Laureates and nominees

1980s

• Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
• Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent1986

Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country1987 Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid

• Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
• Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead

• Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
• Roy Minter – The White Pass1989

Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven

• Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John
• Paul Yee – Salt Water City

1990s

• Stan Persky – Buddy's
• Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province1991:

Scott Wilson – Jack Shadbolt1992: Rosemary Neering – Down The Road

• Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
• Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia1993:

Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through

• Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
• Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens1994:

Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers

• Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
• John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits1995:

Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues

• Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
• Rick Ouston – Finding Family

1996 Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna

• Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
• Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont1997

Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu

• Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
• Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began1998

Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – What I Remember from My Time on Earth

• Richard Bocking – Mighty River
• Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope1999

Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power

• Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
• Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane

2000s

• Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
• James Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
• Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
• Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home2001

Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea

• Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
• Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
• Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
• Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace2002

Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

• Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
• Stephen Hume – Off the Map
• Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
• Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress2003

Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba

• Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice
• Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
• Cole Harris – Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia
• Derek Lundy – The Way of the Ship

2004 Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

• Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
• Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
• Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
• Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy2005

Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen

• Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
• Patrick Lane – There is a Season
• Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
• Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World2006

Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book

• Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
• J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
• Rita Moir – Windshift Line
• John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed2007

Heather Pringle – The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

• Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
• Eric Miller – The Reservoir
• Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
• Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada