UBC Library, in partnership with the Pacific Book World News Society, has shortlisted three titles for the 2015 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia.
- French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman (University of British Columbia Press).
- Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnohistory and the Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Nancy J. Turner (McGill-Queen’s University Press).
- The Sea Among Us: the Amazing Strait of Georgia by Richard Beamish and Gordon Macfarlane, editors (Harbour Publishing).
The award was established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, a former University Librarian at UBC Library and Director of UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, who passed away in 2012. The winning title will be announced later this spring. Click here for more information.
