B.C. author Derek Hayes is the recipient of the inaugural Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, a new award from UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society.
Hayes was chosen for his 2012 book, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre). The book mixes comprehensive text and annotations with a wide range of maps, photos, prints and drawings that takes us into the world of British Columbia, from pre-contact through the 20th century. Hayes’s work is a welcome contribution to the understanding of British Columbia.
The prize, worth $1,000, will be awarded at a reception on May 7, 2013 at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
“I am honoured to have been chosen as the first recipient of the new Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize,” says Hayes, who holds a master’s degree in Geography from UBC. “I have had Stuart-Stubbs’s monumental work (with Coolie Verner) The Northpart of America on my bookshelf for many years, and it was one of the initial books that piqued my interest in maps of the Pacific Northwest.”
“Congratulations to Derek Hayes for winning the inaugural Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize,” says Ingrid Parent, UBC’s University Librarian. “His fascinating atlas is a worthy winner and an excellent addition to scholarly works on British Columbia.”
Hayes’s book was among three shortlisted titles for the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize. The other titles included Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge? by Jim McDowell (Ronsdale Press).
“The excellence of the many books submitted for consideration made it difficult for the jury to select a shortlist and then the prize winner,” says Roderick Barman, a member of the adjudication committee and a retired UBC history professor. “Since the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize is intended to recognize both a scholarly work on British Columbia and a book that will make the province come alive for readers outside of British Columbia, the jury concluded that Derek Hayes’s British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas best meets those criteria.”
British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas was also awarded the 2012 Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing from the British Columbia Historical Federation. It is a finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize on behalf of the 2013 B.C. Book Prizes.
About the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Book on British Columbia
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia was established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, a bibliophile, scholar and librarian who passed away in 2012. Stuart-Stubbs’s many accomplishments included serving as the University Librarian at UBC Library and as the Director of UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Stuart-Stubbs had a leadership role in many national and regional library and publishing activities. During his exceptional career, he took particular interest in the production and distribution of Canadian books, and was associated with several initiatives beneficial to authors and their readers, and to Canadian publishing.
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