Honouring Canadian Non-Fiction

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction was awarded to Lorna Goodison for her lyrical family memoir, From Harvey River: A Memory of My Mother and Her People. Premier Campbell presented Goodison with the $40,000 prize in Vancouver at a ceremony that also celebrated the two other finalists for the award, Donald Harman Akenson for Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself and Jacques Poitras for Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy. The award, now in its fourth year, is the only national literary award to originate in B.C. and is the largest award for Canadian non-fiction.