Richardson Award

The Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of adult non-fiction published in the previous year by a writer from Atlantic Canada. It is the oldest literary award in the region and is considered the most prestigious for a work of non-fiction. The award was named to honour Evelyn M. Richardson. Winners 1978 - Harry Bruce, Lifeline: the Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats 1979 - Alden Nowlan, Double Exposure 1980 - Joan Payzant and L.J. Payzant, Like a Weaver's Shuttle: a history of the Halifax-Dartmouth ferries 1981 - Kay Hill, Joe Howe: the Man who was Nova Scotia 1982 - Bruce Armstrong, Sable Island 1983 - J. Murray Beck, Joseph Howe: Volume 1, Conservative Reformer, 1804-1848 1984 - Brian C. Cuthbertson, The Loyalist Governor: Biography of Sir John Wentworth 1985 - Lilias M. Toward, Mabel Bell: Alexander's Silent Partner 1986 - P. B. Waite, The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister 1987 - Tony Foster, Meeting of Generals 1988 - Harold Horwood, Dancing on the Shore: a Celebration of Life at Annapolis Basin 1989 - Dean Jobb, Shades of Justice: Seven Nova Scotia Murder Cases 1990 - Judith Fingard, Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax 1991 - Harry Thurston, Tidal Life: a natural history of the Bay of Fundy 1992 - Robert Pope, Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer 1993 - Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveau, The Acadians of Nova Scotia: Past and Present 1994 - Peter Brock, Variations on a Planet 1995 - Elizabeth Pacey, Landmarks: Historic Buildings of Nova Scotia 1996 - Simone Poirier-Bures, That Shining Place 1997 - Harry Thurston, The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands 1998 - Harry Bruce, An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia 1999 - Silver Donald Cameron, The Living Beach 2000 - Robin Metcalfe, Studio Rally 2001 - Joan Baxter, A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal 2002 - Kent Thompson, Getting Out of Town by Book and Bike 2003 - Stephen Kimber, Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War 2004 - Harry Thurston, Island of the Blessed: the Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis 2005 - Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, A Dune Adrift 2006 - Linda Johns, Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven 2007 - Linden MacIntyre, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence 2008 - Marq de Villiers, The Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose 2009 - William B.