Ken Drushka, HR: A Biography Of H.R. MacMillan
Tom Henry, Dogless in Metchosin
Patrick Reid, Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
1997 Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws, The Fraser River
Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings, British Columbia: A Natural History
Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2012 Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver 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
2013 Derek Hayes, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas 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
2014 David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life 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
2015 Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (eds), The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia 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
2016 Briony Penn, The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan 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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