Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
The Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize is part of the BC Book Prizes , a literary prize awarded in honor of the merits of British Columbia writers and their publishers. Since 1985 it has been given to those authors whose books serve the understanding and admiration of British Columbia. Unlike the rest of the BC Book Prizes, writers and publishers are not expected to have their place of residence or publishing in British Columbia.
The corresponding books can deal with every aspect of the province, i.e. the population, its history , geography , fauna and flora , oceanography , archeology , anthropology , ethnology , monument and nature conservation , fisheries, etc., and should be available in the original edition. Reprints , revised new editions, travel guides and operating instructions or guides (“how-to books”) are not eligible for the award. Translations are not excluded from the nominations.
According to the above extensions, the book can have been published anywhere and the writer can reside outside of British Columbia and the Yukon region. The respective shortlist is presented in March of each year, and like all other seven BC Book Prizes literary prizes, the prize is awarded at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prizes Gala in April.
The award was named in honor of Roderick Haig-Browns (1908-1976), a British Columbia-based writer and nature lover who was known for both his nature and adventure stories for children and young people, as well as national praise for his essays on sport fishing received.
Winners and nominees
1985
- Hilary Stewart , Cedar
- Barry Gough , Gunboat Frontier
- Saeko Usukawa , Sound Heritage
1986
- Donald Graham , Keepers of the Light
- Douglas Cole , Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
- Peter Murray , The Devil and Mr. Duncan
1987
- Ruth Kirk , Wisdom of the Elders
- Philip Croft , Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Alan Twigg , Vancouver and Its Writers
1988
- William A. Hagelund , Whalers No More
- Jo-Ann Canning-Dew , Hastings & Main
- Lynne Bowen , Three Dollar Dreams
- Roy Minte , The White Pass
1989
- Celia Haig-Brown , Resistance and Renewal
- Howard White , The Accidental Airline
- Bridget Moran , Stoney Creek Woman
1990
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee , Carmanah
- Earl K. Pollon , Shirlee Smith Matheson , This Was Our Valley
- Harry Robinson , Wendy Wickwire , Write It On Your Heart
1991
- Paul Tennant , Aboriginal People and Politics
- Cyril E. Leonoff , An Enterprising Life
- Michael Kluckner , Vanishing Vancouver
1992
- Herb Hammond , Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
- Michael Poole , Ragged Islands
- Jean Barman , The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
1993
- Harry Robinson and Wendy Wickwire , Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
- Bruce MacDonald , Vancouver: A Visual History
- Vickie Jensen , Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
1994
- Alex Rose , (Ed.) Nisga'a Tribal Council, Nisga'a: People of the Nass River
- Graham Osborne , British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
- Alan Haig-Brown , Fishing for a Living
1995
- Howard White , Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
- Tzeporah Berman et al. a., Clayoquot & Dissent
- Beth Hill , Seven-Knot Summers
1996
- Ken Drushka , HR: A Biography Of HR MacMillan
- Tom Henry , Dogless in Metchosin
- Patrick Reid , Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
1997
- Alan Haig-Brown , Rick Blacklaws , The Fraser River
- Richard Cannings , Sydney Cannings, British Columbia: A Natural History
- Don Gayton , Landscapes of the Interior
1998
- Richard Bocking , Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
- Michael Kluckner , The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
- Daniel Wood , Beverley Sinclair, Western Journeys
1999
- Mark Hume , Harvey Thommassen , River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
- Helene Cy , Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter's Experience
- Sean Rossite , Georgia Hotel
2000
- Margaret Horsfield , Cougar Annie's Garden
- Faith Moosang , First Son: Portraits by CD Hoy
- Dick Hammond , Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
- Derek Hayes , Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
2001
- Daniel Francis , The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
- Richard Somerset Mackie , Island Timber
- Terry Glavin , The Last Great Sea
- Philip Resnick , The Politics of Resentment
- Harold Rhenisch , Tom Thomson's Shack
2002
- Keith Thor Carlson , et al. a., A Stó: lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
- Wayne Campbell et al. a., Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
- John Armstrong , Guilty of Everything
- Terry Reksten , Illustrated History of BC
- Maria Coffey , Dag Goering , Visions of the Wild
2003
- Ernest Perrault , Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan
- Ian Thom , EJ Hughes
- Randy Bouchard , Dorothy Kennedy , Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
- Alison Watt , The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island
- Francis Mansbridge , Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
2004
- Donald Luxton , Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
- Ross Freake and Don Plant , Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
- Rob Butler , The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
- David Nunuk , Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
- R. Samuel Bawlf , The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
2005
- Stephen Hume , Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
- Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere , The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
- Daniel Francis , LD: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
- Nancy J. Turne , Plants of Haida Gwaii
- Jay Sherwood , Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell
2006
- John Vaillant , The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
- Lance Berelowitz , Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
- Sheila Harrington , Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster , Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
- Daryl Ashby , John Muir: West Coast Pioneer
- Jean Barman , Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
2007
- Katherine Gordon , Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia
- Judith Williams , Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia
- Ian M. Thom , Charles C. Hill and Johanne Lamoureux , Emily Carr
- Jan Hare and Jean Barman , Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
- Rachel Lebowitz , Hannus
2008
- JB MacKinnon , Alisa Smith , The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
- Barry Gough , Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest
- Ian McAllister , The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
- Tim Bowling , The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture
- Chris Harris , Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape
2009
- Stephen Hume , Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
- Brad Cran , Gillian Jerome , Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- Donald A. Pettit , The Peace: A History in Photographs
- Daphne Bramham , The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
- Margaret Horsfield , Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899-1929
2010
- Andrew Scott , Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
- Ian Gill , All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
- Lorne Dufour , Jacob's Prayer
- Larry Campbell , Lori Culbert , Neil Boyd , A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
- Brian Brett , Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
2011
- Dan Savard , Images from the Likeness House
- Grant Lawrence , Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
- Aaron Glass , Aldona Jonaitis , The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
- Bruce Grenville , Scott Steedman (Eds.), Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual
- Sylvia Olsen , Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
2012
- Chuck Davis , The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
- Andrew Nikiforuk , Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
- Fred Herzog , Fred Herzog: Photographs
- Sheryl Salloum , The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton
- Scott Watson , Thrown: British Columbia's Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries
2013
- Derek Hayes , British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
- Aaron Chapman , Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
- Jackson Davies and Marc Strange , Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
- Ali Kazimi , Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru - An Illustrated History
- Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan , Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
2014
David Stouck , Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life
- Sean Kheraj , Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
- Rolf Knight , Voyage Through the Past Century
- Graeme Truelove , Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
- Robin K. Wright , Daina Augaitis (Eds.), Charles Edenshaw
2015
Richard Beamish and Gordon McFarlane (Eds.), The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
- Christine Lowther , Born Out of This
- Ian McAllister , Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
- Jay Sherwood , Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
- Margaret Horsfield and Ian Kennedy , Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History
2016
Briony Penn , The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
2017
Neil J. Sterritt , Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History
2018
Various authors: Changing Tides: Vanishing Voices of Nikkei Fishermen and Their Families
Web links
- List of winners
- 2011 Awards Ceremony Photo Album, Kay Meek Center, West Vancouver, April 21, 2011 on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/roderick-haig-brown-regional-prize/
- ↑ Winners are marked in bold .
- ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2012#regional
- ↑ Maria Siassina: Gaston, Hayes, de Leeuw win BC Book Prizes . In: Quill & Quire . May 6, 2013. Archived from the original on May 11, 2013. Retrieved on November 8, 2013.
- ^ Marsha Lederman: Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of BC Book Prizes . In: The Globe and Mail . May 5, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ↑ This year's BC Book Prices are announced . In: The Georgia Straight . April 26, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2016.