The Prince George Public Library Board announced the nominees for the 36th annual Jeanne Clarke Awards today (Tuesday).
The Local History Award was established by the Library Board in 1985, in memory of the former library board chair of the same name.
The nominees for the 2021 publication award are:
Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life by Greg Nolan
Service on the Skeena: Horace Wrinch, Frontier Physician by Geoff Mynett
Crossing the Divide: Discovering a Wilderness Ethic in Canada’s Northern Rockies by Wayne Sawchuk
Stagecoach North: A History of Barnard’s Express by Ken Mather
Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid by Cecil Paul, as told to Briony Penn
Following the Good River: The Life and Times of Wax’aid by Cecil Paul, as told to Briony Penn
Cataline: The Life of BC’s Legendary Packer by Susan Smith-Josephy with Irene Bjerky
In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
The Brideship Wife by Leslie Howard
The award is presented annually to individuals or groups for outstanding contributions in the preservation and promotion of local and regional history in the categories of publication and service.
Past winners of the publication award include the Prince George Retired Teachers’ Association, Jessica McDiarmid, and Aaron Williams.
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