• *Lee Henderson for The Man Game (Penguin Canada)
• Gabor Maté for In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (Vintage Canada)
• Meredith Quartermain for Nightmarker (NeWest Press)

Detailed author information

Judges: Janice Douglas, Fernanda Vivieros, Fred Wah

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• *Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome for Hope in Shadows (Arsenal Pulp Press and Pivot Legal Society)
• Gary Geddes for Falsework (Goose Lane Editions)
• Eve Lazaraus for At Home with History (Anvil Press)
• Kaija Pepper for The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham (Dance Collection Press)

Detailed author information

Judges: freelance editor (and former Publisher at Raincoast Books/Polestar) Michelle Benjamin; Sophia Books owner Marc Fournier; and Fernanda Viveiros, Executive Director of the Federation of BC Writers.

News Release - 2008 Finalists Announced

• *Michael Kluckner for Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
• Grant Arnold and Michael Turner for Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre and the Vancouver Art Gallery
• Anita Rau Badami for Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (Knopf Canada)
• Brett Josef Grubisic for The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Detailed author information

Judges: University of B.C. English professor Glenn Deer; bookseller Marc Fournier; and novelist and screenwriter Karen X. Tulchinsky.

News Release - Winner of the 2007 Award

• *Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point, Harbour Publishing
• *James P. Delgado, Waterfront:The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver, Stanton Atkins & Dosil.
• Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley, Douglas & McIntyre
• Abraham J. Rogatnick, Ian M. Thom, and Adele Weder for B.C. Binning, Douglas & McIntyre

Detailed author information

Judges: Rod Clarke, bookseller; Glenn Deer, University of B.C. English professor; and Laurie Roggeman, former president of the Friends of the Vancouver Public Library.

News Release - Winner of the 2006 Award

• *Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination, Douglas & McIntyre
• Wayson Choy, All That Matters, Doubleday Canada
• Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane (editors), In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver, Talonbooks
• Various authors, The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best Writers, Raincoast Books

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Judges: Keith Bunnell, University of B.C. librarian; Laurie Roggeman, Vancouver booklover and former president of the Friends of the Vancouver Public Library; and author and cultural advocate Max Wyman

News Release - Winner of the 2005 Award

• *Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing for You, McClelland & Stewart
• Paul Yee, The Bone Collector’s Son, Tradewind Books
• Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice, Thomas Allen Publishers (honourable-mention)
• Maggie de Vries, Missing Sarah, Penguin Canada (honourable-mention)
• John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning & Design, UBC Press (honourable-mention)

Detailed author information

Judges: George Fetherling, author; Keith Bunnell, UBC librarian; Crystal Allen, bookseller

News Release - Winner of 2004 Award

• *Lincoln Clarkes, Heroines, essays by Ken Dietrich et al., Anvil Press
• *Reid Shier, ed, Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings, Contemporary Art Gallery/Arsenal Pulp Press
• John Clague and Bob Turner, Vancouver, City on the Edge, Tricouni Press
• Fiona Tinwei Lam, Intimate Distances, Nightwood Editions/Harbour Publishing

2003 Finalists and Winners Announced

Judges: Anne Yandle, librarian; George Fetherling, author; Michael Varty, bookseller

News Release - Winner of 2003 Award

• *Keith Carlson et al., A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas, Douglas and McIntyre
• Doreen Armitage, Burrard Inlet: A History, Harbour Publishing
• Cynthia Flood, Making a Stone of the Heart, Key Porter Books
• Bart Campbell, The Door is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer, Anvil Press

Judges: Brenda Peterson, librarian; Denise Ryan, editor; Michael Varty, bookseller

News Release - Winner of 2002 Award

• *Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes, McClelland & Stewart
• Douglas Coupland, City of Glass – Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre
• Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park, Knopf Canada
• Gary Wyatt, ed., Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist, Douglas & McIntyre

Judges: Brenda Peterson, librarian; Shamina Senaratne, writer; and Don Stewart, bookseller

News Release - Announcement of Finalists
News Release - Winner of 2001 Award

• *Lilia D’Acres & Donald Luxton, Lions Gate, Talonbooks
• Christine Allen & Collin Varner, Gardens of Vancouver, Raincoast Books
• Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood, Penguin Canada
• Wing Chung Ng, The Chinese in Vancouver: The Pursuit of Identity and Power, 1945-80, UBC Press

Judges: Shamina Senaratne, writer; Nina Smart, SFU librarian; and Joseph Stewart, bookseller

• *Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms, Get to the Point Publishing
• Shawn Blore and the editors of Vancouver magazine, Vancouver: Secrets of the City, Arsenal Pulp Press
• Grant Buday, White Lung, Anvil Press

Judges: Joseph Stewart, bookseller; Mark Leier, SFU historian and author; and Bob Sarti, journalist

• *Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia, Linkman Press
• Betty O’Keefe and Ian Macdonald, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take, Heritage House
• Carmen Rodriguez, And a Body to Remember With,  Arsenal Pulp Press

Judges: Donna Brendon, bookseller, retail consultant; Ian Chunn, B.C. Book Prizes; Vickie Jensen, author.

• *Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963, Douglas & McIntyre/The Canadian Centre for Architecture
• John A. Cherrington, Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait, Harbour
• Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion, Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, Heritage House

Judges: Laura Hackett, bookseller; Judy Taylor, chair of the Vancouver Public Library board of directors; Anne Yandle, former head of UBC Special Collections

• *Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony, Douglas & McIntyre
• Grant Buday, Monday Night Man, Anvil Press
• Robert A. J. McDonald, Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913, UBC Press

Judges: Mary Ann Cantillon, librarian; Irene Howard, author; Brahm Kornbluth, bookseller

• *Elspeth Cameron, Earle Birney: A Life, Penguin Books
• Lois Simmie with illus. Cynthia Nugent, Mister Got to Go, Red Deer College Press
• Ulli Stelzer & Robert Davidson, Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson, Douglas & McIntyre

Judges: Irene Howard, author; Nancy Stubbs, librarian; Greg Willett, bookseller

• *Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children, Penguin Books
• Paul Grescoe & Karl Spreitz, Vancouver: Visions of a City, Beautiful B.C.
• Robin Ward, Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast, Harbour
• Michael J. Yates, Line Screw, McClelland & Stewart

Judges: Andrea Davies, owner, Hager Books; Chuck Davis, freelance writer; Bruce Macdonald, author

• *Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History, Talonbooks
• Irene Howard, The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia, UBC Press
• Michael Kluckner & John Atkin, Heritage Walks Around Vancouver, Whitecap

Judges: Gordon Elliott, editor; John Oliphant, writing instructor; Lucy Stewart, owner, Blackberry Books

• *Gerald Straley, Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common & Unusual Trees of the City, UBC Press
• Elizabeth Bower, No Forwarding Address, Douglas & McIntyre
• Paul Grescoe, Flesh Wound, Douglas & McIntyre
• Gregory Edwards, Hidden Cities, Talonbooks
• Timothy Oke & Graeme Wynn, Vancouver & Its Regions, UBC Press

Judges: Jean Barman, historian, author; Janice Douglas, librarian; Margaret Gabriel, bookseller

• *Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver, Whitecap
• Cyril Leonoff, Leonard Frank: An Enterprising Life, Talonbooks
• Robin Ward, Robin Ward's Vancouver, Harbour

Judges: Sue Baptie, archivist; Sean Rossiter, freelance writer; Don Stewart, bookseller

• *Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe, Douglas & McIntyre
• Rosemary Brown, Being Brown: A Very Public Life, Random House
• Stan Persky, Buddy's: Meditations on Desire, New Star
• John Schreiner, The Refiners: A Century of BC Sugar, Douglas & McIntyre

• *Paul Yee, Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver, Douglas & McIntyre

Judges: Jean Barman, historian; Russell Kelly; Doreen Westgarth