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Lieutenant-Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing

An annual award for the best book about BC history.

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Winners

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2011 - The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver by Chuck Davis.

2010 - Working with Wool: a Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen.

2009 - The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott.

2008 - Tragedy at Second Narrows: the Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge by Eric Jamieson.

2007 - Recording Their Story: James Teit and the Tahltan by Judy Thompson.

2006 - High Water: Living with the Fraser Floods by K. Jane Watt.

2005 - Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley by Derek Hayes.

2004 - Plants of the Haida Gwaii by Nancy J. Turner.

2003 - Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen by Jean Barman.

2002 - Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock by Francis Mansbridge.

2001 - Circle of Silver by Milton Parent.

2000 - Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island by Richard Sommerset Mackie.

1999 - Lions Gate by Lilia D’Acres and Donald Luxton.

1998 - By Snowshoe, Buckboard and Steamer: Women of the Frontier by Kathryn Bridge.

1997 - Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific 1793–1843 by Richard Somerset Mackie.

1996 - British Columbia: A Natural History by Richard J. Cannings and Sydney G. Cannings.

1995 - Atlin: The Story of British Columbia's Last Gold Rush by Christine Frances Dickinson & Diane Solie Smith.

1994 - The Good Company: An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships by Tom Henry.

1993 - Taku: The Heart of North America's Last Great Wilderness by Allison Mitcham.

1992 - Otter Skins, Boston Ships and China Goods by James R. Gibson.

1991 - Salmon: The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery by Geoff Meggs.

1990 - Aboriginal People and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989 by Paul Tennant.

1989 - Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition by John Hayman.

1988 - Lord of Point Grey: Larry MacKenzie of UBC by Peter B. Waite / Stoney Creek Woman: Sai’k’uz Ts’eke — The Story of Mary John by Bridget Moran.

1987 - Three Dollar Dreams by Lynne Bowen.

1986 - Seven Shillings a Year: The History of Vancouver Island by Charles Lillard.

1985 - Old Silverton 1891–1930 by John Norris.

1984 - Gunboat Frontier British Maritime Authority and Northwest Coast Indians, 1846–1890 by Barry M. Gough.

1983 - Discovering Deroche: From Nicomen to Lake Errock by Daphne Sleigh.