Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

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, 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 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
• *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, 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
• *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, with Haida Advisors Robert Davidson and James Hart, Charles Edenshaw
• 2015 Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane, 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
• 2017 Neil J. Sterritt, Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History
• *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
• 2018 Kotaro Hayashi, Fumio “Frank” Kanno, Henry Tanaka, and Jim Tanaka, Changing Tides: Vanishing Voices of Nikkei Fishermen and Their Families'
• *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''