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Winners

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2011 - Practical Jean by Trevor Cole.

2010 - Beyond Belfast: A 560-Mile Walk Across Northern Ireland on Sore Feet by Will Ferguson.

2009 - Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: a Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo by Mark Leiren-Young.

2008 - The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis.

2007 - Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean.

2006 - Pitch Black by Arthur Black.

2005 - Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson.

2004 - Village of the Small Houses: A Memoir of Sorts by Ian Ferguson.

2003 - With Axe and Flask: The History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present by Dan Needles.

2002 - Happiness by Will Ferguson.

2001 - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean.

2000 - Black Tie and Tales by Arthur Black.

1999 - Home from the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories by Stuart McLean.

1998 - Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler.

1997 - Black in the Saddle Again by Arthur Black.

1996 - Letters from the Country by Marsha Boulton.

1995 - Fear of Frying: and Other Fax of Life by Josh Freed.

1994 - Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast by Bill Richardson.

1993 - Waiting for Aquarius by John Levesque.

1992 - Prayers of a Very Wise Child by Roch Carrier.

1991 - Writing in the Rain: Stories, Essays & Poems by Howard White.

1990 - According to Jake and the Kid: A Collection of New Stories by W.O. Mitchell.

1989 - Winter Tulips by Joseph Kertes.

1988 - King Leary by Paul Quarrington.

1987 - The Fencepost Chronicles by W. P. Kinsella.

1986 - No Axe Too Small to Grind by Joey Slinger.

1985 - Love is a Longshot by Ted Allen.

1984 - No Sex Please...We're Married by Gary Lautens.

1983 - The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick: A Novel by Morley Torgov.

1982 - Gophers Don't Pay Taxes by Mervyn J. Huston.

1981 - Take My Family...Please! by Gary Lautens.

1980 - Me Bandy, You Cissie by Donald Jack.

1979 - True Confections by Sondra Gotlieb.

1978 - Whirligig by Ernest Buckler.

1977 - That Far Greater Bay by Ray Guy.

1976 - The Luck of the Irish by Harry J. Boyle.

1975 - A Good Place to Come From by Morley Torgov.

1974 - That's Me in the Middle: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy, Volume Two by Donald Jack.

1973 - Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory by Donald Bell.

1972 - The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car by Max Braithwaite.

1971 - Children, Wives & Other Wildlife by Robert Thomas Allen.

1970 - The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat.

1969 - You're Only as Old as You Act by Stuart Trueman.

1968 - And Now...Here's Max by Max Ferguson.

1967 - Needham's Inferno by Richard J. Needham.

1966 - Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children by George Bain.

1965 - War Stories by Gregory Clark.

1964 - Homebrew and Patches by Harry J. Boyle.

1963 - Three Cheers for Me: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy by Donald Jack.

1962 - Jake and the Kid by W. O. Mitchell.

1961 - Mice in the Beer by Norman Ward.

1960 - Just Add Water and Stir by Pierre Berton.

1959 - No Award Made.

1958 - Girdle Me a Globe by Eric Nicol.

1957 - The Grass is Never Greener by Robert Thomas Allen.

1956 - Shall We Join the Ladies? by Eric Nicol.

1955 - Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies.

1954 - Pardon My Parka by Joan Walker.

1953 - The Battle of Baltinglass by Lawrence Earl.

1952 - The Salt Box by Jan Hilliard.

1951 - The Roving I by Eric Nicol.

1950 - Turvey: A Military Picaresque by Earle Birney.

1949 - Truthfully Yours by Angeline Hango.

1948 - Sarah Binks by Paul Hiebert.

1947 - Ojibway Melody by Harry L. Symons.