Year
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Winner
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Finalists
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1989 Jury: Jean Barman, Russell Kelly, Doreen Westgarth
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Paul Yee, Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
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1990
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Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
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- Rosemary Brown, Being Brown: A Very Public Life
- Stan Persky, Buddy's: Meditations on Desire
- , The Refiners: A Century of BC Sugar
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1991 Jury: Sue Baptie, Sean Rossiter, Don Stewart
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, Vanishing Vancouver
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- Cyril Leonoff, Leonard Frank: An Enterprising Life
- Robin Ward, Robin Ward's Vancouver
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1992 Jury: Jean Barman, Janice Douglas, Margaret Gabriel
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, Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City
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1993 Jury: Gordon Elliott, John Oliphant, Lucy Stewart
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, Vancouver: A Visual History
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- Irene Howard, The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
- and John Atkin, Heritage Walks Around Vancouver
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1994 Jury: Andrea Davies, Chuck Davis, Bruce Macdonald
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Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
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- and , Vancouver: Visions of a City
- Robin Ward, Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast
- , Line Screw
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1995 Jury: Irene Howard, Nancy Stubbs, Greg Willett
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Elspeth Cameron, Earle Birney: A Life
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- and , Mister Got to Go
- and Robert Davidson, Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson
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1996 Jury: Mary Ann Cantillon, Irene Howard, Brahm Kornbluth
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Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
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- , Monday Night Man
- , Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913
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1997 Jury: Laura Hackett, Judy Taylor, Anne Yandle
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, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
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- , Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait
- and , Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley
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1998 Jury: Donna Brendon, Ian Chunn,
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, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia
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- and , The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take
- Carmen Rodríguez, And a Body to Remember With
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1999 Jury: Mark Leier, Bob Sarti, Joseph Stewart
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Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms
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2000 Jury: Shamina Senaratne, Nina Smart, Joseph Stewart
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and , Lions Gate
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- Christine Allen and , Gardens of Vancouver
- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
- , The Chinese in Vancouver: The Pursuit of Identity and Power, 1945-80
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2001 Jury: Brenda Peterson, Shamina Senaratne, Don Stewart
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Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
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2002 Jury: Brenda Peterson, Denise Ryan, Michael Varty
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, A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
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- , Burrard Inlet: A History
- , The Door is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer
- Cynthia Flood, Making a Stone of the Heart
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2003 Jury: George Fetherling, Michael Varty, Anne Yandle
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Lincoln Clarkes, , Patricia Canning and , Heroines
, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings
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- John Clague and , Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape
- , Intimate Distances
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2004 Jury: Crystal Allen, Keith Bunnell, George Fetherling
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Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
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Honourable Mentions: Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice; Maggie de Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister; John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design
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2005 Jury: Keith Bunnell, Laurie Roggeman, Max Wyman
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, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
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- Wayson Choy, All That Matters
- Leslie Robertson and , eds., In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
- Various authors, The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers
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2006 Jury: Rod Clarke, Glenn Deer, Laurie Roggeman
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Jean Barman, Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
James P. Delgado, Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver
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2007 Jury: Glenn Deer, Marc Fournier, Karen X. Tulchinsky
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, Vancouver Remembered
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2008 Jury: Michelle Benjamin, Marc Fournier, Fernanda Viveiros
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and Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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- Gary Geddes, Falsework
- , At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes
- , The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham
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2009 Jury: Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, Fernanda Viveiros
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Lee Henderson, The Man Game
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2010 Jury: Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, Jean Wilson
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Bruce Grenville and , Visions of British Columbia
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- George Bowering, The Box
- Matt Hern, Common Ground in a Liquid City
- , A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
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2011 Jury: Emilie Dierking, Lee Henderson, Jim Wong-Chu
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Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden: Stories
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- Lynne Bowen, Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
- Wayde Compton, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
- , Vancouver Kids
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2012 Jury: Jane Bouey, David Chariandy, Rebecca Wigod
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W. H. New, YVR
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- and , eds., V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- Claudia Cornwall, At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver
- Ali Kazimi, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru
- Jen Sookfong Lee, The Better Mother
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2013 Jury: Andrea Davies, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Paul Whitney
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Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
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- , The Ballad of Mrs. Smith
- , Ink on Paper
- and Robin Ward, Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
- , Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
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2014 Jury: Jordan Abel, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Anna Ling Kaye
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David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life
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- , What Makes Olga Run?
- , How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
- Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A Novel
- Billeh Nickerson, Artificial Cherry
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2015 Jury: Anna Ling Kaye, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Sirish Rao
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Wayde Compton, The Outer Harbour: Stories
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- , Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
- Bren Simmers, Hastings-Sunrise: Poems
- and , Mister Got To Go, Where Are You?
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2016 Jury: Shirley Lew, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Mary Schendlinger
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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, , and Tania Willard, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
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2017
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Carleigh Baker, Bad Endings[1]
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- Grant Arnold, Ian M. Thom, Susan Point, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Thomas Cannell, Myrtle McKay and , Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
- Gabrielle Prendergast, Pandas on the Eastside
- Sam Wiebe, Invisible Dead
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2018
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Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant
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- Travis Lupick, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction
- Erín Moure, Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots
- Rachel Rose, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food
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2019
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Robert Watt and Susan Point, People among the People: The public art of Susan Point
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- Eve Lazarus, Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer
- Phillip Huynh, The Forbidden Purple City
- Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Port of Being
- Susin Nielsen, No Fixed Address
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