| Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2010 |
The Boy in the Moon: a father's search for his disabled son |
Ian Brown |
| 2009 |
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918, Volume Two |
Tim Cook |
| 2008 |
John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. MacDonald, Volume One: 1815-1867 |
Richard Gwyn |
| 2007 |
Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest |
Rudy Wiebe |
| 2006 |
Dead Man in Paradise |
J. B. MacKinnon |
| 2005 |
The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia |
Charles Montgomery |
| 2004 |
Belonging: Home Away From Home |
Isabel Huggan |
| 2003 |
No Award |
| 2002 |
Jane Austen |
Carol Shields |
| 2001 |
No Award |
| 2000 |
Baltimore's Mansion |
Wayne Johnston |
