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Awards

• Nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
• Winner of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award
• Winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Book Prize
• Nominated for the Silver Birch Express Award
• Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction
• Canadian Nautical Research Society's Keith Matthews Book Award
• Melva J. Dwyer Award
• Winner of the BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
• Winner of the CBA Libris Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year
• Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design: 1st Place
• Winner of Barbara Jo's First Annual Cookbook Award
• Winner of the Ottawa Book Award for French Fiction
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Award
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design
• Alcuin Best Book Design From All Over the World
• Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
• Winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon International Cookbook Award
• Winner of the Canadian Culinary Book Award
• Shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award
• Shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award
• In a Culinary Battle for the Gold Metal Plates, Pino Posteraro Wields a Gilded Dish
• Winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon Merit Award
• Nominated for the City of Vancouver Book Prize
• Winner of Best Mediterranean Cookbook in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Winner of Best Italian Cookbook in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Nominated for the Toronto Book Award
• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Nominated for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Nomintated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award
• Nominated for the Nautilus Book Award
• Nominated for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Nominated for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Winner of CBC's Northern Ontario Reads Competition
• Nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• Nominated for the ReLit Award
• Nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• Nominated for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
• Winner of Best Cookbook Cover in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• Winner of Barbara Jo's Second Annual Cookbook Award
• Winner of the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical Writing
• Winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
• BC Historical Federation Awards - 3rd place runner-up
• Nominated for the J.W. Dafoe Foundation Book Prize
• Winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for History
• Winner of the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• Nominated for the CBA Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year
• Nominated for the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Winner of the First American’s In The Arts’ Outstanding Achievement in Literary Works Award
• 1st place in the Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design (Pictorial category)
• 2nd place in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Pictorial category)
• Honorable Mention in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Pictorial category)
• 2nd place in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Prose Fiction category)
• 3rd place in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Prose Non-Fiction category)
• Honorable Mention in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Prose Non-Fiction category)
• Honorable Mention in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Prose Non-Fiction Illustrated category)
• 1st place in the Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design (Reference category)
• 2nd place in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Reference category)
• Winner of the Canadian Culinary Book Award for French Canadian Food Culture (French edition)
• Winner of the Manitoba Historical Society's Margaret McWilliams Prize for Popular History
• Winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for History
• Winner of the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
• Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
• Silver Medal Winner at ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Winner of a Gold Medal IPPY Award for Best Regional Non-Fiction Book
• Winner of Applied Art's 2008 Annual Award for Design
• Nominated for an Advertising and Design Club of Canada Award
• Winner of the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction (Australia)
• Winner of the Canadian Culinary Book Award
• Winner of the 2008 National Outdoor Book Award
• Nominated for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
• Nominated for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
• Nominated for a Saskatchenwan Book Award in Non-Fiction
• Nominated for a Silver Birch Express Award
• Winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award
• Nominated for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the Draine-Taylor Biography Prize
• Winner of the 2006 Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction
• Nominated for a Silver Birch Express Award
• Nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award
• Nominated for the Chocolate Lily Book Award
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Winner of Best Chef Book in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Winner of Best Innovative Cookbook in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Winner of Best Fish & Seafood Cookbook in Canada at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
• Nominated for the Winterset Award
• Nominated for the Winterset Award
• Winner of the 2009 BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for a BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Nominated for a BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Nominated for the JW Dafoe Foundation Book Prize
• Nominated for the City of Edmonton Book Award
• Winner of the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Award
• Nominated for the 2009 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
• Nominated for a Newfoundland & Labrador Book Prize
• Nominated for a Newfoundland & Labrador Book Prize
• Nominated for a Living Now Book Award
• Nominated for a Living Now Book Award
• Nominated for a Living Now Book Award
• Nominated for the Lela Common Award for Canadian History
• Winner of the 2009 Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction
• Gold Medal Winner of an Outstanding Book of the Year Award - Storyteller of the Year
• Winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
• Winner of an Award of Special Merit - Grantham Prizes
• 2nd place for "Best in the World" at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Fish and Seafood Category
• Winner of the BC Book Prize Hubert-Evans Prize for Non-Fiction
• Winner of the 2006 CAA's Lela Common Award for Canadian History
• Winner of the 2009 Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize
• Winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award - Best Chef Book in Canada
• Winner of the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award
• Winner of the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Book Prize
• Nominated for the Silver Birch Express Award
• Winner of the 2009 Heritage Toronto Book Award
• Winner of the 2009 Heritage Toronto Book Award
• Nominated for a 2009 Governor Generals' Literary Award for Translation
• Nominated for a 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award in Non-Fiction
• Nominated for a 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award in Non-Fiction
• Long-listed for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Long-listed for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Awarded an Honorable Mention in the National Outdoor Book Awards
• Nominated for the Quebec Writers Federation Translation Prize
• Winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award - Best Fish and Seafood Book in Canada
• Winner of a Gourmand World Cookbook Award - Best Local Cookbook in Canada
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award
• Winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon International Cookbook Award - Illustrated Cookbook
• Winner of the Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon International Cookbook Award - Fish and Seafood Cuisine
• Nominated for the 2010 Evergreen Award
• Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
• Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
• Nomnated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• Winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• Nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• Nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• Nominated for the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Winner of the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Winner of the Living Now Book Awards - Gold Medal in Green Living
• Nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• Nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• Nominated for a Doug Wright Award for Best Book
• Nominated for a 2010 Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist
• Nominated for a 2010 James Beard Foundation Award - Cooking From a Professional Point of View
• Winner of a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - Nature
• Nominated for the Canadian Authors Association's Award for Fiction
• Nominated for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award - Environment
• Nominated for Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards - Best Soft Cover Recipe Book
• Silver Medal winner in the Nautilus Book Awards
• Winner of the Living Now Book Awards - Gold Medal in Green Living
• Winner of the Living Now Book Awards - Bronze Medal in Green Living
• Nominated for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
• Winner of the Green Book Festival Award
• Winner of the IPPY Awards - Bronze Medal in the Environment category
• Winner of the BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
• Winner of the CBA Libris Award for Non-fiction Book of the Year
• Nominated for the Nautilus Book Award
• Nominated for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
• Nominated for the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Winner of CBC's Northern Ontario Reads Competition
• Winner of the BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize
• Nominated for the CBA Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year
• Shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award
• Nominated for the J.W. Dafoe Foundation Book Prize
• Nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
• Winner of the Manitoba Historical Society's Margaret McWilliams Prize for Popular History
• 2nd place in the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design (Prose Fiction category)
• Nomintated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award
• Nominated for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Nominated for a Saskatchenwan Book Award in Non-Fiction
• "A Geography of Blood" is shortlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction
• "The Last Viking" is longlisted for the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction
• Winner of an Award of Special Merit - Grantham Prizes
• Winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
• Winner of the W.O. Mitchell City of Calgary Book Award
• Nominated for the 2009 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
• Nominated for a BC Booksellers' Choice Award
• Nominated for a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
• Nominated for the JW Dafoe Foundation Book Prize
• Winner of the 2009 Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the City of Edmonton Book Award
• Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
• Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
• Nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book Award
• Nominated for the Canadian Authors Association's Award for Fiction
• Nominated for the 2009 Donner Prize for Best Book on Canadian Public Policy
• Nominated for the 2009 Donner Prize for Best Book on Canadian Public Policy
• WINNER of the 8th Annual George Ryga Award for Social Awareness
• Winner of a Mom's Choice Award - Gold Medal for Parenting Books
• Winner of a Mom's Choice Award - Gold Medal for Parenting Books
• Nominated for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• WINNER of a Canadian Culinary Book Award
• Winner of the 2011 SHA Deetz Award!
• Nominated for the 2010 Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize
• Nominated for the 2010 City of Vancouver Book Award
• Winner of the 2010 City of Vancouver Book Award
• WINNER of an F.G. Bressani Literary Prize
• Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction
• Nominated for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's SB&F Prize
• Nominated for a 2010 Saskatoon Book Award
• Nominated for the 2010 Non-Fiction Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards)
• WINNER of the 2010 Book of the Year Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards)
• WINNER of an F.G. Bressani Literary Prize
• Winner of a 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Award
• Nominated for the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize
• Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!
• Nominated for a Gourmand World Cookbook Award
• Nominated for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
• Winner of the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize
• Winner of the 2011 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize
• Winner of the 2010 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction
• Selected as an IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities
• Selected as an IBBY Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities
• Winner of the Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement
• Nominated for a Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) award.
• Nominated for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award
• Nominated for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award
• Nominated for the 2011 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize
• Winner of the 2011 Melva J. Dwyer Award
• Vij's at Home wins silver at the Canadian Culinary Book Award
• Brew North shortlisted for Canadian Culinary Book Award
• The Return nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
• Richard Wagamese's "One Story, One Song" wins the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
• The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds has won the 2011 Ottawa Book Award
• Won distinction at the Heritage Toronto Awards
• Won distinction at the Heritage Toronto Awards
• Eating Dirt has been shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada Hilary Weston Prize
• Defiant Spirits wins distinction at the Heritage Toronto Book Awards
• Empire of the Beetle nominated for the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards
• "White Planet" has been selected as a finalist in the Adventure Travel category for the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Competition.
• "The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass" has been selected as a finalist in the Mountain Image category for the 2011 Banff Mountain Book Competition.
• The Divinity Gene selected as runner-up in the Halloween Book Festival
• The Little Hummingbird nominated for the Blue Spruce Award
• Eating Dirt wins the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Something Fierce is nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Decade of Fear is nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
• Polar Imperative wins the CAA Lela Common Award
• Polar Imperative wins the CAA Lela Common Award
• "Fred Herzog: Photographs" Finalist for 2012 BC Book Prizes: Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
• Eating Dirt shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
• "Empire of the Beetle" Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
• "Something Fierce" Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• "Something Fierce" Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• "Drink the Bitter Root" Finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prizes: Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
• "Eating Dirt" wins BC Book Prize: the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Award
• "Walk Like a Man" Finalist for 2012 BC Book Prizes: Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
• "The Man Who Killed" selected as a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
• Allan Levine’s King has won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.
• Allan Levine’s King has won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction.
• Allan Levine’s King Nominated for J. W. Dafoe Book Prize
• Harry Thurston's "The Atlantic Coast" is the winner of The Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction from the Atlantic Book Awards
• Empire of the Beetle shortlisted for the MPIBA Reading the West Award
• Most of Me shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour
• Empire of the Beetle shortlisted for Alberta Book Award
• "Walk Like a Man" selected as Favourite Non-Fiction Book by Monday Magazine
• "Voyages" wins John Lyman Award in the “Naval and Maritime Reference Works and Published Primary Sources” category
• "How Bad are Bananas" selected as the grand prize winner of the Green Book Festival
• "Hot Art" wins Arthur Ellis award for Best Crime Nonfiction
• "The Atlantic Coast" shortlisted for the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award (Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Award)
• "Eating Dirt" wins the CBA Libris Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
• "Arctic Eden" wins William Mills Prize Award for Non-Fiction Polar Books for 2012
• "The Atlantic Coast" wins the Lane Anderson Award
• "Hot Art" is shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• "Hot Art" is shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• "Most of Me" is shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
• "Glass Boys" longlisted for the 2012 ReLit Award
• "Breakout from Juno" shortlisted for the 2012 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
• "Breakout from Juno" shortlisted for the 2012 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
• "Whoever Gives Us Bread" has won the 2012 F.G. Bressani Literary Prize for Creative Nonfiction
• Renee Benoit shortlisted for Governor General's Literary Award in the Children's Literature Illustration category
• "A Geography of Blood" has won the Hilary Weston Prize for Non-Fiction
• "Beneath the Cold Seas" won the Design & Artistic Merit category of 2012 National Outdoor Book Awards