Year
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Winner
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Nominated
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1997
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Ernest Hillen, Small Mercies: A Boy After War
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1998
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Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
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1999
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Modris Eksteins, Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of our Century
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2000
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Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
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2001
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Clark Blaise, Time Lord
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2002
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Jake MacDonald, Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
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2003
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Brian Fawcett, Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown
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2004
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Elaine Dewar, The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality
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2005
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John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
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2006
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Dragan Todorovic, The Book of Revenge
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- 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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2007
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Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
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- 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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2008
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Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
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2009
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Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
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- 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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2010
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James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
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- Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
- Sarah Leavitt, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me
- John Theberge and Mary Theberge, The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself
- Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
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2011
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Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
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2012
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Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape[4]
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- Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
- Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
- Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
- JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
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2013
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Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
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- Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- J.B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
- Andrew Steinmetz, This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
- Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
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2014[5]
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Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate[6]
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2015[7]
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Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva[8]
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- Eliott Behar, Tell it to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
- Douglas Coupland, Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
- Dean Jobb, Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
- Lynette Loeppky, Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire
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2016
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Deborah Campbell, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War[9]
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- Ian Brown, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
- Matti Friedman, Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier’s Story
- Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
- Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
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2017[10]
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James Maskalyk, Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine[11]
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- Ivan Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide
- Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
- Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
- Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
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2018
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TBA November 7, 2018
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- Will Aitken, Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance
- Elizabeth Hay, All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir
- Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
- Judi Rever, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
- Lindsay Wong, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
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