Nominees for the 36th annual Jeanne Clarke Awards presented by the Prince George Public Library for outstanding preservation and promotion of local and regional history were announced recently.
The nominees in the publication category include:
• 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 ceremony will be different this year due to the pandemic and instead of an in-person event the show will be televised on CKPG-TV on Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. and then streamed online at www.ckpgtoday.ca.
For more information on the Jeanne Clarke Awards visit: https://www.pgpl.ca/content/local-history.
