Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize Winners

For a complete list of winners:

The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia

2022 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize:
Finding Nothing: The VanGardes, 1959–1975 (University of Toronto Press) by Gregory Betts

SHORTLISTED TITLES
• Becoming Vancouver: A History (Harbour) by Daniel Francis
• A Long Way to Paradise: A New History of British Columbia Politics (UBC Press) by Robert A.J. McDonald

2021 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
A Great Revolutionary Wave: Women and the Vote in British Columbia (UBC Press) by Lara Campbell

SHORTLISTED TITLES
• Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (McGill-Queens Press) edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross
• Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch: Frontier Physician
(Ronsdale Press) by Geoff Mynett

2020 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island
(Touchwood Editions) by Michael Layland

SHORTLISTED TITLES
• At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press) by Wendy C. Wickwire
• Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park
(McGill-Queen’s University Press) by Selena Couture

2019 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
Daniel Marshall for Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado

Winner: Arthur J. Ray: Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen’s 2016)

Shortlist: Caroline Fox: At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast (Rocky Mountain Books); Ronald W. Hawker: Yakuglas’ Legacy: The Art and Times of Charlie James (University of Toronto Press).

2016 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize Winner

Winner: John Thistle: Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia (UBC Press).

Shortlist: Lisa Pasolli: Working Mothers and the Child Care Dilemma: A History of British Columbia’s Social Policy (UBC Press); Maria Tippett: Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture (Harbour).

2015 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

Winner: Jean Barman: French Canadians, Fur, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest (UBC Press)

Shortlist: Nancy J. Turner: Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnohistory and the Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America (McGill-Queen’s). Richard Beamish and Gordon Macfarlane, eds.: The Sea Among Us: the Amazing Strait of Georgia (Harbour).

2014 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

Winner: David Stouck: Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life (Douglas & McIntyre).

Shortlist: Robin Kathleen Wright, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson, James Hart: Charles Edenshaw (Black Dog Publishing); Sean Kheraj: Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (UBC Press).

2013 Inaugural Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

Winner: Derek Hayes: British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre).

Shortlist: Jim McDowell:Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge? (Ronsdale Press); Sandra Djwa: Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page (McGill-Queen’s University Press)