Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 1985-2013

from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13

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.

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

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 Wildernesss Committee, Carmanah
Earl K. Pollon, Shirley 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 J. 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 [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

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