Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

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The Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize is awarded for a book which contributes to the "enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". Part of the BC Book Prizes.

indicates a review is available for that book

2015

  • Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (eds.) – The Sea Among Us

Also shortlisted:

  • Margaret Horsfield, Ian Kennedy – Tofino and Clayoquot Sound
  • Christine Lowther – Born Out of This
  • Ian McAllister – Great Bear Wild
  • Jay Sherwood – Surveying Southern British Columbia

2014

  • David Stouck – Arthur Erickson

Also shortlisted:

  • Sean Kheraj – Inventing Stanley Park
  • Rolf Knight – Voyage Through the Past Century
  • Graeme Truelove – Svend Robinson
  • Robin K. Wright, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson, James Hart – Charles Edenshaw

2013

  • Derek Hayes – British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas

Also shortlisted:

  • Jackson Davies, Marc Strange – Bruno and the Beach
  • Aaron Chapman – Liquor, Lust, and the Law
  • Leslie A. Robertson, Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan – Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las
  • Ali Kazimi – Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru

2012

  • Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver

Also shortlisted:

  • Andrew Nikiforuk – Empire of the Beetle
  • Fred Herzog – Fred Herzog: Photographs
  • Sheryl Salloum – The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton
  • Scott Watson – Thrown

2011

  • Dan Savard – Images from the Likeness House

Also shortlisted:

  • Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis – The Totem Pole
  • Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors) – Visions of BC
  • Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude
  • Sylvia Olsen – Working with Wool

2010

  • Andrew Paul Scott – Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names

Also shortlisted:

  • Neil Boyd, Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert – A Thousand Dreams
  • Brian Brett – Trauma Farm
  • Lorne Dufour – Jacob's Prayer
  • Ian Gill – All That We Say is Ours

2009

  • Stephen Hume – Simon Fraser

Also shortlisted:

  • Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome – Hope in Shadows
  • Donald A. Pettit – The Peace
  • Daphne Bramham – The Secret Lives of Saints
  • Margaret Horsfield – Voices from the Sound

2008

  • J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith – The 100-Mile Diet

Also shortlisted:

  • Barry Gough – Fortune's a River
  • Ian McAllister – The Last Wild Wolves
  • Tim Bowling – The Lost Coast
  • Chris Harris – Spirit in the Grass

2007

  • Katherine Gordon – Made to Measure

Also shortlisted:

  • Judith Williams – Clam Gardens
  • Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, Johanne Lamoureux – Emily Carr
  • Jan Hare, Jean Barman – Good Intentions Gone Awry
  • Rachel Lebowitz – Hannus

2006

  • John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce

Also shortlisted:

  • Daryl Ashby – John Muir
  • Jean Barman – Stanley Park's Secret
  • Lance Berelowitz – Dream City
  • Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, Kathy Dunster – Islands in the Salish Sea

2005

  • Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer, Don Staniford – A Stain Upon the Sea

Also shortlisted:

  • Daniel Francis – L.D.
  • Robert Hunter, Robert Keziere – The Greenpeace to Amchitka
  • Jay Sherwood – Surveying Northern British Columbia
  • Nancy J. Turner – Plants of Haida Gwaii

2004

  • Donald Luxton – Building the West

Also shortlisted:

  • R. Samuel Bawlf – The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
  • Rob Butler – The Jade Coast
  • Ross Freake, Don Plant – Firestorm
  • David Nunuk – Natural Light

2003

  • Ernest Perrault – Tong

Also shortlisted:

  • Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy – Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
  • Francis Mansbridge – Launching History
  • Ian Thom – E.J. Hughes
  • Alison Watt – The Last Island

2002

  • Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe, David Smith – A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas

Also shortlisted:

  • John Armstrong – Guilty of Everything
  • Wayne Campbell, et al. – Birds of BC
  • Maria Coffey, Dag Goering – Visions of the Wild
  • Terry Reksten – Illustrated History of BC

2001

  • Dan Francis – The Encyclopedia of British Columbia

Also shortlisted:

  • Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea
  • Richard Somerset Mackie – Island Timber
  • Philip Resnick – The Politics of Resentment
  • Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack

2000

  • Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden

Also shortlisted:

  • Dick Hammond – Haunted Waters
  • Derek Hayes – Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
  • Faith Moosang – First Son
  • Gary Wyatt – Mythic Beings

1999

  • Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen – River of the Angry Moon

Also shortlisted:

  • Helene Cyr – Handmade Forests
  • Sean Rossiter – Hotel Georgia

1998

  • Richard Bocking – Mighty River

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Kluckner – The Pullet Surprise
  • Daniel Wood, Beverley Sinclair – Western Journeys

1997

  • Alan Haig-Brown – The Fraser River

Also shortlisted:

  • Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings – British Columbia
  • Don Gayton – Landscapes of the Interior

1996

  • Ken Drushka – HR

Also shortlisted:

  • Tom Henry – Dogless in Metchosin
  • Patrick Reid – Wild Colonial Boy

1995

Also shortlisted:

  • Various Authors – Clayoquot & Dissent
  • Beth Hill – Seven-Knot Summers

1994

  • Alex Rose – Nisga'a

Also shortlisted:

  • Graham Osborne – British Columbia
  • Alan Haig-Brown – Fishing For A Living

1993

  • Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire – Nature Power

Also shortlisted:

  • Vickie Jensen – Where the People Gather
  • Bruce Macdonald – Vancouver

1992

  • Herb Hammond – Seeing The Forest Among The Trees

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Poole – Ragged Islands
  • Jean Barman – The West Beyond the West

1991

  • Paul Tennant – Aboriginal People & Politics

Also shortlisted:

  • Cyril E. Leonoff – An Enterprising Life
  • Michael Kluckner – Vanishing Vancouver

1990

  • Western Canada Wilderness Committee – Carmanah

Also shortlisted:

  • Earl K Pollon, Shirlee Smith Matheson – This Was Our Valley
  • Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire – Write It On Your Heart

1989

  • Celia Haig-Brown – Resistance and Renewal

Also shortlisted:

  • Bridget Moran – Stoney Creek Woman
  • Howard White, Jim Spilsbury – Accidental Airline

1988

  • W.A. Hagelund – Whalers No More

Also shortlisted:

  • Jo-Ann Canning-Dew – Hastings & Main
  • Lynn Bowen – Three Dollar Dreams

1987

  • Ruth Kirk – Wisdom of the Elders

Also shortlisted:

  • Alan Twigg – Vancouver and Its Writers
  • Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian

1986

  • Donald Graham – Keepers of the Light

Also shortlisted:

  • Douglas Cole – Captured Heritage
  • Peter Murray – The Devil and Mr. Duncan

1985

  • Hilary Stewart – Cedar

Also shortlisted:

  • Barry Gough – Gunboat Frontier
  • Saeko Usukawa – Sound Heritage