British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction


British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction was a Canadian literary award. Awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, it was the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 in its initial years to $40,000 in 2008.
In May 2018, the British Columbia Achievement Foundation announced that it was discontinuing the award as part of a process of refocusing the foundation's activities and programs.

Winners

YearWinnerNominated
2005 Patrick Lane, There Is a Season
  • Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
  • Harry Thurston, A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh
  • Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
2006 Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
  • J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise
  • John Terpstra, The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter
  • John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
    • 2007 Noah Richler, This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada
  • Marian Botsford Fraser, Requiem for My Brother
  • Gerta Moray, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr
  • Dragan Todorovic, The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia
    • 2008 Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
  • Donald Harman Akenson, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself
  • Jacques Poitras, Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy
    • 2009 Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
  • Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect
  • Mary Henley Rubio, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
  • Christopher Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika
    • 2010 Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
  • Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
  • Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
  • Kenneth Whyte, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
    • 2011 John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
  • Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
  • James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
  • Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
    • 2012 Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
  • Brian Fawcett, Human Happiness
  • Andrew Westoll, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery
  • Joel Yanofsky, Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism
    • 2013 Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
  • George Bowering, Pinboy
  • Robert R. Fowler, A Season in Hell: My 130 Days In the Sahara With Al Qaeda
  • Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape
    • 2014 Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
  • J. B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
  • Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
  • Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
    • 2015 Karyn L. Freedman, One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
  • Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and The Day That Almost Was
  • Alison Pick, Between Gods: A Memoir
  • James Raffan, Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in the Invisible Arctic
    • 2016 Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
  • John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper
  • Emily Urquhart, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
    • 2017 Sandra Martin, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices
  • Taras Grescoe, Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
  • Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
  • Alexandra Shimo, Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
    • 2018 Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey Into the Lives of Others
  • Ken Dryden, Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey
  • Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
  • Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City