The
Charles Taylor nonfiction prize and the
BC National Nonfiction prize have each put up candidate lists for their awards, winners to be announced in January 2017.
There is a lot of good writing and interesting subjects, but history, particularly Canadian history, is noticeably thin on both lists. Honourable exception: Bill Waiser's
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan before 1905, which earlier won the Governor General's nonfiction prize, on the Taylor list.