The Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. For more information, visit the official site.

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2009

• Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

Also shortlisted:

• Wade Davis – The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
• Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
• Erika Ritter – The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships
• Eric Siblin – The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

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2008

• Taras Grescoe – Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood

Also shortlisted:

• Carl Honoré – Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting
• Mark Kingwell – Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City
• Margaret Visser – The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual
• Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself

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2007

• Anna Porter – Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

Also shortlisted:

• Katherine Ashenburg – The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
• Tim Bowling – The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture
• Barry Gough – Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
• Douglas Hunter – God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery

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2006

• Dragan Todorovic – The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

Also shortlisted:

• Charlotte Gray – Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
• Barbara Kingscote – Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canada
• Noah Richler – This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada
• Rudy Wiebe – Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

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2005

• John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

Also shortlisted:

• Rebecca Godfrey – Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
• Stephen Lewis – Race Against Time
• J.B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise

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2004

• Elaine Dewar – The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality

Also shortlisted:

• Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall – Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
• Trevor Herriot – Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
• Patrick Lane – There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden
• Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen: Encounters With Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia

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2003

• Brian Fawcett – Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown

Also shortlisted:

• Mark Abley – Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
• J. Edward Chamberlin – If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground
• Taras Grescoe – The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
• Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle – Sahara: A Natural Histor

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2002

• Jake MacDonald – Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country

Also shortlisted:

• Katherine Ashenburg – The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die
• Andrew Clark – A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
• Marni Jackson – Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
• Lorie Miseck – A Promise of Salt

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2001

• Clark Blaise – Time Lord

Also shortlisted:

• Kevin Major – As Near to Heaven by Sea
• Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
• Carol Shields – Jane Austen
• Jack Todd – The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story

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2000

• Erna Paris – Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

Also shortlisted:

• Donald Harman Akenson – Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
• Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World
• Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues:An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
• John Stackhouse – Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable

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1999

• Modris Eksteins – Walking Since Daybreak

Also shortlisted:

• Robert Bringhurst – A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
• Jacalyn Duffin – History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
• Moira Farr – After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale
• Wayne Johnston – Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir

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1998

• Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson – Stolen Life: A Journey of a Cree Woman

Also shortlisted:

• Michael Ignatieff – Isaiah Berlin: A Life
• David Manicom – Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
• Linda Spalding – The Follow
• Charles Wilkins – The Circus at the Edge of the Earth

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1997

• Ernest Hillen – Small Mercies: A Boy After War

Also shortlisted:

• Charlotte Gray – Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
• John Bentley Mays – Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
• Ruth Teichroeb – Flowers on My Grave
• Eileen Whitfield – Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood