Year |
Author |
Title |
Result |
|
2000 |
Wayne Johnston |
Baltimore's Mansion |
Winner |
[5] |
Witold Rybczynski |
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century |
Finalist |
|
Eric Wright |
Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man |
|
Lisa Appignanesi |
Losing the Dead |
|
Wayson Choy |
Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood |
|
2002 |
Carol Shields |
Jane Austen |
Winner |
[5] |
Nega Mezlekia |
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: Memories of my Ethiopian Boyhood |
Finalist |
|
Margaret Visser |
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church |
|
A. B. McKillop |
The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past |
|
Michael David Kwan |
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China |
|
Clark Blaise |
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian who Missed His Train and Changed the World |
|
2004 |
Isabel Huggan |
Belonging: Home Away From Home |
Winner |
|
J. Edward Chamberlin |
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? |
Finalist |
|
Gertrud Mackprang Baer |
In the Shadow of Silence: From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment, A Young Woman's Story of Truth and Denial |
|
Warren Cariou |
Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging |
|
Margaret MacMillan |
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World |
|
2005 |
Charles Montgomery |
The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia |
Winner |
|
Paul William Roberts |
A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq |
Finalist |
|
Christopher Dewdney |
Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark |
|
Patrick Lane |
There is a Season: A Memoir in the Garden |
|
2006 |
J. B. MacKinnon |
Dead Man in Paradise |
Winner |
|
Laura M. MacDonald |
Curse of the Narrows: the Halifax Explosion of 1917 |
Finalist |
|
John Terpstra |
The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter |
|
James Chatto |
The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu |
|
2007 |
Rudy Wiebe |
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest |
Winner |
|
John English |
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Vol. One: 1919-1968 |
Finalist |
|
Ross King |
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism |
|
2008 |
Richard Gwyn |
John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald, Vol. One: 1815-1867 |
Winner |
|
Lorna Goodison |
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People |
Finalist |
|
Anna Porter |
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust |
|
Kevin Bazzana |
Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick |
|
David Gilmour |
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son |
|
2009 |
Tim Cook |
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 |
Winner |
|
Ana Siljak |
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World |
Finalist |
|
Elizabeth Abbott |
Sugar: A Bittersweet History |
|
2010 |
Ian Brown |
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son |
Winner |
|
John English |
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 |
Finalist |
|
Daniel Poliquin |
René Lévesque |
|
Kenneth Whyte |
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst |
|
2011 |
Charles Foran |
Mordecai: The Life & Times |
Winner |
|
Ross King |
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven |
Finalist |
|
Stevie Cameron |
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women |
|
George Sipos |
The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir |
|
Merrily Weisbord |
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das |
|
2012 |
Andrew Westoll |
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery |
Winner |
|
Madeline Sonik |
Afflictions & Departures: Essays |
Finalist |
|
Charlotte Gill |
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe |
|
Wade Davis |
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest |
|
JJ Lee |
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit |
|
2013 |
Andrew Preston |
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy |
Winner |
[6] |
Sandra Djwa |
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page |
Finalist |
|
Ross King |
Leonardo and The Last Supper |
|
Carol Bishop-Gwyn |
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca |
|
Tim Cook |
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars |
|
2014 |
Thomas King |
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America |
Winner |
[5][7] |
David Stouck |
Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life |
Finalist |
[7][8] |
Graeme Smith |
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan |
Charlotte Gray |
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country |
J. B. MacKinnon |
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be |
2015 |
Plum Johnson |
They Left Us Everything |
Winner |
[9] |
M. G. Vassanji |
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa |
Finalist |
|
Kathleen Winter |
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage |
|
David O'Keefe |
One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe |
|
Barbara Taylor |
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times |
|
2016 |
Rosemary Sullivan |
Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva |
Winner |
[10][11] |
David Halton |
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada’s Voice at War |
Finalist |
[12][13] |
Ian Brown |
Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? |
[13] |
Wab Kinew |
The Reason You Walk |
Camilla Gibb |
This Is Happy |
2017 |
Ross King |
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies |
Winner |
[14] |
Max Eisen |
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz |
Finalist |
[15] |
Marc Raboy |
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World |
Matti Friedman |
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story |
[16][15] |
Diane Schoemperlen |
This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications |
[15][17] |
2018 |
Tanya Talaga |
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City |
Winner |
[5][18] |
Max Wallace |
In the Name of Humanity |
Finalist |
[19][20] |
Stephen R. Bown |
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on Bering’s Great Voyage to Alaska |
James Maskalyk |
Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine |
Daniel Coleman |
Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place |
2019 |
Kate Harris |
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Roads |
Winner |
[21] |
Elizabeth Hay |
All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir |
Finalist |
[22][21] |
Ian Hampton |
Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music |
Bill Gaston |
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood |
Darrel J. McLeod |
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age |
2020 |
Mark Bourrie |
Bush Runner |
Winner |
[23][5] |
Robyn Doolittle |
Had It Coming |
Finalist |
[23] |
Jessica McDiarmid |
Highway of Tears |
Timothy Winegard |
The Mosquito |
Ziya Tong |
The Reality Bubble |