Writers Trust of Canada

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

2012

• Kamal Al-Solaylee for Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, published by HarperCollins Canada

• Modris Eksteins for Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada

• Taras Grescoe for Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, published by HarperCollins Canada

• JJ Lee for The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Candace Savage for A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape, published by Greystone Books and David Suzuki Foundation

2011

• Charles Foran for Mordecai: The Life & Times, published by Knopf Canada

• Charlotte Gill for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, published by Greystone Books/David Suzuki Foundation

• Richard Gwyn for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two 1867-1891, published by Random House Canada

• Grant Lawrence for Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, published by Harbour Publishing

• Ray Robertson for Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, published by Biblioasis

2010

• James FitzGerald for What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past, published by Random House Canada

• Ross King for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, published by Douglas & McIntyre/McMichael Canadian Art Collection

• Sarah Leavitt for Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me, published by Freehand Books

• John Theberge and Mary Theberge for The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Merrily Weisboard for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, published by McGill-Queen's University Press

2009

• Brian Brett for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, published by Greystone Books

• Wade Davis for The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, published by House of Anansi Press

• Trevor Herriot for Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds, published by HarperCollins Publishers: A Phyllis Bruce Book

• Erika Ritter for The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships, published by Key Porter Books

• Eric Siblin for The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, published by House of Anansi Press

2008

• Taras Grescoe for Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, published by HarperCollins Canada

• Carl Honoré for Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, published by Knopf Canada

• Mark Kingwell for Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, published by Viking Canada

• Margaret Visser for The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual, published by HarperCollins Canada

• Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself, published by Thomas Allen Publishers

2007

• Katherine Ashenburg for The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History, published by Knopf Canada

• Tim Bowling for The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture, published by Nightwood Editions

• Barry Gough for Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America, published by Harbour Publishing

• Douglas Hunter for God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery, published by Doubleday Canada

• Anna Porter for Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust, published by Douglas & McIntyre

2006

• Charlotte Gray for Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell, published by HarperCollins Canada

• Barbara Kingscote for Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman’s Journey Across Canada, published by NeWest Press

• Noah Richler for This is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Dragan Todorovic for The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia, published by Random House Canada

• Rudy Wiebe for Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, published by Knopf Canada

2005

• Rebecca Godfrey for Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk, published by HarperCollins

• Stephen Lewis for Race Against Time, published by House of Anansi Press

• J.B. MacKinnon for Dead Man in Paradise, published by Douglas & McIntyre

• John Vaillant for The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed, published by Knopf Canada

2004

• Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall for Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, published by Random House Canada

• Elaine Dewar for The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality, published by Random House Canada

• Trevor Herriot for Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Patrick Lane for There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Charles Montgomery for The Last Heathen: Encounters With Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia, published by Douglas & McIntyre

2003

• Mark Abley for Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages, published by Random House Canada

• J. Edward Chamberlin for If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground, published by Knopf Canada

• Brian Fawcett for Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown, published by Thomas Allen Publishers

• Taras Grescoe for The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross/McClelland & Stewart

• Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle for Sahara: A Natural History, published by McClelland & Stewart

2002

• Katherine Ashenburg for The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross

• Andrew Clark for A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle, published by Knopf Canada

• Marni Jackson for Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign, published by Random House Canada

• Jake MacDonald for Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country, published by McClelland & Stewart

• Lorie Miseck for A Promise of Salt, published by Coteau Books

2001

• Clark Blaise for Time Lord, published by Knopf Canada

• Kevin Major for As Near to Heaven by Sea, published by Penguin Canada

• Heather Pringle for The Mummy Congress, published by Penguin Canada/Viking

• Carol Shields for Jane Austen, published by Penguin Canada/Viking

• Jack Todd for The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story, published by HarperFlamingo Canada

2000

• Donald Harman Akenson for Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus, published by McGill-Queen's University Press

• Hugh Brody for The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World, published by Douglas & McIntyre

• Taras Grescoe for Sacré Blues:An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec, published by Macfarlane, Walter & Ross

• Erna Paris for Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History, published by Knopf Canada

• John Stackhouse for Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable, published by Random House Canada

1999

• Robert Bringhurst for A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World, published by Douglas & McIntyre

• Jacalyn Duffin for History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction, published by University of Toronto Press

• Modris Eksteins for Walking Since Daybreak, published by Key Porter Books

• Moira Farr for After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor’s Tale, published by HarperFlamingo Canada

• Wayne Johnston for Baltimore’s Mansion: A Memoir, published by Knopf Canada

1998

• Michael Ignatieff for Isaiah Berlin: A Life, published by Penguin Canada

• David Manicom for Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire, published by Oolichan Books

• Linda Spalding for The Follow, published by Key Porter Books

• Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson for Stolen Life: A Journey of a Cree Woman, published by Knopf Canada

• Charles Wilkins for The Circus at the Edge of the Earth, published by McClelland & Stewart

1997

• Charlotte Gray for Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King, published by Penguin Canada

• Ernest Hillen for Small Mercies: A Boy After War, published by Penguin Canada

• John Bentley Mays for Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family, published by Penguin Canada

• Ruth Teichroeb for Flowers on My Grave, published by HarperCollins Publishing

• Eileen Whitfield for Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood, published by Macfarlane Walter & Ross